14–Commonly-used Functions

This section is a brief guide to some operations on the DP-004 which may not be immediately obvious from looking at the panel controls.

Key sequences are written like this: STOP + Ô means “press and hold the STOP key and press Ô.”

Menu items are written like this: MENU ® CARD® FORMAT, meaning “press the MENU key, select the CARD menu, and then the FORMATaction.

The list of popup messages and their meaning (“Messages” on page 106) may also be useful to you.

How to

Keys, etc. TO press

Description

Format the FAT partition

MENU ® CARD® FAT REFORMAT

See "Reformat the FAT partition" on page 84.

Set the IN and OUT points

"IN/OUT, F3, F4"

See "Setting IN and OUT points" on page 73.

Edit or trim the IN and OUT points

"IN/OUT, F2"

See "Setting IN and OUT points" on page 73.

Use the USB connection

Connect the unit and a PC with the USB

See "Connecting with a computer" on page 92.

 

cable.

 

Remove the USB connection

Disconnect the unit from a PC

See "Disconnecting" on page 93.

Import a WAVfile to a track

MENU ® WAVE® IMPORT TRACK

See "Importing tracks" on page 97.

Choose another partition as the active

MENU ®CARD® PARTITION

See "Selecting active partition" on page 47.

partition

 

 

Tune a guitar or bass

MENU ® TUNER

See "Tuner" on page 77.

Find out the current partition

MENU ® INFORMATION

See "Viewing information" on page 79.

Make all of an SD card usable by a PC

MENU ® CARD® SD INITIALIZE

See "Initializing SD cards" on page 85.

Format an SD card

MENU ® CARD® FORMAT

See "Formatting cards and setting partition sizes" on

 

 

page 82.

Create a new song

MENU ® SONG® CREATE

See "Creating a new song" on page 49.

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