Document Outline

• Main Features
• USING THE UNIT SAFELY
• IMPORTANT NOTES
• Contents
• Introducing the SP-555
  • Panel Descriptions
    • Top panel
    • Front panel
    • Rear panel
  • Signal flow (block diagram)
• Playing samples
  • About the banks
  • About the polyphony
  • Pad sensitivity
  • Playing samples at a fixed loudness
  • Adjusting the roll speed (ROLL)
  • Gate playback (GATE) and trigger playback
  • Loop playback
  • Making the sample continue playing even after you release your finger from the pad (HOLD)
• Using effects
  • Applying an effect to a sample
  • Applying an effect to the mic/line input
  • Storing effect settings (EFFECT MEMORY)
    • Storing settings
    • Calling up settings
    • Checking the settings
  • Effect knob control
  • Tips for using effects
• Sampling (recording)
  • About the available sampling times
  • Standby mode
  • Sampling
  • Starting sampling automatically (Auto Sampling)
  • Sampling with a specified tempo
  • Using a count-in
  • Deleting a sample
  • Deleting all samples
  • Resampling
• Loop Capture
  • Using Loop Capture to record from an external device
  • Deleting the phrase recorded by Loop Capture
  • Adjusting the playback level of the phrase
  • Recording with a specified tempo
  • Layering sound onto a previously recorded phrase (Overdubbing)
  • Saving a recorded phrase to a pad
• Editing a sample
  • Setting a sample’s volume
  • Adjusting the playback region of a sample
    • Canceling the adjusted playback region (deleting a marker)
    • Adjusting both the start point and end point
    • Adjusting only the end point
    • Adjusting only the start point
    • Making fine adjustments to the start point and end point
  • Exchanging samples between two pads
  • Copying a sample to another pad
  • Converting to a sample that has a modified playback region
  • Changing a sample’s BPM
  • Changing the length of a sample without changing the pitch (Time Modify)
• Playing samples and recording your performance (Pattern Sequencer)
  • How patterns are organized
  • Specifying the pattern tempo
  • Playing and stopping a pattern
  • Switching patterns during playback
  • Recording a pattern
    • Erasing a mistake from your performance
  • Deleting a pattern
  • Deleting all patterns
  • Exchanging the patterns of two pads
  • Copying a pattern to another pad
• D Beam controller
  • Monophonic synthesizer (SYNTH)
    • Synth settings
  • Filter
    • Filter settings
  • Trigger
• Connecting the SP-555 to your computer
  • Installing the driver and software
    • Windows XP users
    • Windows Vista users
    • Mac OS X users
  • Changing the signal flow when using USB audio
  • About SONAR LE (Windows only)
    • Starting SONAR LE and making settings
  • About SP-555 Wave Converter
    • Starting up SP-555 Wave Converter
• About CompactFlash
  • Recommended types of CompactFlash
  • CompactFlash theft prevention
  • Inserting and removing CompactFlash cards
    • Inserting a CompactFlash card
    • Removing a CompactFlash card
  • Formatting a CompactFlash card (initializing)
  • Importing audio files
  • Exporting audio files
  • Saving backup data (backup save)
  • Loading backup data (backup load)
  • Deleting backup data (backup delete)
• Other settings
  • Restoring the factory settings
  • Clearing the data (initialization)
  • Protecting the memory
    • Protecting all samples and patterns
    • Protecting the preset samples and patterns (sample bank A and pattern bank A)
    • Canceling protection
  • Adjusting the blinking speed of the display illumination
  • Checking the version number
  • Setting the SP-555’s internal processing level
• About V-LINK
  • What is V-LINK?
    • Connection example
    • Turning V-LINK on/off
    • Functions that you can control using CTRL 1–3 and D Beam
    • V-LINK settings
• Appendix
  • Effect list
    • Effects that you can select by directly pressing a button
    • MFX bank A
    • MFX bank B
  • Quick reference of operations
    • Sampling operations
    • Effect operations
    • Loop Capture operations
    • Pattern operations
    • D-Beam controller operations
    • System settings
    • CompactFlash card operations
    • USB MIDI/audio interface operations
    • V-LINK operations
  • Parameters that can change the start-up state
  • Error message list
  • Troubleshooting
    • No sound / Insufficient volume
    • No sound or insufficient volume from equipment connected to LINE IN
    • No sound or insufficient volume from a mic
    • The mic picks up noise
    • Can’t sample
    • Excessive noise or distortion in the sampled sound
    • Sound is distorted when you save a Loop Capture phrase
    • An inserted CompactFlash card is not recognized, or its data cannot be selected
    • Data is not saved correctly in the SP- 555’s internal memory
    • Data is not saved correctly in the CompactFlash card
    • Pattern sequencer does not synchronize to an external MIDI device
  • About the pedal
  • Attaching the stand (sold separately)
• Using the SP-555 with other MIDI equipment
  • About MIDI
  • Synchronizing the SP-555 with another MIDI device
  • Synchronizing the pattern tempo and playback start/stop with an external MIDI sequencer
  • Transmitting MIDI clock at the pattern tempo
  • MIDI channel (Pad Base Ch.) and note numbers
    • Changing the MIDI channel (Pad Base Ch.)
  • MIDI Thru setting
• MIDI Implementation
• Specifications
• Index