Card Mixing (Dual Mode); Card Mix Output Settings; Card Mix Playback - Pioneer DMP-555 Operating Instructions Manual

ADVANCED OPERATIONS

CARD MIXING (dual mode)

The card mix function allows you to mix playback from a memory card with play-
back of a CD-DA.
÷ Card mix is not supported for CD-ROM.
CARD TEMPO
SOURCE SELECT CD
(PITCH BEND)
SYNCHRO
CARD CONTROL
TRACK SEARCH
4, ¢
CARD CONTROL
CUE
CARD CONTROL
LOOP START/
3/ 7
STOP
FOLDER
SEARCH
+, =
SEARCH
1, ¡
PLAY/PAUSE
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Jog dial

Card Mix Output Settings (*)

In dual mode, the CARD MONITOR connectors output the sound from the memory
card. This output allows the user to perform track selection or check the contents of
a memory card while simultaneously playing a CD.
÷ When source selector is set to CARD (SOURCE SELECT [CARD] button in-
dicator is lighted), no sound will be output from the CARD MONITOR connec-
tors.
7 AUDIO OUT connector settings
This setting determines whether sound from a memory card's track is output at
the AUDIO OUT connectors when the source selector is set to CD (SOURCE
SELECT [CD] button indicator is lighted).
÷ With the mix output set to OFF, perform track selection or check the con-
tents of the memory card as desired; then set to cue pause mode, and set the
MIXOUT button to ON.
Press the MIXOUT button.
÷ When the [MIXOUT] button indicator lights, the memory card's track
sound is output at the AUDIO OUT connectors.
÷ Even if no CD is currently playing, when the [MIXOUT] button indicator
lights, the memory card's sound is output at the AUDIO OUT connectors.
7 Adjusting card playback volume
When the source selector is set to CD (SOURCE SELECT [CD] button indi-
cator is lighted), this adjusts the sound volume of the memory card playback
heard at the CARD MONITOR and AUDIO OUT connectors.
Rotate the CARD TRIM dial.
÷ Adjustment range is – to +12dB.
÷ When source selector is set to CARD (SOURCE SELECT [CARD] button
indicator is lighted), no sound is output from the CARD MONITOR con-
nectors; as a result, the CARD TRIM dial does not operate under this con-
dition.
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SOURCE SELECT CARD
CARD TRIM
MIXOUT
TEMPO
Functions indicated by * cannot be used when the Digital mode switch
(DIGITAL OUT) is set to ON (and the digital output terminal is used).

Card Mix Playback (*)

7 Loop playback of a single track on a memory card
Use this function for seamless loop mixing of a single track on the memory
card with playback from a CD (CD-DA).
This operation is enabled when the source selector is set to CD (SOURCE SE-
LECT [CD] button indicator is lighted).
1. Load a memory card with desired track into the player.
÷ The CARD indicator will light.
÷ MMC cards created on devices equipped with security functions, or MMC
cards formatted using proprietary formats cannot be played (the CARD in-
dicator will not light when the card is loaded).
÷ The player will search for the first track on the default playlist and enter
cue pause mode at that point; the LOOP START/STOP button (3/7)
will simultaneously light.
2. Press the MIXOUT CARD CONTROL block's TRACK
SEARCH button (4, ¢) to select the desired track
onto the memory card.
÷ The track number will change up or down, corresponding to the direction
indicated by the button pressed, and the track number and title of the first
track discovered will be displayed; the player will enter cue pause mode at
the beginning of the track.
÷ If the button is held depressed, the search will be performed continuously;
if the button is held depressed for 2 seconds or more, the speed of search
will increase.
÷ If reverse search (4) is performed from the lowest numbered track, the
search function will jump to the last (highest numbered) track.
÷ If forward search (¢) is performed from the highest numbered track,
the search function will jump to the first (lowest numbered) track.
÷ To search within a specific play list of a memory card, use the FOLDER
SEARCH button (+, =) first to designate the desired play list; in this
way, the track search function will operate on the tracks in the selected play
list. If no play list is designated, the search function will be performed within
all tracks located in the memory card.
÷ During playback, to skip to the previous track, press the 4 button twice
in succession.
3. Press the LOOP START/STOP button (3/7).
÷ When pressed from the cue pause mode, the button's [3/7] indicator
flashes and playback simultaneously begins.
÷ When the selected track ends, playback returns to the beginning of the track
and begins again (seamless one-track loop).
÷ If the LOOP START/STOP button (3/7) is pressed during playback,
playback stops, the button's [3/7] indicator lights and the unit enters
the cue pause mode at the beginning of the track.
÷ By making cue and loop settings beforehand, you can change the range of
the loop playback ( P.16).
7 Cue point sampler
When a memory card track has been set in the cue pause mode, this function
plays the track only so long as the MIXOUT CARD CONTROL block's CUE
button is held depressed.
This function operates when the source selector is set to CD (SOURCE SE-
LECT [CD] button indicator is lighted). When card mix play is enabled, the
MIXOUT CARD CONTROL block's [CUE] button indicator lights.
Press the CUE button in the MIXOUT CARD CONTROL block.
÷ Playback will continue as long as the button is held depressed; when the
button is released, playback will stop and the player will return to the cue
pause mode at the beginning of the track.
÷ By setting a cue point beforehand, you can make playback begin from the
cue point when the CUE button is depressed; when the CUE button is re-
leased, playback will stop and the player will return to the cue pause mode
at the selected cue point.