Sony SF-10000 User Manual

Used in conjunction with the Sampler Tool, Sound Forge® Pro software’s powerful editing capabilities allow you to create, edit, and 
transfer samples between external and internal samplers. This chapter describes the procedures used to transfer (dump) samples 
between the computer and sampler with the Sampler Tool. 

Samplers are devices that produce on-demand playback of audio samples at varying pitches. For the purposes of this manual, we will 
concentrate on two basic varieties: external samplers and internal samplers. 

External samplers are typically capable of recording samples or transferring prerecorded samples into their memory. You can choose 
between two methods to transfer samples to external samplers: 

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MIDI Sample Dump Standard (SDS) 

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SCSI MIDI Device Interface (SMDI) 

The MIDI SDS is used to send and receive digital samples using normal MIDI hardware and cable connections. Due to the limited 
bandwidth of the MIDI protocol and the large amount of data required by digital samples, a MIDI SDS transfer can be time consuming. 
Furthermore, SDS is limited to mono samples, though certain samplers allow two mono samples to be joined as a stereo sample. 

The SCSI MIDI Device Interface (SMDI) allows music hardware and software to communicate using SCSI hardware and cables. Because 
SCSI hardware has a greater bandwidth than MIDI, SMDI transfers are considerably faster than SDS transfers. In addition, SMDI supports 
mono and stereo sample transfers. 

Internal samplers are cards installed in your system that, unlike typical sound cards, actually allow sounds to be downloaded into 
memory and played at varying pitches to simulate a musical instrument. 

If you have an internal sampler not directly supported by the Sampler Tool, you have two options: 

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Use the MIDI SDS transfer protocol. 

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Use an open loop transfer. 

SAMPLING 

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