Akai s900 Operator's Manual page 9

8
HOW
TO USE
THIS
MANUAL
We
have now
covered
how
to
communicate
with
the S900.
To
learn
about
how
the
S900
works,
we
suggest
the following:
1
Load
in
various
sound
disks
and
select the
EDIT
PRESET
function.
Go
through
the
EDIT
PRESET
section of this
manual and
vary
parameters on the various pages,
carefully
noting the
effects
on the
sound caused by these parameter
variations.
Feel
free to
experiment as
much
as
you
like
—
parameter
editing only affects
what
is in
the
S900 memory,
and sound
disk
data remains
intact
UNLESS
you save the
S900 memory
to disk.
Therefore,
as
long
as you
don't
save
to
disk,
you won't
lose
any data
on
the
disk.
2.
After getting a
feel for
the
EDIT
PRESET
(program)
functions,
load
in
various sound disks and
select the
EDIT
SAMPLE
function.
Go
through
the
EDIT
SAMPLE
section
of this
manual and
vary
parameters on the various pages,
carefully
noting the effects on
individual
samples caused by
these
parameter
variations.
As
mentioned above, as long as you
don't
save
to disk,
you
won't lose
any
data
on
the
disk.
3.
Start
making
your
own
samples.
Insert
a
blank,
formatted
disk into
the S900,
select the
REC
function,
and go
through
the
REC
section
of this
manual.
We
suggest speaking
some
sentences
for
your
first
few samples, as
this
makes
it
very
easy
to
observe
the effects
of
looping
and
other sampling
parameter
edits.
4.
Practice
making up
disks using
samples and programs
from
various other disks.
Read
through the
DISK
section
of
the
manual
to find
out
how
this
is
done.
5.
Experiment, experiment, experiment.
The more
you
play with
the S900, the
more you
will
become
familiar
with
its
operation
and
the better
you'll
be
able to exploit
its
many
features.