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FADE OUT - This sets the fade out time for the take and is also variable

up to 10 seconds.

REPEAT - Although not operative when triggering takes from MIDI, this

field sets the number of times a take will repeat itself when you run it as a

SONG from the RUN key (see below for more information on this function).

You will have to excuse the somewhat cryptic and abbreviated nature of these field

descriptions on the S3000XL’s screen but it was felt better to design the screen this way

and have all these useful functions available within one page rather than you having to

keep switching back and forth between various pages when trying to compile your takes -

this would have been highly inconvenient as you can imagine.

NOTE: Values set in these fields do not affect the ‘raw’ takes’ parameters; these always

remain the same whatever you set in the SONG mode. In this way, each take in the list

can be set to its optimum playback characteristics in a song without affecting the raw take.

Soft keys F1 to F4 take you to different pages. The soft keys F5 to F8 have the following

functions:

This marks a step in the song for inserting or deleting.

This allows you to mark a block of cues for inserting or deleting.

Pressing this will insert the marked step or block at the point of the cursor

on the scroll bar.

Pressing this will delete the marked step or block.

To create a song, whether it is for MIDI triggering or for sequential playback, the method is

exactly the same. Follow these steps to create a song.

In the SONG EDIT page, move the cursor to the first empty take field. This is done by

moving the cursor one position to the right. You will have a screen something like this:

You may now select a take using the data control (or the +/< or -/> keys found on the

numeric keypad). Having done that, the selected take’s parameters will be loaded into the

step and so the note, level, pan and other fields may change if the raw takes parameters

are different from those set as the default shown above. You may change these as

necessary. Once you have assigned your first take, you should receive a screen

something like this:

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