6
Preventing specific samples from sounding simultaneously—Mute Groups............................ 74
Playing a sample from a connected foot switch................................................................................ 75
Specifying the Function of the Foot Switch...............................................................................75
Specifying the pad sample that will be played by the foot switch........................................ 75

Editing the sample of a pad .................................................................76

Adjusting the volume of a sample—Sample Level.......................................................................... 76
Displaying the correct tempo of a sample.......................................................................................... 77
Adjusting the start/end points of the sound—Trim Sample.......................................................... 78
What are the Start/Loop points and Length?...........................................................................78
Setting each point..........................................................................................................................78
Automatically removing Empty Portion at the Beginnings and Ends of Samples............. 79
Expanding and Compressing a sample to modify the length or tempo....................................... 80
Matching the tempo to another sample—Tempo Match........................................................ 80
Expanding/compressing by a specified percentage or tempo—Time Stretch.................... 81
Copying a sample to another pad—Clipboard.................................................................................. 82
Splitting a sample among several pads—Divide Sample............................................................... 83
Specifying a division point and dividing a sample in two..................................................... 83
Automatically dividing a sample at silent portions.................................................................84
Dividing a sample at the timing that you press a button........................................................85
Creating a “reverse tape” style sample—Create Reversal............................................................... 86
Boosting the sample level as high as possible—Normalize........................................................... 87

Arranging audio samples to create a song—Sequence....................88

What is a sequence?................................................................................................................................ 88
About the sequence tracks.....................................................................................................................88
About the tempo of the sequence............................................................................................... 88
Recording pad operations as you play pads—Realtime Recording.............................................. 90
Realtime recording........................................................................................................................90
Recording while you listen to the playback of another sequence track................................91
Recording while you listen to the playback of the audio tracks............................................ 91
Correcting timing inaccuracies while you record—Quantize................................................ 92
Recording pad operations at the specified interval—Step Recording..........................................93
Button functions during step recording.................................................................................... 93
Step recording................................................................................................................................94
Adding dynamics while you step-record.................................................................................. 95
Playing a sequence track........................................................................................................................ 96
Playing sequence tracks and audio tracks simultaneously.............................................................97
Editing a sequence track........................................................................................................................ 98
Moving a phrase—Move..............................................................................................................98
Pasting a phrase at a different location—Paste.........................................................................99
Cutting a phrase—Cut................................................................................................................100
Erasing Phrases—Erase.............................................................................................................. 101
Inserting a phrase in another location—Insert....................................................................... 102
Dividing the phrase at the current location—Split................................................................ 103
Finely Adjusting the Timing of Each Phrase—Adjust Timing.............................................104
Adjusting the volume setting for each phrase........................................................................ 105
Edit on Sequence Play List screen—Quick Edit..................................................................... 106
Deleting a sequence track.................................................................................................................... 107
Recording the sequence playback sound on audio track.............................................................. 108
Creating an audio CD ................................................... 109

Prepare for recording—Multitrack recording...................................110

What is multitrack recording?.............................................................................................................110
Preparing a CD-RW disc for use —Format.......................................................................................110
Preparing a new CD-RW disc for use...................................................................................... 110
Erasing the entire contents of a CD-RW disc.......................................................................... 112
Monitoring the sound of a connected instrument.......................................................................... 113
Selecting the input source.......................................................................................................... 113
Adjusting the input sensitivity..................................................................................................113
Monitoring the sound.................................................................................................................113
Setting the left/right position (pan) of the input sound....................................................... 113