4) Go to the Disk Mode by pressing the Mode button. Highlight Disk and press S1. Press
the Value/Menu knob and move the cursor to 9) VolumeDumpFD and press S1.
5) You will now be on the VolumeDumpFD page. Put a 3.5 inch formatted disk in the disk
drive. Press F1/Save and the S-760 will start saving the Volume (“Now Working”) onto the
floppy disk in the drive. If the disk in the drive is unformatted you will be prompted to for-
mat the disk. Press F1 to format the disk. After formatting the disk, a display will show sev-
eral blank locations to save the Volume Dump. Highlight the first position and press F1
Save. “Now Working” will be shown on the LCD display and a count-down will be dis-
played on the lower right corner of the screen.
To Retrieve the Volume from a Floppy Disk:
1) Go to the VolumeDumpFD in the Disk Mode as in step 4 above. Make sure the appropri-
ate CD-ROM or cartridge is in the drive from which the sample data will be retrieved.
2) You will see the file you created. Highlight it and press F3 Load.
3) You will get a confirmation message asking if you want to lose the Current Sound Data.
This clears the internal memory.
4) Press F1 Yes to clear the memory. “Now Working” will be displayed on the screen and a
count-down will be displayed in the lower right corner of the screen.
5) Go to the Performance Play page 1 by pressing Shift then Jump, move the cursor to (1)
Performance Play 1 and press S1. The Performance Play page will show the
Performance that you created.
Quick Sampling
The S-760 can automatically create many parameters during sampling which can be set-up from Quick
Sampling Mode in the Performance, Patch, Partial, and Sample modes.
1) From the Performance Play page, press the F1 Quick Sampling.
2) Press F1 Smpling
3) You’ll now be on the Sampling page. Here you can configure the way you want to sample
from your source. If you already have samples loaded into memory, move the cursor to the
number by the Performance name and highlight it. Press S2 until you get to a blank loca-
tion.
4) Move your cursor down arrow, and highlight the parameter you wish to change with the
Value Dial.
Sampling Parameters
Orig Key – sets the original pitch location of the sample.
Sampling Mode – Stereo or Mono
Freq – Selectable from 16–48Khz
Time – Selectable according to available memory, from 0–363.8 seconds.
Pressing the arrow down keys will take you into the next sampling setup page where you can add Digital
EQ on the input stage. You’ll also notice that there is a level indicator so you can monitor the incoming
signal. As you continue to cursor down the page, you’ll come to the next parameters to set-up the S-760
for sampling.
Input – Analog or Digital (if you have the OP-760 option board installed).
Digital ATT – Can attenuate both digital and analog signals.
Normalize – Automatically increases the overall level of a sample without affecting it in any other way.
This is helpful when a sample has not been recorded at full gain.
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