User Manual

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BASIC TERMINOLOGY AND KEY CONCEPTS
ERASE: The act of deleting an entire loop, one track, or a stereo pair of tracks when a stereo pair is enabled.
 You cannot undo a loop that has been erased. Once a loop is erased it is permanently deleted.
 To erase an entire loop do one of the following:
 Press and hold the TRACK and UNDO footswitches simultaneously for two seconds. After the
Track LEDs stop blinking, the loop is erased.
 Press the NEW LOOP button while the loop is idle or in playback. Then press the RECORD
footswitch to begin recording. Once you press the RECORD footswitch, the old audio that was
at the current loop location is erased.
 While recording a New Loop, press the NEW LOOP button to abort the recording and
immediately erase the tracks.
 The 95000 does allow you to undo/redo a Track Erase.
IDLE: Equivalent to stop. When idle, the 95000 is not playing, recording or overdubbing.
LOOP: A loop is made up of 6 mono tracks and one stereo Mixdown track. All tracks are the exact same length.
 Think of a loop in terms of multi-track tape: the 6 tracks and the Mixdown track in a 95000 loop
always playback, overdub or record in parallel, at the same speed and in the same direction. The
one exception to this rule occurs with the use of Constant Tempo Mixdown mode, as described
later in this manual.
 Loops are recorded and played back directly from the inserted microSDHC card.
 Up to 100 loops can be stored on one card.
 Upon creating a New Loop, the audio for all 6 mono tracks and the Mixdown track are established
on the microSDHC card as silence; they take up space on the card even though you haven’t actually
recorded those tracks yet.
 Recording time: The total recorded audio time; varies with size of microSDHC Memory Card.
 Loop time: The actual loop length time that you can record. The loop length time will always be
less than the total recording time. This time difference occurs because each loop consists of 6
mono tracks and the stereo Mixdown track, and every loop you record has all seven of these tracks
as .WAV files at equal length.
OVERDUB/OVERDUBBING: The recording of any track after the initial recording of a New Loop. The
RECORD and PLAY LEDs are both lit but the PUNCH button is off. Overdubbing can mean:
 Recording on a track—other than Track 1—that has not been previously recorded.
 Layering notes or instruments on top of each other on one track or a stereo pair of tracks. The
tracks’ DUB setting acts like a feedback control that may attenuate any previously recorded audio
with each loop cycle.
QUANTIZE: A mode that allows the user to create loops that are exact bar lengths. Let’s imagine you
need to create a loop that is exactly 3 bars long. Enable Quantize mode to help make this happen.
 In Quantize mode, the 95000 starts and stops new-loop recording automatically.
 When using Quantize mode, it is best to listen to the 95000’s built-in CLIX metronome or
synchronize the 95000 to an external device that will produce a beat so you know exactly when
recording will stop and start.
 By factory default, when Quantize is enabled, a loop begins recording after a one bar Count-In. You
can change the number of bars of the Count-In to up to 8 bars, or you can disable the Count-In
altogether.
 When Quantize is disabled, you are able to create loop lengths that are completely freeform.
Loop recording starts immediately upon pressing either RECORD or PLAY footswitch and ends
immediately upon pressing either RECORD or PLAY footswitch.
RECORD: The act of recording a New Loop. When stereo is disabled, the audio is recorded to Track 1. If
stereo is enabled, the audio is recorded onto Tracks 1 and 2.