Akai S900

HOW
TO
COMMUNICATE
WITH THE
S900
This
section
is
very
important.
Read it carefully,
as it
lays the
foundation
for
the
rest
of the
manual,
FUNCTIONS,
PAGES,
and
BUTTONS
The
S900
has
eight
functions
selected
by eight front
panel
master
buttons:
PLAY,
REC,
EDIT SAMPLE,
EDIT PROGRAM,
MIDI,
UTILITY,
DISK,
and
MASTER
TUNE.
Each
function
(except
MASTER TUNE)
includes
several
pages.
Each
page covers
a
specific
aspect of the function's
operation.
For
example,
typical
DISK function
pages are load
sound
from
disk,
save
sound
to
disk,
erase
disk, etc.
Each
page
also
displays
several of the
S900's parameters.
These
are
changed
with
the
page programming buttons
(con-
tained
within
the
gray
rectangle
below the right
side of the
LCD)
and
the
upper-right
hand
CONTROL.
GETTING AROUND THE
S900:
A
PRACTICAL
EXAMPLE
Let's learn how
the Function/Page/Button
system works. We
will
do all our practicing
with
a
blank,
formatted
disk
so
that if
you make any errors nothing
of
importance
will
be lost.
1
.
Turn on power if it is not already.
2. Insert
a blank, double-sided
3.5"
disk
as
shown
previously in
Fig.
1
.
Push gently until the
disk locks
in place.
3.
Press the DISK
function button.
The
LCD will
show Page
01
,
the
Load
Disk
page.
There
are
several other
pages
associated
with the
DISK
function,
and three
ways to
access them:
•
Enter the
page number directly
with
the numeric
(0—9)
PARAMETER
KEYS. This
must be
a two-digit
number; if
you
are
calling up a single-digit
page number,
press the
button
first
(e.g. to call up Page
7,
press the key
then the
7 key).
•
You may advance
to
the
next
page by pressing
PAGE
(down
arrow),
or return to the previous
page by
pressing PAGE
(up
arrow).
•
If the
arrow points at the
page number
(see next
section for
more
about
the
arrow),
CONTROL will
select the
different
pages within
a
function.
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