ENSONIQ EPS-16 PLUS Musician's Manual page 121

EPS-16 PLUS Musician's Manual
The Coarse Adjust reading is the one in parentheses. Changing this value will
move the Sample Start in steps of one percent of the entire Wavesample. Use the
Data Entry Slider or the Up/Down Arrow buttons to move the Sample
Start ahead until the dead space is gone when you play.
Once you have gotten close using the percent setting, press the Left Arrow
button to underline the Fine Adjust setting. Now the Data Entry Slider or the
Up/Down Arrow buttons will move the SAMPLE START in small steps,
letting you fine-tune its exact position while playing the sample.
This page allows you to set the sample end point Again you see the sample
number (Fine Adjust) and the percent (Coarse Adjust). Use the data entry
controls to edit this parameter in the same fashion as the SAMPLE START
parameter.
This page allows you to set the loop start point After making a sample it is often
necessary to "loop" — play over and over—a portion of the sound, so that it can
sustain indefinitely when the key is held down. Getting a good loop tends to be
the most difficult part of sampling. See COMMAND/Wave page later in this
section and "Looping" in Section 5 for more on looping.
Here are a few steps to get you started once you have sampled a sound that you
want to loop:
• Turn ON the AUTO-LOOP FINDING parameter on the EDIT/System•MIDI
page.
• Press Edit, then System•MIDI, then scroll left to the parameter AUTO-
LOOP FINDING. Make sure it is ON. When AUTO-LOOP FINDING=ON,
every time you move the LOOP START or LOOP END points of a
Wavesample, the EPS-16 PLUS picks only "optimized" loop points - ones
most likely to work.
• On the EDIT/Wave page, the MODE parameter determines whether the
Wavesample will loop (among other things). Set it to MODE=LOOP
FORWARD.
EDIT/Wave Page
Section 6 — Wave Parameters
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