Pitch Tab

You can switch the pitch envelope from unipolar to bipolar.

If the Polarity button is activated, the envelope is bipolar, which means that you can modulate the pitch of the sample in two directions, higher or lower than the original pitch. If the Polarity button is deactivated, the envelope cannot be set to values below the original pitch.

Activate this button to specify the key range of the sample, that is, the range over which it is mapped chromatically to pads.

• Low Key specifies the first key for the mapping.

• High Key specifies the last key for the mapping.

If you deactivate the Key Range button, the Low Key and High Key fields are reset.

• If Fixed Pitch is deactivated, the sample plays chromatically within the key range.

• If Fixed Pitch is activated, the sample plays with its original pitch on all of the keys within the key range. This is useful if you want to layer a pad with the neighboring pads, for example.

Adjusts the tuning in semitones.

Adjusts the fine tuning in cents.

Determines how much the pitch of a sample is changed randomly with each note that is played.

Determines how much the pitch is affected by the pitch envelope.

Determines how the velocity affects the level of the envelope.

The level of the envelope depends on two factors: the setting of this parameter and how hard you hit a key. With positive values, the harder you hit a key, the higher the level of the envelope. With negative values, the harder you hit a key, the lower the level of the envelope.

Adjusts the influence of velocity on the phases of the envelope. Positive values decrease the length of the phases for higher velocity values. Negative values increase the length of the phases for higher velocity values.

Allows you to select the phases of the envelope to be affected by the Time Velocity parameter.

• Attack – The velocity affects the attack only.

• Attack + Decay – The velocity affects all phases up to the sustain phase.

• Decay – The velocity affects all phases including the sustain phase, but without the attack.

• Attack + Release – The velocity affects the attack and the release phases.

• All – The velocity affects all phases.

You can select the curve type to specify how the incoming velocity translates to the level of the envelope. The characteristics of each curve are displayed by a small icon.

Determines the range of the modulation that is applied when you move the pitchbend wheel.

Allows you to assign a MIDI controller that can be used to control the pitch of a sample.

This controller can be sent either by the host application, a hardware controller, or internally using the controller lanes of the Pattern editor or the Note Repeat page.

When playback in the Pattern editor or on the Note Repeat page is stopped, the controller values for pitch modulation are reset to a neutral value, without pitch modulation. If you activate Hold, the controllers remain on the last value that was sent.