
NN-19 DIGITAL SAMPLER
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Fortunately Reason provides a wide range of high quality multisampled in-
struments, so much of this hard work has already been done for you.
In our experience, most people don’t use samplers only for playing sampled
versions of “real” instruments. Very often, single “stand alone” or single sam-
ples are used. Maybe you wish to use different sounds for every key zone. Or
you could have complete chorus and verse vocals plus variations assigned
to several “one note” key zones. Or use samples of different chords that play
rhythmic figures to the same tempo, and use these to build song structures
etc. The possibilities are endless. When you use samples in this way, the
keys on your keyboard that plays the samples do not necessarily correspond
to pitch at all, the keys are simply used to trigger the samples.
Loading a Sample Patch
When you create a new NN-19 device, it is empty. That is, the “Init patch” in
the NN-19 does not contain any samples. For NN-19 to produce sound, you
need to load either a sampler patch, or a sample.
A patch contains “everything”. All the samples, assigned key zones, and as-
sociated panel settings will be loaded. Loading a sample patch is done using
the patch browser, just like in the Subtractor.
Open the folder that contains the NN-19 patch you wish to load, select it and
click open.
About Audio File Formats
The NN-19 can read audio files in two formats:
• Wave (.wav)
• AIFF (.aif)
• Any sample rate and practically any bit depth.
! Regardless of the files original bit depth, samples will be played
back as 16-bit files in NN-19.
Wave and AIFF are the standard audio file formats for the PC and Mac plat-
forms, respectively. Any audio or sample editor, regardless of platform, can
read and create audio files in at least one of these formats.
About the Sample Patch format
Reason’s Sample Patch format (.smp), is based on either Wave or AIFF files,
but includes all the NN-19 associated parameter settings as well.
➜ The audio files may be stereo or mono. Stereo audio files are shown
with a “S” symbol beside its name in the display.
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