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riastrad	Date: June 22, 2005 @ 1:17 AM Hi, everytime i press the key on my midi keyboard the sample lasts for a certain amount of time. How do i change it so it lasts as long as I have the key pressed down so I can control it and actually make a song? Everytime i try to play something the sounds just get all cluttered
riastrad	Date: June 22, 2005 @ 3:54 PM nobody knows??
BlackMage	Date: June 22, 2005 @ 4:32 PM You have to make it looped in a certain point so it sounds like it plays on forever. I have no idea how to do that, but I think you can do it with some sound editors...
riastrad	Date: June 22, 2005 @ 5:18 PM That's very strange... I mean why even have the option of using a keyboard if you can't even use it properly. Every keyboard I've ever played has it set up this way, I don't understand why they wouldnt have it like this in the first place.
Qnerve	Date: June 22, 2005 @ 11:54 PM Click the channel so that the channel settings window pops up. Then click the "ins" button in that window that just popped up. And finaly click the little square next to the word "time" so that that little square lights up orange. end. Extra: Tweek the attack and hold etc. knobs to your desires. Hope this helped
riastrad	Date: June 23, 2005 @ 2:14 AM Works wonderfully, thanks a bunch!!
riastrad	Date: June 23, 2005 @ 2:21 AM it works great, but i was wondering if theres a way to make the hold last even longer. For instance if I wanted to hold a key done constantly throughout a song.
monkvolcano	Date: June 24, 2005 @ 3:44 AM i posted this answer on another thread: i think that the reason you are having this problem is because when you load a synth sample into a channel, it automatically treats the sounds as a drum sample unless you change the ADSR filter. so to do that you click on the channel, then go to the second tab, and adjust the attack, decay, sustain, and release.. then you should be able to stretch the notes out.. what you need to add is sustain.. sustain sets the volume of the note while you're holding it down.
riastrad	Date: June 24, 2005 @ 6:08 AM I've noticed that when i hold down higher keys they don't last as long. But the lower keys last much longer...
monkvolcano	Date: June 24, 2005 @ 5:36 PM hmm.. you are playing a sample, so in order to make the pitch higher, the sampler speeds up the sample, resulting in a shorter length.. there are a couple of ways around this.. one way is that there are certain samples that have set loop points. when you hold down the note, it will loop that part of the sample. i think those patches are called .syn files.. i think.. but the way i prefer, is to use virtual analogue synth such as the 3xOsc to make sythn patches. you have to understand the basics of analogue synthesis to see why. basically, the synth takes a waveform, and plays it thousands of times per second, to result in a pitch. it will continue to play that waveform at that frequency until you release the key.. so you don't have the problem you were talking about. also, you can engineer sounds to be exactly the way you want (with a moderate amount of work.) anyway.. hope that helps
riastrad	Date: June 27, 2005 @ 7:55 PM I don't get it, I downloaded so many samples and they all are so short I can't even use them Hold won't last long enough
riastrad	Date: June 27, 2005 @ 7:55 PM I don't get it, I downloaded so many samples and they all are so short I can't even use them Hold won't last long enough

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