Recording Samples - Akai S1000 Series Operator's Manual

Sampler functions

Recording samples

NOTE for S1000PB users: The following sections do not apply to the S1000PB. Please
ignore these sections, and resume at the section headed "SELECT SAMPLE (S1000PB
only)" (page 49).
When you start sampling, you must have a clean area of memory to do it, and enough
memory to work in. In sampling, it is better to start with too much memory space than too
little. You can always "top and tail" a sample later on, but you cannot create memory out of
thin sir.
Restart your S1000. Press the
and editing a blank sample, whose name defaults to
name the sample. Give it a meaningful name of up to 12 characters for a mono sample - 10
characters for stereo (press
done). A name such as "HUGHS SAMPLE" will mean nothing in a month's time, while
"HUGHS BASS" will at least tell you what kind of instrument the sample refers to. The
reason why 2 fewer characters are allowed in a stereo sample is that the S1000 automatically
adds "-L" and "-R" to the two sample names when creating a sample, and any characters you
add in the 11th and 12th positions will automatically be overwritten. Now
SAMPLE to your work area with the name you've just entered.
The "
monitoring program
enables you choose what sound will be heard when you press
should set this to MONITOR.
While we're in this page, let's look at the other facilities provided. In addition to access the
, , and
REC1 REC2 ED.1
chosen sample (as displayed on the top line) from memory.
Note that these three last operations do not affect the samples as stored on disk. If you delete a
sample from memory, this will not delete it from disk. Of course, if you have not previously
stored a sample to disk before deleting it from memory, that's the end of your sample! To copy
a sample to another area of memory, use the
confirm it with the
will now be stored in memory under the new name. If there is not enough memory to store the
new copy, the display will show this when you press the
same procedure - enter a new name, and then press the
still be there in the same place in memory, but under a new name. Pressing the
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button, and you are in a position to start recording
EDIT SAMPLE
and use the other buttons to enter a name
NAME
" can be set to either MONITOR or a program name. This
pages (of which, more later), you can also copy, rename, or delete the
ED.2
button). Then press the
ENT/PLAY
The first thing to do is to
"NEW SAMPLE".
ENT/PLAY
button to enter a new name (and then
NAME
button. A copy of the original sample
COPY
button. Renaming follows the
COPY
button. The original sample will
REN
when
ENT/PLAY
the NEW
COPY
button. Usually, you
.
DEL
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