Numark Industries AXIS 8 manual

AXIS 8 Premium CD Player Owner Manual ©2002 Industries; R33 http://www.numark.com[...]

AXIS 8 SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS a) Read Instructions - All the safety and operating instruction s should be read before this product is conne cted and used. b) Retain Instr uctions - The safety and operating in structions should be kept for future reference . c) Heed Warnings - All w arnings on this product a nd in these opera ting instructions should b[...]

AXIS 8 TABLE OF CONTENTS Safety and Warnings (PLEASE READ) 2 Table of Contents 3 Introduction Letter from the Engineers and Registration 4 Setup and Connections 5 Description of the Features 6 Basic Operation Play, Pause, Cue, Pitch, General CD control 8 Advanced Operations Pitch Change, Key Change 10 Beatkeeper 10 Matching Beats 11 Looping 12 Stut[...]

AXIS 8 ® AXIS 8 PREMIUM TABLETOP CD PLAYER Congratulations, you are now the ow ner of one of the most tech nically advanced pieces of DJ equipment ever developed. The AXIS 8 is the result of many years of development a nd se veral NUMARK exclusive patents. The developers and engineers behind the AXIS 8 all have a significant amount of DJ e xperien[...]

AXIS 8 SETUP AND CONNECTIONS Typical connection with a mixer is illustrated below . 1. Find a level sur face free of excess ive vibration to place your equipment 2. Connect the lin e output connections us ing the supplied audio cable from t he CD Player t o the line inputs of your mix er. 3. Connect Fader start cab le. Attach your CD play to a simi[...]

AXIS 8 FEATURES 1. PLAY/STUTTER- To start the mus ic from the initial cue point. 2. PAUSE- To pause the music. 3. CUE- To move the mus ic to the cue point and preview the selection. 4. WHEEL- Used for various fu nctions such as cueing, scratching, pitc h bend, searc hing, and eff ect control 5. LCD DISPLAY- Indicates a ll the functions , as they ar[...]

AXIS 8 25. Power Switch- Turn on and t urn off the machi ne with this but ton. The unit should alway s be shut down wit h this button firs t before any external power is removed. Typically it is recommended that the CD player is powered on before amp lifiers and off after amplifiers to avoid an audio spike to be sent throu gh your equipme nt. 26. I[...]

AXIS 8 BASIC OPERATIONS Open/Close: Press to load or eject the disc. The drawer will aut omatically close to protect the tray from accidental damage while open. NOTE: Tray will not open if the disc is in play. In order to program the automatic close time press and hold followed by . The display will indicate options of 30 seconds, 60 seconds, 120 s[...]

AXIS 8 SETTING CUE POINTS PLAY and CUE Pressing the “PLAY” button starts the disc. Pressing the “CUE” button will reset the disc to the last place where the disc was started. This is called the cue point. By alternately pre ssing the “PLAY” button and the “CUE” button, the disc may be retur ned and played from the cue point any numb[...]

AXIS 8 ADJUSTING PITCH Pitch Range: actives the pitch slider and adjusts the amount of control the pitch slider has on the overall speed of music. On depression of will toggle the slid er on and off. Range adjustments of 6, 12, 25, and 100% can be achieved by holding down and then pressing to cycle through the range options. This setting will be re[...]

AXIS 8 BPM: This button is used for resetting the downbeat and also re-calibrating the BPM. The Beatkeeper is considered by many to be the most accurate automatic beat counter on the market today , however, it occasionally may have t rouble determining the correct BPM. This will happen when the music contains complex rhythms or may start without a [...]

AXIS 8 LOOPING OPERATIONS LOOPING A loop is any area of a CD that you choose to repeat with no breaks. On the AXIS 8 two seamless loops are possible. LOOP IN The “LOOP IN” point is where you wish for t he loop to start. The initial “CUE” point of the CD is also the default “LOOP IN” point for both loops or “Hot Start” point. If you [...]

AXIS 8 MOVING LOOP POINTS The “ LOOP IN ” point can be moved while the music is playing just by pressing at the new desired point. The next time “LOOP OUT” is reached the CD will return to this new “LOOP IN” point. If “LOOP IN” is press after the “LOOP OUT” point it will cl ear the “LOOP OUT” point. The “ LOOP IN ” point[...]

