There is a Crop function, but I miss the Fade in / Fade out function. This is the most essential feature. Normalize would also be useful. There is no way to save the sample in the desired form after recording. It turns out that I have to save a “draft version” of the sample first, upload it to an editor, and then save it again.
The sample editor is destructive to the sample within the instrument only, but if you do an undesired sample edit, then you can re-load/import the core sample to the instrument, as these edits are only applied within the instrument [.PTI] and not to the core sample.
You have the ability to preview the sample before you apply the effect.
You are welcome, if you want to do these things in a more “hair-pulling manner”, then you can use the track editor with FX options as your sample editor too followed by sample render.
Example:
Fade in/out = use the volume FX aka V
Crop = Position in sample / wave [I have not used this myself yet, but it could work at least for the start point] followed by [OFF] or [CUT] command to set the end of the playback aka P
There is not a command for Normalize, as I could imagine that it would be a very hard on the CPU.