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04.13 The Sample Properties Window

You can rename the Akai sample name by clicking it. A blinking cursor will show up (as described earlier).

You can select one of 4 possible loops by clicking its button. If you hold [Ctrl] while clicking it, the loop will toggle from inactive (loop time is set to 0) to active (loop time is set to 9999/HOLD). If inactive the loop button is overlayed by a dotted pattern.

The sample playback type can be changed by clicking the big icon below the Akai sample name.

Further Akai Sample Properties are the Loop Tune Offset to the right of the Time, the original pitch, which may as well be entered on a MIDI keyboard connected to the Music MIDI In port of your Atari and the Pitch Offset. When clicking the left mouse button you increment these values by one or a suitable higher number (like 12) when holding [Shift] while clicking. Right-clicking a value will decrement it in the same fashion. Hold [Ctrl] in order to enter the value on the Atari's keyboard.

You can edit the loop time by clicking it while holding [Ctrl]. A blinking cursor will show up and you can enter a new time.

You can disable the loop by hitting [X] or set it to HOLD by hitting [H] while the cursor is blinking. Further editing features are like they were described during the sample renaming process above.

Clicking one of the digits of the loop time will increment or decrement this digit depending on the mouse-button (left/right).

You can manually enter the loop point (at:) and its length by clicking the values while keeping [Ctrl] pressed instead of graphically spanning it up in the sample.

Hitting M while editing these two loop properties will max out their values. You can show these two loop parameters in msecs, too. Click the Unit button to toggle between frames and msecs. Note you cannot enter msec values only frames.

Clicking one of the digits of a loop parameter will increment or decrement this digit depending on the mouse-button (left/right).

In the the last column of the Sample Properties window, there are more fields which are irrelevant to the Akai but might be of value for your own purposes. A sample category can be chosen from a picklist, a short description and the name of the author of the sample can be edited and the tempo of the sample in BPM can be set. These librarian properties are displayed when choosing an *.ANS file in the file selector window.

From the pull-down menu or by hitting [CTRL]+[D] you can make the current librarian properties default so you don't need to fill in the same data again for further samples you are about to import. Clear these defaults by selecting the corrsponding pull-down menu item.

You can copy and paste the properties of the selected loop (Time, At and Length) at ther same time by hitting [CTRL]+[C] and [CTRL]+[V] or by choosing the corresponding menu item.

NOTE:

You can't change any sample properties apart from the Akai sample name before the sample has been transmitted to the sampler.