Rotary Speaker Effects - Akai S3000XL User Manual

ROTARY SPEAKER EFFECTS

If ROTARY SPKRS is selected in the
In 'the good ol' days', the sound of an organ was enhanced using a rotary speaker (it was
also a popular one-off effect on guitar and other sounds as well). A rotary speaker is a
speaker enclosure that has a speaker on a motor that literally spins round and round. This
'throws' the sound around giving a very pleasing effect. However, these rotary speakers
have two speed settings, slow and fast, and using a switch, you can switch between slow
and fast. The slow speed gave a smooth undulating effect whilst the fast setting gave a
kind of tremolo-cum-vibrato effect. The ROTARY SPKRS selection allows you to simulate
this. The parameters are:
You may switch between the two speeds using any of the 128 MIDI controllers. This is set
under the
NOTE: If using MODWHEEL, make sure that this is not used to introduce vibrato to the
sound as well otherwise, as you change the rotary speaker speed, you will also
increase/decrease vibrato which may or may not be desirable.
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This sets one of the rotary speaker speeds. Typically, this
will be used to set the speed of the slow rotary speaker
effect but it may be used as the fast rotary speaker effect if
you wish as the S3000XL simply toggles between
SPEED1 and SPEED2.
This sets the second of the rotary speaker effect speeds.
On a 'proper' rotary speaker, because of mechanics and
inertia, it takes a certain amount of time for the speaker to
change from the slow speed to the fast speed and vice
versa. This parameter allows you to set the time in
seconds it will take to go from SPEED1 to SPEED 2 and
vice versa.
This sets the depth (or width) of the rotary speaker effect.
High settings will give a wide left-right sweep, lower settings
will give a narrower sweep.
This parameter sets which of the speeds will be the 'initial'
speed when you select this effect. It also allows you to
listen to the speed parameter you may be adjusting. For
example, when setting speed 1, select
setting speed 2, select
rotary speaker effects without having a MIDI controller to
hand.
parameters.
This selects which MIDI controller will trigger the change
from SPEED1 to SPEED2 and vice versa. You may select
any of the 128 MIDI controllers.
field, you will see this screen:
. This allows you to set up
EFFECTS EDIT
and when
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