Autosampler Bug (or By Design)?

Just spotted this. The program created by autosampler only tunes samples 'up', never down, which IMO is not the most efficient use of keygroup tuning. Consider the following:

Note range: C0 to C4
Note Stride: 5

This creates samples C0, F0 and so on.

Keygroup 1 uses a C0 sample, covering note range C0 to E0.
Keygroup 2 uses the F0 sample, and is covering F0 to A0.

So in the autosample program, the E0 is created by tuning C0 up by 4 semitones. This is crazy. You should instead by using the F0 sample and tuning it down by 1 semitone.

With a note stride of 5 (IMO) you should set the sample you recorded to the centre of the keygroup's note range, thus limiting tuning by a max of +/-2. So:

Keygroup 1 (uses a C0 sample), so should cover the note range Bb-1 to D0.
Keygroup 2 (uses the F0 sample), so should cover Eb0 to Gb0.

I can only assume that Akai have decided that tuning down = bad, no matter how little you are tuning?

MPC-Tutor wrote:I can only assume that Akai have decided that tuning down = bad, no matter how little you are tuning?

I suspect all autosampler type software samples the root note and tunes up rather than down. Not sure why...

I noticed this as well. I suspect the theory is that you are not creating information that did not exist.

It would be a nice option to tell auto sampler how for up and down you are willing for the sample to go.