American Audio DIGI-PRO manual

Featuring: FLIP FLOP DIGI-PRO Professional Dual CD Player American Audio ® 4295 Charter Street Los Angeles Ca. 90058 Revised 9/01 Operating Instructions[...]

© American Audio ® - www .americandj.com - DIGI-PRO™ Instruction Manual Page 2 CAUTIONS REGARDING HANDLING.......................................................................................................3 PRODUCT INFORMA TION...................................................................................................................[...]

NOTE: This product satisfies FCC regulations when shielded cables and connectors are used to connect the unit to other equipment. To prevent electromagnetic interference with electrical appliances such as radios and televi- sions, use shielded cables and connectors for connections. NOTE: This CD player uses a semiconductor laser . It is recommended[...]

ELECTRICAL PRECAUTIONS RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN CAUTION The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the literature accompanying the appliance. The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilateral triangle, [...]

PRODUCT INFORMA TION I. Heat - The CD player should be situated away from heat sources such as radiators, heat registers, stoves, or other appliances (including amplifiers) that produce heat. 2. Do not let insecticides, benzene, or thinner come in contact with the surface of the unit. 3. Never disassemble or modify your unit in any way , doing so w[...]

SET -UP © American Audio ® - www .americandj.com - DIGI-PRO™ Instruction Manual Page 6 CUSTOMER SUPPORT Customer Support: American Audio ® provides a toll free customer support line, to provide set up help and to answer any question should you encounter problems during your set up or initial operation. Y ou may also visit us on the web at www [...]

• 8 times over sampling 1 bit D/A converter • Filter Effect • 20 Seconds Digital Anti-Shock Protection • 2 Coast Effect • 4 Programmable Cue Points or Samples • Auto cue Function (Sensitive to -48dB) • Reverse Playback (Unlimited) • Real-time Cue (“Cue on the Fly”) • Selectable T ime Display • 4 different speed scan • S/PD[...]

13 GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS - REMOTE UNIT © American Audio ® - www .americandj.com - DIGI-PRO™ Instruction Manual Page 8 A. TOP UNIT CONTROLS (FIGURE 3) 1. FIL TER/COAST/ADJUST - This button allow you to change the FIL TER and Coast values. With the FIL TER/COAST/ADJUST button select- ed (on) the FIL TER value is one second and the COAST [...]

will continue to play in reverse until it returns to the beginning of the disc. When the REV/PLA Y effect is selected a number 3 will appear in the LCD (14) , indicating REV/PLA Y is active. See reverse play on page 24. 5. TIME - The TIME button is used to changed the displayed time values. T ime can be displayed as elapsed track time, remaining tr[...]

described in the next section. 15. ( -) PITCH BEND - The (-) pitch bend function creates a momentary “Slow Down” in the CD’s pitch speed (Beats per minute - BPM) when the PITCH (7) function is activated. This functions allows the beats between two CD’ s or any other music source to match. This is a momen- tary function. When the b utton is [...]

another , that disc too will have a +2% pitch. The amount of pitch being applied will be displayed in the LCD (14). Use this slider to match the BPM’ s of this unit to that of another music source. By changing the pitch of one disc with respect to the other in this way , the beats can be matched. 24. BPM BUTTON - This changes toggles between the [...]

GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS - PLA YER UNIT B. TRANSPORT UNIT (FIGURES 3) 35. DRIVE 1 TRANSPORT TRA Y - This tray is used to load and load compact disc in to the drive 1 mechanism. The tray is opened and closed by pressing the DRIVE 1 OPEN/CLOSE BUTTON (36). Never attempt to force the transport tray open or closed when the power is turned off. 36[...]

41. DRIVE 2 REMOTE JACK - Connect the supplied 8 pin din cable from this jack to the remote control's channel 2 remote connector . This will allow you to control the player functions with the remote unit. 42. DRIVE 2 DIGIT AL OUT - This jack sends a digital stereo out signal. Use this connection to create near perfect copies of your disc to a [...]

LIQUID CR YST AL DISPLA Y (LCD) C. LCD DISPLAY (FIGURE 6) 50 . FUNCTION INDICATORS - These indicators serve two functions; Indicators 1-3 detail which effect is active, Indicators 6-9 detail a cue point stored in memory. 51 . CUE INDICATOR - This indicator will glow when the unit is in CUE mode and will flash every time a new CUE POINT is recorded [...]

is in direct reference to the TIME METER (5 7 , 58, & 59 ) . When the TOTAL REMAIN indicator is displayed in the LCD ( 1 4) , the time defined will refer to a disc's total remaining time. The time mode is changed by tapping on TIME BUTTON (5). 67 . SINGLE INDICATOR - This indicates the unit is in single play mode, the unit will pla y a sin[...]

BASIC OPERA TIONS Figure 8 © American Audio ® - www .americandj.com - DIGI-PRO™ Instruction Manual Page 16 Figure 7 3 in. / 8cm disc 5 in. / 12cm disc 1. OPENING AND CLOSING THE DISC TRA Y/LOADING DISCS This is an electronic operation and can only work when the power is on. Press the OPEN/CLOSE BUTTON (10) to open or close the disc tray. Pressi[...]

BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) 8. FRAME SEARCH This feature allows you to scroll through a track to set a cue, starting sample, or loop point. T o use the scroll function you must first be in Pause Mode or Cue Mode. Once you are in Pause or Cue mode, use your finger tip to turn the JOG WHEEL (19) to scroll through the track (figure 9). T urning the whe[...]

