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Flying High with FL Studio 6

Dec 1, 2005 6:37 PM, Advertorial by Duncan Crockett

           

DirectWave

FL Studio has always done sample playback. But up until now, creating a multisample (a keyboard layout containing numerous samples) has been something of a chore. DirectWave changes all that. This full-featured multisampler is just the ticket, whether you need realistic horns and strings or a full drum kit that you can play from a MIDI keyboard. DirectWave's factory library includes choir, guitar, piano, organ, ethnic percussion, and much more.

FIG. 3: The DirectWave sampler maps samples across the keyboard (top) and has a full set of voicing parameters for each sample zone (bottom).

With DirectWave's intuitive user interface (see Fig. 3), you can map samples across the keyboard and even give each its own upper and lower Velocity limits for more expressive playback from a keyboard. Sample loading is drag-and-drop. Each sample can have its own settings for two filters, two LFOs, and other useful modules. DirectWave has both sample-level effects (ring mod, decimator, quantizer, and phaser) and global effects (delay, reverb, and chorus). Furthermore, it can import WAV, SF2, Battery, Giga, Akai S-5000, EXS24, Amiga Mod, ReCycle, and Kontakt samples, giving you access to an abundance of sample libraries.