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Page 1: User Guide
Featuring: I - - DIGITAL AUDIO User Guide and Reference Manual M E R I C A N U D I O 4295 Charter Street www.americandj.at Los Angeles Ca. 90058 www.AmericanAudio.us Rev 04/02... -
Page 2: Table Of Contents
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS ....~......................ELECTRICAL PRECAUTIONS....~..~.................. SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS........~............~..~..VOLTAGE SELECTOR. -
Page 3: Safety Precautions
THERE ARE NO USER SERVICEABLE PARTS OR OTHER TYPE OF ELECTRICAL OUTLET INSIDE REFER SERVICE TO YOUR UNLESS THE WIDE BLADES CAN BE AUTHORIZED American Audio DEALER. CAREFULLY INSERTED INTO A MATCHING The lightning flash with an arrow triangular WIDE SLOT symbol is intended to alert the user to the presence of non insulated “dangerous volt-... -
Page 4: Electrical Precautions
INSIDE REFER SERVICE TO YOUR AUTHORIZED the literature accompanying the appliance. to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons. AMERICAN AUDIO@ SERVICE TECHNICIAN. OBJECT AND LIQUID ENTRY - Never push objects of READ INSTRUCTIONS - All the safety and operating... -
Page 5: Safety Instructions
CD Player. The CD Player has been exposed to rain or water. Dealer Phone The CD Player does not appear to operate normally or exhibits a marked change in performance. @American Audio@ - www.AmericanAudio.us - VelocityTM Instruction Manual Page 5 www.americandj.at... -
Page 6: Unpacking
Every Velocity TM has been thoroughly tested and has been shipped in perfect operating condition. Carefully check the shipping carton for damage that may have occurred during shipping. If the carton appears to be damaged, carefully inspect your CD player for any damage and be sure all equipment necessary to operate the CD player has arrived intact. -
Page 7: Features
For more information on this feature, see FLIP-FLOPTM on page 37. MEMORY BACKUP: The Velocity TM has a five (5) year memory back-up, that will save your setting in case the power supply is accidentally disconnected. VelocityTM will remember your last setting (SGL, CTN, a n d effect parameters) even if you disconnect your main power. -
Page 8: Set-Up Installation
CONTROL JACK CONNECTIONS: Use the supplied l/8” mono mini plug cable to connect your Velocity TM to a mini jack connection (A or B) on a compatible American Audio@ or American DJa “Fader Q Start” mixer. (This will enable the Fader “Q” Start function - See “Q”... -
Page 9: Controller Unit
Figure 3 A. CONTROLLER UNIT (FIGURE 3) RELOOP will appear in the LCD DISPLAY (16) when the RELOOP function is available. 1. RELOOP BUTTON - If a SEAMLESS LOOP has been made (see setting a SEAMLESS LOOP 2. OUT BUTTON - This button is used to set on page 17), but the CD Player is not actively in the ending point .of a loop. - Page 10 13. PARAMETER TIME - This knob is used to While in play mode the green play LED will glow, @American Audio@ - www.AmericanAudio.us - VelocityTM Instruction Manual Page 10...
- Page 11 and while in pause mode the green play LED will bend function creates a momentary “BUMP” in flash. the CD’s BPM’s (Beats per minute) while it is 23. JOG WHEEL/EFFECTS PLAlTER - This playing. This will allow you to match the beats wheel has three functions;...
- Page 12 This function allows you to set a CUE POINT (see glowing red for 4%, glowing green for 8%, glow- ing orange for 16% or flashing green for 100%. CUE POINT page 18) without music interruption Note when LED is not glowing in any color the (“on the fly”).
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Page 13: Transport Unit
Label side UD! The trayless transport JACKS (47). Use this connection to create near system works similar to a car CD player. When perfect copies of your disc to a Mini Disc, CD-R, @American Audio@ - www.AmericanAudio.us - VelocityTM Instruction Manual Page 13... - Page 14 I.E.C. removable only available on a compatible American Audio@ grounded power cord. Be sure that your local or American DJ@ “Q” series mixer. power matches the unit’s required power. NEVER @American Audio@ - www.AmericanAudio.us - VelocityTM Instruction Manual Page 14...
