Akai S950 Operator's Manual page 35

When you hit the EDIT PROGRAM button, the first page displayed reads:
where ########## 1 s the program name.
As in EDIT SAMPLE, this allows you to select a program for editing and to
copy, rename and delete a program. if you wish to select a program, move the
cursor one position to the right using the 'cursor >' button so that the
cursor is flashing on the first letter of the program name. You can now
scroll through the programs in the S950 using the CONTROL knob and hitting
ENT when you have found the program you want. To copy a program you simply
type in the new program name using the LETTER button and hit ENT when that is
complete.
To rename a program, you move the cursor to the bottom line using the 'cursor
>' button and, using the LETTER button, give the program a new name, hitting
ENT when that is done. To delete a program, use the - button and ENT to
delete the selected progam. For more detailed information, refer to Page 01
of EDIT SAMPLE which is exactly the same.
Note: There is no 'program Initialize' function. To create a brand new
program from scratch, you must either copy or rename another program (the
TONE PROGRAM, for example) end use that as the basis of your new program.
When you have finished in this page, you can move to the next which will
display:
In this page you do a number of things. Firstly, you can set the program
number that this
currently selected program may be program number 4 in the 5950 but you want
to use it with program number 35 on your controlling synth or keyboard. To do
this, simply move the cursor to the MIDI prog field and change the number 1
to 35 using the CONTROL knob or keypad. Whenever you call up program 35 on
your MIDI controller, this program will be recalled. Each program in the S950
can be assigned its own MIDI program number for recall using the MIDI
controller.
Key-loudness refers to the volume of the sound over the keyboard range. For
example, you may have a sound that is too loud down in the bottom octaves and
drowns out the notes in the top registers - moving the cursor to the
key-loudness field using the 'cursor >' button, you can set a value using the
CONTROL knob or the keypad that will compensate for this. A value of +00 will
have no effect on the level of the sample across the keyboard range whilst a
value of -50 will reduce the level in the upper octaves and increase the
level in the lower octaves. Conversely, a value of +50 will increase the
level of the upper octaves and decrease the level in the lower octaves.
Positional crossfade is a facility whereby you can overlap two keygroups and,
with positional crossfade set to ON, as you go from one keygroup to the
other, they crossfade with the one keygroup fading out and the other keygroup
fading in. This can be especially useful when using multi-samples of one
instrument because sometimes the change in tone from keygroup to another can
seem abrupt. Positional crossfade will smooth these transitions
>01 #Select, Copy
PROGRAM #Rename, Delete(-)
>02 #MIDI prog 1 #Key-loudness +00
#Positional crossfade OFF
program will respond
##########
##########
to over MIDI.
33
For example, the