Assigning A Zone/Keygroup To An Individual Output; Setting The Zone's Low And High Velocity Ranges - Akai s2000 Owner's Manual

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ASSIGNING A ZONE/KEYGROUP TO AN INDIVIDUAL OUTPUT

In the next page down, you can fine tune the zone's tone and route the zone to one of the
individual outputs (if the optional individual output board is fitted).
The FILT (filter) parameter allows you to fine tune the filter cutoff slightly to maintain a
consistent tone between keygroups. This is independent of the main filter CUTOFF frequency
setting (see below - FILTER page) and is used merely as a convenient fine tune control for the
tone of the sample in ZONE 1.
The INDIV parameter allows you to assign each zone in each keygroup to its own output for
separate processing on an external mixing console if you wish. This has a relationship with O/P
field found in the OUTPUT LEVELS page.
For example, if the whole program is assigned to an individual output, that output will be shown
here - i.e. if the program is set to appear at output 1, then 1 will be shown for every keygroup
here. You may change this per keygroup so that whilst some sounds come out of 1, other
keygroups appear at other outputs. This is particularly useful on drums where you often need
to mix drums through an external mixer to add EQ, reverb, compression, etc..
Even if the O/P field is set to OFF, you may route individual keygroups to separate outputs.
This may be useful in a drum program where things like toms, cymbals and some percussion
appear at the S2000's stereo outputs whilst important drums like bass drum and snare are
assigned to appear at individual outputs.
NOTE: Whatever the output assignment is here, the level is taken from the master OUT page
and is set at the INDIV field.
The FILT parameter is set by pressing F1 and using the DATA wheel to set the parameter and
the OUT parameter is set by pressing F2 and selecting the output 1-8 using the DATA wheel.
Select the keygroup you wish to affect with the outer SELECT wheel. Alternatively, move the
cursor to the KG field and use the DATA wheel to select the keygroup.
NOTE: Of course, if the individual output board is not fitted, even though you can set a value
here, naturally, it will have no effect.

SETTING THE ZONE'S LOW AND HIGH VELOCITY RANGES

For velocity switching and crossfading between zones, you can set a low and high velocity
range. For normal playback, this is set to V LO- 000/V HI-127:
This page allows you to set low and high velocity values for the selected zone to create velocity
switching and crossfade. Normally, for playback of just one sample in the zone, these values
should be set to 000 - 127 as shown.
To set up a velocity switched or velocity crossfade program, you should place a sample in
ZONE 1 that covers a certain velocity range and another sample in ZONE 2 that covers another
velocity range.
For example, to set up a velocity switched slap bass program, assign a soft bass sample to
ZONE 1 and set a low/high velocity range of 000-100. In ZONE 2, assign a hard, slapped bass
sample and set a low/high velocity range of 101-127. If you play with a velocity between 000
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