User manual M-AUDIO GROOVELAB QUICK START GUIDE

[. . . ] Connect the green (headphone) plug to the GrooveLab Transit's green Line Output, and the red (microphone) plug to the GrooveLab Transit's Line/Optical Input. Open the GrooveLab Transit's control panel. To do this on PC, double-click the M icon located in the System Tray at the bottom-right corner of your screen. If using Mac OS X, click the System Preferences option in the Apple menu, and then click the GrooveLab Transit icon. 2 If using Mac OS 9, open the Control Panel from the Apple menu, and click the GrooveLab Transit icon. The control panel menu shows the default settings as 2 inputs/outputs, 16-bit, sample rates up to 48000 Hz, Medium Latency, and 0dB Mic Boost. We recommend leaving these settings for the moment. You may wish to experiment with mic levels and latency settings once you've got familiar with your setup. Refer to the GrooveLab Transit manual for additional information on the control panel and these settings. [. . . ] Upon releasing the mouse button, you should see your sample loop displayed in the track area where you dropped it. You will also find the waveform of your loop displayed at the bottom of the screen, which you can use for further editing (Refer to the GrooveLab Transit manual for additional information on editing). Use this drag-and-drop technique to load the "atmo" loop into Track 2. You should now see two 6 loops displayed in the Arranger. You can lengthen each loop by clicking the end (right side) of any loaded loop and dragging your mouse to the right. You can listen to your arrangement by using your mouse to press the Play button (triangular icon) located at the top of the program. You can easily go back to the beginning of your song by double-clicking the Stop button (square icon). Using the included headset mic, you can also record your own audio. Full details on recording audio can be found in the Live Delta manual, and we strongly recommend you read them, but here's a brief overview to get you started. We are assuming you've selected the GrooveLab Transit's ASIO drivers (or Core Audio on OS X) as described above. To add vocals to your loop arrangement, select a track for recording by clicking a track number located to the right of a track. In this case, use track 3 since you currently have loops on tracks 1 and 2. 7 Enable the channel's Monitoring (microphone icon) and Arm Session Recording (right-most icon) buttons. You must select "Live In" as your input source. To view this option, you must first browse to the View menu and select In/Out. This will display a drop-down menu of your in/out options in the first column to the right of the track number labels within your track. Click this field and select Live In. Now you are ready to record, so locate your transport controls at the top of the program window, and enable the Record button (circular icon). Finally, enable the Play button (triangular icon). At this point, the record button will be highlighted in red, and the Play button will be highlighted in green. You will also see the song position pointer scrolling. Speak into the microphone to record your voice. Now click the Stop button (square icon). You will see a new bar representing your recording within the track. Now change your input source from Live Input to none, so that you can hear your audio when played back. Finally press play to play back what you've recorded. You can record additional tracks in a similar manner. 8 If you find that you're not getting enough level from the microphone for your tracks, open the GrooveLab Transit control panel (as described above), and increase the Mic Boost setting. The default setting is 0 dB (no gain), but you can select one of three higher gain settings. We recommend using +14dB, but don't let that stop you from experimenting on your own. [. . . ] Then right-click on your Desktop to display a Desktop menu. If using a Mac, simply drag the Grooves Loops folder to your Desktop. Now you will see a copy of the Grooves Loops folder on your desktop). Working with the demo song and referring to the First Steps section of the Live Delta manual will further acquaint you with Live Delta's operation and features. 12 To demonstrate how to import the included Grooves Loops in Live Delta, use the Up-Arrow button located at the top of Live Delta's Browser window (mentioned earlier) to browse to your computer drives, and then browse to the location where you copied your Grooves Loops folder. Open the Grooves Loops folder. Notice that the loops have been organized into sub-folders by instrument types. [. . . ]