Akai S900

8
HOW
TO
USE THIS
MANUAL
We
have
now
covered how
to
communicate
with the
S900.
To
learn about
how the
S900
works, we suggest
the following:
1
.
Load
in
various sound
disks and select
the EDIT PRESET
function.
Go
through the EDIT
PRESET section of
this
manual and vary parameters
on
the
various pages,
carefully
noting
the
effects on
the sound caused by
these parameter
variations. Feel free to
experiment as
much
as you
like
—
parameter editing
only
affects
what is in the
S900
memory,
and sound disk data remains
intact UNLESS you save
the
S900
memory
to disk.
Therefore, as
long
as you
don't save to
disk,
you won't lose any data
on the disk.
2. After getting
a
feel
for
the EDIT PRESET
(program) functions,
load
in various
sound
disks and select
the EDIT SAMPLE
function.
Go
through the EDIT SAMPLE
section of this
manual and vary parameters on
the various
pages,
carefully
noting the effects on individual
samples caused by these
parameter variations. As
mentioned above, as long as you
don't save to disk, you won't
lose any data on the disk.
3.
Start
making your own samples.
Insert a blank,
formatted
disk
into the
S900,
select the REC
function, and
go
through
the
REC section of this manual. We suggest
speaking some
sentences for your first few samples, as
this makes it very
easy to
observe the effects of looping and other sampling
parameter edits.
4. Practice making
up
disks using samples
and programs from
various other disks.
Read
through
the DISK section of the
manual to find out how
this is done.
5.
Experiment,
experiment,
experiment. The more you play with
the
S900,
the
more you
will become
familiar with
its
operation
and the
better you'll be able to
exploit its many features.