Loading A Windows Wave File - Roland DiscLab CDX-1 Owner's Manual

Recording a sound to a pad—Sampling

Loading a Windows WAVE file

Some commercially available sampling CD audio clip collections (copyright-free)
designed for use in music production are mixed-mode CDs that saving both audio
and WAVE files. The CDX-1 lets you load these WAVE files and assign them to the
pads.
1. Insert a mixed-mode CD (AUDIO+WAVE) as described in "Inserting a disc"
(p. 35).
2. Press PAD RECORDING [TEMPO MATCH] twice.
Alternatively, you can press [TEMPO MATCH] and then press CURSOR [
The Pad Edit menu are displayed as icons.
fig.31-06
3. Press CURSOR [
WAVE file icon.
4. Press [YES/ENTER].
fig.2-07
The Load WAVE file screen appears.
5. Make sure that the cursor is located at the "Load To" line, press CURSOR [
[ ] to select the pad bank number and pad number, and specifying the pad
to which the newly loading sample is assigned.
Turn the TIME/VALUE dial to set the pad bank number. To set the pad number,
either press a pad or turn the TIME/VALUE dial.
6. Press CURSOR [
TIME/VALUE dial to select the data type.
7. Press [YES/ENTER].
fig.2-07
The File List screen appears.
* If the specified pad already contains a sample, you will be asked "Overwrite OK?" If it is
OK to delete the existing sample, press [YES/ENTER]. If you wish to keep that sample,
press [NO/EXIT] to return to the Load WAVE screen, and then specify a different pad
that is unused. If necessary, press [PAD BANKS] to change the pad bank. (
pad banks"; p. 54)
8. Press CURSOR [
If you wish to see contents of a folder, select folder and press [YES/ENTER].
If you press PLAY [
back is finished, a massage "Convert are you sure?" is displayed, asking you wish to
load the file. If you wish load, see step 9.
Press [NO/EXIT], the File List screen reappears.
9. Press [YES/ENTER].
The display will show a message of "Completed.", the WAVE file will be assigned
to the pad.
10. Press [DISPLAY] to return to the Basic screen.
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] to select the Load
] to move the cursor to "Data Type" line, and turn the
] [ ] to select the file that you wish to load.
], play back of the selected WAVE file starts. When the play
WAVE file (p. 207)
].
]
In case the name of folders or
files are not readable. CDX-1
displays those "_____."
"Switching
To close the folder, select
"PARENT DIRECTORY" and
press [YES/ENTER].
In step 8, if you wish to switch
preview length of WAVE files,
refer to the column "Switching
of preview length of Windows
WAVE files" (p. 59).