Akai S900

PART
6:
THE
EDIT
PROGRAM
BUTTON
FUNCTIONS
EDIT
PROGRAM
FUNCTIONS
The
EDIT
PRESET
(Program) function
provides
extensive
ways
to
alter
the
program.
Editing options include
velocity
sensitivity,
amplitude
envelopes,
filtering,
positional crossfade,
etc.
PAGE
01
PROGRAM
SELECT/COPY/
RERKME7DELETE
—
15' 'Sllect,
Copy
TONE
PRGRM
PROGRAM
tRinimi,
0#l»t« (-)
TONE
PRGRM
This
page
offers
four
choices:
SELECT
(the
program
you want to edit)
Point
arrow
at
"Select,
Copy." Use CONTROL
to
scan the
availa-
ble
programs
for
editing.
When
the LCD shows
the
desired
pro-
gram,
press ENT.
COPY
(one
program
to another and keep
both in
memory)
Point
arrow
at
"Select,
Copy" and select
the
program
to
be
copied
(see
above).
Press
the
+
key then
ENT.
Note: Prior
to
pressing
+,
you
can select
where the + will
appear
in the
pro-
gram
name
by
pressing LETTER
then
placing
the
cursor
(with
the
ARROW/CURSOR
button) where
desired.
RENAME
(an existing
program)
Point
arrow
at "Select,
Copy" and select program
to
be
re-named
(see above,
SELECT).
Then
point arrow at
"Rename,
delete
(-)."
Name the
program
(as described
in Chapter
2,
Part
1
).
DELETE
(an existing
program)
Point arrow
at "Select,
Copy" and select program
to be
deleted.
Then
point arrow
at
"Rename, delete
(-)."
Check
that
the cursor
is on the first
character
of the name (if
not, then
point
arrow
at
"Select,
Copy" and
start over).
Press
-,
then
ENT. This
erases
the
sample
from
S900
memory.
PAGE02JKEY/L0UDNESS
INTERACTION,
P^STflONAL
CROSSFADE
—H2
*Key— loudness
±^
00
Positional
crossfade
OFF
KEY/LOUDNESS
INTERACTION
This
sets how
much
the pitch of
the note
being
played
affects
the
loudness.
1
.
Point
arrow at
"Key-loudness."
2. Rotate
CONTROL
between
-50
and
+50 for the
desired
degree
of interaction.
With
+00 Key/Loudness,
the
loudness
remains
constant
no matter where
you
play on the
keyboard.
Increasing the
Key/Loudness
up to +50
decreases the loud-
ness
as
you play further
down on the
keyboard
and increases
the
loudness
as you play further
up on
the keyboard.
De-
creasing
the
Key/Loudness
to
—50
increases
the
loudness
as you play further
down on the keyboard
and
decreases
the
loudness
as you play further
up on
the
keyboard.
POSITIONAL CROSSFADE
Samples
may be assigned so that
the
high
range
of one sample
overlaps the low range
of another
sample.
With
positional cross-
fade
on, the
lower sample will
fade
out
as
the
higher sample
fades in
over
the range
of the overlap.
This
is
useful for creating
a smooth,
natural-sounding
transition
between
adjacent sam-
ples.
Point
arrow
at "Positional
crossfade."
Press
ON/+ for
positional
crossfade
on, OFF/— for
crossfade off.
Sample 1
Sample
2
Sample
1
amplitude
Sample
2
amplitude
Positional
crossfade
region
3JKEYGROUP
/COPY/DELETE
*03
KEYGROUP
:
—
Select
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to
IOIUI
•
Copy
(
+
).
Diletl (—
)
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This
page offers
three choices:
SELECT
(the keygroup
to be edited)
Point
arrow
at "Select." Use CONTROL to scan
and
select
the
available
keygroups for editing (or enter the
keygroup
number
with the
0—9
keys). To edit all program keygroups
simultane-
ously, press
"all."