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EDIT PROGRAM
The EDIT PROGRAM mode is where you assemble your raw, edited samples for
playback. In the EDIT SAMPLE mode, the samples are unprocessed by
envelopes, vibrato, etc.. If they have been looped, it is quite possible they
have lost all their dynamics - this can be overcome in EDIT PROGRAM.
Furthermore, because of powerful synthesizer functions, the S3200 can be
used to play and process samples much like an analogue synth. With 2 low
frequency oscillators (LFOs), ADSR and multi-stage envelope generators, two
banks of resonant filters, panning and more, the S3200 can radically
transform any sound offering the creative musician and programmer endless
possibilities.
At the heart of EDIT PROGRAM is the ASSIGNABLE PROGRAM MODULATION or
APM for short. This allows sophisticated modulation of modules in a freely
assignable manner and virtually any modulation source may be assigned to
almost any sound processor in mixable and invertable amounts. If all that
means nothing to you, don't worry for the moment as we will cover it in depth
in this section. In short, what it means is that as well as owning a superb
sampler, you also have a very excellent and versatile analogue style
synthesizer.
On top of this, you may set sophisticated keyboard splits and layers, set
velocity switching and crossfading, assign samples to individual outputs
and/or pan them in the stereo outputs as well as tune and transpose your
samples. You may also set MIDI parameters for your sample(s).
"But", you may be asking "why have programs? Why not just play samples
from EDIT SAMPLE?" A good question. The reason we have EDIT PROGRAM is
because raw samples, however much you may have trimmed, looped,
crossfaded, stretched, etc., are only half the story. With samples, it is
necessary to assign them to different areas of the keyboard for playback - in
EDIT SAMPLE, you can only play one sample at a time spanning the entire
keyboard range.
WHAT IS A PROGRAM?
In the last section, we dealt with multi-sampling. This is the technique where
you take several samples of one instrument across its range or where you
take several samples of different instruments (such as drums, for example).
Aside from all the fun things you can do with envelope shaping, filtering and
so forth, it is in PROGRAM EDIT that you map all these multi-samples across
the keyboard. To do this, we place the samples into what we call KEYGROUPS.
WHAT IS A KEYGROUP?
A KEYGROUP is precisely that - a group of keys which have a particular note
range on the keyboard. The simplest program you can have is with one
keygroup in it that spans the entire MIDI range on C0-G8. The TEST
PROGRAM that always boots up into the S3200 is just such a program. I.e:
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KEYGROUP1
Version 1.0 March 1993
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