Introducing Model:Samples

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David from R&D explains it in this post:

Sample start/end has 120 steps?

Hi, with n slices there are n+1 positions (slice boundaries) where playback can start and stop. So if the knob had a range of 0 to 127 you would be able to select 128 positions and that would give you 127 slices. You would not be able to select any perfect divisions because 127 is a prime. To get 128 slices the knob would need to range from 0 to 128 (have 129 values) and thus break the MIDI 7-bit convention which allows only 128 values for a parameter. With a range of 0 to 120 you have 121 pos…