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NOTES REGARDING LOADING OTHER MANUFACTURERS SOUND LIBRARY
There are certain restrictions when loading sounds from other manufacturer's CD-ROMs.
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Layered programs using several 'presets' or those made using several 'patches' will be
loaded as a single 'preset' or 'patch' into the S3000XL. In this case, load all the single
'elements' (i.e. presets or patches) and layer them in the MULTI mode.
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If there are more than 128 programs in the volume, the S3000XL will 'wrap' around'
programs 129 and onwards so that #129 becomes #1, #130 becomes #2, etc.. You
can renumber these on the S3000XL if you wish in SINGLE or MULTI using the
RNUM function.
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Due to different sound parameter configurations amongst different samples, the
S3000XL will convert certain program parameters to make them compatible with Akai
program parameters (sample data is not affected). However, this may cause the
sound to be slightly different in the S3000XL and may require some 'tweaking' to
sound the same as the source sampler.
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You may find with samples that have a short loop that there may be differences in the
loop length. Use FIND or adjust the loop length manually on the S3000XL.
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The S3000XL can only read CD-ROMs/hard disk up to 512Mbytes. CD-ROMs or hard
disks larger than this can be used but any data stored above 512Mbytes will be
ignored.
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The S3000XL comes supplied with 2Mbytes of RAM as standard. However, some
manufacturer's sounds require more than this (as do many Akai CD-ROMs, by the
way) so we recommend you expand your memory to allow for this.
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Due to certain restrictions when loading sounds from other manufacturer's CD-ROMs,
the area of memory used for standard MIDI song files (see GLOBAL - SMF) is
overwritten when another manufacturer's sound is loaded from CD-ROM. In other
words, any SMFs you may have loaded will be erased should you load sounds from
another manufacturer's CD-ROM. It is best, therefore, to load your sounds first and
then load your MIDI song files.
It must be said that whilst the S3000XL can use sounds made for other samplers, the
way each of these samplers work is different and so you may find that some 'tweaking' will
be necessary to optimise the sound for your requirements. However, we hope that the
added benefit of having access to other manufacturers' sound library outweighs this slight
inconvenience. If it's any consolation, Akai programs and samples need tweaking when
imported into other samplers!
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