Akai MPC-3000 v3.0 Owners Manual.pdf - Fdiskc

Chapter 8: Creating and Editing Sounds• The soft key:Pressing this soft key plays the selected sound, from soft startaddress to soft end address, at full velocity level through the stereomix outputs, panned center.• The (best start) soft key:This function automatically finds the point within a sound at whichthe drum strike begins, bypassing any dead space at the beginningof the sound which could cause play delays. Pressing this soft keycauses the following screen to appear:========= Find Best Soft Start =========Start threshold%: 5Press to change SOFT STARTaddress to earliest sample that exceedsthreshold.========================================It works by searching through the sound for the earliest sample thatexceeds the threshold entered into the Start threshold field.To find the best start, enter a number into the field (5% is a goodstarting point) and press . At that time, the Edit Soundscreen reappears with the Soft st field set to the optimumstarting value. Experiment with the threshold value. A value too lowwill start the sound too early, causing a slight playback delay; avalue too high will start too far into the sound, cutting off too muchof the beginning.The Edit Samples section of the screen (right side)This section allows the editing of the sound’s actual sample data.The following is a description of the fields and soft keys.• The Zone st (zone start) and Zone end fields:These two fields are used to edit the actual sample data. Theydefine the start and end of a zone to be altered with the Do field and soft key. The contents of the zone can be copied, deleted,silenced, or reversed. Both fields are of theseconds.milliseconds.samples format as described in the Soft stsection above.• The Play X field:This field works in conjunction with the soft key toaudition any portion of the sound before editing. When the key is pressed, it plays the portion of the sound that is currentlyselected in the PLAY X field, a choice field. The options are:Page 156