Section 10 — Wave Data Parameters
ASR-10 Musician’s Manual
10
Command/Wave Page
CMD
BIDIRECTIONAL X-FADE
WAVE
Press Command / Wave / 9
BIDIRECTIONAL X-FADE is optimized for use with bidirectional loops. One advantage of the
bidirectional loop (which you can select by setting MODE= LOOP BIDIRECTION on the
Edit/Wave page) is that it makes a loop that sounds twice as long as the amount of data being
used. It does this by playing the loop forward and backward. As a result, the bidirectional loop
is very memory conservative and is best suited for ensemble sounds that have a slowly
modulated sustain, such as the bowing in a string section.
The default and manual values are the same as the cross fade. It is very important to remember
that the loop points should be adjusted with autolooping off. Unlike other looping algorithms
that look for a “zero crossing,” BIDIRECTIONAL X-FADE works best when the loop points are
set to the peaks in the waveform.
WS
WE
LE
LS
FINAL RESULT:
Loop length
0%
100%
WS
BIDIRECTIONAL CROSS FADE LOOP
D
C
B
A
A
B
D
C
reverse
reverse
LS
LE
WE
• Select BIDIRECTIONAL X-FADE. Press Enter•Yes.
• The display reads USE DEFAULT VALUES? Press Enter•Yes.
• Pressing Cancel•No in response to USE DEFAULT VALUES, prompts the ASR-10 to display
the manual values for this command. Use the Left/Right Arrow buttons to scroll to select:
SCALE DEPTH=## DB, and FADE ZONE (PERCENT)=##. Press Enter•Yes.
• The display reads KEEP= OLD/NEW. Press Enter•Yes to complete the command (or
Cancel•No to keep the original).
Note:
When STEREO LAYER LINK= ON, this command will be simultaneously performed on the
corresponding WaveSample in the companion layer.
