Assigning A Keygroup To A Mute Group - Akai s2000 Owner's Manual

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ASSIGNING A KEYGROUP TO A MUTE GROUP

The next page down from KEYSPAN is the MUTE GROUP assign page:
The MUTE GROUP function allows you to group several keygroups together so that they are
essentially monophonic. The main reason for this is for drums where you would want a closed
hi-hat to stop an open hi-hat. Select the keygroup you wish to assign to a mute group using
the SELECT wheel and use the DATA wheel to select a mute group 1-32. Alternatively, move
the cursor to the KG field and use the DATA wheel to select the keygroup. As a demonstration
of setting up a mute group, let's take the example given above of having a closed hi-hat mute
an open hi-hat in a drums program.
If all your hi-hats are in keygroups 3-5, assign those keygroups to, say, Mute Group 1 (i.e.
select KG03 using the SELECT wheel and select 1 with the DATA wheel; select KG04 with the
SELECT wheel and 1 with the DATA wheel and select KG05 with the SELECT wheel and
again select 1 with the DATA wheel)). All other keygroups in the program will be unaffected but
all those in mute group 1 will be mutually exclusive - that is, if one is sounding when another is
played, it will be muted. For example:
Here, you can see that the open hi-hat continues to play even though the closed hi-hat is
triggered. The same would be true for open and closed triangle or guira, etc..
In this example, the open hi-hat is shut off by the closed hi-hat thereby creating a more natural
effect. The same would be true for open and closed triangle or guira, etc..
This function may also be used to emulate the characteristics of older drum machines. On
these early drum machines, whilst they offered maybe 8 voice polyphony, each individual drum
sound was monophonic. This only became apparent when you tried to perform a snare roll or
something similar. Instead of the snare's natural decay being allowed to sound, the next hit
would cut the previous one dead resulting in a rather unnatural staccato effect. Of course, at
the time, this was undesirable but the dictates of musical fashion now say that this 'machine
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OPEN HI-HAT
(or triangle, etc)
OPEN AND CLOSED HI-HAT WITH MUTE GROUP OFF
OPEN HI-HAT
(or triangle, etc)
OPEN AND CLOSED HI-HAT WITH MUTE GROUP ON
CLOSED HI-HAT
(or triangle, etc)
CLOSED HI-HAT
(or triangle, etc)
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