Launching a sample...yes, but how yo stop it ?

yannthekeys · Post by **yannthekeys** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:02 am

Hi friends, i ve made a combi using a loop assigned to a program. It works well when i trig the loop, i keep it on turning over through the song, but when the songs end, how to stop the loop from going on ?
Thanks

jahrome · Post by **jahrome** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 7:44 am

This is one of the annoying things about hardware samplers released today. There is no quick and easy method to stop a sample from playing once it is triggered. Kronos has this issue and so does Native Instrument's Maschine. The current like of Akai MPCs allow you to press the sequencer stop button a few times to stop samples from playing. They also have a "Mute/Stop of One-Shot samples" function. When this function is turned ON, when the sequencer is stopped, all samples are stopped as well.

SanderXpander · Post by **SanderXpander** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 8:53 am

Couldn't you just put it in a mute group together with a silent key?
The same way hihats or crashes are muted in keyboard drums.

SanderXpander · Post by **SanderXpander** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 8:56 am

Or if you don't want to put it in drum kit, use the sample program in a combi and limit its polyphony to 1, with note preference to "last" (can this be done on Kronos? I think so?). Then hit any "empty" key in the program to stop the sample. Or just mute the program with the direct switch on the control surface.

On second thought, I don't see the problem at all, haha, I must be misunderstanding something?

jick · Post by **jick** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 9:51 am

SanderXpander's (second) method is excellent, that's the way I am doing this too.

kid_nepro_2002 · Post by **kid_nepro_2002** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 10:02 am

You can convert the loop to a drum pattern. Then you can just turn it on and off using the drum track switch. Time slicing the loop also lets you change the speed of the loop without changing that pitch.

Here's how it's done on the M3. Kronos should be pretty much the same.

http://www.kidnepro.com/KN/Korg/M3/korg ... ttern.html

yannthekeys · Post by **yannthekeys** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 1:05 pm

Thank you very much, for your help, i tried te drum track method and it works well.
You re great dudes

kid_nepro_2002 · Post by **kid_nepro_2002** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 1:38 pm

yannthekeys wrote:Thank you very much, for your help, i tried te drum track method and it works well.
You re great dudes

Your welcome. Glad to help. Yes, it's a cool little trick.

Actually you can thank my friend Jack Hotop from Korg USA. He spent about an hour on the phone with me explaining how it's done. I took my notes and created that tutorial. Thanks again Jack!

SanderXpander · Post by **SanderXpander** » Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:49 pm

That sounds excellent, I'll have to try that when I finally get my Kronos!