Electro-Harmonix Forty-five thousand User's Reference Manual page 5

Pressing RECORD will stop record and playback. Pressing
PLAY will cycle the loop back to its beginning and begin
overdubbing onto Tracks 3 & 4 immediately, the loop con-
tinues playing.
How to Record a Quantized Loop
1. Press the QUANTIZE button to enable Quantize mode. Its
corresponding LED will light up.
2. Turn the CLIX LEVEL knob up so you hear the metronome
beat coming out of either the MONITOR or Headphones
output.
3. Press the NEW LOOP Button. The RECORD LED blinks.
4. At this point you will hear the metronome beating at the
tempo set by the TEMPO Slider. You can adjust the tempo
by moving the tempo slider up or down. Up will give you a
faster tempo; down will be a slower tempo.
5. Press the RECORD button. The 45000 will not immediately
begin recording but instead will give you a 4-Beat count-in,
where beat 1 occurs when you press RECORD. On the 5th
beat, after the count-in, the 45000 will begin recording.
This is beat 1 of the loop recording.
6. For a Mono recording, TRACK 1 LED will blink rapidly during
the 4-Beat count-in. When making a Stereo recording, both
the TRACK 1 and 2 LEDs will blink rapidly during the 4-Beat
counting.
7. Once the TRACK 1 LED goes solid, the 45000 is recording.
8. To stop recording, press either the RECORD or PLAY buttons.
Press RECORD or PLAY within the first 2 beats of the current
bar and the 45000 will truncate the loop length to the end
of the previous bar. Press RECORD or PLAY during the 3rd
or 4th beats of the current bar and the 45000 will finish
recording the current bar then stop recording. For example,
if you want to record a 2 bar loop, you can press the PLAY
button during the 3rd and 4th beat of the second bar or
within the first 2 beats of the third bar. The QUANTIZE LED
will blink rapidly until it finishes recording the loop.
How to Mixdown Your Tracks
1. At anytime, you can mix your 4-Tracks down to one stereo
Mixdown track. For now let's start with the 45000 in Idle
(stopped) mode. If the 45000 is Playing or Overdubbing a
loop, hit the PLAY button to stop it.
2. Press the Mixdown button once and its LED will light solid.
You are now in Mixdown mode.
3. Assuming the Mixdown Track has not been previously record-
ed, move its volume slider down to its bottom position. You
can continually Overdub any of the 4 tracks onto the Mixdown
track; the Mixdown Fader acts like a feedback control.
4. Press the PLAY button. Your loop will play back. Move the
Volume and Pan controls of the 4 tracks to your preferred
settings. You can adjust the Volume and Pan controls as
much as you like when recording the Mixdown track.
5. When you are ready to record the Mixdown track, press the
RECORD button. You will immediately begin recording your
mix onto the Mixdown track.
6. To stop recording the Mixdown track, press either the PLAY
or RECORD buttons.
7. Move the Mixdown slider up, move all of the track sliders
down and press PLAY to hear the newly recorded mix.
8. Please Note: The original audio on the 4 tracks remains
after completing a mixdown. The mixdown operation does
not erase the 4 tracks.
9. Please Note: The Dry Input signal is not recorded to the
Mixdown track, only audio that was previously recorded
onto the 4 tracks will be recorded to the Mixdown track.
How to Backup your Audio Files
to a Computer
1. Make sure both your computer and the 45000 are powered up.
2. Connect the 45000 to your computer with a standard USB
cable.
3. As long as your computer is running Windows XP or later or
Mac OSX, the computer will automatically recognize the SD
card inside the 45000 and treat it like a removable disk.
4. Open up the SD card's window, you will see at least 1
folder: LOOP00. Each loop that you record on the 45000
will be recorded into a LOOPxx folder. If you have recorded
loops in many different loop locations, each location will
have its own folder.
5. Inside the LOOPxx folders you should see 6 files: TEMPO.
TXT, TRACK1.WAV, TRACK2.WAV...TRACKM.WAV. You can
copy any or all of these files to your hard drive. If you are
planning on restoring one of the loop folders back to the
45000 at some point, it is recommended that you copy all 6
files and store them together in a folder on your hard drive.
6. To disconnect the 45000 from the computer, follow the
proper ejection procedure for the computer you are using:
For Windows, go to the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon
down in the lower right corner of the screen. Select
the USB Mass Storage Device and hit the STOP button.
Alternatively in XP or 7, setup the 45000's CF Card for
"Optimize For Quick Removal."
For Mac OSX, go to the Finder, drag the SD Card icon to the
Trash.
How to Restore your Audio Files
from a Computer
1. Make sure both your computer and the 45000 are powered up.
2. Connect the 45000 to your computer with a standard USB
cable.
3. As long as your computer is running Windows XP or later or
Mac OSX, the computer will automatically recognize the SD
card inside the 45000 and treat it like a removable disk.
4. Locate the 6 files you want to restore to the 45000 on your
hard drive. If the files are in their own folder with no other
files, copy the entire folder to the root directory of the
45000's SD card. Name the folder on the SD card LOOPxx,
where xx denotes the loop number you want the audio to
reside in, for example LOOP01 or LOOP52.
5. Select the loop number (this easiest to do with the optional
45000 Foot Controller attached to the 45000).
6. Play the 45000, the audio files should be restored.
7. To disconnect the 45000 from the computer, follow the
proper ejection procedure for the computer you are using:
For Windows, go to the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon
down in the lower right corner of the screen. Select the
USB Mass Storage Device and hit the STOP button.
For Mac OSX, go to the Finder, drag the Compact Flash
Card icon to the Trash.
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