Using a Sampler, "1-Shot Mode"

Okay, if we switch over to one shot mode, this works a little bit different. The way that this is going to go is that when I tell it to play this sample, it's going to play the whole sample no matter when I let go of the key. It's just designed to get a trigger and say, start playing that sample and then it plays that sample. It's like you say, go play your sample. This is best used in like drum sounds, right? Like a snap snare. You might just want to hit that snare and let it go and not worry about the length of it. It's not ideal for this, right? So I'm just going to say, play that note. So I just hit the note and I let go and it's just going to go, right? So what I could do is first shorten the sample same way I did before. So this will also only let one note play at a time. So this is not polyphonic like we just talked about. This is monophonic. So if I try to play three notes in quick succession, Go da da da. Here's what happens. It only plays the last one. Well, it started all three, right? But then the last one kept playing. The other ones cut off the previous one. Now if you do want it to stop playing when you lift up the note, you can set that up with this gate control. Okay. Now it's playing when I have my finger down and stops when I lift my finger up. Right? So that's what gate does. Trigger means fire and play the whole thing. Gate means when I put my finger down, play the note until I lift it up, then I close the gate. And that's true with MIDI notes as well. So in this case, the gate is open, the gate is closed, otherwise it's going to play the whole sample. Now these are going to sound like they're gated because it's not going to get through the sample. And then this is going to cut the previous one off. So this will sound pretty much the same as the classic mode, but one shot best for drum sounds.