American Audio CDI-500 User Manual

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GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS

A. TOP UNIT CONTROLS (FIGURE 3)

1. PITCH PERCENTAGE SELECTOR - Press
this button to choose any pitch range percent-
ages of 4%, 8%, 16%, and 100%. See page 26
for more details.
2. TEMPO LOCK FUNCTION - This button acti-
vates the TEMPO LOCK function. This function
allows you to use the PITCH SLIDER to speed
up or slow down playback speed without altering
the tonal pitch of the track. When this function is
not engaged the original tonal pitch of the track
will be altered giving you the "chipmunk" effect
when a track is played at a high rate of speed,
or the "James Earl Jones" effect when a track is
slowed to much.
3. PITCH ON/OFF BUTTON - This button is
used to turn the PITCH SLIDER (7) function on
and off. The pitch percentage can be changed
between 4%, 8%, 16% and 100%. 4% will allow

the least amount of pitch manipulation and 100%
will allow the most amount of pitch manipulation.
To adjust to the different values please see page
26.
4. BEAT SELECT BUTTONS - These buttons'
are used to select the delay time of an effect to
the beat of music. The beat delay ratios are 1/4,
1/2, 3/4, 1/1, 2/1, and 4/1.
NOTE: A effect must be selected to set a delay
time.
5. TIME BUTTON - The TIME button will switch
the time value described in the TIME METER
between ELAPSED PLAYING TIME, TRACK
REMAINING TIME, and TOTAL REMAINING
TIME. Hold this button down for 1 second to
activate the AUTO BPM Mode.
6. TAP BUTTON - This button is used to override
and manually set a tracks BPM. Occasionally the

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