© American Audio ® - www .americandj.com - DIGI-PRO™ Instruction Manual Page 18 BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) Activating the Pitch Slider (23) : To activate the PITCH SLIDER (23) , turn the pitch function on. Press the PITCH BUTTON (7) to turn on the pitch function, when the pitch function is activated a LED will begin to glow (or flash depending [...]

BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) © American Audio ® - www .americandj.com - DIGI-PRO™ Instruction Manual Page 19 12. PITCH BEND: This function will momentarily increase or decrease a tracks playback speed. There are two ways to operate this function with the (-) & (+) PITCH BUTTONS (25) or with the JOG WHEEL (19). The maximum pitch bend percentag[...]

13. SETTING and STORING a CUE POINT : Setting A Cue Point: A cue point is the exact point playback will begin when the PLA Y/P AUSE BUTTON (29) is pressed. A cue point may be anywhere on a disc or in a track. Y ou may set and store up to five independent cue points per disk. Four cue points are stored in the CUE MEMOR Y BUTTONS (6) and one in the I[...]

BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) American Audio ® • DIGI-PRO™ INSTRUCTION MANUAL • P AGE 21 14. CREA TING AND PLA YING A SEAMLESS LOOP A seamless loop is a sound loop that plays continuously without sound interruption. Y ou can use this loop to create dramatic effect in your mixing. This loop has no time limit and you could actually loop the entir[...]

BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) American Audio ® • DIGI-PRO™ INSTRUCTION MANUAL • P AGE 22 EXITING A LOOP - T o exit a SEAMLESS LOOP , press the OUT/EXIT BUTTON (28). The IN REAL-TIME CUE BUTTON (26) and OUT/EXIT BUTTON (28) LEDs will remain on, but will stop flashing. Music playback will resume normal play (Figure 25). The IN REAL-TIME CUE BUTTO[...]

BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) American Audio ® • DIGI-PRO™ INSTRUCTION MANUAL • P AGE 23 1) Be sure a disc is inserted in the drive and press the PRG/HOLD FX (13) . Pressing the PRG/HOLD FX (13) from any function will immediately pause the disc and enter the program mode. 2) After activating the program mode the program indicator LED beside the[...]

American Audio ® • DIGI-PRO™ INSTRUCTION MANUAL • P AGE 24 Reverse Play: Reverse play allows you to play a track, loop, or sample backwards. This function is activated by pressing the REV/PLA Y BUTT ON (4) as in figure 34. This function will react differently to dif ferent playback modes: - Reverse track/disc play . In this mode the unit wil[...]

American Audio ® • DIGI-PRO™ INSTRUCTION MANUAL • P AGE 25 To FLIP-FLOP entire CDs: To FLIP-FLOP an entire disc, be sure both drives are in continuous play mode. The SINGLE ICON (67) should not be displayed in the LCD (14) . When both drives are in continuous play mode, follow the directions for single track FLIP-FLOP as detailed above. When[...]

American Audio ® • DIGI-PRO™ INSTRUCTION MANUAL • P AGE 26 BUIL T -IN EFFECTS: The DIGI-PRO™ comes with two built in ef fects. Only one effect may be used at any given time. The Built-in ef fects include FIL TER and Coast. When either effect is activated a corresponding icon will display in the LCD. For example when the FIL TER EFFECT (3) [...]

American Audio ® • DIGI-PRO™ INSTRUCTION MANUAL • P AGE 27 ADV ANCED OPERA TIONS CONT . FIL TER EFFECT : The filter is a type of dampening effect that tweaks with the harmonics of a track. This ef fect uses a low and high filter to distort the an audio track. The ef fect works with both the low and high filters simultaneously. To activate th[...]

SCRA TCH BOX SET UP American Audio ® • DIGI-PRO™ INSTRUCTION MANUAL • P AGE 28 RL GND 70 71 DC 12V CLK OUT 1 CLK OUT 2 72 73 74 76 75 75 70. PHONO INPUTS - These ar e stereo phono inputs. Connect a turn table' s output RC As to these jacks . The right st ereo cha nnel is repr e- sented b y the red female RC A and labeled with "R. &[...]

1. PRECAUTIONS ON HANDLING COMP ACT DISCS Compact disc are constructed of the same types of plastic record are. T o avoid severe damage to you valuable disc please observe the following guide lines. Following the these guide lines will ensure long disc life. • Do not allow fingerprints, oil or dust to get on the surface of the disc. If the disc i[...]

2-YEAR LIMITED W ARRANTY A. American Audio ® hereby warrants, to the original purchaser , American Audio ® products to be free of manufacturing defects in material and workmanship for a period of 2 Y ear (730 days) from the date of purchase. This warranty shall be valid only if the product is purchased within the United States of America, includi[...]

SPECIFICA TIONS American Audio ® • DIGI-PRO™ INSTRUCTION MANUAL • P AGE 31 GENERAL Model: American Audio ® DIGI-PRO™ - Professional Compact Disc Player System: Dual, CD Tray Loading, Digital Compact Disc Audio Player . Disc type: Standard compact discs (5 in / 12cm and 3in/8cm discs) Dimensions: Player unit: 19” (W) x 3 15/32” (H) x 9[...]

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