Playing Back A Sample; Editing A Sample - Roland MC-909 Getting Started Manual

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Ready?
1. Press Play on your CD player and look at the MC-909's screen to see what's going on.
2. When you hear the loud click at the end of the drum groove, press F5 (Stop).
That's it. You've just sampled the Track 27 drum groove . The MC-909 takes a moment to draw its
waveform on the Sample Edit screen, allowing you to see what you've just captured.

Playing Back a Sample

Before playing the sample, make sure that the TURNTABLE EMULATION slide is in its center
position—you can feel a click in the slider when it moves to this position. The slider can
adjust a sample's pitch, something we don't need to do now.
1. Press and hold VELOCITY PAD 2 to hear the sample play through. By default, samples are
assigned to C4—Middle C—the note that VELOCITY PAD 2 plays when the OCT buttons are
turned off.

Editing a Sample

Now that we've captured this drum groove, we'll edit the sample to prepare it for use by:
• setting its tempo by adjusting its BPM value.
• trimming, or "truncating," it to get rid of that loud click and silence at the end of the sample.
• setting its optimum volume by "normalizing" the sample.
We recommend performing all three operations on every sample you capture.
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Getting Started Guide
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