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Page 120 S2000 Operator’s Manual - Version 1.30
SETTING PITCH BEND PARAMETERS
The next group of pages allow you to set parameters relating to pitch bend. The first of these
looks like this:
In this page, you may set the upwards and downwards pitchbend ranges separately. UP sets
the range for bending pitch up with the pitchbend wheel or lever. The range is 0-24
semitones. The default is 2 semitones. DOWN sets the range for bending pitch down and,
again, the range is 0-24 semitones. The default is 2 semitones.
Although the default that you would normally use is up/down 2 semi-tones, by setting the pitch
to UP: +02 and DOWN: -12, with a heavy metal guitar sound, you can emulate string bending
up and an octave ‘whammy bar dive bomb’ down.
Press F1 to select UP and use the DATA wheel to set the parameter’s value. Press F2 to select
DOWN and use the DATA wheel to set the parameter’s value.
The next pitch bend page looks like this:
As well as using the pitchbend wheel or lever, you may also use AFT(ertouch) to bend notes.
The range is -12 to +12. You may only bend up or down depending on the selection made -
unlike the bend wheel/lever, you cannot pitchbend both ways.
The TYPE parameter is an option that allows you to choose whether the pitchbend will happen
on all notes or only on notes currently being held. This is particularly useful on sounds with
long releases. The options are NORM(al) and HELD.
Let us say, for example, that you have a sound that has a long release and you are performing a
solo that uses a lot of pitchbend. Using NORM, when you pitchbend the note, all the notes
currently in the release stage of their envelope will also bend. Sometimes this is what you want
but there can be times when this spoils the effect you are trying to create.
By selecting the HELD type of pitchbend, ONLY THE KEY(S) YOU ARE CURRENTLY
HOLDING DOWN WILL BEND and all those notes you are not playing but which are fading
through their release stage will remain unchanged. If you release your finger from the key with
the pitchbend up (or down), as the note dies away, if you let the pitchbend return to zero, that
last note’s pitch will not change. If you release just one note of a chord with pitchbend up or
down, if you let the wheel or lever settle at zero, only the notes you are holding will bend.
Press F1 to select AFT and set the amount aftertouch will bend the note using the DATA
wheel. Press F2 to select TYPE and use the DATA wheel to select NORM or HELD.
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