Sample Player; Loading Samples - Arturia VOCODER V User Manual

5.3. Sample Player

The Sample Player feature is unique to Vocoder V. It stores up to 12 mono or stereo audio
files of essentially unlimited length, which play back monaurally. Thus, these samples can
provide audio to the vocoder section without needing to route a microphone or other sound
source to the vocoder. This makes it possible to play Vocoder V more like a traditional
keyboard instrument. Also, samples are saved with presets, so that recalling the preset
recalls the samples.
You can play back sample files in sequence, select them individually for playback, add
custom start and end points, loop the files or sections of the files, and/or trigger them from
a controller.
The Sample Player has two modes: Play mode for playing and triggering samples, and Edit
mode for editing samples—change gain, set start and end points, loop, and more.

5.3.1. Loading Samples

The Sample Player accepts .wav, .aiff, .aif, and .flac formats. There are two ways to load
samples into individual sample cells—drag and drop, or load from a sample library. With
either method, loading a sample into a cell with existing audio replaces it with the new
audio.
Loading a file into a cell color-codes it automatically. Colors provide an easy way to identify
samples when triggering from the keyboard controller, because the key that triggers a
particular sample has a colored dot above the key that correlates to the sample's color.
5.3.1.1. Load with Drag and Drop
Drag-and-drop a file from your computer, DAW, explorer, cloud storage, or wherever a file is
accessible into one of the 12 individual cells. You can copy a sample from one cell to another
with Alt+drag. To isolate different sections from the same sample, such as words from a
phrase, you can set start and end points, as described later.
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