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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ...................... 7
Main features ................................. 7
Saving your data on the ESX-1 ................................. 8
About the vacuum tubes ........................................... 8
2. Parts and their functions ...... 9
Top panel........................................ 9
Common section ........................................10
Edit section ................................................11
Part select section .......................................12
Step key section .........................................12
Arpeggiator section....................................13
Rear panel .................................... 14
Front panel ................................... 14
Card section ..............................................14
Items and functions in the display .. 15
3. Basic operation ............... 17
Preparations ................................. 17
Connections............................................... 17
Turning the power on/off ............................17
To turn the power on .............................................. 17
To turn the power off .............................................. 17
Playing a Demo song .................... 18
To pause playback ................................................. 18
To resume playback................................................ 18
To stop playback .................................................... 18
Demo Song List ..........................................18
4. Sample mode .................... 19
Sampling procedure on the ESX-1 ...............19
1. Audition the existing samples (
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p.20) ................. 19
2. Record a new sample (
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p.21) ............................ 19
3. Edit a sample (
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p.23) ....................................... 19
4. Save a sample (
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p.32) ...................................... 19
5. Assign the sample to a part ................................ 19
Auditioning samples...................... 20
What is a sample? ................................................. 20
Recording a new sample ............... 21
Sampling...................................................21
Preparations for sampling ....................................... 21
Sampling mode settings .......................................... 21
Recording the sample ............................................. 21
Using the external input sound to trigger sampling.... 22
If sampling does not start when you begin playback . 22
Editing a sample ........................... 23
Setting the start point ..................................23
Setting the end point ..................................23
Setting the loop location .............................23
Adjusting the pitch of the sample .................24
Directly sampling the sound of the
ESX-1 (Resampling) ................. 25
Resampling from the beginning of a pattern or song . 25
Resampling from the middle of a pattern or song ...... 25
Resampling just one note of a part .......................... 26
Slice ............................................. 27
What is “Slice”? ..................................................... 27
Creating a slice sample (TIME SLICE) ...........27
If you were not successful in creating a slice sample .. 28
Try changing the slice step setting (step 3, above) ..... 28
Manually turning slices on/off while you adjust the
sensitivity (paragraph 6, above) ...................... 29
Using individual sample slices ................................. 29
Using a slice sample in a pattern that has a different
beat .............................................................. 30
If a Last Step is specified for the pattern ................... 30
Stretch .......................................... 31
What is “Stretch”?.................................................. 31
Creating a stretch sample ...........................31
Convenient sample-editing functions32
Normalize .................................................32
Truncate ....................................................32
Saving a sample ........................... 33
Saving a sample under a different name ......33
Deleting a sample ......................................34
Checking the remaining amount of sampling
area..........................................................34
