Edit Sample - Akai S950 Operator's Manual

EDIT SAMPLE

The next button along is marked EDIT SAMPLE and. not surprisingly, this is
the mode in which you edit your samples and where you can change the start
and end points of a sample, reverse the sample, loop the sample, splice two
samples together and compress or stretch a sample. You can also copy, rename
and delete a sample as well as tune a sample and change its basic pitch. This
is all' accomplished using a page driven system as in the REC mode.
The first page you encounter when you press EDIT SAMPLE reads:
>01
where ########## is the currently selected
sample name.
This page allows four options and you can select a sample for editing, copy a
sample, rename a sample and delete a sample.
To select a sample, press the 'cursor >' button (found to the right of the
blue keypad) once so that the cursor is flashing on the top line on the first
letter of the sample name. Using the grey CONTROL knob, you can scroll
through the samples present in the S950's memory. Once you have found the
sample you wish to edit, press ENT.
To copy a sample the cursor must be at the same' place as above and all you
need to do is press the LETTER button and name a sound as described in REC
and ENTERING A NAME. Once this has been done, press ENT.
To rename a sample, select the sample to be renamed as described above and
press ENT then, by pressing the 'cursor >' button once, move the cursor so
that it is flashing on the first character of the sample displayed on the
bottom line of the LCD display (this should be the same as the sample name in
the top line). Now press LETTER and give the sample its new name as described
above. When you have done that, press ENT and the top line will change to
display the new samples name.
To delete a sample, making sure the cursor is on the too line; first select
the sample to be deleted and press ENT. Now move the cursor to the bottom
line using the 'cursor >' button and press the '-' button followed by ENT.
This will delete the currently selected sample from memory. (Note that this
procedure is destructive and unless you have saved the sample to disk, this
sample will be lost forever. We suggest that, unless you are absolutely
positive about deleting the sample, you save it to disk before deleting it
from the S950's memory just in case.)
You can now move to the next page using the 'page down' buttons. The next
page will display:
This is the same as the page we found in the REC mode and it allows you to
monitor either the sample directly or in context with a program. The most
common mode is 'monitor' but, if you want to edit the currently selected
sample in conjunction with the program in which it is placed, press the
'cursor >' button to move the cursor one position and scroll through the
programs using the CONTROL wheel (refer to the ADVANCED APPLICATIONS GUIDE
for more information on this).
#Select. Copy
SAMPLE #Rename, Delete (-) #############
>02 Select program Monitor
##########
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