Setting Digital Fades - Akai CD3000XL Operator's Manual

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SETTING DIGITAL FADES

It is also possible to set fades on a sample. This may seem unnecessary seeing that you may
effectively set fades using the envelope generators in EDIT PROGRAM but it does have uses.
Probably the one that springs to mind first is where you have a noisy drum sample. Whilst you
could 'shape' the noise out in EDIT PROGRAM using envelope generators, it means that you
have to do this every time you want to use this particular sample. By setting a digital fade down,
you can affect the sound at source.
Pressing
Here we see a string sample and a start and end time has been set (the sample's loop is shown
above the waveform display). Pressing
created a new sample to copy to. If you agree to overwriting the original sample or have created
a new one, after a few seconds you will receive a display not unlike this one:
Here, you can see the sample has fades which lead up to the points set by the start and end
positions set above. You may play the sample from your keyboard or the ENT/PLAY key.
If you try to set fade times that fall within any loop zone(s), you will receive the following
warning:
In this case, whatever editing action you perform will be ignored.
You may zoom in or out of the waveform display using the
zoomed right in, you may use the
sample.
IMPORTANT NOTE: One thing to remember when setting fades is that these will speed up
and slow down as you play them across the keyboard range so, while it may seem a good idea
at the time to set a slow legato fade up and down on a string sample, you may find it would have
been better to have used an envelope generator so that attack and release is consistent
across the keyboard range.
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT SETTING START AND END POINTS: The start and
end points are temporary whilst in the FADE page They are not stored anywhere. If you leave
FADE or select another sample, these will be lost and you will have to set them again.
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in the MORE page will display this screen.
will give you the usual prompts if you have not
or
on F7 to toggle between the start and end of the
keys (F5/F6). When
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