RECORDING SEGMENTS

2H ERASING A SPECIFIC DRUM SOUND

When you are in segment mode and editing a segment, you may erase a drum/percussion sound wherever it appears in the segment.

1.Stop the SP-12, confirm that you are in segment mode, and press ERASE.

2.The display helpfully mentions that you can erase either a sound or segment. To erase a sound, hit the appropriate Play button. The display will replace the flashing cursor with the name of the sound you entered, and ask you to confirm that this is the sound you want to erase.

3.If this is the sound to be erased, press YES to return to the Current Segment display. If not, press NO and the SP-12 will return you to step 2.

2I ERASING A SPECIFIC NOTE OF A DRUM TRACK

Sounds can be erased in either step time or real time. As in the previous section, you must be in segment mode to erase sounds. To erase specific notes in a drum track in real time, the SP-12 must be running and in record mode.

1.For real time erasing, set Auto Correct to high resolution mode before erasing. Otherwise, you will only be able to erase notes on the selected Auto Correct beats. For step time, select the lowest resolution Auto Correct value that still steps through all the notes you want to erase; or, choose HiRes, which steps through the segment at the equivalent of sixty-fourth note triplets.

2.Put the SP-12 into record mode by holding down RECORD and pressing RUN/STOP so that the RUN/STOP light glows.

3.Press ERASE; while holding down ERASE, press the Play button or buttons corresponding to the sound or sounds you want to erase. For real-time erasing, press the Drum Play button(s) down just before the note or series of notes you want to erase, and release just after the note(s) you want to erase ends. To erase one note out of a rapid series of notes, tap the Drum Play button simultaneously with the note to be erased. For step-time erasing, hold down the ERASE button and press the Play button on the step where the sound to be erased occurs.

When erasing, you will hear the drum sound in its normal place as it is being erased, however, the next time the segment cycles the drum sound(s) you erased will be gone.

Note: For real time erasing, you may use Auto Correct settings other than high resolution for special effects. For example, suppose you recorded a series of four sixteenth note snare drum sounds with an Auto Correct of 16. If you erase using an Auto Correct setting of 8, you could erase only every eighth note; so two of the sixteenth notes would remain. Returning the Auto Correct to 16 would let you erase all four sixteenth notes. Note that this technique may be used to advantage if you want to “thin out” an overly complex drum part.

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SP-12 specifications

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