User Manual
About the COMMANDS
224 Chapter 9 COMMAND • A5000/A4000
Knob 4
[ Press] AUDITION
When this knob is pressed the results of the resample
operation with the current settings can be auditioned prior
to actually executing the resample operation.
Knob 5
[ Turn] Accuracy
Time-stretch conversion does not produce perfect results,
and involves a tradeoff between sound and rhythm qual-
ity. This setting allows you to give priority to either sound
or rhythm quality when making the conversion.
[Range] sound4 — sound1, normal, rhythm1 — rhythm4
• sound4 — sound1 ... sound4 to give maximum
weight to sound quality.
• rhythm1 — rhythm4 ... rhythm4 to give maximum
weight to rhythm quality.
• normal ... normal for equal weight. Other values
are intermediate settings.
[ Press] EXEC&CONT
Press this knob to call the time stretch confirmation dis-
play. Press Knob 5 (YES) to actually execute the time
stretch operation.
Knob 1
Same function as Cursor q (page 222).
Knob 2
[ Turn] From Pitch
Specifies the target pitch for the Pitch Convert operation.
[ Press] MIDI
When this knob is pressed the parameter can be directly
set by a MIDI note-on message received from an external
MIDI device. See page 82.
Knob 3
[ Turn] To Pitch Coarse
Use this knob to raise or lower the pitch in semitone
increments.
[Range] -12 — +12
• This parameter cannot be set so that as a result of
the pitch convert operation mono samples are longer
than 32 megabytes or stereo samples are longer
than 64 megabytes.
Knob 4
[ Turn] To Pitch Fine
Use this knob to raise or lower the pitch in increments of
1.171875 cents. (Note: 100 cents = 1 semitone.)
[Range] -50 — +50
[ Press] AUDITION
When this knob is pressed the results of the resample
operation with the current settings can be auditioned prior
to actually executing the resample operation.
Knob 5
[ Turn] Accuracy
Time-stretch conversion does not produce perfect results,
and involves a tradeoff between sound and rhythm qual-
ity. This setting allows you to give priority to either sound
or rhythm quality when making the conversion.
[Range] sound4 — sound1, normal, rhythm1 — rhythm4
• sound4 — sound1 ... sound4 to give maximum
weight to sound quality.
• rhythm1 — rhythm4 ... rhythm4 to give maximum
weight to rhythm quality.
• normal ... normal for equal weight. Other values
are intermediate settings.
[ Press] EXEC&CONT
Press this knob to call the pitch convert confirmation dis-
play. Press Knob 5 (YES) to actually execute the pitch
convert operation.
Cursor w (when the Resample Type is PitchConvert)
Knob 1 Knob 2 Knob 3 Knob 4 Knob 5
Turn
action
Cursor From Pitch
To Pitch
Coarse
To Pitch Fine Accuracy
Press
action
EXEC MIDI — AUDITION EXEC&CONT
w
Cursor