Players Module

Both players A & B function exactly the same. The only differences between the two players are the shortcut keys used on the keyboard. Full maps of these shortcut keys appear at the end of the FX product manual.

Progress Bar
This graph shows you how far along your song has played. You will have blue bars up to 90% of the song and red bars the final 10%. A small dot below the Progress Bar shows where a Cue Point is stored.

Player Status
This text area explains what mode the player is in. The modes include: Playing, Stopped(ready), Paused, Paused (Fine Forward), Paused (Fine Reverse), and Play (Edit).

Elapsed Time
Shows how much time of the song has been played.

Song Rate
Shows the Sample Rate and Kilobit of the song that is loaded.

Remaining Time
Shows how much time of the song yet to be played.

BPM
Shows BPM of the song that is loaded. This BPM can be manually entered in the recordcase or extracted using the automatic BPM feature covered later in this guide.

Cue Point Indicator
This tells you the number of the Cue Point you are on. You can also name Cue Points, which will be covered later in this manual.

Artist and Title
This shows the artist and the title of the song that is loaded as it reads in the ID3 header tag of the file.

Cue Points
This shows you which Cue Point information via color differences. Setting/Deleting Cue Points will be covered later in the FX manual.

• A Yellow Circle represents an unset Cue Point when you are on it.
• A Dark Blue Circle represents an unset Cue Point when you are not on it.
• A Bright Blue Circle represents a set Cue Point when you are on it. This is the Cue Point that will be cued to upon pressing the CUE Button.
• A Gray Circle represents a set Cue Point when you are not on it.

Cue Point Selectors/Sampler
The Cue Point Selectors allow you to step left or right through your various cue points. The Button between these selectors with the zero or loop on it, allows you to load a loop.

CUE Button
This button acts as both a cueing button and a stop button. Clicking the CUE button once moves the track position to a previously set Cue Point selected with the Cue Point Selectors. This will also stop the song if it is playing. If no set Cue Point is selected, the track position will move to the beginning of the track or the autocued position set in the CFG settings.

Play/Pause Button
Once a track is loaded into the player, pressing this button will begin to play the track. Pressing this button a second time will cause the player to enter a silent pause. While in pause mode, seeking forward or reverse will cause a repeating sound used for finding and setting better Cue Points.

LOAD Button
The Blue Load Track button is for loading a song into the respective player from the Recordcase. Right-mouse-clicking this button will also open an Explorer Load window for searching through other sources not in the Recordcase.

Beat Match Button
This button (with the = sign on it) will automatically match the BPM of the song in one player with the BPM of a song loaded in the other player. This button works for both A -> B and A <- B matching.

Seek Reverse/Forward Buttons
These buttons allow you to seek (or jump) backwards or forwards through a song in either Play or Pause modes.

Waveform Button
This button allows you to view the graphical waveform of the song you are playing. The display will appear in place of the Title and Artist fields and will show 1 second of what's been played and 4 seconds of what's about to be played. Clicking on this button again hides the Waveform and reveals the Title and Artist fields.

VU Meters/Beat Light Selector
This Left and Right VU Meters show the real-time playback levels in stereo of the song being played. The small blue circle Beat Light Selector beside the VU Meters sets the level at which the Beat Light in the Mixer section (discussed later) will turn on. Use this setting to adjust the Beat Light to flash to the BPM.

MT Button
This button engages/disengages Master Tempo, which keeps the key (or tune) of the song constant as it is sped up or slowed down.

Tempo/Key Sliders
Each player has an individual Tempo and Key slider. While the Tempo slider will keep the Key constant with MT engaged, the Key constant can still be adjusted via the Key slider, allowing for interesting effects. The values of both Tempo and Key are displayed in a window above the sliders.

Tempo Bend Buttons
These Bend Buttons above the Tempo and Key sliders allow you to temporarily change the tempo of the song as the button is pressed. Using a mouse, a left-click-down will change the tempo up or down 2.5%, and a right-click-down will change it 5%.

Tempo StepUp/StepDown/Reset Buttons
These buttons allow you to change the tempo in very small and exact increments. The amount of each Tempo Step is configurable with the CFG button. The default is for each click the tempo is raised or lowered 0.05%.


Video Demo

Click here to watch a demo in Real format (requires RealPlayer)
Click here to watch a demo in WindowsMedia format (requires Windows Media)

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Note: if you have problems viewing the AVI file, then please download the TSCC codec from this link.

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