This section of the Edit page provides three tabs: Pitch, Filter and Volume. Note that these settings affect the instrument as a whole.
All three tabs have envelopes, and those can be edited either by dragging the points in the graph or by adjusting the values below the graph. Adjust the curves between the points in the envelope by dragging them up/down.
Pitch
Octave transposes the instrument one octave up or down.
Tune FX provides some creative tuning options: Dissonance provides random detuning for all lo-fi/honky-tonk use cases. Sample Shift changes the tonal character of the piano in semitone steps. Under the hood it shifts the pitch of all the samples, while simultaneously compensating with MIDI transpose in the opposite direction. Nice effect, a bit hard to describe in words!
Vibrato offers synth style pitch modulation, with the usual Rate and Depth (X-moddable) controls.
The Pitch Envelope lets you change the pitch over time. It is its own section with an Enable switch to turn it on/off.
The pitch of the sample will always end up on the correct pitch in the end, but you can offset the initial pitch with Pitch Start. After a certain Hold Time the envelope pulls the pitch back to normal during the duration of the Release Time.
You can let velocity control the amount of Pitch Envelope applied by using the Vel control.
Filter
The Filter lets you do anything from subtle enhancements to sounds that border on synth territory. The Active button turns the entire filter section on/off.
There are four different filter Types: Low Pass 12dB, Low Pass 24dB, High Pass 12dB and Band Pass 12dB, and the usual Cutoff (X-moddable) and Resonance knobs.
The Kbd (Keyboard) knob changes the cutoff frequency depending on which key you play. It’s a bipolar control: When centered there is no effect. When turned right the cutoff will increase with the MIDI note value (high note = high cutoff, low note = low cutoff). When turned left you get the opposite.
The Filter Envelope lets you change the timbre over time. It is its own section with an Enable switch to turn it on/off.
The Envelope Amount knob controls how much the envelope should change the cutoff frequency of the filter.
Start Level, indicated by a triangle, allows you to set a starting point other than zero which is useful in many situations when dealing with filters.
What follows after is a very flexible multi-stage envelope with times and levels for all 4 stages: Attack Time and Attack Level, Decay Time and Decay Level, Sustain Time and Sustain Level, and finally Release Time and Release Level.
You can let velocity control the amount of Filter Envelope applied by using the Vel control.
Volume
Vel >Vol: Adjusts how velocity affects the volume
Kbd: Increasing this control, the volume will increase with the MIDI note value (high note = high volume, low note = low volume). Decrease this control to get the opposite effect.
Volume envelope
Enable: Turns on/off the envelope section. When the envelope is disabled instruments will playback “as recorded” using release samples if available.
Vel > Attack: Increase this slider to let the velocity of incoming MIDI notes determine the influence of the volume envelope.
Envelope Point Amplitude: -inf - 0 dB
Attack: 5 ms - 7 s
Decay: 5 ms - 7 s
Sustain: 5 ms - 7 s
Release: 0 - 15 s (only available if Release Samples are deactivated)
Release Samples: Activates/deactivates release sample playback.
Envelope parameters can be edited either by dragging the points in the graph or by adjusting the values below the graph. Adjust the curves between the points in the envelope by dragging them up/down.