Features - Yamaha A4000 Owner's Manual

Features

Features
Professional Sampler With Endless Potential
The A5000/A4000 provides superior sound and peformance for a wide range of applications including
break-beat production and playback, phrase sampling, musical instrument sampling, and much, much
more.
Advanced Built-in Effect System
The A5000 has 6 high-performance effect blocks, and the A4000 has 3. An extensive range of effects
from simple ambience to sophisticated sound modification can be used to enhance or radically alter the
sound of samples, break-beats, or sampled phrases. Effects can even be applied during recording, so
you can create samples with integral effects!
Fast, Efficient Operation
A large 320 x 80 dot full-graphic LCD panel displays sample waveforms, effect connections, and other
important data in easy-to-understand form. The panel knobs, mode buttons, and function buttons also
make operation exceptionally easy, intuitive, and versatile, while offering an amazing degree of real-
time playback control.
Exceptional Expandability
With a built-in SCSI interface and internal SCSI and IDE connectors it's easy to add internal hard disk
or ZIP drives, or external hard disk, ZIP, CD-ROM, CD-R or other drives. Further, 4 SIMM slots allow
the sample memory to be expanded to maximum 128 megabytes. An optional AIEB1 I/O expansion
board can be installed to provide 6 assignable analog outputs as well as digital coaxial and optical
inputs and outputs.
Compatibility with a Wide Range of Sample Formats
In addition to being able to export and import AIFF and WAV wave files to or from floppy disk, SCSI
disk, CD-ROM or other media, The A5000/A4000 can import a wide range of sample files from other
devices including the Yamaha EX7/5/5R, SU700, and samplers from other manufacturers.
A Wide Selection of Sample Data Included
The A5000/A4000 comes with the CD-ROMs packed with useful sample data and audio sampling
sources. Load the sample data directly, and record the audio source material to create your own sam-
ples. You can begin using your A5000/A4000 to make music immediately.
(An external SCSI CD-ROM drive is required to load the sample data.)
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