Akai S3200XL User Manual

INTRODUCTION................................................................................ 1
FEATURES ......................................................................................................... 2
ABOUT THIS MANUAL........................................................................................... 5
FRONT PANEL..................................................................................................... 6
TAKING CARE OF YOUR DISKS.............................................................................. 8
REAR PANEL ...................................................................................................... 10
SETTING UP THE S3200XL.................................................................................... 13
CONNECTIONS ................................................................................................... 13
LOADING THE DEMO FLOPPY DISKS...................................................................... 14
MOUNTING THE S3200XL...................................................................................... 15
GETTING AROUND THE S3200XL ........................................................................... 16
OPERATING MODES................................................................................ 16
SOFT KEYS ............................................................................................ 16
SELECTING PARAMETERS AND ENTERING DATA......................................... 17
NAMING FILES - THE NAME KEY ................................................................ 19
THE ENT/PLAY KEY ................................................................................. 19
LCD CONTRAST....................................................................................... 19
RECORD LEVEL, MAIN VOLUME, HEADPHONE OUTPUT............................................ 20
HOW THE S3200XL WORKS................................................................................... 21
S3200XL FLOWCHART.......................................................................................... 22
SINGLE MODE.................................................................................. 25
SELECTING PROGRAMS ...................................................................................... 25
VIEWING PROGRAMS.......................................................................................... 26
SETTING PROGRAM LEVELS, PAN, FX SENDS......................................................... 26
SETTING PROGRAMS’ MIDI PARAMETERS.............................................................. 27
SETTING PROGRAM LOUDNESS AND VELOCITY...................................................... 29
LOADING FROM FLOPPY DISK .............................................................................. 30
LOADING FROM HARD DISK.................................................................................. 31
DELETING PROGRAMS ........................................................................................ 32
RENUMBERING PROGRAMS ................................................................................. 34
USING THE S3200XL IN ‘OLD AKAI’ MODE! .............................................................. 35
USING SELECT PROG - PROGRAMS WITH THE SAME NUMBER ...................... 35
LAYERING PROGRAMS............................................................................ 35
CREATING KEYBOARD SPLITS.................................................................. 35
USING RENUMBERING TO CREATE MULTI-TIMBRAL SETUPS......................... 36
SINGLE VS MULTI.................................................................................... 37
MULTI MODE - COMBINING SEVERAL PROGRAMS...................................... 39
ASSIGNING PROGRAMS TO PARTS ....................................................................... 40
SETTING A PART’S MIDI CHANNEL......................................................................... 40
MIXING THE PARTS ............................................................................................. 40
SENDING PARTS TO THE INTERNAL EFFECTS ......................................................... 40
ASSIGNING PARTS TO THE INDIVIDUAL OUTPUTS................................................... 41
TUNING AND TRANSPOSING PARTS....................................................................... 41
SETTING A PART’S LOW AND HIGH KEYRANGES ..................................................... 41
SETTING A PART’S PRIORITY................................................................................ 42
INITIALISING A PART........................................................................................... 42
SETTING UP A MULTI ........................................................................................... 43
MODIFYING THE MULTI ........................................................................................ 44
NAMING A MULTI................................................................................................. 45
SAVING A MULTI ................................................................................................. 45
LOADING A MULTI ............................................................................................... 45
RENUMBERING PROGRAMS ................................................................................. 46
USING MULTI MODE FOR LAYERING PROGRAMS..................................................... 49
USING MULTI MODE TO SET KEYBOARD SPLITS...................................................... 50
PROGRAM EDITING........................................................................... 52
WHAT IS A KEYGROUP?....................................................................................... 53
KEYGROUP ZONES ............................................................................................. 54
OVERLAPPING AND CROSSFADING KEYGROUPS ................................................... 55
ASSIGNABLE PROGRAM MODULATION.................................................................. 56
EDIT SINGLE ...................................................................................................... 60
NAMING PROGRAMS - COPYING AND RENAMING .................................................... 61
DELETING PROGRAMS ........................................................................................ 62
MIDI PAGE ......................................................................................................... 66
OUTPUT LEVELS PAGE........................................................................................ 68

Akai S3200XL Specifications

General

Brand	Akai
Model	S3200XL
Category	Synthesizer
Language	English