American Audio Radius 3000 Bedienungsanleitung

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Inhaltsverzeichnis der Gebrauchsanleitungen

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    Featuring: Sampling Sampling Radius 3000 ™ PROFESSIONAL SD/USB/CD PLA YER User Guide and Refer ence Manual 9/09[...]

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    CONTENTS © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 2 SAFETY REGULA TIONS.........................................................................................................................3 ELECTRICAL PRECAUTIONS.........................................................................................[...]

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    NOTE: This unit may cause interfer ence to radio and television r eception. CAUTION: USE OF CONTROLS OR ADJUSTMENTS OTHER THAN THOSE SPECIFIED HEREIN MA Y RESUL T IN HAZARDOUS RADIA TION EXPOSURE THE COMP ACT DISC PLA YER SHOULD NOT BE ADJUSTED OR REP AIRED BY ANYONE EXCEPT PROPERL Y QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL. CAUTION TO PREVENT ELECTRIC SHOCK DO[...]

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    ELECTRICAL PRECAUTIONS RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN CAUTION The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the literature accompanying the appliance. The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol, within an equilateral triangle, [...]

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    I. Read Instructions - All the safety and operat- ing instructions should be read before the Player is operated. The safety and operating instructions should be saved for future refer ence. 2. Heed W arnings - All war nings on the Player and in the operating instructions should be adhered to. 3. W ater and Moisture - The player should not be used n[...]

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    Introduction: Congratulations and thank you for purchasing the American Audio ® Radius 3000™ SD/USB/CD player . This player is a repr esentation of American Audio’ s continuing commitment to produce the best and highest quality audio products possible at an affor dable price. Please read and understand this manual completely before attempting [...]

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    (a) F ADER “Q” ST ART CONTROL: This feature is used in conjunction with most American Audio® and American DJ® audio mixers that also feature “Fader Q Start” control. For best results use this feature with two (2) Radius 2000 players. Connect your Radius 3000 as described in the set-up section of this manual. After set up is com- pleted lo[...]

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    CAUTION: • The VFD is designed to be clearly visible at any angle but is best viewed within the angles shown in Figure 1 . 1. Checking the Contents Be sure your Radius 3000™ was shipped with the following: 1) Radius 3000™ Professional CD/SD/USB player . 2) User Guide and Reference Manual 3) One (1) set of RCA cables. 4) One (1) 1/8” Relay C[...]

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    GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 9 Figure 2 A. TOP UNIT CONTROLS (FIGURE 2) 1. SOURCE SELECT OR - Pr ess this button to select your desired playback source. Select either SD, USB, or CD player . The source indicator LED will light when the selected source is activat[...]

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    even if a disc has been removed and will reflect on any other disc loaded into the player . That is to say , if you set a +2% pitch on one disc, remove that disc and load another , that disc too will have a +2% pitch. The amount of pitch being applied will be displayed in the VFD (3). 5. (-) PITCH BEND BUTTON - The (-) pitch bend function creates a[...]

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    4 (Mode 4) - The Wheel flashes to the beat of the music. Wheel stays lit when scratching 5 (Mode 5) - Wheel is always on. Dimmable from 100-0 6 (Mode 6) - Flashes at a set speed 7 (Mode 7) - Cue indicator with a strobe effect. 8 (Mode *) - The wheel will light when the touch sensor on the jog wheel is touched in Scratch or Scratch Cue mode. 10. BPM[...]

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    GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS (Cont.) © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 12 16. SEARCH BUTTONS - This search button allows you to quickly scan backwards through a track. This search button allows you to quickly scan forwards through a track. 17. F AST TRACK BUTTONS - This button is used to select [...]

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    fect tweaks the original sound to add different tonal definition. The effect is almost the same as the PHASE effect. ECHO EFFECT - This button is used to activate and deactivate the Echo effect. The Echo effect adds an echo to your output signal. See built in effects on page 32. TRANS EFFECT - This button is used to activate and deactivate the T ra[...]

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    GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS (Cont.) © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 14 B. REAR P ANEL (FIGURE 3) 35. POWER CONNECTOR - This connection is used to connect your main power . Be sure that your local power matches the unit’ s required power . 36. POWER BUTTON - This button is used to turn your [...]

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    © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 15 GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS (Cont.) C. VFD DISPLA Y P ANEL (FIGURE 4) 42. PLA Y INDICA TOR - The play indicator will glow when the unit is in play mode. 43. P AUSE INDICA TOR - The pause indicator will glow when the unit is in pause mode. 44. CUE INDICA TOR [...]

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    will display either the elapse, total, or remaining time of a track or the entir e disc. The display time will depend on the selected time function. The selected time function will be displayed above the TIME METER as either TOT AL REMAINING , REMAINING TRACK TIME, OR ELAPSED TRACK NAME. 55. TOT AL/REMAIN/ELAPSED INDICA TOR - When TOT AL REMAIN is [...]

