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Page 272 CD3000XL OperatorÕs Manual
TRIGGERING TAKES FROM MIDI
This powerful function of the CD3000XL’s disk recording capabilities allows you to
simultaneously playback audio from the hard disk whilst sequencing programs in the
CD3000XL. To set up a list of takes for MIDI triggering, press the SONG key (F2 in all disk
record pages) to get the following screen:
This shows a blank, empty song or take list. To create a new list of takes, press F2 again. This
takes you to the S.ED or SONG EDIT page where you may assemble your list. Pressing
gives you this display:
Here we can see that the first take is blank and has some default parameters assigned to it.
Assign your takes as described above and edit the parameters if necessary.
USING MIDI TRIGGERING
The method for assembling a list of takes for triggering from MIDI is described above. Once you
have set up a series of takes for MIDI triggering, simply sending the appropriate MIDI notes on
the selected channel(s) will cause them to play back. Typically, a list of takes for MIDI triggering
may look something like this:
Here we can see a typical setup for spinning in material over a sequenced backing track. We
can see that there are two backing vocal recordings which will trigger when they receive C1 and
C#1 and a guitar solo will start to playback on C3 with a brass riff playing off C4. All the takes are
on MIDI channel 16 although, in practice, there is nothing to stop you setting different MIDI
channels for some or all of the takes. For example, you could have set the backing vocals to
MIDI channel 15, the guitar solo to MIDI channel 14 and the brass riff on MIDI channel 16. In this
way, you can reserve tracks on your sequencer especially for certain audio parts. This may be
useful if you need to slip parts using the track shift function on your sequencer.
In the above example, you can see that some takes have fades set for them. This facility is
useful for ‘softening’ the start and end points of a take whose edit may be a bit abrupt. The
range for both fade in and fade out times are 10 seconds (actually 9999 milliseconds but who’s
counting one millisecond!). To soften an abrupt attack or end, fades of around 5-20