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Punch-In
If the Punch-In function is activated while Overdubbing,
whatever was recorded previously on the active track will be
erased.
Punch-In is useful for situations where you want to fix a bad
note or simply erase one section or track of the loop.
While playing back, push the active track’s fader up so that
you can properly hear the track. When Punch-In is enabled,
once you press RECORD, the track will go silent. It is erasing
and recording as the loop plays.
Steps for Punch-In:
1. Select the track you want to Punch-In by pressing the
TRACK SELECT button until your track is activated.
2. Press the Punch-In button so that its LED lights.
3. Press the Play button to playback the loop.
4. When the punch-in section arrives, press the RECORD but-
ton. The 45000 immediately begins erasing and recording
onto the active track.
5. When the punch-in section is finished, press RECORD to
stop recording but continue listening to the loop.
What is Mixdown?
Looking at the 45000’s top panel, you see it has a simple
mixer that combines the 4 recorded tracks, the DRY input
signal and the Mixdown track. The outputs of the mixer are
sent to the stereo outputs, Headphones and MONITOR OUT
jacks. You can independently adjust the volume of any of the
4 tracks, the DRY OUT and the Mixdown track. You can also
adjust the stereo positioning of the 4 tracks and DRY OUT
using the PAN knobs. Please note: the MONITOR OUT jack is
a mono output, it is a mix of the left and right Headphones
outputs.
During Mixdown, the 4 mono tracks are mixed internally,
inside the 45000’s DSP. The output of the 4 mono tracks’
internal mixer is sent to the input of the Mixdown track as well
as the OUTPUT jacks. The Mixdown track is a stereo track so it
records both the Left and Right sides of the stereo spectrum.
Since the Mixdown track is recording audio in real-time, any
adjustments you make to the track faders or pan knobs will be
recorded as audio onto the Mixdown track.
The Mixdown track has its own fader to control its volume
level.
You cannot record audio from the Input jacks directly to the
Mixdown track. Only audio that has been recorded on any of
the 4 mono tracks can be recorded onto the Mixdown track.
While Overdubbing, if the Mixdown track is active, its fader
will act like a Feedback control as seen on a delay effect.
Performing a Mixdown
While the 45000 is idle, press the MIXDOWN button once.
You should see the MIXDOWN LED light up solid. When the
MIXDOWN LED is lit solid, the 45000 is ready for normal
Mixdown.
At this point you can either press RECORD to jump right into
mixing or you can press PLAY to rehearse the mixdown. If you
don’t like the first mixdown, you can always try again.
Pressing PLAY while Mixdown is the active track is exactly like
pressing PLAY when any of the other tracks are active, you will
not do anything to change the audio already on the tracks; you
are simply listening back to what has already been recorded.
When ready, press the RECORD button. Immediately the
Mixdown track will begin recording the audio from your 4
mono tracks. You do not have to start the loop from the begin-
ning when mixing down; you can start in the middle.
Once you are finished with the mixdown, press either RECORD
or PLAY to stop recording.
After the Mixdown
When you complete a Mixdown track, it is usually a good idea
to listen back to the mix to see if you like it. If you need to fix
something, try it again. To re-do a mix, move the MIXDOWN
fader down to 0 so the previous mix is erased while you record
the new one.
You can overdub onto the Mixdown track as many times as
you like, the MIXDOWN fader will act like a feedback control as
seen on a delay effect. This means you could go record 4 more
tracks and mix the new tracks down onto the MIXDOWN track.
Your mixdown track would end up with 8 mixed tracks.
Using external cables, you could bounce the Mixdown track
back to one or two of the recorded tracks. If you do this
remember to push down the DRY OUT slider so that unwanted
feedback is not introduced.
You could enter the Constant Tempo Mixdown mode and pro-
duce some flanging or pitch bend effects. See below for more
info.
To exit Mixdown mode, press the Mixdown button until its LED
shuts off or press the TRACK SELECT button to cycle through
the 4 tracks.
What is Constant Tempo (CT) Mixdown?
During normal Mixdown, the Mixdown track records at the
same tempo that the 4 tracks playback. All tracks are locked in
at the same speed at all times, just like on a multi-track tape
recorder. This speed is set by the TEMPO slider or external
MIDI Clock. You can move the TEMPO slider while recording
a normal Mixdown track, when you play it back, you will not
hear any changes in pitch.
Constant Tempo Mixdown mode locks the Mixdown track in
at the tempo or speed you recorded the initial loop but allows
you to change the speed of the 4 recorded tracks using the
TEMPO slider. This enables you to produce a Mixdown track
with subtle effects like Flanging or more drastic effects like
pitch bending.
When you put the 45000 into Constant Tempo Mixdown mode,
the TEMPO Slider becomes a tempo change percentage con-
trol. The range is from -1 octave to +1 octave, with 0% change
in the middle. When you push the TEMPO slider to the top,
the 4 recorded tracks will double their tempo, when TEMPO is
pushed down to the bottom, the 4 Recorded tracks will halve
their tempo. When set to the center the TEMPO LED lights solid
indicating there is no change in tempo. Otherwise the TEMPO
LED will blink rapidly.
If you press the REVERSE button during CT Mixdown, the 4
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