Akai S950 Operator's Manual page 37

To copy a keygroup, simply move the cursor to 'Copy (+>, Delete <->' using the
'cursor )' button and press the ON(+) button - this will copy the currently
selected program (note: if your selection is ALL, this function will not copy
ell the keygroups). To delete a keygroup, simply press the OFF(-> button and
this will delete the selected keygroup.
The PUT/GET function available on this page is invaluable in making or editing
programs that have similar parameters to other programs. For example, you may
be creating or editing a drum program and you want to 'grab' the snare drum
from another program complete with the envelope shaping, tuning, volume end
other keygroup parameters from another drum program currently in the S950.
To achieve this, follow this procedure:
Select the source program (i.e. the program where you want to take the keygroup
from) and go to Page 03 and move the cursor to the 'Select' field to select the
keygroup you want to copy to the other program. When you have done that, move
the cursor to the PUT field and press ENT. Now go back to Page 01 by pressing
EDIT PROGRAM and select the program in which you wish to place that keygroup in
(i.e. the one you were editing/creating). Go to Page 03 and move the cursor to
the GET field and press ENT. You have now copied a keygroup from one program to
another.
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR PAGES 04 to 16
The display shows the currently selected keygroup number underneath each page
number. To change keygroups at any time,. Instead of constantly returning to
Page 03, you can move the cursor one position to the right end select a new
keygroup using either the CONTROL wheel or the keypad. This will speed up your
program editing
keygroups parameters with the minimum of button pressing.
The next page, Page 04, allows you to adjust the velocity threshold for
velocity switching and will look like this:
where # is the currently selected keygroup.
As you play the MIDI keyboard, it produces a stream of numbers that corresponds
to your playing dynamics. These numbers can be anywhere between 0 and 128 with
0 representing a soft keystrike end 128 representing a hard keystrike. With the
velocity switch function, you may select a value below which only a soft sample
will play and above which only the hard sample will play. This is normally used
to more accurately reproduce the sampled sounds dynamic range but it can be
used for other effects as well such as the muted/picked guitar effect described
earlier. Of course, there is nothing to stop you switching between two totally
different samples such as strings and brass, for example.
To change the data, first select the keygroup you wish to edit by moving the
cursor one position to the right and then move the cursor to the data field
using the 'cursor >' button and input a value using the CONTROL wheel or the
keypad.
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