Yamaha A5000 Owner's Manual - Page 5

Features Professional Sampler With Endless Potential The A5000/A4000 provides superior sound and peformance for a wide range of applications including break-beat production and playback, phrase sampling, musical instrument sampling, and much, much more. Advanced Built-in Effect System The A5000 has 6 high-performance effect blocks, and the A4000 has 3. An extensive range of effects from simple ambience to sophisticated sound modification can be used to enhance or radically alter the sound of samples, break-beats, or sampled phrases. Effects can even be applied during recording, so you can create samples with integral effects! Fast, Efficient Operation A large 320 x 80 dot full-graphic LCD panel displays sample waveforms, effect connections, and other important data in easy-to-understand form. The panel knobs, mode buttons, and function buttons also make operation exceptionally easy, intuitive, and versatile, while offering an amazing degree of realtime playback control. Exceptional Expandability With a built-in SCSI interface and internal SCSI and IDE connectors it's easy to add internal hard disk or ZIP drives, or external hard disk, ZIP, CD-ROM, CD-R or other drives. Further, 4 SIMM slots allow the sample memory to be expanded to maximum 128 megabytes. An optional AIEB1 I/O expansion board can be installed to provide 6 assignable analog outputs as well as digital coaxial and optical inputs and outputs. Compatibility with a Wide Range of Sample Formats In addition to being able to export and import AIFF and WAV wave files to or from floppy disk, SCSI disk, CD-ROM or other media, The A5000/A4000 can import a wide range of sample files from other devices including the Yamaha EX7/5/5R, SU700, and samplers from other manufacturers. A Wide Selection of Sample Data Included The A5000/A4000 comes with the CD-ROMs packed with useful sample data and audio sampling sources. Load the sample data directly, and record the audio source material to create your own samples. You can begin using your A5000/A4000 to make music immediately. (An external SCSI CD-ROM drive is required to load the sample data.) Features * The company names and product names in this Owner's Manual are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q A5000/A4000 5