Chapter 3. Recording Samples; Before You Sample; Stereo/Mono Sampling Selection; Selecting The Sampling Grade - Boss SP-505 Owner's Manual

Chapter 3. Recording samples

* Unauthorized recording (sampling) of audio material whose
copyright is owned by a third party is prohibited by law,
except for the special case of personal use. Do not make illegal
recordings.
* Boss Corporation will take no responsibility for any claim of
damages made against you by copyright holders on the basis of
illegal recordings you may make using Boss products.

Before you sample

Before you sample, please read the following explanations
regarding the settings used for sampling and the available
sampling time.

Stereo/mono sampling selection

For each pad, you can specify whether sampling will be
performed in stereo or monaural.
Parameter: Type
MONO:
Monaural sampling.
STEREO:
Stereo sampling. Stereo sampling occupies twice the
sampling time and twice the polyphony (number of
simultaneous notes) of monaural sampling. (The number
of samples that can be played simultaneously; p. 30)
* It is not possible to change between stereo and mono after
sampling.

Selecting the Sampling Grade

For each pad, you can select one of three Sampling Grades
(STANDARD/LONG/LO-FI).
* It is not possible to change the Sampling Grade after sampling.
Parameter: Grade
Grade Audio quality
STANDARD Select this when you want to
sample at high quality.
LONG This allows twice the sampling
time of STANDARD.
The quality is slightly lower.
LO-FI The sound will be "lo-fi," and
the sampling time will be
much longer.

About the sampling time

The available sampling times for internal memory and a
memory card are shown below.
* These times are for monaural sampling. For the internal
memory, this is the total time of the samples in pad banks 5–
16. For the memory card, this is the total time of the samples in
pad banks 17–32.
* The available sampling time will be half if you use stereo sampling.
Internal (times approximate)
Memory card (times approximate)
Capacity
8 MB
16 MB
32 MB
64 MB
128 MB
* If you have saved internal samples and pattern or song data on
the memory card (p. 67), the available sampling time on the
memory card will be less than listed above.
Starting sampling automatically
when sound is input
You can make settings so that sampling begins automatically
when the input sound exceeds a specified level.
* If you are using an effect, sampling will begin when the sound
that includes the effect sound (noise) exceeds the specified
level.
Parameter: Auto
OFF:
Select this setting if you want to start sampling manually.
LEVEL 1–8:
Specify the audio input level at which you want
Sampling
sampling to begin automatically. When the input sound
frequency
exceeds this level, sampling will begin automatically.
44.1 kHz
LEVEL 1 is the lowest.
The screen will show a symbol to indicate the specified level.
22.05 kHz
fig.03-01a
11.025 kHz
STANDARD LONG
2 minutes 5 minutes
STANDARD LONG
4 minutes 8 minutes
8 minutes 16 minutes
16 minutes 32 minutes
32 minutes 64 minutes
64 minutes 129 minutes
LO-FI
17 minutes
LO-FI
24 minutes
49 minutes
98 minutes
197 minutes
395 minutes
Specified
Level
39