Boss Dr.Sample SP-202 - Precise Sample Editing; Adjusting Sample Start and End Points; Modifying Only the Sample End Point

27
3. At the location where you wish to set the End
Point, press the MARK button.
When MARK lights, the setting is complete.
If you now set the BPM (tempo), the End Point will auto-
matically be adjusted to the location of the beat closest to
the timing (i.e., an interval of beats measured from the
Start Point according to the BPM value) which set when
you next press the MARK button. You can select the
desired BPM value either by pressing the 'Y A buttons,
or by pressing the TAP pad four times or more in time
with the tempo.
2. Release the MARK button.
The MARK button will blink, and the BPM display will
indicate"---".
1. Hold down the MARK button, and press the pad
which contains the sample that you wish to edit.
(Specify the current pad)
The pad will light, and the sample will sound.
In the case of Gate playback, continue holding the pad.
• Adiusting only the End Point
If the setting was not made as desired, press the lit
MARK button while the sound is still playing to make it
go dark, and re-do the procedure from step 1.
3. At the location where you wish to set the End
Point, press the MARK button once again.
When the MARK button lights, the setting is completed.
,_
A adjusted
newly adjusted End Point
Start point
beat timing at which
you pressed the
MARK button
beat beat beat
If you now set the BPM (tempo), the End Point will auto-
matically be adjusted to the location of the beat closest to
the timing (i.e., an interval of beats measured from the
Start Point according to the BPM value) which set when
you next press the MARK button. You can select the
desired BPM value either by pressing the 'Y A buttons,
or by pressing the TAP pad four times or more in time
with the tempo.
START I
ENDPOINT
E1
2. At the location where you wish to set the Start
Point, press the MARK button.
The MARK button will blink, and the BPM display will
indicate"---".
1. Press the pad to which the sample you wish to
edit is assigned. (Specify the current pad)
The pad will light, and the sample will sound.
• For gate playback, continue pressing the pad.
• Adiusting both the Start and End points
• When you modify the Start Point or End Point settings,
the BPM will be calculated according to the newly speci-
fied time, and displayed. If the sampling time is two or
more measures or is less than one measure, the BPM dis-
play value may be double or half the correct value. In
this case, use the .., A buttons to set the desired value.
(Refer to page 25 "Viewing and changing the BPM value
after sampling")
Also, please be aware that in some cases (such as triple
meter), it may not be possible to calculate or adjust the
BPM value accurately.
Start point End point
----
the portion which is played back
unwanted unwanted
End of
sample
I
Beginning of
sample
I
On the SP-202, the area of the waveform data which will
actually playback can be specified/memorized independent-
ly for each sample.
The point at which the waveform data will begin playing is
called the Start Point, and the point at which it will stop
playing is called the End Point.
If the sound you sampled contains unwanted material at the
beginning, adjust the Start Point so that the unwanted por-
tion is not heard. If the unwanted material is at the end,
adjust the End Point. In this way, you can make only the
desired portion playback.
I
Playing only the desired portion
of a sound
{Changing the Start/End Point)