Roland maxWerk Musical Instrument - Manual (Page 105)

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VariOS Menu Reference
Menu 1 Sample Edit (sample settings)
1-1 Key Assign mode
Selects whether a sample will be played polyphonically (POLY) or monophonically (MONO). It is effective to select SOLO when you want to play
a monophonic instrument (such as sax or flute) legato.
Available Settings:
1-2 Playback Mode
Selects how the sample will be played. Select “Time Sync” if you want to use legato playing (*) to play the sample phrase in a different melody than
it originally had. Select “Retrigger” if you want the sample to play back from the beginning each time you press a key.
* “Legato playing” normally means “to play smoothly,” but here it is used in the special sense of playing the next key (note-on) before releasing the previous key
(note-off).
Available Settings:
Poly: Multiple notes can be played simultaneously.
Solo: Only the last-played note will be sounded, one note at a time.
Retrigger:
The sample will play back from the beginning each
time you press a key. This can be used to produce the
effect of a “musical round” as shown in the diagram.
Time Sync:
● Key Assign: Poly
When you play legato, the second and subsequently
played keys will synchronize their playback point to
the first-played key. This lets you produce chords in
the middle of a phrase, as shown in the diagram.
● Key Assign: Solo
When you play legato, the pitch will be changed
from the current playback point of the previous
sound. You can play the keyboard to produce a mel-
ody that is completely different than that of the orig-
inal phrase.
Step: Each time you press a key, the sample will play back to the next event (p. 61) and then stop.
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