GLOBAL
Page 280 S3200XL Operator’s Manual - Version 1.00
SMPTE PAGE - USING CUE LISTS
Pressing in the main GLOBAL page will take you to the Qlist mode where you may set
up Qlists for synchronising to timecode amongst other things.
One popular application for samplers is to use them to dub sound effects in audio/visual
productions. In the past, the only way to trigger these sound effects was to use a MIDI
keyboard or sequencer and most audio/visual post-production suites do not employ MIDI but
use timecode to synchronise equipment and trigger sound effects. Using the SMPTE
reader/generator fitted in the S3200XL, you may create sophisticated cue lists making it ideal
for audio/visual post production. Pressing takes you to the cue list PLAY screen. This
should show an empty cue list if you have entered this mode for the first time. I.e:
This is the QPLAY mode where you may play, create and edit cue lists. Only one cue list can
reside in the S3200XL at any one time and the maximum number of events a cue list can have
is 250.
The basic premise is that you specify a SMPTE time for an event and this sends a MIDI note to
one (or more) of the S3200XL’s internal programs. Any MIDI note may be specified at any MIDI
velocity to trigger any sound in any program in the S3200XL. Unlike other modes of the
S3200XL, it is not necessary to specify program numbers for each of the programs as the
S3200XL’s cue list simply ‘looks’ at the program specified for the event and plays the
appropriate note in that program. In other words, if you set the following for an event:
the S3200XL will send a MIDI note ON event ( ) to play a gunshot sound effect on C3 in the
GUNSHOT program at 12 seconds with a MIDI velocity of 127. You may have any number of
programs in one cue list and these programs can contain any number of samples in keygroups
on specific note numbers. You may layer two or more samples on top of each other within any
one keygroup and these will be played simultaneously when the appropriate MIDI note number
is sent from the cue list.
You may use the cue list in several ways. You could set up a program that contains all the
sound effects for your production and assign these to different MIDI notes in their respective
keygroups. In the cue list, you would simply assign the one program to every event and then
specify the appropriate MIDI note numbers for each event. Alternatively, you could create a
number of programs that contain just one sample in each program and these could be
triggered by the cue list. Another method is a mixture of both techniques. You could have
several programs, each with sound effects assigned to different MIDI note numbers. For
example, you could put all your gunshot sound effects in program, all your footsteps in
another, all your traffic noises in another and set the cue list to play the appropriate sound
effect (i.e the MIDI note number) from the required program.
As you have already discovered in EDIT SAMPLE, there are many different ways you can play
back a sample in the S3200XL. A sound can be looped or it can simply play to the end of the
sample. If the sound has no looping set in it, then it is not necessary to set a MIDI note OFF
command to it when it is triggered in the cue list and so all that is required is a MIDI note ON
event for such samples. If, however, the sample has a loop set in it, then it will be necessary to
sent a MIDI note OFF in order to stop it sounding at the required moment although you will
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