Operation Manual
2. The A5000/A4000 Functions
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■ STEREO→MONO (page 225)
Converts stereo samples to mono.
■ MOVE (page 226)
Moves the samples assigned to a program to a sample bank, or the samples in a sample bank to
another sample bank or program.
■ CREATE OSC (page 227)
Creates 7 different basic oscillator waveforms: sine wave, saw up, triangle, square, pulse 1, pulse
2, pulse 3.
■ EXPORT (page 228)
Export the selected sample to floppy disk or hard disk as a computer wave file in WAV or AIFF
format.
■ REVERT (page 230)
Restores the selected sample or sample bank to the previously saved version.
■ FORMAT (page 177)
This command formats floppy disks, hard disks, ZIP drives, etc. When a hard disk or ZIP drive is
formatted you can specify the creation of 2 to 8 partitions.
■ COPY VOLUME (page 181)
Copies all data in a selected volume to a separate volume. Floppy disk volumes cannot be
selected as the copy source or destination. Also, volumes on disks which were not formatted by
the A5000/A4000 cannot be copied.
■ SYSTEM FILE (page 182)
Allows saving all system parameters to disk, or loading them from disk (for information on sys-
tem parameters see page 274 MIDI Data Format).
■ BACKUP (page 182)
Allows the entire contents of a hard disk, ZIP disk, or other disk to be backed up to CD-R or CD-
RW. Up to 8 disks can be backed up to a single CD-R or CD-RW disk.
■ CD-DA (page 184)
Writes samples stored on disk to CD-R or CD-RW disk to produce an audio CD.
■ LOAD OS (page 185)
Allows an OS file to be loaded in order to update the sampler’s operating system.