FXpansion DR-008 - Manual (Page 20)

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Vpi – Velocity to Pitch. When turned up, this control causes louder notes to be
played at a relatively higher pitch.
Fc – Filter Cutoff. This controls the cutoff frequency of the Easy Sampler’s simple
Low Pass filter. When turned down, this control removes some of the treble
frequencies from the sound, making it less ‘bright’.
VFc – Velocity to Filter Cutoff. When turned up, this control causes louder notes
to sound brighter than quiet notes, by increasing the cutoff frequency for the
filter on loud notes.
Adc – Amplitude Decay. This control can be used to ‘shorten’ the sound by making
the amplitude decrease with time.
PDc – Pitch Decay. This control ‘bends’ the sound by making the pitch decrease
over time.
4.2.2 Ultra Sampler
Ultra Sampler is, like Easy Sampler, a single-wave stereo
sampler module. However, it has a much more complex and
powerful signal path. This enables it to do some quite drastic
things to your sound, but at the expense of consuming
considerably more CPU time. The upper area of the screen
controls the main oscillator – it supports reversed sample
playback, offset of the sample start point (adjustable from
velocity), looping (with control over the loop points – automatically snapped
to a zero crossing – and number of repetitions), pitch control (+/- 2 octaves),
velocity-to-pitch (positive or negative), and a pitch envelope capable of
generating a variety of slopes – the initial pitch slope is controlled with
the ‘slope’ parameter; the ‘sweep’ parameter controls how the slope changes
(becoming steeper, shallower or even turning back on itself) over time.
Both looping and pitch EG can be switched off via the switches provided.
Beyond the oscillator, the Ultra Sampler has a five-stage signal path, using
terminology that may be familiar to you from analog synthesis:-
VCA1, VCF1, Drive, VCF2, VCA2.
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