American Audio CDI-500 manual

F eatur ing: Sampling Sampling CDI-500 ™ User Guide and Refer ence Manual 4295 Char ter Street Los Angeles Ca. 90058 www .AmericanA udio .us Rev . 4/05[...]

CONTENTS © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio .us - CDI-500™ Instruction Manual Page 2 SAFETY REGULA TIONS.........................................................................................................................3 ELECTRICAL PRECAUTIONS............................................................................................[...]

NOTE: This unit may cause interference to radio and tele vision reception. NOTE: This CD pla yer uses a semiconductor laser . It is recommended for use in a room at the f ollow - ing temperature: 41˚F - 95˚F / 5˚C - 35˚C CAUTION: USE OF CONTROLS OR ADJUSTMENTS O THER THAN THOSE SPECIFIED HEREIN MA Y RESUL T IN HAZARDOUS RADIA TION EXPOSURE THE [...]

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, [...]

A U D I O O U T D I G I T A L O U T P O W E R O N O F F R E L A Y A C I N ~ 2 3 0 V 1 1 5 V I. Read Instr uctions - All the safety and operat- ing instructions should be read before the CD Pla yer is operated. The saf ety and operating instructions should be sav ed for future ref erence. 2. Heed W ar nings - All warnings on the CD Pla yer and in th[...]

Introduction: Congratulations and thank y ou f or purchasing the Amer ican A udio ® CDI-500™ CD pla yer . This CD pla yer is a representation of Amer ican A udio’ s continuing commitment to produce the best and highest quality audio products possible at an affordab le pr ice. Please read and understand this manual com- pletely bef ore attempti[...]

(a) F ADER “Q” ST ART CONTROL: This f eature is used in conjunction with most American Audio® and Amer ican DJ® audio mix ers that also f eature “F ader Q Star t” control. For best results use this feature with two (2) CDI-500™ pla yers. Connect your CDI-500’ s as described in the set-up section of this manual. After set up is complet[...]

CAUTION: • The LCD is designed to be clear ly visible within the angles shown in Figure 2 . Mount the control unit so that the visual angle is within this range . 1. Checking the Contents Be sure your CDI-500™ w as shipped with the follo wing: 1) CDI-500™ Professional CD play er . 2) Operating instr uctions (this booklet). 3) One (1) set of R[...]

GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS A. TOP UNIT CONTROLS (FIGURE 3) 1. PITCH PERCENT AGE SELECTOR - Press this button to choose any pitch range percent - ages of 4%, 8%, 16%, and 100%. See page 26 f or more details . 2. TEMPO LOCK FUNCTION - This button acti- v ates the TEMPO LOCK function. This function allows you to use the PITCH SLIDER to speed up or[...]

and manually set a tracks BPM. Occasionally the built-in BPM meter may not function as desired. This button allo ws y ou to ov erride the inter nal beat clock and manually set a trac ks BPMs. T o manu- ally set the BPMs; tap this button a f e w times to a trac ks heavy down beat, the unit will automati- cally calculate your tapping and translate it[...]

samples or cue points can then be recalled at an y time ev en when the disc has been removed and replaced at a later time. See System Memor y on page 23. 17. PLA Y/P AUSE BUTTON - Each press of the PLA Y/P A USE BUTT ON causes the operation to change from pla y to pause or from pause to play . While in pla y mode the green play LED will glow , and [...]

GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS (Cont.) © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio .us - CDI-500™ Instruction Manual Page 12 tur n the knob in either direction, the f aster your search. 29. P ARAMETER TIME - This knob is used to adjust the parameter time value . 30. LCD DISPLA Y - This high quality LCD dis- pla y indicates all the functions , as th[...]

A U D I O O U T D I G I T A L O U T P O W E R O N O F F R E L A Y A C I N ~ 2 3 0 V 1 1 5 V GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS (Cont.) © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio .us - CDI-500™ Instruction Manual Page 13 Figure 5 Figure 4 B. REAR P ANEL (FIGURE 4) 31. VOL T AGE SELECTOR - Because pow er sup- plies v ar y from location to location we ha[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio .us - CDI-500™ Instruction Manual Page 14 GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS (Cont.) D. LCD DISPLA Y P ANEL (FIGURE 6) 38. P AUSE INDICA TOR - This indicator will glow when the dr iv e is in pause mode . 39. MEMOR Y BUCKET INDICA TOR - This indi- cator ser ves two functions. The b lack b uck et out - line det[...]

BASIC OPERA TIONS Figure 7: Pr ess the Eject button to load and remove a disc. Remeber: When loading a disc always hold the disc by it edges and load the disc label side up. Figure 8: T apping the reverse track button will jump back to the previous track. Figure 9: T apping the forwar d track button will skip forwar d to the next track. 1. LOADING/[...]

3. ST AR TING PLA YBACK - Figure 11 Inser t an audio CD as described on page 15 ( LOADING/EJECTING DISCS ). Pressing the PLA Y/P AUSE BUTTON (17) with an audio CD loaded will immediately star t pla yback. The PLA Y (54) indicator will glow as soon as playbac k begins. The point at which playbac k star ts (cue point) will automatically be stored in [...]

BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) 1) Y ou may press the IN BUTTON (26) on the fly (while the disc is pla ying). This will set a CUE P oint without music interr uption. Pressing the CUE BUTTON (20) will now retur n you to the same point that you pressed the IN BUTTON (26) . Y ou ma y no w store this CUE P oint in an y of the BANK BUTTONS 1-4 (12). 2) Y ou [...]

BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) 2) Press the IN BUTTON (26) . This will set the star ting point of the SEAMLESS LOOP . The IN BUTTON (26) LED will flash then glow . 1) Press PLA Y/P AUSE BUTTON (17) to activ ate pla yback mode. Figure 19 Figure 18 © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio .us - CDI-500™ Instruction Manual Page 18 Storing A Cue Point: [...]

BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) 3) Press the OUT BUTTON (24) to set the ending point f or your SEAMLESS LOOP (Figure 20). The IN BUTTON (26) and OUT BUTTON (24) LEDs will immediately begin to flash rapidly , indicating the SEAMLESS LOOP mode has been activated. LCD LOOP INDICA TORS - During a seamless loop , the LOOP (50) and RELOOP (49) INDICA TORS wil[...]

BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) Figure 24 Figure 23 Figure 25 6) Y our sample can now be recalled at any time e v en when the unit is in P A USE MODE. T o recall the sa mple be sure the sample function is on, b y press- ing the SAMPLE BUTTON (18). The yellow sample button LED will tur n on. T o play your sample in a continuos loop leav e the sample func[...]

Changing the Sample Parameters: Changing the sample parameters allows you to change the sample's volume ( SV ) and pitch ( SP ). The parameter values for the pitch range from -10:00 to +10:00 (-10:00 being the low est) and v olume v al - ues range from 00:00 to 02:55 (00:00 being the low est). A higher v alue will increase the pitch percent - [...]

BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) Figure 30 © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio .us - CDI-500™ Instruction Manual Page 22 14. BANK BUTTONS (12): These buttons are used to store your samples and cue points. Only a sample or a cue point can be stored into each of these f our banks. When a sample is stored in of the banks you may use the sample star [...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio .us - CDI-500™ Instruction Manual Page 23 BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) 18. RECALL FLASH MEMOR Y : The CDI-500 can store all your progr ammed cue points and effect parameters in to memor y . These setting may be recalled at any time, e v en when a disc has been remov ed and loaded at a later time. T o recall[...]

Figure 34 BOP EFFECT : The Bop Eff ect is a stutter eff ect that is similar to turntable scratching. Y ou can use this effect to create tricks in your mixing. JOG WHEEL TOUCH SENSITIVITY : This function works with the SCRA TCH eff ects. This function allows the pla y and cue commands to be controled by tapping on the touch sensitive jog wheel. TOUC[...]

PITCH ADJUSTMENTS © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio .us - CDI-500™ Instruction Manual Page 25 1. PITCH SLIDER (7): This function will increase or decrease the trac ks playbac k speed or "PITCH." The maxim um pitch percentage manipulation in this function is +/-100%. The PITCH SLIDER i s used to decrease or increase the pla yback[...]

PITCH ADJUSTMENTS © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio .us - CDI-500™ Instruction Manual Page 26 2. PITCH BENDING: Unlike the PITCH SLIDER (7) adjustment t his function will momentar ily increase or decrease a trac ks speed during playbac k. There are two wa ys to operate this function, with the (-) & (+) PITCH BUTTONS (11) or with the J[...]

PITCH ADJUSTMENTS © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio .us - CDI-500™ Instruction Manual Page 27 Figure 43 3. JOG WHEEL (13): The JOG WHEEL will temporarily bend the pitch if a track is in playbac k mode Rotating the wheel in a clockwise direction will increase your track pitch and rotating the wheel in a counter-clockwise direction will dec[...]

BUIL T -IN EFFECTS The CDI-500™ comes with nine built in eff ects. These eff ects can be used one at a time or y ou ma y choose to ov er lap the effects and use up to f our at a time. The Built-in eff ects include Scratch, Skid, Filter , Phase, Flanger , Echo , Robot, P an, and T rans. It is impor tant to understand that only one eff ect per an e[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio .us - CDI-500™ Instruction Manual Page 29 Figure 47 FLANGER/ECHO/ROBOT EFFECT : The Flanger effect distor ts the output signal and creates an effect similar to the frequency phasing in and out of each other . The Echo eff ect adds an echo to your output signal. The Robot eff ect distor ts the output to si[...]

© American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio .us - CDI-500™ Instruction Manual Page 30 BUIL T -IN EFFECTS Figure 48 Figure 50 HOLD BUTTON: Use the HOLD BUTTON (19) to lock your customized parameters . If the hold b utton is not activated any changes to your param - eters will be momentary . T o activate the hold function press the HOLD BUTTON (19) a[...]

FLIP-FLOP™ Sample "Q" Star t Set-Up . This set-up will allo w "Q" star t function and Flip-Flop™ function to operate. Be sure to use 1/8" mono mini plugs only . © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio .us - CDI-500™ Instruction Manual Page 31 FLIP-FLOP™ This f eature is a kind of “auto pilot”. When you are usi[...]

W ARRANTY INFORMA TION: The CDI-500™ carries a ONE y ear (365 da ys) limited warranty. This warranty cov ers par ts and labor . Please fill out the enclosed warranty card to validate your pur - chase and warranty . All returned service items whether under warranty or not, must be freight pre-paid and accompany a return authorization (R.A.) number[...]

GENERAL Model: American Audio® CDI-500™ - Professional CD Player T ype: T ra y loading, digital compact disc audio play er . Disc type: Standard size compact discs only (5 in/12 cm and 3in/8cm) Pitch Range: Within +/- 4%, +/- 8%, +/- 16%, +/- 100% Pitch Accuracy: 0.1% Dimensions: 348mm (W) x 246mm (D) x 106mm (H) Installation: Place on flat surf[...]

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