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EDIT PROGRAM - SINGLE
On the S1000 and S1000 and in early versions of S2800, S3000 and S3200 software,
you needed to create a separate program, make it 1 voice polyphonic and assign it the
same program number as the rest of your drums. Now, you may do all this within one
program which you may find more convenient.
Another application for this function is when using the MONO LEGATO mode. When the
MONO LEGATO mode is switched ON, the program becomes monophonic. The limitation
of this, however, is when you play a mono legato run across a program that has several
multi-samples in different keygroups. For example, in a multi-sampled flute program, as
you play across the keygroups, those keygroup's samples will not play and you may end
up with a situation where, in an extensive run downwards, you are playing a C5 flute
sample on C2. This would probably result in an unnatural timbre due to extreme
transposition of the sample.
To overcome this, by assigning all the keygroups to the same mute group, although the
program is monophonic, as you play across each keygroup, so those keygroup's samples
will play in turn and, in the above example, you would be correctly playing the C2 sample
on C2. The downside to this, however, is that as you cross into each keygroup, so the
samples' attack will be re-triggered. If the attack of the samples is fairly pronounced, you
may hear this but, depending on the setting of the envelope generators, this may not be
too noticeable. If, however, the samples have no pronounced attack (i.e. in the case of
raw, sampled synth waveforms), then the transition across the keygroups will be smooth.
It is up to you to decide which is best. If accurate transposition is more important than the
samples re-triggering, then you should use the mute group function in conjunction with
the MONO LEGATO mode. If, however, the samples re-triggering every time you cross
into a new keygroup not acceptable, then maybe you should use the mono legato mode
without the mute group function although you may run into problems associated with
extreme transposition of samples. If, as mentioned, the samples do not have a
pronounced attack, then a combination of mono legato and the mute group function will
give you a smooth transition across the keygroups.
The final field on this page is
. This may be switched between ONE and ALL and
allows you to edit only the keygroup selected in the
field
(ONE) or all keygroups (ALL).
You may select the keygroup you want to edit in the
if you
wish but you may also select the keygroup in any of the keygroup pages.
TIP: A very quick way of selecting keygroups on the S3000XL is to press and hold the
EDIT key and play a note on the keygroup. This will select that note's keygroup. For
example, in a program with five keygroups spanning C0-B1, C2-B2, C3-B3, C4-B4, C5-G8,
playing G3 will select keygroup 3 - i.e. the one spanning C3-B3. In the case where
keygroups are layered or overlap, pressing and holding EDIT and repeatedly playing the
note will select each keygroup in turn. This is a very fast way of selecting keygroups.
Pressing the
key will take you back to the main PROGRAM EDIT screen and give
you access to the other global pages.
S3000XL Operator's Manual
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