Rollback function

Chapter6—Transport/locate operations

While the song is stopped or playing, you can press the [ROLL BACK] key of the Locate section to move the current location back by a ﬁxed length. This is conve- nient when you are playing back, and come to a location that you wish to listen to once again. The rollback time is set to 5 seconds by default, but can be adjusted as desired.

	MARK SEARCH
NUM	7	8	9
NUM			MARK
LOCATE			MARK
		LAST REC
AUTO	4	5	6
AUTO	IN	OUT	SET
PUNCH	IN	OUT	SET
PUNCH
	1	2	3
REPEAT	A	B	ROLL
			BACK
	0		CANCEL
	RTZ		CANCEL

1. With the song stopped, press the [UTILITY] key → [F3] key.

Rollback time setting

2.Move the cursor to the ROLLBACK TIME ﬁeld, and use the [DATA/JOG] dial to set the rollback time.

The rollback time can be adjusted in millisecond steps over a range of 0–5 sec- onds (default setting is 5 seconds).

3.When the song is stopped or playing, press the [ROLL BACK] key.

If the [ROLL BACK] key is pressed while stopped, the current location will simply move back by the length of the rollback time. If pressed while playing, playback will resume immediately after the rollback occurs.

— Operation Guide 113

AW4416 specifications

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Yamaha AW4416 Rollback function, When the song is stopped or playing, press the Roll Back key

Models: AW4416