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S3000XL Operator’s Manual Page 273

BLOCK EDITING IN SONG MODE

So far we have seen how to create songs in a fairly simple fashion - i.e. in the S.ED page,

press , press , move the cursor down a step, select a new take - and this will

get you through creating a song. Even if that is all you learn to do, you should find song

creation quite straightforward. There are other editing techniques available in the SONG

mode, however, that makes this mode even more powerful.

Using the and keys, you may identify whole blocks of steps and copy and

shift them around a song very conveniently. The easiest way to explain this is by example.

Let us say you have the following:

TAKE 1 This is a 1 bar drum section with a cymbal at the down beat of bar 1

TAKE 2 This is a 2 bar drum section without the cymbal

TAKE 3 This is a 1 bar drum beat with a small fill at the end

You have set the steps up as follows:

TAKE 1 No repeat

TAKE 2 3 repeats

TAKE 3 No repeat

You have created a 8 bar drum section complete with a cymbal at the start and ending.

Let’s say you now want that whole section to repeat 4 times. You could do it the hard way

and mark and insert each step sequentially but the easiest method is this:

Ensuring the cursor is on the scroll bar, move the cursor to the first step in the block,

TAKE 1, and press . Now move the cursor down two steps by pressing 2 on the

numeric keypad and press . This marks the three steps as one block. Now move the

cursor down a step (press 1 on the keypad) and press . You will copy that block at

the end of TAKE 3.

You can now do one of two things to copy it twice more. You can either move the cursor

to the end of the second block (press 3 on the numeric keypad) and press again

and then move it to the end of the third block (press 3 again on the keypad) and press

once again. The other way to achieve the same effect is to move the cursor back to

TAKE 1 and press and then move the cursor to the second occurrence of TAKE 3

(press 5 on the numeric keypad) and press , press 1 on the keypad to move the

cursor down a step and press . This will append the whole block onto the end of

itself. Either way is equally effective so choose whichever is easiest for you.

This method of block copying and inserting has even more uses than just appending

block onto themselves. Again, another example should demonstrate this.

Let us say you have the three takes sequenced as above - TAKE 1 once, TAKE 2 three

times, TAKE 3 once - and you wish to insert this just before the BREAK in your extended

mix. Move the cursor to TAKE 1 and press . Press 2 on the numeric keypad to take

you to TAKE 3 and press .

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Akai CD3000XL Operator's Manual Page 279