SINGLE MODE
Page 28 S3200XL Operator’s Manual - Version 1.00
This is an abbreviation of PRIORITY and allows you to set how notes will be
‘stolen’ by other programs if the 32 voice polyphony is exceeded. There are
four settings: LOW, NORM, HIGH and HOLD. If the program is set to LOW
priority, then notes from this program will be stolen first. If set to HIGH, then
notes from other programs with lower priority will be stolen first before they are
stolen from this program. NORM is, of course, normal priority and sets standard
dynamic voice allocation and note stealing will take place with no particular
priority. If a program’s priority is set to HOLD, then notes can only be stolen
from this program by the same program.
If you are playing a complex piece of music using many programs in a multi-
timbral configuration, it is a good idea to set important programs to HIGH or
HOLD and less important, background programs to LOW. If the piece of music
is not overly complicated and polyphony is not going to be exceeded, you
may prefer just to leave the priority at the default setting of NORM.
This is an abbreviation of TRANSPOSE and sets the basic octave range for
the program. The range is +/- 50 semitones. You will note that this is not a pitch
shift function as such but a MIDI transpose function - this overcomes the
problem of playing back samples out of their range. What this function does is
introduce an offset so that, even if you play C3 on the keyboard, this is offset
to play the samples on C4 (with a +12 setting) - it is not playing the samples on
C3 an octave higher.
NOTE: It must be said that this page is really an inheritance from earlier Akai samplers when
using multi-timbral setups. We strongly recommend that for such purposes, you use the MULTI
mode but retaining these functions ensures compatibility with data created on earlier models. If
you have used Akai samplers before, you may continue to work in this way, of course, but, as
mentioned, the new MULTI mode may be more convenient
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