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Chapter 10 Track and Phrase Editing
Chapter 10
Phrase Copy
This operation copies the audio of a specified phrase to
another location. This is convenient when you want, for
example, a four-measure rhythm pattern to loop seamlessly.
* Each phrases needs to be longer than 0.5 seconds. Otherwise,
short phrases will not be played.
1. Press [PLAY (DISPLAY)].
2. Hold down [SHIFT] and press [F2 (TRACK)].
3. Press [F1 (Tr/Ph)] so that the Phrase Edit Menu appears.
4. Press [PAGE] so that [F2] indicates “Copy,” and then
press [F2 (Copy)].
5. Press [F1 (Selph)].
6. The track SELECT buttons are used to select the source
track(s). Press the Track SELECT button to specify the
track to be copied.
Alternatively, you can use [ ], [ ], [ ], and
[] to move the cursor to the phrase that you wish to
move, and press [F3 (MARK)] or [ENTER/YES].
The SELECT button stops blinking, indicating it is the
phrase to be copied.
If [F2 (All)] is pressed, all tracks are selected to be moved.
7. Press the Track STATUS button for the desired
destination track. The STATUS button turns red.
* If you want to select TR 1-12, press [FADER/MUTE] several
times until the “TR” indicator lights.
If you want to select TR 13-18, press [FADER/MUTE] several
times until the “TR” indicator blinks.
→ “Switching the Fader Functions” (p. 71)
8. Press [F1 (Back)].
9. Use [ ], [ ], [ ], and [ ] to move the
cursor, and use the TIME/VALUE dial to set the
parameters.
FROM (From Point)
You can specify the exact sync point of the phrase to be
copied as the FROM time. The FROM time will be copied
to the position designated as the TO time. You can
specify a FROM time that is not necessarily located
within the phrase.
TO (To Point)
The destination of the Copy is the TO time.
Quantize
If you set this to “ON”, the TO time (destination time of
the Copy) will be set at the beginning of the measure set
by the tempo map or sync track. For example, it's easy to
Copy a phrase one measure when the phrase length is
2.0 seconds as when the tempo map setting is 120.
However, you will need a complicated calculation if the
tempo is 119.1. If you set Quantize ON, you can avoid
this.
Further, if this is set to ON, Overlap will be
automatically set to ON also.
Overlap
If you set this to “OFF”, the phrase will copy so that the
first copy begins exactly at the end of the original and
the copying procedure will be the same as if the
beginning/ending time of the phrase is same as the
START/END time of the Copy. If you carry out a copy
twice or more under this condition, there will be no
blank spaces between the copied phrases. If you set this
to “ON”, the interval between FROM and TO will be
kept. Therefore, if the phrase length is shorter than the
interval, there will be blank spaces between the copied
phrases. If phrase length is longer than the interval, the
phrases will be overlapped.
(see illustrations below)
