Yamaha DJX Owner's Manual - Digital Sampling

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DIGITAL SAMPLING

What is sampling?

  Technically, sampling is

making a digital recording of a sound.  The

sound could be your voice or an acoustic instru-

ment (taken from a microphone), or a recorded

sound (from a CD or cassette player).  Once it is

recorded, the resulting “sample” can be edited

(for example, trimmed or looped) and can then

be played at various pitches from a keyboard.

In this section, the words

“sampling” and “recording”

are used interchangeably;

they refer to the same

process.

1 Set up the DJX for sampling.  

(Connect a microphone or line level source.)

2 Enter the Sampling mode 

(by pressing the RECORD button in the DIGITAL SAM-

PLING section)

.

3 Set the sampling level 

(with the INPUT LEVEL knob)

.

4 Press the key to which the new sample will be assigned.

5 Set sampling to standby.  

(Press the START/STOP button; sampling starts when

audio signal is received.)

6 Stop sampling 

(by pressing the START/STOP button)

.

7 Exit from the Sampling mode 

(by pressing the RECORD button again)

.

Sampling, of course, is a revolutionary new technology.  But it’s much more

than that.  In case you haven’t been paying attention, sampling is extraor-

dinarily popular and is an integral part of most cutting-edge music of

today.  It’s also the most revolutionary way of making music — since

virtually anything can be sampled, and then digitally twisted and regurgi-

tated into new music.

With the built-in Digital Sampling features, the DJX makes it exceptionally

easy for you to use this groundbreaking technology in your own music!

The samples you create are automatically stored to voice #284

(“Sampled”), and can be played from the keyboard like any other voice —

and can be “tweaked” with the knobs, RIBBON CONTROLLER and PITCH

BEND wheel as well!

ABOUT DIGITAL SAMPLING

ABOUT DIGITAL SAMPLING

Sampling

Edit

Play

Keep in mind that the quality

of the sample may differ from

the original sound.  In

particular, noise and distor-

tion may result (depending on

the pitch range) when using

the CUTOFF and RESONANCE

knobs.