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Chapter12—Sampling pads

2.Move the cursor to the PAD SEL button in the upper left of the display, and press the [ENTER] key.

The cursor will move to the PAD No. area in the lower right of the display. Pads to which nothing is assigned will be displayed as “-NO ASN-”.

PAD No. area

3.Use the [CURSOR] keys and the [DATA/JOG] dial to select the pad bank (A/B) and pad number (1–8) to which a region will be assigned.

4.Press the [ENTER] key.

The cursor will return to the PAD SEL button.

5.Move the cursor to the RGN. SEL button and press the [ENTER] key.

The currently selected region will blink.

If you perform this step when no region exists (i.e., when nothing has been recorded on any track), an message of “ERROR SELECTED SONG HAS NO REGION” will appear, and it will not be possible to make settings.

6.Use the [CURSOR] keys to move the cursor to select the region.

The currently selected region will be highlighted, and its size will be displayed at the bottom of the screen.

Tip!

The sample size that can be assigned to the sampling pads are limited to a total of approximately 8 MB (approximately 90 seconds at 16 bit/44.1 kHz). If you wish to assign only a portion of a long region to a pad, you should ﬁrst use the EDIT screen TR Edit page to divide the region (→ P.156).

7.Press the [ENTER] key.

The selected region will be highlighted, and the cursor will return to the RGN. SEL button.

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AW4416 specifications

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Yamaha AW4416 manual 188, Use the Cursor keys to move the cursor to select the region

Models: AW4416