Set Root Notes from Pitch Detection

This menu item is used with the NN-XT sampler. All instrument sounds have an inherent pitch. When playing a sample of such a sound on the keyboard, the keys you play must correspond to that pitch. For example, you may have recorded a piano playing the key "C3". When you map this onto the NN-XT key map, you must set things up so that the sampler plays back the sample at original pitch when you press the key C3, and this is done by adjusting the root note.

The NN-XT features a pitch detection function to help you set the root keys of loaded samples. This is useful if you for example load a sample that you haven't recorded yourself, and you don't have any information about its original pitch.

Proceed as follows:

1. Select all the zones you want to be subject to pitch detection.

2. Select "Set Root Notes from Pitch Detection".

The samples in all the selected zones will now be analyzed, and the detected root keys will automatically be set for you.

Note that for this to work properly, the samples must have some form of perceivable pitch. If it is sampled speech, or a snare drum for example, it probably doesn't have any discernible pitch.