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    INTERNAL MENU © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 17 Press and hold the FOLDER KNOB (20) for at least 2 sec. to enter the inter nal menu, and turn the FOLDER KNOB (20) to search through the different menus. T ur n either the RA TIO (25) or TIME (31) KNOBS to change the submenus; press the FOLDER KNO[...]

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    BASIC OPERA TIONS Figure 6: T apping the reverse track button or tur ning the track knob counter clockwise will jump back to the previous track. Figure 7: T apping the forward track button or turning the track knob clockwise will skip forward to the next track. 1. LOADING/EJECTING AN SD CARD, USB DEVICE, OR CD The Radius 3000™ can read SDHC (High[...]

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    4. ST ARTING PLA YBACK - Figure 8 Load a audio device as described on page 18 ( LOADING/EJECTING SD CARD, USB, or CD ). Pressing the PLA Y/P AUSE BUTTON (13) will immediately start playback. The PLA Y (42) indicator will glow as soon as playback begins. The point at which playback starts (cue point) will automatically be stored in the memory as the[...]

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    BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) 1) Y ou may press the IN BUTTON (15) on the fly (while a track is playing). This will set a CUE Point without music interruption. Pressing the CUE BUTTON (14) will now return you to the same point that you pressed the IN BUTTON (15). Y ou may now store this CUE Point in any of the BANK BUTTONS 1-4 (28). 2) Y ou may also u[...]

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    BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) 2) Press the IN BUTTON (15). This will set the starting point of the SEAMLESS LOOP . The IN BUTTON (15) LED will flash then glow . 1) Press PLA Y/P AUSE BUTTON (13) to activate playback mode. Figure 17 Figure 16 © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 21 Figure 15 Figure 14 St[...]

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    BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) 3) Press the OUT BUTTON (15) to set the ending point for your SEAMLESS LOOP (Figure 17). The IN BUTTON (15) and OUT BUTTON (15) LEDs will immediately begin to flash rapidly , indicating the SEAMLESS LOOP mode has been activated. VFD LOOP INDICA TORS - During a seamless loop, the RELOOP INDICA- TOR (58) will tur n on in th[...]

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    BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) Figure 22 Figure 21 Figure 23 6) Y our sample can now be recalled at any time even when the unit is in P AUSE MODE. T o recall the sample be sure the sample function is on, by pr ess- ing the Sample Button (27). The blue sample button LED will tur n on. T o play your sample in a continuos loop leave the sample function on[...]

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    Changing the Sample Parameters: Changing the sample parameters allows you to change the sample's volume and pitch. A higher value will increase the pitch percentage or volume. It's important to understand that the pitch value is basically a speed adjustment and has nothing to do with tonal quality . The values can be either a momentary ch[...]

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    BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) Figure 28 © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 25 13. Bank Buttons (28): These buttons are used to store your samples and cue points. Only a sample or a cue point can be stor ed into each of these four banks. When a sample is stored in of the banks you may use the sample st[...]

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    © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 26 BASIC OPERA TIONS (CONT .) TIME BAR INDICA TOR (53) - Details the time defined in the TIME METER (54) as a visual bar icon. As with the TIME METER (54) this bar is also dependent on the selected time function [TOT AL REMAIN, REMAIN OR ELAPSED]. This bar will be[...]

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    Figure 32 JOG WHEEL TOUCH SENSITIVITY : This function works with the SCRA TCH effects. This function allows the play and cue commands to be controlled by tapping on the touch sensitive jog wheel. ADJUSTING JOG WHEEL TOUCH SENSITVITY : The degree of sensitivity can be adjusted to make it more or less sensitive. Press and hold the FOLDER KNOB (20) to[...]

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    PITCH ADJUSTMENTS © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 28 1. PITCH SLIDER (4): This function will increase or decrease the tracks playback speed or "PITCH." The maximum pitch percentage manipulation in this function is +/-100%. The PITCH SLIDER (4) is used to decrease or increase the playba[...]

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    PITCH ADJUSTMENTS © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 29 2. PITCH BENDING: Unlike the Pitch Slider (4) adjustment t his function will momentarily increase or decrease a tracks speed during playback. There are two ways to operate this function, with the (-) & (+) PITCH BEND BUTTONS (5) or with th[...]

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    PITCH ADJUSTMENTS © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 30 Figure 41 3. JOG WHEEL (9): The JOG WHEEL will temporarily bend the pitch if a track is in playback mode Rotating the wheel in a clockwise direction will increase your track pitch and rotating the wheel in a counter -clockwise direction will d[...]

