Zone
Type: noun
Pronunciation: /zo-own/
What does Zone mean? A zone is the keyboard mapping assigned to a sample or group of samples and controls pitch and velocity.
A zone is the keyboard mapping assigned to a sample or group of samples and controls pitch and velocity.
In the context of KONTAKT for example, loading a C2 piano sample into KONTAKT will automatically assign the same sample into a zone across multiple octaves so that the sample can be played with a keyboard at different pitches.
Example sentence: “What zone is that in?”
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