Akai S950 Operator's Manual page 93

You can also edit the end point on looped sounds without affecting the loop
in some cases.
Let us say that you are editing a sample and have effectively looped it in
Page 08. You can now go back to Page 07 and move the end point back. Play the
sound repeatedly as you edit the end point and you will find that you will be
able to edit out quite a large chunk of the sound before the loop is
affected. You can now go to Page 10 and discard the unwanted portion of the
sample. Of course, this won't always work 100% because of the nature of some
sounds but it is something you can experiment with - if it doesn't work,
revert to the original end point.
Hopefully, all this should give you an insight to the amazing creative
possibilities offered by the Akai 5950 and we hope also that it will act as a
catalyst for you to experiment and create and edit your own samples and
programs. Naturally, there is a large library of S900 and 51000 samples
available from your dealer but these sounds can be personalised to your own
tastes and then expanded even further using some of the techniques outlined
above.
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