The sampler is the main part of Factory; it is in the "Sampler" window. It can contain 8 to 30 tracks fully independant (see "Setting Hit Factory VST" chapter). Each of theses tracks is represented by a rectangular drawing in the window.
 
To access to the functions of a track, click on the top button (the one with a green triangle)of this track. A submenu appears:
Loading and deleting sounds:
• In order to load a sound on a track and use it as a sample, select "Load sample or bank...". In the open dialog, select the sound you wish then click on"Load". This files must be in System 7 or AIFF sound format. Note that the "Load Direct To Disk..." menu item is explained at the end of the chapter "The Direct To Disk".
• To load a Bank file, do the same thing.
Note: You can avoid the open dialog and go really fast if you use the "Fast load" item. It lists all the subfolders and their sound files contained in the folder defined as the master sounds folder (see "The preferences" chapter). If you choose that way to load a sound and if a sound is already playing on a track, it will be closed whereas the one you have selected is loaded and automaticaly starts playing.
• To delete the sound loaded on a track, choose "Close file" in the submenu. The memory it used is free again.
Using sounds:
• To start playing the sound or the Direct To Disk file associated to a track, click on the "Play" button (the one with an arrow) at the bottom of the track.
• To stop the sound, click on the "Stop" button (the one with a square).
• To set the volume of the track, move, keeping the mouse button down, the purple vertical paddle or click at the place you wish it to go.
• To set the pitch of the track, move the paddle on the blue background. You can change the pitch of the sound in a range of 20%. The central position of the paddle is the normal pitch.
• To set the panoramic of the track if the sound is mono or its balance if it is stereo, move the paddle on the white and red background.
Modifying the options of a track:
• To choose the initialisation mode (stereo, mono, left only or right only), select the appropriated option in the submenu.
• To make the sound looping between the left and rigth speakers, click on the "Loop" button. Click on it again to stop it. You can set the speed of the loop in the "Utilities" menu: "Set loop speed".
Note: The panoramic setting and the "Loop" option are available only if the track is in "Stereo" or "Mono" mode.
• To set the "Turbo" mode of the track or return to normal mode, click on the "Turbo" button.
• To add reverb to the track or to suppress it, click on the buttons "R1" or "R2".
• To select the active sound in a Bank file, use the arrows (they are visible only if a Bank file is loaded on the track).
Note: In order that reverb works, the "Enabled " item in the reverb preferences dialog must be checked. For more informations, please report to chapter"The preferences".
Moving into the sampler's tracks:
The sampler's window only shows some of the sampler's tracks (8 out of 16 for example). To shift all the tracks to the left, press the right key of your keyboard. To shift all the tracks to the right, press the left key of your keyboard. You may also use the scroll bar at the bottom of the window.
Note: The size of the sampler's window (i.e. the number of visible tracks) is automatically set up according to the screen resolution when Hit Factory VST starts up.
