Tutorial 2. Play the lowest pad. The display shows: The pad you’ve selected The currently selected track l n padC2 ¶03 RAM00:002 *CUSTOM : SMPL1_01 i The sound being played by the pad As you might expect, this pad—the first pad to which you sent your waves—is playing the first copy of SMPL1: SMPL1_01. 3. Hit the other two pads to which you sent waves—they play SMPL1_02 and SMPL1_03. 4. You can check out the sounds being played by the other pads in DanceKit_01, if you like. Editing Pad Sounds 1. Hit the lowest pad—we’re going to edit SMPL1_01. 2. Locate and press the Pad Edit button. Sound Edit Process Tr un ca te Lo op / Filt er 3. Turn the Parameter knob until the display shows:
The pad whose sound you’re editing The sound being edited m m C2 WAVE SMPL1_01 PlayMode=OnceForward The PlayMode parameter determines how the selected sound—in this case, SMPL1_01—will play the waves on which it’s based. It can be set to: OnceForward—so that the wave will play through once and stop. OnceBackwrd—so that the wave will play backwards once and stop. LoopForward—so that the wave will play forwards over and over again. LoopFwd&Bwd—so that the wave will play once forward, then play backwards, then forward again, over and over. 4. Turn the Value knob clockwise to set PlayMode to LoopForward. 5.
Turn the Parameter knob clockwise one tick so that the display shows the Start/Loop parameter. On this single page, you can dial in a coarse setting for the: sample start—the location from which the wave will play when you strike a pad. loop start—the location from which the wave will start playing again when it loops around if PlayMode is set to LoopForward or LoopFwd&Bwd. loop end—the point at which the wave will return to loop start when PlayMode is set to LoopForward or LoopFwd&Bwd. When the wave is not set to loop, loop end functions as sample end, determining where the wave will stop playing. All of the above are expressed on this display as percentages of the entire wave. Tip:
Though you don’t need them for this tutorial, sample start, loop start and loop end all have fine adjustments that you can use to find perfect loop settings when working on your music. 16 ENSONIQ ASR-X User’s Guide Pad