- Page 15 D. L;CD DISPLAY PANEL (FIGURE 6) 46. PLAY INDICATOR -The “PLAY” indicator will line details the cue memory status, a full bucket glow when the unit is in play mode. outline indicates the cue memory is full. The five 47. EFFECT INDICATOR - This indicator glows bars in the memory bucket detail the anti-shock when any of the nine built-in effects are selected.
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Page 16: Loading Ejectlng Disc
Figure 9: Tapping the reverse track button will Figure 10: Tapping the forward track button jump back to the previous track. will skip forward to the next track. @American Audio@ - www.AmericanAudio.us - VelocityTM Instruction Manual Page 16... -
Page 17: Starting Playback
3. STARTING PLAYBACK - Figure II Insert an audio CD as describe on page 14 (LOADING/EJECTING DISCS). Pressing the PLAY/PAUSE BU77ON (22) with an audio CD inserted will immediately start playback. The PLAY (46) indica- tor will glow as soon as playback begins. The point at which play- back starts (cue point) will automatically be stored in the memory as the cue point. -
Page 18: Basic Operations
Pressing the CUE BU77ON (27) will now return you to the same point that you pressed the CUE BU77ON (32). You may now store this CUE Point in any of the FLASH BUTTONS the IN BU-TTON (32) will now return you to this exact point. @American Audio@ - www.AmericanAudio.us... - Page 19 Please note in order to access these cue point, the disc used to create the cue points must be in the drive. Figure 18 @American Audio@ - www.AmericanAudio.us - VelocityTM Instruction Manual Page 19 www.americandj.at...
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Page 20: Creating A Seamless Loop
BASIC OPERATION A seamless loop is a sound loop that plays continuously without sound interruption. You can use this loop to create dramatic effect in your mixing. This loop has no time limit and you could actually loop the entire length of disc. - Page 21 EXITING A LOOP - To exit a SEAMLESS LOOP, press the OUT remain on, but will stop flashing. Music playback will resume normal play (Figure 20). The IN BUTTON (32) and OUT BU-TTON (2) LEDs will remain on to remind you that a loop is stored in memory. Figure 22 REPLAY LOOP - The RELOOP (7) function allows you to...
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Page 22: Using The Built-In Sampler
12. Using the Built In Sampler: Your VelocityTM comes with an advanced built in sampler. You may store up to three samples on the three FLASH BUTTON (30) (Once again please note you may only store either a CUE POINT or a SAMPLE into a FLASH BUTON (30), not both). - Page 23 BUTTON (18) all parameters will remain in the unit’s memory until they are changed again or main power is shut off, unless they are stored in to the unit’s memory (see page 26 System Memory). Figure 30 @American Audio@ - www.AmericanAudio.us - VelocityTM Instruction Manual Page 23...
