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Page 272 S3200XL Operator’s Manual - Version 1.00
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 S3200XL 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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