Akai s2000 User Manual

viii S2000 Operator’s Manual - Version 1.30
CONTENTS
RE-SAMPLING - OPTIMISING MEMORY ................................................................ 150
TIMESTRETCH ......................................................................................................... 152
SAMPLE EDIT SCREENS ........................................................................................ 155
EFFECTS MODE................................................................................................................... 157
ORGANISATION OF EFFECTS FILES..................................................................... 159
ASSIGNING EFFECTS TO SINGLE PROGRAMS ................................................... 160
ASSIGNING EFFECTS TO MULTI PARTS .............................................................. 161
NOTE ABOUT EFFECTS SELECTION IN MULTI .................................................... 162
ASSIGNING EFFECTS TO INDIVIDUAL KEYGROUPS .......................................... 163
PROCESSING EXTERNAL SOUND SOURCES THROUGH THE EFFECTS ......... 164
ROUTING EXTERNAL SOUNDS THROUGH THE EFFECTS ................................. 165
SELECTING THE EFFECTS OUTPUT ..................................................................... 165
CHAINING EFFECTS................................................................................................ 166
EFFECTS EDIT ..................................................................................................................... 168
RING MODULATION/DISTORTION ......................................................................... 169
EQ ............................................................................................................................. 171
MODULATION EFFECTS ......................................................................................... 173
CHORUS, PHASE SHIFT AND FLANGING EFFECTS ................................ 173
ROTARY SPEAKER EFFECTS .................................................................... 175
AUTOPAN AND FREQUENCY MODULATION EFFECTS .......................... 177
NOTES REGARDING THE AUTOPAN/FMOD EFFECT .............................. 177
STEREO PITCH SHIFT EFFECTS ............................................................... 178
BYPASSING THE MODULATION EFFECTS ............................................... 180
DELAY AND ECHO EFFECTS ................................................................................. 181
MONO DELAY/ECHO EFFECTS.................................................................. 183
PING PONG ECHO EFFECTS ..................................................................... 184
NOTE REGARDING MONO ECHO EFFECTS............................................. 184
CROSSOVER DELAY................................................................................... 185
STEREO DELAY/ECHO EFFECTS .............................................................. 186
BYPASSING THE ECHO/DELAY EFFECTS ................................................ 187
REVERB EFFECTS .................................................................................................. 188
SOME TIPS ON USING REVERB ................................................................ 190
REVERSE REVERB ..................................................................................... 191
GATED REVERB .......................................................................................... 192
EFFECTS OUTPUT SECTION ................................................................................. 194
EFFECTS DIRECTION ............................................................................................. 195
SWITCHING OUT THE ‘DIRECT’ SIGNAL ............................................................... 197
COPYING EFFECTS................................................................................................. 198
COPYING EFFECTS BETWEEN DIFFERENT EFFECTS FILES ............................ 199
GLOBAL MODE .................................................................................................................... 200
TUNING THE S2000 ................................................................................................. 200
SETTING THE S2000’S OUTPUT LEVEL ................................................................ 200
SETTING THE SINGLE MODE’S PROGRAM CHANGE CHANNEL ....................... 200
SELECTING THE EXTERNAL MIDI CONTROLLER ................................................ 201
MONITORING INCOMING MIDI CHANNELS........................................................... 201
SETTING THE PLAY KEY’S PARAMETERS ........................................................... 201
SETTING THE SCSI INTERFACE’S ID .................................................................... 202
FORMATTING DISKS ............................................................................................... 203
FORMATTING FLOPPY DISKS.................................................................... 203
FORMATTING HARD DISKS........................................................................ 204
DAT BACKUP/RESTORE ......................................................................................... 206
SMF PLAYBACK ....................................................................................................... 208
USING THE SMF FUNCTION....................................................................... 209
SETTING THE S2000’S SCSI ID .............................................................................. 211
MIDI VIA SCSI ........................................................................................................... 211

Akai s2000 Specifications

General

Type	Sampler
Polyphony	32 voices
Sampling Frequency	44.1kHz
Filters	Digital low-pass filter
MIDI	In, Out, Thru
Bit Depth	16-bit
Memory	2 MB, expandable to 32 MB
Outputs	8 individual outputs, stereo master output
LFO	1 LFO
Display	LCD
Storage	3.5" Floppy Disk
Inputs	Stereo input