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There are many common keys in many of the functions, however, such as, for example,
COPY, RENAME and DELETE which are always on F6, F7 and F8 in those pages where
they appear. Commands such as GO, and ABORT always appear on F7 and F8. There is
also a convention to the type of functions available which is worth noting.
If a key has this highlighted type of display:
will take you to another page. If the key has this type of display:
simply has a box around it and is unhighlighted) then this signifies that the key is an 'do it'
key and will instigate some kind action such as SAVE, LOAD, DELETE, GO, ABORT, etc..
If the key has no form of box around it and is not highlighted - i.e:
indicates the page you are currently in although this is always shown in the top left corner
of the display as well. This type of key switches between two types of display - pressing it
once displays note names, pressing it again displays notes as MIDI note numbers.
SELECTING PARAMETERS AND ENTERING DATA
You move around the screen using the CURSOR KEYS and data is input either from the
DATA ENTRY ENCODER or from the NUMERIC KEYPAD. You may move around within
digit fields using the +/< and -/> keys found on the numeric keypad.
On simple fields like filter cutoff, attack time, MIDI channel, etc., that have two digits, you
may simply type in a two digit number - i.e. 23, 45, etc.. On such fields, you will find that
the DATA ENTRY ENCODER will cover the whole range quite quickly so you may find that
more convenient. The same is true of three digit fields. Turning it clockwise increases
numeric values, and turning it counter-clockwise decreases these values. You may also
use the +/< and -/> keys to position the cursor on the 'tens' or 'hundreds' field to make
more rapid changes. For non-numeric values (i.e. sample rates, sample type, loop type,
etc.), turning the encoder will display all the options in order. Normally, there is no other
entry procedure required; simply displaying the correct value of a parameter using the
DATA encoder selects and stores it into the S3000XL's memory. Our sound programmers
at Akai usually use a combination of the numeric keypad and the DATA WHEEL for
speedy input of parameter values.
When editing numeric parameters, some of the values can be quite large, and it would be
necessary to turn the DATA WHEEL thousands of times (literally!) in order to go through
the whole range if the value was only changed by 1 for every click of the DATA control.
There is an alternative to turning the control thousands of times, though. When you press
the CURSOR keys, you move from one parameter to another and, using the +/< and -/>
keys, you may move around within a large numeric field.
If a number such as 123456.78 is displayed, and the +/< key is pressed so that only the
first three digits are highlighted thus:
S3000XL Operator's Manual
then this signifies that pressing this key
DATA
7/
8/
Q
R
4/
5/
T
U
CURSOR
1/
2/
W
X
0/
+/
Z
INTRODUCTION
(i.e. the function
9/
S
6/
V
3/
Y
-/
,
then this
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