Section 5 — Sampling
EPS-16 PLUS Musician's Manual
• Scroll right to the loop end parameter, again underlining the coarse adjust (the
number in parentheses) which should be at (99). Use the Data Entry Slider
to move the loop end down as far as it can go. It will stop at (25) or wherever
you set the loop start to, because you cannot adjust the loop end past the loop
start The loop start and loop end are now at the same place in the Wavesample.
Play the sound. When it hits the loop, it will play supersonic frequencies
because the EPS-16 PLUS is trying to loop on just one sample.
• Scroll two steps to the left to select the loop end fine adjust (the number just
after LOOPEND=). Press the Up Arrow button once and play the sound.
The pitch of the loop should be a little lower —you have moved the loop end
away from the loop start to the first potentially good splice point.
• Press the Up Arrow button again and listen to the sound. With each press of
the Up Arrow button, the pitch of the loop should go down as the EPS-16
PLUS moves the loop end to the next zero crossing. Keep pressing the Up
Arrow button, one press at a time, until the loop sustains at the same pitch as
the sound before the loop. This is a single-cycle loop.
• After you've found a good loop, you should move the sample end back to the
same point as the loop end, then truncate the Wavesample to reclaim the memory
of the loop which is no longer needed. (TRUNCATE WAVESAMPLE is
found on the COMMAND/Wave page and is discussed in Section 6—
Wavesample Parameters.)
Adjusting Loop Position
Prior to truncating the Wavesample, you may decide that the loop occurs too early
in the sound (before all the attack transients have died down) or too late (wasting
memory). The EPS-16 PLUS has a way to move the whole loop (start and end)
around while keeping its relative length intact
• While still on the EDIT/Wave page (press Edit, then Wave if you are not)
scroll until the display shows LOOPPOS= ## (##). This is the loop position
parameter. The number shown here is that of the loop start, but adjusting this
parameter will move both loop start and loop end together, leaving the length
(and thus the pitch) of the loop unaffected
• Underline the loop position coarse adjust (the number in parentheses) and try
moving the loop position around while listening to the sound. Find the place
where the loop works most naturally with the rest of the sound. Note that you
might have to readjust the loop end slightly after moving the loop position,
particularly if the sound has pitch variations in it.
• Again, once you've found a loop you like, move the sample end back to the
loop end, and truncate the Wavesample.
For more on this parameter, see Section 6 — Wavesample Parameters.
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