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S3000XL Operator’s Manual Page 271
USING THE SONG MODE TO CHAIN TAKES
This mode of operation allows you to playback takes sequentially ‘back-to-back’. This
mode will be invaluable to remix engineers for the creation of extended remixes. It will also
be of use to jingle writers and TV theme music writers who often have to provide several
versions of one piece of music with different lengths.
The simplest method of using the song mode is to ‘top and tail’ an entire recording (i.e.
record an entire song into the S3000XL and edit its start and end points) and have it play
back from within the SONG mode. At a more advanced level, you could use the SONG
mode to play back a whole series of entire songs recorded and edited this way and the
SONG mode can be a convenient method of sequencing the tracks on an album. A more
advanced application for the song mode, however, is to create extended remixes. A
typical song will look something like this:
Normally, the takes will be recorded onto disk in sections, one by one, edited and then
compiled into a song within the S.ED page. Here we see a series of such takes running
‘back-to-back’ to form a typical extended remix. You can see that some steps are set to
repeat several times and the repeat field can be used to good effect in this way - it
certainly beats having to print several versions of a section onto tape and splicing them all
together!!
Crossfades are not possible in the song mode but this isn’t such a big disadvantage for
most remix work where the material is usually quite percussive and butt editing can be
very effective. Of course, a good edit depends on the accuracy of the cuts you make in
the EDIT page and hearing a cut out of context may not always give you a true
impression of how it will sound back to back with another cut. A typical editing session will
probably involve a bit of switching between the EDIT page and the SONG page to fine
tune some edits which, on their own sound fine but alongside other takes, exhibit some
form of glitch. When you switch from the SONG page to the EDIT page, the take just
played will be in the EDIT window and then, when you return to the SONG page, the step
you are working on will still be current so a fine edit should only take a few seconds. Often,
the fade in and fade out parameters can come in useful for smoothing out such
problems. Experimentation is the name of the game here!
Once you have a few takes in your song, pressing (F8) in the main SONG page will
cause them to play back sequentially. When this happens, you will receive the following
screen display:
Pressing F7 will stop playback of the song and pressing F8 - SKIP - will cause the song to
skip the current step and proceed playback from the next step.
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