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PROGRAM EDIT
Page 68 S2000 Operator’s Manual - Version 1.30
KEYGROUP ZONES
Within each keygroup, you may assign up to four samples in what are referred to as ZONES.
These can be used for a number of things that include velocity switching and crossfading,
playback of stereo samples and layering.
To playback stereo samples or to layer sounds or just to do a simple velocity switch/xfade, you
could have something like this:
KG1 KG2 KG3 KG4 KG5
Here we have five keygroups, each with two zones being used. You could use this type of
assignment for playing back stereo samples where the left and right samples are assigned to
their own zones (1 and 2 respectively) in one keygroup and each zone is panned hard left and
hard right. As an example, you could have five stereo string samples each sampled at G on
every octave which could be assigned into such a program.
This kind of program is also suitable for layering sounds on top of each other. In the above
example, four synth samples could be mapped out on the keyboard (one for each octave,
perhaps) and zone 2 of each keygroup could also contain the same sample as zone 1 and
these could be panned and detuned for a fat, pseudo stereo layered synth sound. Of course,
each zone could have different synth sounds in them.
This type of program is also suitable for a two way velocity switch - by setting zone 1 of each
keygroup to a velocity range of 0-90 and setting zone 2 to 91-127, you could, for example
switch between a thumbed bass and a slapped bass or a normal snare hit and a rim shot using
velocity.
To round things off, each keygroup has no less than four zones and a program may ‘look’
something like this:
KG1 KG2 KG3 KG4 KG5
Here, we have five keygroups, each using the four zones. This may be for a four way velocity
switch or for velocity switching between two stereo samples or for layering four samples
together.
The ultimate program, would be for each key to have its own keygroup with each keygroup
containing four samples using a four way velocity switch!

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Akai s2000 Specifications

General IconGeneral
TypeSampler
Polyphony32 voices
Sampling Frequency44.1kHz
FiltersDigital low-pass filter
MIDIIn, Out, Thru
Bit Depth16-bit
Memory2 MB, expandable to 32 MB
Outputs8 individual outputs, stereo master output
LFO1 LFO
DisplayLCD
Storage3.5" Floppy Disk
InputsStereo input

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