Akai S3000XL User Manual

CROSSFADING ................................................................................................ 155
MIXING AND LAYERING SAMPLES ................................................................ 155
SETTING DIGITAL FADES................................................................................ 157
EFFECTS MODE ......................................................................................................................... 159
ORGANISATION OF EFFECTS FILES ........................................................................... 162
ASSIGNING EFFECTS TO SINGLE PROGRAMS .......................................................... 163
ASSIGNING EFFECTS TO MULTI PARTS...................................................................... 165
ASSIGNING EFFECTS TO INDIVIDUAL KEYGROUPS .................................................. 167
PROCESSING EXTERNAL SOUND SOURCES THROUGH THE EFFECTS .................... 168
ROUTING EXTERNAL SOUNDS THROUGH THE EFFECTS........................................... 169
SELECTING THE EFFECTS OUTPUT ............................................................................ 169
CHAINING EFFECTS ..................................................................................................... 170
MUTING EFFECTS ........................................................................................................ 172
EFFECTS EDIT ........................................................................................................................... 173
DISTORTION/RING MODULATION ................................................................................ 174
EQ ................................................................................................................................. 175
MODULATION EFFECTS ............................................................................................... 177
CHORUS, PHASE SHIFT AND FLANGING EFFECTS ....................................... 177
ROTARY SPEAKER EFFECTS ......................................................................... 179
AUTOPAN AND FREQUENCY MODULATION EFFECTS .................................. 182
STEREO PITCH SHIFT EFFECTS..................................................................... 183
BYPASSING THE MODULATION EFFECTS ..................................................... 185
DELAY AND ECHO EFFECTS ........................................................................................ 186
MONO DELAY/ECHO EFFECTS ....................................................................... 188
PING PONG ECHO EFFECTS .......................................................................... 189
CROSSOVER DELAY ....................................................................................... 190
STEREO DELAY/ECHO EFFECTS ................................................................... 191
REVERB EFFECTS ........................................................................................................ 192
REVERSE REVERB.......................................................................................... 195
GATED REVERB .............................................................................................. 196
EFFECTS OUTPUT SECTION ........................................................................................ 198
EFFECTS DIRECTION.................................................................................................... 199
SOLOING THE CURRENT EFFECT ................................................................................ 201
COPYING EFFECTS ...................................................................................................... 202
SAVE MODE ............................................................................................................................... 204
SELECTING FLOPPY OR HARD DISK ........................................................................... 204
SELECTING THE HARD DISK PARTITION..................................................................... 204
SELECTING THE HARD DISK VOLUME ........................................................................ 204
SELECTING THE TYPE OF SAVE ................................................................................. 204
SAVING TO FLOPPY DISK............................................................................................ 206
SAVING TO HARD DISK ................................................................................................ 207
RENAMING FILES ......................................................................................................... 209
DELETING ITEMS FROM DISK ..................................................................................... 210
HARD DISK CONTROL .................................................................................................. 211
FORMATTING A FLOPPY DISK ..................................................................................... 212
FORMATTING A HARD DISK ......................................................................................... 214
NOTES ON USING EXISTING S1000/S1100 SOUND LIBRARY..................................... 215
LOAD MODE ............................................................................................................................... 216
SELECTING FLOPPY OR HARD DISK ........................................................................... 216
SELECTING THE HARD DISK PARTITION..................................................................... 216
SELECTING THE HARD DISK VOLUME ........................................................................ 217
SELECTING THE TYPE OF LOAD ................................................................................. 217
LOADING FROM FLOPPY DISK .................................................................................... 219
LOADING FROM HARD DISK ........................................................................................ 220
LOADING S900/S950 SAMPLES AND PROGRAMS...................................................... 222
LOADING S1000/S1100 DATA ...................................................................................... 222
AUTO LOADING FROM DISK ........................................................................................ 222
SEARCHING FOR FILES - USING THE FIND FUNCTION ............................................... 223
USING THE TAG DIRECTORY SYSTEM........................................................................ 225

Akai S3000XL Specifications

General

Type	Sampler
Polyphony	32 voices
Sampling Rate	44.1 kHz
Memory	2 MB standard, expandable to 32 MB
Filter	Digital resonant low-pass filter
MIDI	In, Out, Thru
Weight	6.5 kg
Display	Backlit LCD
Storage	Floppy disk drive, SCSI for external storage
Outputs	8 individual outputs
Inputs	Stereo input
Effects	Optional EB16 effects board
Dimensions	Standard 19" 2U rackmount