Akai XR 20 Reference Manual page 25

PAGE 5: PANNING
Each pad can also be assigned to one of seven positions within the stereo spectrum.
To change a pad's panning position:
1. Select the sound set which you would like to
edit by pressing DRUM, 1-SHOT or SYNTH.
Please note that the Panning setting will
affect all Synth sounds similarly.
words, changing one Synth pad's Panning
setting will affect all the other Synth sounds in
the Drum Set.
2. Press the pad (the display will show the pad
number and the pad's panning position on the
top line).
3. Enter the desired pan position, from full left to full right, using the number keypad,
INC/DEC buttons or VALUE dial. The seven available pan positions correspond to the
number buttons shown in parenthesis: hard left (1), soft left (2), left of center (3),
center (4), right of center (5), soft right (6), and hard right (7). The display will show <>
when panning position is center.
Background The XR20 has two pairs of stereo outputs. Drum sounds can be
assigned to either pair of outputs (see page 11 of the Drum Set menus), and be placed
anywhere within the stereo field of the assigned outputs via the pan function.
PAGE 6: TUNING
Each pad's tuning can be adjusted in increments of +/- 1 semitone (+/- 12 semitones
maximum).
To change a pad's tuning:
1. Select the sound set which you would like to
edit by pressing DRUM, 1-SHOT or SYNTH.
Please note that Synth sounds cannot be
transposed individually, only as a group. In
other words, transposing one Synth note will
transpose all other Synth sounds by the same
value.
2. Press the pad (the display will show the
selected pad number in the upper right
corner).
3. Enter the desired tuning with the INC/DEC buttons or the VALUE dial. The range is
from +12 (most sharp) to 0 (normal pitch) to -12 (most flat).
In other
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