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S3000XL Operator’s Manual Page 271

USING THE SONG MODE TO CHAIN TAKES

This mode of operation allows you to playback takes sequentially ‘back-to-back’. This

mode will be invaluable to remix engineers for the creation of extended remixes. It will also

be of use to jingle writers and TV theme music writers who often have to provide several

versions of one piece of music with different lengths.

The simplest method of using the song mode is to ‘top and tail’ an entire recording (i.e.

record an entire song into the S3000XL and edit its start and end points) and have it play

back from within the SONG mode. At a more advanced level, you could use the SONG

mode to play back a whole series of entire songs recorded and edited this way and the

SONG mode can be a convenient method of sequencing the tracks on an album. A more

advanced application for the song mode, however, is to create extended remixes. A

typical song will look something like this:

Normally, the takes will be recorded onto disk in sections, one by one, edited and then

compiled into a song within the S.ED page. Here we see a series of such takes running

‘back-to-back’ to form a typical extended remix. You can see that some steps are set to

repeat several times and the repeat field can be used to good effect in this way - it

certainly beats having to print several versions of a section onto tape and splicing them all

together!!

Crossfades are not possible in the song mode but this isn’t such a big disadvantage for

most remix work where the material is usually quite percussive and butt editing can be

very effective. Of course, a good edit depends on the accuracy of the cuts you make in

the EDIT page and hearing a cut out of context may not always give you a true

impression of how it will sound back to back with another cut. A typical editing session will

probably involve a bit of switching between the EDIT page and the SONG page to fine

tune some edits which, on their own sound fine but alongside other takes, exhibit some

form of glitch. When you switch from the SONG page to the EDIT page, the take just

played will be in the EDIT window and then, when you return to the SONG page, the step

you are working on will still be current so a fine edit should only take a few seconds. Often,

the fade in and fade out parameters can come in useful for smoothing out such

problems. Experimentation is the name of the game here!

Once you have a few takes in your song, pressing (F8) in the main SONG page will

cause them to play back sequentially. When this happens, you will receive the following

screen display:

Pressing F7 will stop playback of the song and pressing F8 - SKIP - will cause the song to

skip the current step and proceed playback from the next step.

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