Instruments

Sequencial Vibes comes with a built in sample player and support for VST-Instruments.
This is the song instrument list where you can see all sample players/VST-Instruments
used in the current song.

The default instrument is the sample player. If no other instrument
was inserted the list will display 100 sample players which should be
enough to make a song…hopefully…
To view an instrument just double click on it.

Different Instruments

- Internal Sampler Instrument
- Vst-Instruments

Click the right mouse button over the instrument slot you want to change. The following menu will pop up

- Create VST-Instrument
  You are able to select one of the "VST-Instrument"  which were found in one
  of your VST-Plugin paths specified in the menu (Config->Paths). 

- Load Sampler/Save Sampler:
  load/save the internal sampler instrument

- clears current slot. Take care of the fact that the previous instrument and
  samples will be removed!!

- change the name of the instrument here

   Internal Sampler Instrument

The sample player instrument is a player for single samples. It lets you modify
the sound of a sample in various ways and of course in realtime.
At the moment the sampler supports the WAV-format (16Bit,44100Khz stereo/mono).
To load a sample you have to select a slot and click on the load symbol to browse
for the wanted sound-file.
Each slot can hold a sample with different sample settings (filter,volume,vda,vdf,loop)
There are up to 100 slots per instrument possible.

Example:
Slot 0: BaseDrum  Key Assign: C-4   C-4   C-4
Slot 1: Snare        Key Assign: C#4  C#4  C#4

Play note C-4 of instrument for BaseDrum sound or play note C#4 of instrument for the snare.
The first note specifiys where the sample has the original pitch (playing 1:1). The Low and High
notes let you define the keyboard range for the sample.

With the page selector you can choose between the 4 sample parameter pages.
 

Page Main

Volume:  volume of sample (0-200%)
Pan:        pan of sample (0=left,  50=middlepos,  100=right)
Tune:      tune the sample in halftone steps
F.Tune:   fine tune the sample (-halftone => +halftone)
Note-Off Action:  release or cut sound after a Note-Off event
Cutoff:  frequency of sample (0-100)
Reso:    resonance of sampe (0-100)
Filter:   filter the sample with different types of audio filters
            LP24 => 24db 4-pole lowpass filter
            HP    => highpass filter
            None => no filter
A-Out:  Audio-Out selection of sample. The sample can be routed
            to any of the Audio-Outs of the Mixer.

Page VDA

Volume Envelope Generator. Here you can set how the volume of the
sample changes over time.
Use the "Active" button to switch on/off the envelope

Page VDF

Page LOOP

Here you can loop a sample.
The loop page offers two types for loops.

1. Bi-Directional Loop:
The sample gets played till the loop start is reached. Then it plays the loop area forward
and if the end is reached the direction changes and loop area gets played backwards.
And so on….

2. Uni-Directional Loop:
The sample gets played till the loop start is reached. Then it plays the loop area continously in a
forward direction.

- Step
  this step amount is used for loop start/end value changes.
  To change values select a loop field and use keyboard-arrows up/down or mouse wheel.

Use the "Active" button to switch on/off the loop mode

VST-Instruments

A-Out:
This is the audio-out port of the instrument in the mixer. Just select any output you want.
The default-out is always the master out. If the audio-out port does not exist anymore
the signal will be automatically route through the master port.

Vol:
Adjust the volume of the instrument
The midi channel used for playing the instrument is set fix to channel 1.

Select a program/preset:

 

Bank/Preset:
You can load/save the banks and presets here.
The bank/preset file format is the same which cubase uses.