American Audio DCD-PRO500 manual GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS Cont, B. Lcd Display Figure

GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS (Cont.)

A.The jog wheel will act as a slow frame search control when

the CD is not playing but either paused or set to a cue point. To set a new frame cue point, spin the jog wheel then press PLAY when you have determined the proper position. Press

CUE to return to the “CUE POINT”.

B.It also works as a pitch bend, when you turn clockwise the

pitch will rise to 16%, and when you turn counterclockwise it will fall to -16%. The pitch bend is determined on how fast you turn the wheel.

14SHUTTLE WHEEL - (OUTER RING) This wheel has 3 for- ward and 3 reverse speed positions for speed searching through tracks. The more you turn the wheel in either direction the faster you search

15.CUE - Pressing the CUE button during play provides a return to the position at which play was started. If PAUSE is used before CUE or a CUE POINT was set, that will become the cue point. Alternately pressing the PLAY button and the CUE button allows the CD to be played from the same position any number of times. The CUE LED will light up from the time the Cue button is pressed until the CD has reset to the position at which play was started. Steady lighting of this LED indicates the ready condition. The CUE button can be held down to play a CD. When you release the CUE button it instantly returns to the CUE POINT. You can also tap the CUE button to create a BOP EFFECT (for definition of BOP EFFECT, see page 5).

16. TRACK BUTTON - This buttons is used to select your desired track. This is fast BACK SKIP through the tracks on your CD.

17.IN REALTIME BUTTON - (CUE “ON THE FLY”) This allows you to set a CUE POINT without interruption of music (“on the fly”). This button also sets the beginning of a seamless loop (see

SEAMLESS LOOP).

18.OUT / EXIT - Used to set the ending point when looping. When the OUT/EXIT button is pressed, the player will play the loop continuously. To exit the loop, press the OUT/EXIT button again.

19.TRACK BUTTON - This buttons is used to select your desired track. This is fast FORWARD SKIP through the tracks on your CD.

20.RELOOP BUTTON - If a SEAMLESS LOOP has been made, but the CD Player is not actively in SEAMLESS LOOP mode, press the RELOOP BUTTON (20) to reactivate the SEAM- LESS LOOP mode. RELOOP will appear in the LCD DISPLAY

(6). To exit loop, press the OUT/EXIT button (18).

21.BOP - This function instantly plays last cue in a stutter effect.

22.DISK 1 SELECT KEY(22) - This button will allow functional- ity of the NUMBER KEYS (23) on CD Drive 1.

23.NUMBER KEYS (0~9) - These keys are used for direct track access or jump to a specific time in the selected CD (see Go to time #9).

24.DISK 2 SELECT KEY (24) - This button will allow function- ality of the NUMBER KEYS (23) on CD Drive 2.

25.PLAY/PAUSE BUTTON - Each press of the PLAY/ PAUSE BUTTON causes the operation to change from play to pause or

from pause to play. While in play mode the Green Backlit LED will glow, while in pause mode the the Green Backlit LED will flash.

26.(-) PITCH BEND Button - The (-) pitch bend function allows a momentary “Slow Down” in the CD’s BPM’s (Beats per minute) while it is playing. This will allow you to match the beats between two playing CD’s or other playing music source. Remember, that this is a momentary function when you remove your finger from the pitch button the BPM’s will automatically return to SLIDERS (12) selected pitch. Use this function to catch up to the your other playing music source and use the PITCH SLIDER (12) to match the BPM’s with the other playing music source. When each of the two CD play- ers are playing, the pitch bend function allows the positioning of the bass beats to be matched, after the pitch of each disc is matched. Either player can “catch up” or “fall back” to match the other player. By changing the pitch of one disc with respect to the other in this way the beats can be matched.

27.LCD DISPLAY - This high quality LCD display Indicates all the functions, as they are occurring. This display is view- able at several comfortable angles. The display ICONS will be explained in the next section.

28.(+) PITCH BEND Button - The (+) pitch bend function allows a momentary “BUMP” in the CD’s BPM’s (Beats per minute) while it is playing. This will allow you to match the beats between two playing CD’s or any other playing music source. Remember, that this is a momentary function when you remove your finger from the pitch button the BPM’s will automatically return to SLIDERS (12) selected pitch. Use this function to catch up to the your other playing music source and use the pitch slider (12) match the BPM’s with the other playing music source.

29.Pitch Button - This button will change the pitch percent- age the Pitch Slider (12) will react too. The pitch percentage can be changed between 8%, 12%, and 16%. 8% will allow the least amount of pitch manipulation and 16% will allow the most amount of pitch manipulation. The LED above the Pitch Button will indicate the function pitch percentage by flashing red for 8% glowing green for 12% and glowing red for 16%.

B. LCD DISPLAY (FIGURE 7)

30.PLAY INDICATOR - This indicator will glow indicating that the the CD Drive is in play mode

31.PAUSE INDICATOR - This indicator will glow indicating that the CD Drive is in PAUSE mode.

32.CUE INDICATOR - Light when press cue button or flash when press loop in key.

33.PROGRAM INDICATOR - This lights when program mode is set or played.

34.SINGLE INDICATOR - This indicates that the CD drive is in single play mode, the track will play once and return to CUE mode. If the single indicator is not on the drive is in con-

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