Yamaha AW4416 manual Sampling pads, About the sampling pads

12 Sampling pads

This chapter explains the sampling pads of the AW4416.

About the sampling pads

The AW4416 has a sampling pad function that allows you to play samples by striking pads. By striking the eight pads in the SAMPLING PAD section you can play up to sixteen samples held in RAM, and record your playing on a simple sequencer that is linked with the recorder.

A sample can be assigned to a pad on one of three ways. You can directly assign a region (a piece of continuous audio data that was recorded in a single opera- tion) that was recorded earlier on a track, import CD-DA data from an audio CD, or import a WAV file from a CD-ROM or MO disk.

Bank A Bank B

Input channel	Region recorded
	on a track

D-RAM

CD-DA

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8

Sampling pads

WAV file

Tip!

•The eight sampling pads can be used as sixteen pads by switching between two banks A and B.

•Sampling pad settings and the samples in RAM are saved as part of the song.

The samples that can be assigned to the pads must be the same audio format as that song. For example in the case of a song that was created as 24 bit/48 kHz, CD-DA (16 bit/44.1 kHz) data cannot be imported. In the case of a 16 bit/44.1 kHz song, 16 bit/48 kHz WAV files cannot be imported.

— Operation Guide 185