Emulator Composite.book - Creative

3 - Getting Started
Examine the Samples
Examine the Samples
Samples are the digital recordings which are the basis of an Emulator X sound. As
you’ve seen, samples can be layered and switched or treated by the Voice Processing
functions to create entirely new sounds, but the actual samples can also be modified
and sculpted.
A single preset may use over a hundred samples and a bank may contain thousands of
individual samples. Let’s take a look.
1. Click on the plus sign (+) next to the Samples folder to open the folder and
display the samples in the bank. (If the Preset folder is already open, you can click
on the minus sign (-) next to the folder to close it and clean up the tree.)
2. Click on any sample to display its waveform.
Horizontal Zoom
Vertical Zoom
Zoom All
3. The transport controls are located in the toolbar. If you don’t see them, right-click
an empty area in the toolbar and select Sample Transport. Click the Play button
to listen to the sample.
4. Press the Stop button to stop playing.
5. Click on the larger magnifying glass of the Horizontal Zoom buttons. The timebase
of the waveform is magnified allowing you to see more detail. Continue
clicking and eventually you’ll reach maximum magnification. The individual
sample measurements are shown here as dots. If the sample rate is 44.1 kHz, there
will be 44,100 of these dots per second of sound.
6. Click repeatedly on the smaller magnifying glass and the horizontal magnification
decreases.
7. Click the Zoom All button, and the view zooms to show the entire sample.
8. The Vertical Zoom buttons allow you to zoom in or out on the vertical axis. None
of the zoom buttons change the wave in any way. They’re just display controls.
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