Zoom MRS-8 User manual

Operation Manual
© ZOOM Corporation
Reproduction of this manual, in whole or in part, by any means, is prohibited.
MRS-8(E).book 1 ページ ２００４年７月３０日 金曜日 午後５時２４分

USAGE AND SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
ZOOM MRS-8
2
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
In this manual, symbols are used to highlight warnings and
cautions for you to read so that accidents can be prevented.
The meanings of these symbols are as follows:
This symbol indicates explanations about
extremely dangerous matters. If users
ignore this symbol and handle the device
the wrong way, serious injury or death could
result.
This symbol indicates explanations about
dangerous matters. If users ignore this
symbol and handle the device the wrong
way, bodily injury and damage to the
equipment could result.
Please observe the following safety tips and precautions to
ensure hazard-free use of the MRS-8.
• Power requirements
Since power consumption of this unit is fairly high,
we recommend the use of an AC adapter whenever
possible. When powering the unit from batteries, use
only alkaline types.
[AC adapter operation]
•Be sure to use only an AC adapter which supplies
9 V DC, 300 mA and is equipped with a "center
minus" plug (Zoom AD-0006). The use of an
adapter other than the specified type may damage
the unit and pose a safety hazard.
• Connect the AC adapter only to an AC outlet that
supplies the rated voltage required by the adapter.
• When disconnecting the AC adapter from the AC
outlet, always grasp the adapter itself and do not
pull at the cable.
•During lightning or when not using the unit for an
extended period, disconnect the AC adapter from
the AC outlet.
[Battery operation]
•Use four conventional IEC R6 (size AA) batteries
(alkaline).
• The MRS-8 cannot be used for recharging.
•Pay close attention to the labelling of the battery to
make sure you choose the correct type.
• When not using the unit for an extended period,
remove the batteries from the unit.
• If battery leakage has occurred, wipe the battery
compartment and the battery terminals carefully to
remove all remnants of battery fluid.
• While using the unit, the battery compartment
cover should be closed.
• Environment
To prevent the risk of fire, electric shock or
malfunction, avoid using your MRS-8 in
environments where it will be exposed to:
• Extreme temperatures
• Heat sources such as radiators or stoves
• High humidity or moisture
• Excessive dust or sand
• Excessive vibration or shock
• Handling
•Never place objects filled with liquids, such as
vases, on the MRS-8 since this can cause electric
shock.
•Do not place naked flame sources, such as lighted
candles, on the MRS-8 since this can cause fire.
The MRS-8 is a precision instrument. Do not exert
undue pressure on the keys and other controls. Also
take care not to drop the unit, and do not subject it to
shock or excessive pressure.
•Connecting cables and input and output jacks
You should always turn off the power to the MRS-8
and all other equipment before connecting or
disconnecting any cables. Also make sure to
disconnect all connection cables and the power cord
before moving the MRS-8.
• Alterations
Never open the case of the MRS-8 or attempt to
modify the product in any way since this can result in
damage to the unit.
•Volume
Do not use the MRS-8 at a loud volume for a long
time since this can cause hearing impairment.
W
arning
USAGE AND SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
Caution
W
arning
Caution
W
arning
W
arning
Caution
W
arning
Caution
MRS-8(E).book 2 ページ ２００４年７月３０日 金曜日 午後５時２４分

USAGE AND SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
ZOOM MRS-8
3
Usage Precautions
• Electrical interference
For safety considerations, the MRS-8 has been designed to
provide maximum protection against the emission of
electromagnetic radiation from inside the device, and
protection from external interference. However, equipment
that is very susceptible to interference or that emits powerful
electromagnetic waves should not be placed near the MRS-
8, as the possibility of interference cannot be ruled out
entirely.
With any type of digital control device, the MRS-8 included,
electromagnetic interference can cause malfunctioning and
can corrupt or destroy data. Care should be taken to
minimize the risk of damage.
• Cleaning
Use a soft, dry cloth to clean the MRS-8. If necessary,
slightly moisten the cloth. Do not use abrasive cleanser, wax,
or solvents (such as paint thinner or cleaning alcohol), since
these may dull the finish or damage the surface.
• Backup
The data of MRS-8 can be lost because of malfunction or
incorrect operation. Backup your data.
• Copyrights
Except for personal use, unauthorized recording from
copyrighted sources(CDs, records, tapes, video clips,
broadcast material and so on) is prohibited.
ZOOM Corporation does not bear any liability for
injunctions regarding the copyright law infringement.
Please keep this manual in a convenient place for
future reference.
* MIDI is a registered trademark of Association of
Musical Electronics Industry(AMEI).
* SD Logo is a trademark.
* All trademarks and registered trademarks mentioned
in this manual are for identification purposes only and
are not intended to infringe on the copyrighted
properties of their respective owners.
MRS-8(E).book 3 ページ ２００４年７月３０日 金曜日 午後５時２４分