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Page 24: Creating A Bop Effect
FLASH START BUTTONS (30): These button are used to store your samples and cue points. Only a sample or a cue point can be stored into each of these three banks. When a sample is stored in to these banks you may use the sample starting point as a cue point. -
Page 25: Changing Time Display
BASIC OPERATION 3) Now tap the BOP BUTTON (33). It will produce a stutter effect as quickly as you tap on the BOP BU~ON (33). See Figure 33. 4) When you discontinue the BOP effect normal playback will resume from the point you initial started your BOF? Figure 35 15. -
Page 26: System Memory
LCD (76) will disappear. Figure 38 17. RECALL FLASH MEMORY: The Velocity can store all your user programmed cue points and effect parameters in to memory. These setting may be recalled at any time, even when a disc has been removed and reinserted at a later time. -
Page 27: System Lock
19. SYSTEM LOCK: This unit comes with a built-in lock feature. The lock features allow the system controls to be completely locked out in any mode. For example locking the unit while in play mode will turn off all other functions and the unit will remain in play mode until the lock is turned off, locking the unit when it is cue mode will turn all control off so nothing will function on the unit. -
Page 28: Pitch Adjustments
PITCH ADJUSTMENTS: The different pitch adjustments allow a track’s or a loop’s playback speed to be manipulated. This speed manipulations is commonly used to beat match between two or more music sources such as a turntable or another CD played. The playback speed may be increased or decreased by a factor of +/-loo. The next section details the different pitch manipulation schemes. -
Page 29: Pitch Bending
TO/V (25) will provide a slow down in the playback pitch. Figure 47 Holding down or tapping on the (+) PlTCH BEND BU77ON (26) will provide a speed bump in the playback pitch. @American Audio@ - www.AmericanAudio.us - VelocityTM Instruction Manual Page 29... - Page 30 3. PITCH BEND BUTTONS (25 & 26): The (+) PITCH BEND BU77ON (26) will increase track playback speed and the (-) PITCH BEND BUTTON (25) will decrease track playback speed. The extent to which the speed changes is proportionate to the amount of time the button is pressed.
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Page 31: Built-In Effects
BUILT-IN EFFECTS The VelocityTM comes with nine built in effects. These effects can be used one at a time or you may choose to overlap the effects and use up to four at a time. The Built-in effects include Scratch, Skid, Filter, Phase, Flanger, Echo, Robot, Pan, and Trans. -
Page 32: Scratch/Skid
BUILT-IN EFFECTS time turntable scratching. The Skid effect simulates the sudden platter stop of a turntable, like pressing the stop button on a turn- table. When the Scratch Effect is activated the SCRATCH/SKID BUTTON (77) will glow red, when the Skid Effect is selected the button will glow yellow. -
Page 33: Changing Parameters
The TRANS effect simulates a real-time mixer transformer effect. When the “Transformer” effect is acti- vated the TRAM/PAN BU7TON (79) will glow green, when the “Pan” effect is selected the button will glow red. The PAN effect allows you to pan the output from the left channel to the right channel. -
Page 34: Fx Mix
EFFECTS - FX MIX to a sample, or one sample to another. FX Mix uses the effects and the FLASH BU77ONS (30). The FX Mix function will only work with samples and cue points programmed in the any of the three FLASH BUTTONS (30). - Page 35 playback and then return to normal playback within the same track. The effect will play out according to its below list the steps to activate parameters and then resume normal playback. The procedure the FX MIX - BOP Control. In the following example we will use the SKID effect. STEP ONE;...
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Page 36: Jog Wheel Sensitivity
FLIP FLOP JOG WHEEL TOUCH SENSITIVI7Y SCRATCH EFFECT (77). This function works with the This function allows the play and cue commands to be controlled by tapping on the touch sensitive JOG W-EEL (23). ACTIVATING TOUCH SE/VS/T/V/7Y Before you can use the JOG WHEEL (23) to control the play and cue com- mands you must first activate the touch... -
Page 37: Flip-Floptm
2) Set your American Audio@ “Q” DeckTM mixer’s crossfader to the center position. 3) Set both sections of the Velocity TM to playback in single mode, SlNGLE (48) should be indicated in the LCD (76). 4) Load both side of the VelocityTM with CDs. -
Page 38: Warranty
B. For warranty service, send the product only to the American Audio@ factory. All shipping charges must be pre-paid. If the requested repairs or service (including parts replacement) are within the terms of this warranty, American Audios will pay return shipping charges only to a designated point within the United States. - Page 39 Tracking detection 3 spot beam detection ave length Specifications and improvements in the design of this unit and this manual are subject to NOTES: change without any prior written notice. www.americandj.at @American Audio@ - www.AmericanAudio.us - VelocityTM Instruction Manual Page 39...