AXIS 8 SPECIAL EFFECTS Your AXIS 8 is equip ped with some of m ost advanced effec ts on the market today. To fully take advant age of these effects it’s help ful to practice and un derstand their use. EFFECT SELECTION To select and ac tivate an effec t tap on it’s bu tton, it will li ght to indicate activation an d effect will ind icate in the [...]

AXIS 8 A.D. (Artificial-Disseminatio n) – Reduces the bit r ate of the mus ic creating inc reasing distor tion with intens ity. CHOP – This effect works best when the Beatkee per™ is properly aligned. Chop breaks up the music by t urning the volume on and off based upon t he BPM of the Be atkeeper™. First activation of the effect play s 1/8[...]

AXIS 8 PROGRAM FUNCTIONS PLEASE READ!!!! This button provides several programmable functions depending upon the combination of buttons used. Track Sequence Programming - Depress while the unit is stopped and “ ” will light. Select each track to be programmed then press between selections. Press “PLAY/STUTTER” to start the track sequence pro[...]

AXIS 8 RELAY PLAY This mode will be operational only when 2 units are connected via a relay cable. 1. Insert CDs into both of the units. 2. We recommend putting both sides in SINGLE play mode while learning this function. 3. Press the “RELAY” button on one unit to activate. 4. Press play on the first unit. When that unit has finished play it wi[...]

AXIS 8 CUE/LOOP POINT STORAGE AND RECALL To SAVE Cue and Loop points on the c urrent CD: • CD should still in the drawer with cue and loop points set. • Press + . • Cue points are stored and LCD shows "CUE STORE" for 1 second. • If MIDI OUT goes to another CD player’s MIDI IN, th e cue point is stored on the other CD player. To [...]

AXIS 8 UPGRADING YOUR UNIT This unit contains the latest software available at the time of manufacturing. Our engineering staff will be working hard to c onstantly improve and offer additional features in the future. The unit software has been designed to be easily updateable by you throug h supplied CD updates from Numark. To obtain the latest sof[...]

AXIS 8 MIDI IN-OUT MIDI – stands for musical instrument digital interface. Basicall y this means you can hook up 2 MIDI compatible devices and they wi ll talk to ea ch other. In this case you might connect 2 AXIS 8s and have them synchronize beat s, add a MIDI keyboard and have it control the C D players or hook up a drum machine and play a rhyth[...]

AXIS 8 HOOKING UP A MIDI KEYBOA RD: attach the MIDI output of the keyboard to the MIDI input of the CD Player. Set your keyboard to transmit on Channel 6. Add a foot pedal to the keyboard for added control. The chart below details key reaction. MIDI IMPLEMENTATION CHART *note: further MIDI Specs can be foun d at our web site http:// www .numark.com[...]

AXIS 8 BEFORE SWITCHING OFF THE POWER: When you have fin ished using th e CD player, be sure t hat the disc tray is closed wit h the “OPEN/CLOSE” button before switchin g off the power. DO NOT switch off the power when the disc holder is open. Switch off the power after the disc holder has been closed with the “OPEN/CLOSE” button TROUBLESHO[...]

AXIS 8 SPECIFICATIONS TECHNICAL Disc Type Standard Compact discs (12 cm & 8 cm) Time Display Track Elapsed, Track Remain, or Total Remain Quantization 1 bit linear/Channel, 3 Beam Laser Oversampling rate 8 Times Sampling Frequency 88.2 kHz Frequency response 20 Hz to 20 kHz T.H.D. + NOISE Less Than 0.005% S/N ratio (IHF-A) > 96 dB Dynamic ra[...]

® Professional Disc Jockey Products LIMITED PRODUCT WARRANTY 1. What is covered and for how long? NUMARK INDUSTRIES LCC ("NUMARK") warrants to the orig inal purchaser that NUMARK'S DJ Mixers, Amplifiers, CD players, turntabl es, preamplifiers , beatkeepers , equalizers, mic rophones, hea dphones, and all other acces sories are free [...]