Hello Zoffmeister,
I posted these lines some time ago, maybe it's helpful for you:
Repetition Mode
Performance repetitions are „Phrase“ samples, where the musician played repetitions notes in a defined tempo and playing style.
The repetition tool enables you, to have directly access to each single repetition out of this phrase. The instrument naming tells you the most important informations about this repetition:
VI-14_leg-rep5_4-120
Stac = performed as staccato articulation,
“rep5” = there are 5 repetition notes
4-120 = the tempo is 4th at BPM 120
Each repetition is specially prepared.
If it is a “rep5” phrase, than there are 5 prepared variations mapped.
1st: starting with the start note (you hear 5 notes)
2nd: starting with the second note (you hear 4 notes)
3rd: starting with the 3rd note etc. (you hear 3 notes)
etc
Now this different starting variations are mapped to different keyswitches:
C1 = triggerning the version with 5 notes
C#1 = triggering the version with 4 notes
D1 = triggering the version with 3 notes
The basic concept of the algorythm is, that each note ON forces the tool to switch to the next keyswitch.
That means, you can perform this repetitions faster than the original recording speed. You can’t perform it slower!
This is important for your selection which repetition instrument you want to use.
With the VI-14_leg-rep5_4-120 you can perform legato repetition quarters from BPM 120 up to 200 (300).
You also perform exactly the same way, you would perform with normal multisamples, each keystroke is one note.
If you hold the key too long, and you hear more than 1 note you are using the tool not in the way it was designed for.
All repetition variations of a sample do have a little release tail of the previous note.
The fade in of each part matches perfectly with the envelope release, so the parts are blending like a normal crossfade.
So the repetition tool is a kind of "realtime midibased wav editing engine".
Each performance repetition instrument you load into EXS should have already the right settings:
The Matrix display is similar to the Alternation tool.
Important is that in the first entry to the left the right numbers of repetitions have to be set.
For VI-14_leg-rep5_4-120 all first entry are set to “5”
In the matrix line you can enable or disable each part of the repetition.
1 = enabled
0 = disabled
For example, you need 3 legato repetitions “taaa-taa-taaaa”
You could setup the matrix like this: 1:0:0:1:1
You play the first note = the first note of the repetition phrase is triggered
Play the second note = the fourth note of the repetition pharse is triggered (the tool jumped form keyswitch c1 to d#1)
Play the third note = the fifth note of the repetition pharse is triggered.
The tool always goes linear (chromatically) through the keyswitches starting with the lowest keyswitch.
You don’t have to think about the original mapped keyswitches – the tool is managing the keyswitches automatically.
So you can use “keyswitches” for switching between the 12 matrix presets of the Repetition Tool.
Important is also the “Release Time” slider:
I described above, that the different parts of the repetitions should blend perfectly like you would work in wav editor using crossfades.
Now it is impossible to perform on a keyboard repetitions on the same key without a pause between the different strokes.
Therefore the algorythm does not send a Note OFF if you release OFF a key.
The Note OFF is sent when you play the next key, so when you send the next Note ON.
The release time slider enables you to define who long this “Note ON hold” should be.
This depends on your playingstyle.
