Sectional Editing - Akai S3000XL User Manual

SECTIONAL EDITING

Pressing
This is the SECTIONAL editing page and shows a typical drum riff, something for which
the sectional editing functions are ideally suited for editing. Whereas TRIM allows you to
remove audio data either side of the start and end points, these functions allow you to
remove data within the start and end points. This can be used, for example, to remove
one single snare beat from a drumloop sample or, in a vocal line, could be used to
remove a mistake or a cough. You may extract such pieces of audio in several ways. You
may extract it and leave the gap it creates or may extract it and close the gap it creates.
You may overwrite the existing sample or you may extract the section to another new
sample, keeping the original sample intact. There are many uses for these functions and
you will no doubt find your own.
As in TRIM, across the top of the waveform display, you can see any loops that have
been set (in this example, no loops are set). To create a sectional edit, set the start and
end points as appropriate. You may use the
sample and the
the start and end points, you will receive a screen display such as:
At this point, you may like to create a name for the new sample to be copied to. You don't
have to as it is possible to overwrite a sample with the edited version but, if you want to be
safe, it's probably best to make a copy, assuming you have enough available memory.
Now press
You will receive this screen:
Here you are presented with four choices. These offer three distinctly different edits
depending on what it is you want to achieve. They are:
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will take you to this screen:
key toggles between the start and end of the sample. As you set
.
This will exit this screen and return you to the main SECTIONAL edit
screen without having any effect on the sample.
EDIT SAMPLE
and to zoom in or out on the
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