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    BUIL T -IN EFFECTS The Radius 3000™ comes with eight built in effects. These effects can be used one at a time or you may choose to overlap the effects and use up to four at a time. The Built-in effects include Scratch, Filter , Echo, T rans, Skid, Phase, Flanger , and Pan. Y ou can choose to use the effects with their default parameters or you m[...]

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    © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 32 Figure 45 FLANGER EFFECT : The Flanger effect distorts the output signal and creates an effect similar to frequencies phasing in and out of each other . The FLANGER Ef fect has two adjustable parameters, Parameter Time (PT) and Parameter Ratio (PR). The PT will[...]

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    P ARAMETERS: All the effects have adjustable parameters. The parameters change the way the effects will react. T o adjust the parameter values for any of the ef fects, turn either of the two P ARAMETER KNOBS (25 OR 31) . When the parameter value is adjusted the VFD display will indicate the parameter adjustment. All effects have two adjustable para[...]

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    © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 34 ADV ANCED TRACK SEARCH 3. Y ou can now tur n either the FOLDER KNOB (20) to choose a Mp3 Folder or turn the TRACK KNOB (19) to search through the Mp3 tracks. 4. When you found your desird track, press the TRACK KNOB (19) , and the VFD will now display "SEA[...]

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    © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 35 MAIN PLA YER: 1. Press the FOLDER KNOB (20) to enter the internal menu. 2. Once you are in the inter nal menu, tur n the FOLDER KNOB (20) until MIDI SETUP is displayed. 3. T urn the either the TIME KNOB (31) or RA TIO KNOB (25) until the USB = LINK is displayed[...]

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    © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 36 DA T A BACKUP (DbBUILDER) The Radius 3000 includes a database management soft ware, that will allow you to search for your files by Title, Artist, Album, and Genre. The DbBuilder will scan your USB hard drive and create dB files so that the Radius 3000 can loca[...]

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    © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 37 PLA YLIST OPERA TION Playlist Operation: 1.Press and hold the FOLDER KNOB (20) for 2 sec. to enter the inter nal menu. Then tur n the knob until "PLA YLIST" is displayed. 2. T urn either the RA TIO or TIME KNOBS (25 & 30) to scroll through "N[...]

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    © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 38 MIDI T ABLE SW n a me Type MIDI MIDI2(Hold TAP) Remark s SW/LED/EN C 19/19/36 58/19/75 CC TYPE = RELATIVE SW/LED/EN C 1F/1F/38 5E/1F/77 CC TYPE = RELATIVE Para. Time SW/ENC 25/3A 64/79 CC TYPE = RELATIVE Para. Ratio SW/ENC 2B/3C 6A/7B CC TYPE = RELATIVE JOG SW/[...]

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    © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 39 MIDI T ABLE cont. SW/LED 1E/1E 5D/1E Normal SW/LED 18/18 57/1 8 SOURCE SELECT Sample A . Cue Scratch SW/LED(US B) 13/13 52/13 1 SW/LED/LED2 16/16/3 B 55/16/3B 2 SW/LED/LED2 10/10/3C 4F/10/3C 3 SW/LED/LED2 0A/0A/3D 49/0 A/3D 4 SW/LED/LED2 22/22/3 E 61/22/3E SW 2[...]

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    © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 40 MIDI T ABLE cont. LED CD SD SD_IN 41 LED LED 40 3F[...]

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    © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 41 FLIP-FLOP™ Sample "Q" Start Set-Up. This set-up will allow "Q" start function and Flip-Flop™ function to operate. Be sure to use 1/8" mono mini plugs only . FLIP-FLOP™ This feature is a kind of “auto pilot”. When you are using[...]

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    © American Audio ® - www .AmericanAudio.us - Radius 3000™ Instruction Manual Page 42 W ARRANTY INFORMA TION: The RADIUS 3000™ carries a ONE year (365 days) limited war- ranty. This warranty covers parts and labor . Please fill out the enclosed warranty card to validate your purchase and warranty . All returned service items whether under warr[...]

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    GENERAL Model: American Audio® Radius 3000™ - Professional CD/SD/USB Player T ype: Slot Loading, USB & SD Card Player Media T ype: Applicable File Extenstions: mp3, MP3, mP3, and Mp3 Disc T ype: Standard size compact discs only (5 in/12 cm and 3 in/8cm) Pitch Range: Within +/- 4%, +/- 8%, +/- 16%, +/- 100% Pitch Accuracy: 0.15% Dimensions: 2[...]

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    ©American Audio® W orld Headquarters: 6122 S. Easter n Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90040 USA T el: 323-582-3322 Fax: 323-725-6100 W eb: www .AmericanAudio.us E-mail: info@americanaudio.us[...]