Essential Procedures - Yamaha A4000 Owner's Manual

ESSENTIAL PROCEDURES

This section provides step-by-step procedures for some of the most important A5000/A4000 sampling,
editing, and playback operations. Although complete coverage of all possible procedures and variations is
not possible within the scope of this manual, the procedures provided will help you to become familiar with
the A5000/A4000 interface to the point that you should be able to achieve the desired results by referring to
the detailed "Reference" section of the manual (beginning on page 87).
• Make sure that you have properly connected and set up your A5000/A4000 as described in the
Setting Up section (page 17) before attempting the procedures in this section.
Step-by-Step
MICROPHONE/LINE RECORDING
This section describes recording from a microphone or line source. For details on loading sample data from
a floppy disk or other storage device, refer to page 165 in the reference section of this manual.
1.
Connect a Source
If you will be recording via microphone, connect a microphone with a 1/4" phone plug connector (or
use an appropriate adaptor) to the sampler's "L" INPUT.
• Just about any high-quality dynamic or condenser microphone can be used, but the A5000/A4000
does not provide phantom power for studio-type phantom-powered condenser microphones.
• Two microphones connected to the "L" and "R" inputs, or a stereo microphone with independent 1/
4" phone plugs for the left and right channels, can be used with the A5000/A4000 to record stereo
samples.
If you will be recording from a line source, connect it to the "L," or "L" and "R" INPUT jacks.
• If your source has either coaxial or optical digital output and you have installed the optional AIEB1
I/O Expansion Board in your sampler (page 13, 14), you can connect the digital output from your
source directly to either the coaxial SPDIF or optical input on the expansion board.
2.
Go To the Record Setup Display
Press the [REC] mode button, and then the [SETUP] function key to go to the "REC-RecSetup" dis-
play.
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