Assigning a region to a sampling pad

Chapter12—Sampling pads

In order to use the pads to play samples, you must ﬁrst assign the desired samples to those pads. There are three ways to assign samples to pads.

1Assign a desired region from tracks 1–16 of the recorder section

BImport an audio CD track from an internal/external CD-RW drive

CImport a WAV ﬁle from a SCSI device

As an example, here’s how to assign a region that was previously recorded on a track.

1.In the SAMPLING PAD section, press the [EDIT] pad → [F1] key.

The SAMP.PAD screen From Rgn. page will appear, allowing you to assign a desired region to a pad. This page shows three buttons and the regions recorded on each track.

The three buttons have the following functions.

1PAD SEL button

Selects the pad to which the region will be assigned.

BRGN. SEL button Selects the region.

CEXECUTE button

Executes the assignment of the region to the pad.

— Operation Guide 187

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Yamaha AW4416 manual Assigning a region to a sampling pad, PAD SEL button, Execute button

Models: AW4416