Renumbering Programs - Akai S3000XL User Manual

MULTI MODE

RENUMBERING PROGRAMS

There will often be occasions when you load in several programs, maybe from different
disks or hard disk volumes and the programs you have loaded have the same program
numbers or the numbers of the programs you have loaded are not well ordered, etc.. To
overcome this, F7 in the MULTI screen (
In this example, you have loaded a variety of programs some of which have the same
program number, others of which are non-sequential. Ordinarily, this is not a problem and
you can set up a multi very easily without even having to think about program numbers.
However, in the MULTI mode, you can send program change commands over MIDI on
selected channels to select new programs within one part (for example, send a MIDI
program change command on MIDI channel 5 to select a new program in Part 5). If
programs share the same program number, you will have a conflict (for example, send a
MIDI program change command 1 where two programs share the program number 1 as
in the above example, and only the first of the programs - i.e. BIG STRINGS - would be
selected).
To overcome this, use the RNUM page to renumber programs so that they are better
organised for your use.
Select the program to be renumbered using the CURSOR keys and alter the current
number to the new number using the DATA control.
keypad for this, setting the program number to a value of between 1 and 128 (these are
MIDI specification limits). When you have altered the number, you have several options to
choose from on soft keys 1, 2 and 3. These are:
NOTE: There is little benefit to be had doing this in MULTI mode.
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This will set all programs to the same number as that set in the currently
selected program. For example, placing the cursor on, say, 4 - SYNTH
BASS and setting that to 1 would renumber all the programs to program
number 1.
This causes all subsequent programs to be renumbered with an offset to
the currently selected program. In the example given above, if you moved
the cursor to program 4 (SYNTH BASS) and renumbered it to 10, SYNTH
BASS will be renumbered to 10 and all subsequent programs (i.e. SLAP
BASS and any others off the screen) will be renumbered 11, 12, 13, etc..
The programs lower than 10 would be unaffected.
This will only renumber the currently selected program. To specifically
renumber a program, use the CURSOR UP/DOWN keys to select the
program you wish to renumber, set the new number using the DATA
wheel or the numeric keypad and press
renumbered.
) takes you to the RENUMBER page:
You can also use the numeric
. Only that program will be
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