ZOOM MRS-8
4
Contents
USAGE AND SAFETY
PRECAUTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Introducing the MRS-8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Recorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Rhythm section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Mixer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Names of Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Front panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Rear panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Inserting SD Card and Batteries. . . . . . 13
Inserting an SD card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Inserting the batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Power On/Off. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Power-on. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Power-off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Let’s Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Quick Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Step 1: Preparations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.1 Creating a new project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.2 Selecting the rhythm pattern to use. . . . . 18
Step 2: Recording the first track . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.1 Adjusting input sensitivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.2 Applying the insert effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.3 Selecting a track and recording . . . . . . . . 23
Step 3: Overdubbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.1 Making settings for input sensitivity and
insert effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.2 Selecting a track and recording . . . . . . . . 25
Step 4: Mixing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4.1 Adjusting volume, panning, and EQ. . . . . . 26
4.2 Applying the send/return effect . . . . . . . . . 27
4.3 Applying the insert effect to a track. . . . . . 28
Step 5: Mixdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
5.1 Using the mastering effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
5.2 Mixdown onto the master track . . . . . . . . . 30
Reference [Recorder] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
V-takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Switching V-takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Changing the V-take name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Moving to a desired point in the song
(locate function) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Setting marks in a song (marker function)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Setting a mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Locating a mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Deleting a mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Playing back the same passage repeatedly
(A-B repeat function). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Re-recording only a specified region
(punch-in/out function) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Manual punch-in/out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Auto punch-in/out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Recording several tracks on a master track
(mixdown function) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
About the master track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Master track mixdown steps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Playing the master track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Combining multiple tracks on one or two
tracks (bounce function) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Making bounce settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Executing bounce recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Recording drum/bass sound on audio tracks
(rhythm recording) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Selecting the recording source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Rhythm recording procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Making settings for pre-count operation . . . 43
MRS-8(E).book 4 ページ ２００４年７月３０日 金曜日 午後５時２４分

Contents
ZOOM MRS-8
5
Reference [Track Editing] . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Editing a range of data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Basic steps for range editing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Copying a specified range of data. . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Moving a specified range of data . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Erasing a specified range of data . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Trimming a specified range of data. . . . . . . . . . . 47
Fade-in/fade-out of specified data range . . . . . . 48
Reversing a specified range of audio data . . . . . 49
Editing using V-takes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Basic steps for V-take editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Erasing a V-take . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Copying a V-take. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Moving a V-take. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Exchanging V-takes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Importing a V-take from another project . . . . . . . 52
Track capture and swap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Capturing a track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Swapping track data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Reference [Mixer] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
About the mixer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Assigning input signals to recording
tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Adjusting the signal for each track
(track parameters) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Linking two tracks (stereo link) . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Reference [Rhythm] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
About the rhythm section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Drum kits and bass programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Rhythm patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Rhythm song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Rhythm pattern mode and rhythm song
mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Playing rhythm patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Selecting a rhythm pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Changing the tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Changing the drum kit / bass program . . . . . . . . 64
Using the pads to play drum/bass sounds . . . . . 64
Creating a rhythm pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Drum sequence real-time input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Bass sequence real-time input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Drum sequence step input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Bass sequence step input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Entering rhythm pattern chord information . . . . . 73
Changing the drum/bass sequence volume
level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Assigning a name to a rhythm pattern. . . . . . . . . 75
Editing rhythm patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Copying a rhythm pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Erasing a rhythm pattern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Creating a rhythm song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Selecting a rhythm song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Entering pattern information using step input. . . . 77
Using FAST for pattern information input . . . . . . . 79
Entering chord information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Entering other information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Playing a rhythm song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Editing a rhythm song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Copying a specified range of measures . . . . . . . 85
Transposing the entire rhythm song . . . . . . . . . . 85
Copying a rhythm song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Erasing the rhythm song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Assigning a name to a rhythm song . . . . . . . . . . 87
Importing rhythm patterns and rhythm songs
from another project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Editing various settings of the rhythm
section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Basic procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Changing the length of the pre-count . . . . . . . . . 89
Changing the metronome volume. . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Adjusting the sensitivity of the pads . . . . . . . . . . 90
Checking the remaining amount of memory . . . . 90
Swapping the left/right pan position . . . . . . . . . . 90
Reference [Effects] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
About the effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Using the insert effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
About insert effect patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Changing the insert location of the insert
effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Selecting the patch for the insert effect . . . . . . . 93
Editing an insert effect patch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Storing or swapping insert effect patches . . . . . 98
Assigning a name to an insert effect patch. . . . . 98
Applying the insert effect only to the monitor
signal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Using the send/return effect . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
About the send/return effect patches . . . . . . . . . 100
Selecting a send/return effect patch. . . . . . . . . . 100
Editing a send/return effect patch. . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Storing or swapping send/return effect
patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Assigning a name to a send/return effect
patch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Importing patches from another project . . . . 102
MRS-8(E).book 5 ページ ２００４年７月３０日 金曜日 午後５時２４分