American Audio CDMP3 Player CDI 500 User Manual

16.  MEMORY BUTTON - This button allows you 
to  program  up  to  three  (3)  cue  points  or  three 
(3)  samples  in  to  the  three 
BANK  BUTTONS 
(12).  The  samples  or  cue  points  can  then  be 
recalled  at  any  time  even  when  the  disc  has 
been  removed  and  replaced  at  a  later  time.  See 
System Memory on page 24.
17.   PLAY/PAUSE  BUTTON  -  Each  press  of  the 
PLAY/PAUSE  BUTTON  causes  the  operation  to 
change from play to pause or from pause to play. 
While in play mode...

 GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS (Cont.)
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SEAMLESS LOOP).
27.            TRACK  BUTTON  -  This  button  is 
used  to  select  a  track.  Tapping  this  button  will 
for ward  skip  to  the  next  track,  holding  down 
this  button  will  rapidly  forward  skip  through  the 
tracks. 
           TRACK  BUTTON  -  This  button  is 
used  to  select  a  track.  Tapping  this  button  will 
back skip on track, holding...

 GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS (Cont.)
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Figure 5
Figure 4
B. REAR PANEL (FIGURE 4)
31. VOLTAGE SELECTOR - Because power sup-
plies  vary  from  location  to  location  we  have 
incorporated  a  selectable  voltage  switch.  This 
switch  can  select  a  voltage  input  of  120v~60Hz 
or  230v~50Hz.  Always  disconnect  the  power 
plug before changing the voltage.
 
DUAL VOL TAGE MODELS ONLY
32. POWER  CONNECTOR...

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 GENERAL FUNCTIONS AND CONTROLS (Cont.)
D. LCD DISPLAY PANEL (FIGURE 6)
38. RELOOP INDICATOR - Appears when LOOP 
is engaged or ready to be engaged. 
39.  EFFECT  INDICATOR  -  Appears  when  any 
effect is engaged.
40.  POWER  TOUCH  SENSITIVE  INDICATOR  - 
Appears when anything touches the jog wheel.
41 .  CD  DIRECTION  INDICATOR  -
 Indicates  the 
direction  the  CD  is  rotating.  Counter-Clockwise 
rotation...

is loaded into the player.
53. PITCH INDICATOR - Indicator will light up when 
the Pitch is activated.
54.       TEMPO LOCK -  This  will indicate the Tempo 
Lock function is active.
55. SINGLE  INDICATOR  -  This  indicates  that  the 
CD  drive  is  in  single  play  mode,  the  track  will  play 
once and return to CUE mode. If the single indicator 
is not on the unit is in continuous mode In continu
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ous mode the drive will play all the remaining tracks 
on the disc. Once the remaining tracks have...

 BASIC OPERATIONS
Figure 7: Press the Eject button to load and remove a disc. Remeber: When loading a disc always hold the disc by it 
edges and load the disc label side up.Figure 8: Tapping the reverse 
track  button  or  turning  the 
track knob counter clockwise  
will jump back to the previous 
track. Figure  9: 
Tapping  the  forward 
track  button  or  turning  the 
track knob clockwise   will skip 
forward to the next track.
1.   LOADING/EJECTING DISCS
The CDI-500 Mp3™ can only play regular 5...

3. STARTING PLAYBACK - Figure 11
Insert  an  audio  CD  as  described  on  page 15 (LOADING/EJECTING  DISCS).  
Pressing  the  PLAY/PAUSE  BUTTON  (17)  with  an  audio  CD  loaded  will  imme
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diately  start  playback.  The  PLAY  (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 cue point. The unit will return to this cue point (the 
point at which playback started) when the
  CUE...

 BASIC OPERATIONS (CONT.)
1)  You may press the IN BUTTON (26) on the fly (while the disc is playing). This
  will set a CUE Point without music interruption. Pressing the
  CUE BUTTON
  (20)
  will now return you to the same point that you pressed the IN BUTTON    
  (26)
. You may now store this CUE Point in any of the BANK  BUTTONS 1-3 
  (12).
  
2)  You  may  also  use  the
 JOG  WHEEL  (13) to  set  a  cue  point.  While  a  disc  is
  in  PAUSE  or  CUE  mode,  use  the  JOG  WHEEL  (13)
 to...

Storing A Cue Point:
Once you have set your CUE Point by one of the two means listed on page 18, you may store your cue point 
in one of the
 BANK BUTTONS (12). Once you store this cue point in memory you may recall it at any time and 
you  may  even  recall  memory  if  the  disc  has  been  removed  or  power  had  been  disconnected,  see 
SYSTEM 
MEMORY  on  page  24.  You  may  store  a  maximum  of  four  cue  points  per  a  disc  and  maximum  of  508  cue 
points can be saved in unit's...

 BASIC OPERATIONS (CONT.)
3)  Press the OUT BUTTON (24) to set the ending point for your SEAMLESS 
  LOOP (Figure 20). The
  IN BUTTON (26) and OUT BUTTON (24)  LEDs will 
  immediately begin to flash rapidly, indicating the SEAMLESS LOOP mode  
has been activated.
LCD  LOOP  INDICATORS  -  During  a  seamless  loop,  the LOOP  (58) and 
RELOOP  (38)  INDICATORS
  will  turn  on  in  the LCD  DISPLAY  (30) indicating  a 
loop is active. 
EXITING  A  LOOP  -  To  exit  a  SEAMLESS  LOOP,  press  the OUT...