1. About 1.1 Channels / Voices LoopAZoid is a VST2.0 virtual drum sampler. There are 48 distinct channels, each capable of holding one .WAV / .AIFF sample (8 / 16 Bit uncompressed, mono or stereo). LoopAZoid plays up to 64 voices. That is, whenever 2 or more samples are played "overlapping" in time, they use more than one voice, which is how every sampler works. A channel is selected by pushing the apropriate channel button in the window's left part, which makes the channel strip on the right side show the channel's parameters. 1.2 Outputs LoopAZoid has 8 outputs, grouped in 4 stereo pairs (1/2, 3/4, 5/6 and 7/8). Each of the 48 samples can be assigned it's own output pair. Assign a channel's sample to an output by clicking the apropriate output button (1/2 .. 7/8). 1.3 Volume & Pan Each of the 48 channels has it's own volume and pan settings. A channel's sample always plays on both sides of the selected output pair - mono samples being centered in panorama and stereo samples being left unchanged, as long as the 'Pan' slider is centered. 1.4 Mute Groups LoopAZoid provides for three different mute groups; channels which belong to the same mute group, mute each other on sample start. That's especially convenient for emulating a 'HiHat mode': the open HiHat mutes the closed one, which is how a real drumkit works. You can assign a channel's sample to one of the mutegroups by clicking the resp. mutegroup button (m1 / m2 / m3). 1.5 Forward & reverse Sample Playback Within LoopAZoid, each sample can be played forward as well as reverse. There are 2 different root notes for this purpose; when the 'fwd' root note is triggered, the sample is played normal, when the 'rvs' root note is triggered, it is played reverse. You can change a sample's root note(s) by clicking in the forward / reverse buttons and then choosing a note from the little popup-keyboard. 1.6 samples and labelling Clicking on the folder symbol in the channel strip opens a file open dialg to choose the channel's sample. The channel's label (below the channel button) gets assigned the samples file name, whenever a new sample is loaded. Clicking inside the label allows you to supply an arbitrary title for the channel. 2. file handling 2.1 loading samples you can load samples directly from the user interface: click on the yellow folder symbol in the window's right part (the channel strip). A file open dialog will pop open where you can select a .WAV or .AIFF sample. LoopAZoid will remember the file's location when the song is reloaded next time. Alternatively, you can press the control key ('Ctrl' on Windows, 'Apple' on MAC) when you click on a channel button; this way you can directly load a sample into that channel. 2.2 importing / exporting patches you can group all used samples together and export them together with the patch information. Do so by clicking on the small right-hand arrow in the channel strip. You can then archive, exchange, or transfer these patches to another computer. Import a patch by clicking on the small left-hand arrow. 2.3 erasing samples you can erase a sample by clicking on the small red 'x' icon in the channel strip. |
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