Akai S950 Operator's Manual page 55

controllers MIDI channel, she 'Key' field will display the note played and
the 'Velocity' field will display the velocity value with which the key was
struck.
The uses of this page are many. You can use it to troubleshoot, checking
that the 5950 is actually receiving MIDI, what notes and velocity the MIDI
controller is sending
settings of the 5950.
This page can also be useful if you have a drum program in the 5950 and you
are using the 5950 with a MIDI drum machine or pads as you can determine
what MIDI notes are being sent by which drum pad thereby allowing you to
match your keygroups' note assignments in EDIT PROGRAM to the controllers
drum pads.
As this is solely a MIDI monitor, there are no parameters that you can
change.
Note: the display shows the LAST piece of MIDI Information received. If
chords are played into the 5950, it will display the lest note received.
Similarly, if you are sequencing the 5950 on many different MIDI channels, it
will also display the lest note received along with that notes' MIDI channel.
Page 04 allows you to set the S950's response to program change over MIDI,
whether MIDI volume controller (07) is selected and pitch bend range. The
display reads:
which is the default setting if the 5950 is powered up with no disk inserted.
To change any of these settings, move the cursor to the appropriate field
using the 'cursor > and /or <' button and make your data entry using the
ON/OFF buttons, the CONTROL knob and/or the blue keypad.
For example, to select that the S950 will not respond to program change over
MIDI, move the cursor to the 'Prog change' field and press the OFF(-) button.
This will disable program change and changing programs on the MIDI controller
will have no effect on the 5950. To select whether the 5950 responds to MIDI
controller 7 (volume), move the cursor to the 'loudness' field and select
either on or off using the ON(+) or OFF(-) buttons accordingly. With loudness
switched to ON, the S950's output level can be remotely controlled from any
MIDI controller that transmits MIDI control 7. This can be useful if the S950
is out of the way in a rack (i. e. on stage in particular) and you wish to
turn Its volume up or down remotely from the MIDI controller. It can also be
useful if you are sequencing the 5950 multi-timbrally as you can use the
sequencer to mix the various parts on the 5950.
Finally on this page, you can set the range over which the pitch bend wheel
is to have effect. The default setting is 7 semitones and this can be changed
by moving the cursor to the 'Pitch wheel range' field and making data entry
using the CONTROL knob or by entering a two digit number on the blue keypad.
Note: the pitch bend range is common to all programs and samples contained
within the S950's memory.
and whether it
>04 MIDI: tProg change ON *loudness OFF
tPitch wheel range (+/- semitones) 7
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corresponds to the MIDI channel