Style & Sound - KETRON SD1 User Manual

Style & Sound
Personalising the Styles with new samples is one of the innovative features of the SD1. You may use up to four audio samples (in .WAV, .INS and
.MSP format) for as many accompaniment tracks. Furthermore, for track Drum 2, you may use an audio loop processed by the internal SD1 sam-
pler, to be synchronised with the rhythm and the tempo, without important changes to the intonation and the length of the loop.
While audio samples are assigned in the Arrange View menu, the use of a loop for the Drum 2 track is handled in Pattern editing. Please refer
to the relevant chapter.
Audio samples and Style tracks can be associated to each other on the condition that the relevant audio files are stored in Folder 94 Sound
belonging to Master Folder.
If you use the Sampler to create new samples, during the saving procedure to disk while the Master Folder is activated, the files will be auto-
matically stored in Folder 94 Sound.
If you wish to directly copy samples from the floppy disk to Folder 94 Sound on the hard disk, activate the MASTER FOLDER button.
Before assigning a sample to a track, you need to load it into RAM. For further details please refer to the Sound Load section.
The procedure used to assign a sample to a track is exactly the same as the one described in the Arranger section for modifying the timbre of
a track. Please refer to the relevant section. In the following please find the most important details:
Select the Style to modify and press EXIT to go to the main page of the display.
Open Arrange View by pressing the F5 ARRANGE VIEW push button.
Select the Arranger section containing the track to modify.
To select the track whose timbre is to be modified, use the relevant function push buttons next to the display: the selected track will be
displayed black for about two seconds.
Within these two seconds, press the RAM/FLASH button to call up the samples loaded in the RAM.
From that moment on there will be no time limits to find the sample.
Select the sample using the VOICES push buttons or the PAGE +/- buttons to select the next samples pages, further to the function push
buttons relevant to the sample to be assigned.
Once the timbre has been selected, use the CURSOR +/- buttons to define if the modification has to refer to all the Arranger sections (Global
mode) or only to those currently in use (Single mode).
Proceed in the same way, if desired, also for the other three tracks to which you wish to assign a sample.
Save the Custom Style using the SAVE/ENTER button.
Custom Style always uses the audio sample on the condition that this is in the RAM, so for this reason it is recommendable to create both a
Sound Block and a Style Block of Custom Styles, to make sure that everything is correctly loaded. A RAM Style, instead, always automati-
cally calls up the associated audio sample.
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