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"text": "If you load a saxophone sound, for example, the library gives you the entire range of the instrument, with round robins, and a depth of velocity-triggered samples for each note.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"The MIDI technique of using different sampled versions of the same sound for successive notes, to avoid an unnaturally repetitive effect."
],
"links": [
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"music",
"music"
],
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"MIDI",
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],
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"sound",
"sound"
],
[
"repetitive",
"repetitive"
]
],
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"(music) The MIDI technique of using different sampled versions of the same sound for successive notes, to avoid an unnaturally repetitive effect."
],
"topics": [
"entertainment",
"lifestyle",
"music"
]
}
],
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
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"english": "attributive form",
"word": "round-robin"
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"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "part of a tournament",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "poule"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "krug",
"sense": "part of a tournament",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "круг"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "part of a tournament",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "liguilla"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "method of dividing labor between subsystems",
"word": "kiertovuorottelu"
}
],
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"Royal Navy",
"round-robin"
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