MULTI MODE
Page 54 S2000 Operator’s Manual - Version 1.30
MULTI MODE
Multi mode is where you can combine up to sixteen programs together so that they may be
played in combination. The MULTI mode has 16 ‘parts’; slots into which up to 16 programs may
be assigned and typically, this is used to sequence several programs multi-timbrally
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by setting
each part to be on a different MIDI channel.
However, it is also possible to set parts to the same MIDI channel so that you can layer
programs for a rich, expansive (expensive?) sound. Furthermore, you may set low and high
keyboard ranges for each part so that sophisticated keyboard splits may be created.
With the optional EB16 multi-effects processor fitted, each part may be routed to one of the
four effects channels and you have a total of four effects that can be applied to the parts in the
multi. More than one part may be routed to any one of the effects channels so that parts may
share effects and each part has its own effects send level.
However, you may prefer to use the S2000 with external effects processors using a mixing
console. To accommodate this, each part may be routed to one of the 8 individual outputs if
this optional board is fitted. By doing this, each part may have its own mixer channel where it
can be EQ’d, mixed, panned and effected using your favourite outboard effects processors.
Of course, a combination of these is possible. In one multi, some parts may be on unique MIDI
channels whilst others share the same channels for layering and/or key splits and some parts
may be routed to the internal effects processor in the S2000 whilst others are sent out via the
individual outputs for processing on the mixing console.
As you can see, the MULTI mode is very flexible.
Pressing MULTI will show something like this screen:
In this case, this is showing you the MULTI mode after you have just powered the S2000 up.
The multi has a default name called MULTI FILE.
5 The S2000 can respond to all 16 MIDI channels simultaneously in the MULTI mode. ‘MULTI-TIMBRAL’
literally means ‘many sounds’. In the early days of synthesisers, you needed a separate synthesiser for
every part you wanted to play but, with the advent of MIDI, a synthesiser or sampler could be coaxed
into playing several different sounds together so that only one synth/sampler was required to play
several parts. With the S2000’s 32-voice polyphony, complex multi-part arrangements can be performed
using the MULTI mode.
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