Akai MPC 3000 Operator's Manual page 169

Chapter 8: Creating and Editing Sounds
<Play>
• The soft key:
Pressing this soft key plays the selected sound, from soft start
address to soft end address, at full velocity level through the stereo
mix outputs, panned center.
• The <Best st> (best start) soft key:
This function automatically finds the point within a sound at which
the drum strike begins, bypassing any dead space at the beginning
of the sound which could cause play delays. Pressing this soft key
causes the following screen to appear:
========= Find Best Soft Start =========
Start threshold%: 5
Press <Do it> to change SOFT START
address to earliest sample that exceeds
threshold.
========================================
<Do it>
It works by searching through the sound for the earliest sample that
exceeds the threshold entered into the
To find the best start, enter a number into the field (5% is a good
starting point) and press
screen reappears with the
starting value. Experiment with the threshold value. A value too low
will start the sound too early, causing a slight playback delay; a
value too high will start too far into the sound, cutting off too much
of the beginning.
The Edit Samples section of the screen (right side)
This section allows the editing of the sound's actual sample data.
The following is a description of the fields and soft keys.
• The Zone st (zone start) and
These two fields are used to edit the actual sample data. They
define the start and end of a zone to be altered with the
<Do> soft key. The contents of the zone can be copied, deleted,
silenced, or reversed. Both fields are of the
seconds.milliseconds.samples format as described in the
section above.
Play X
• The field:
This field works in conjunction with the
audition any portion of the sound before editing. When the
X>
key is pressed, it plays the portion of the sound that is currently
PLAY X
selected in the
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Start threshold
<Do it>
. At that time, the Edit Sound
Soft st field set to the optimum
Zone end fields:
<Play X>
field, a choice field. The options are:
field.
Do field and
Soft st
soft key to
<Play