Playing The Demo Sequence - Akai s2000 Owner's Manual

INTRODUCTION
NOTE: If no sound appears, check your MIDI connections and check that your MIDI controller
is sending MIDI channel 1. If, after this, you still hear no sound, try pressing the PLAY key on
the S2000's front panel. If you hear a sound, then at least your audio connections are o.k. and
it's the MIDI that needs attention. If you still don't hear a sound, check your audio connections,
volume controls, etc..
To get you started, some sounds are provided on floppy disk with your S2000. To load these,
put the disk in the floppy disk drive, press LOAD followed by F2 (FLOPPY), then F2 (GO) and
finally F1 (CLEAR) to clear the memory and load the entire floppy disk into the S2000. You will
see some activity going on as the S2000 loads the sounds (the disk activity LED will light and a
quick look at the LCD will show a "LOADING...." message). After about 40-50 seconds, this will
stop - you may now play the S2000 by selecting the SINGLE mode.
The library disk supplied comes with several programs. These either use different
combinations of samples or a variations on a set of samples. These may be selected from the
S2000's front panel using the inner DATA wheel or alternatively, you may use MIDI PROGRAM
CHANGE commands from your MIDI controller to select new programs.

PLAYING THE DEMO SEQUENCE

You will also note that they are laid out in a MULTI for multi-timbral sequencing. You may use
this to play the demo sequence that is also supplied on floppy disk with the S2000.
To play the demo sequence on the S2000, assuming the sound data disk has been loaded,
follow the procedure below.
1 Insert the DEMO SEQUENCE floppy disk into the disk drive.
2 Press the GLOBAL key and press GROUP DOWN four times to get to the SMF LOAD
page. Press F1, DISK, to get this page (it will take a second or two to access the drive):
3 Press F1 to load the song file.
4 Press GROUP DOWN once to go to the SMF SONG PLAY page:
5 Press F1 (GO) to play the demo sequence.
You may also have other sounds on CD-ROM or hard disk possibly supplied by your dealer (if
you already own an Akai sampler, you may have a library of sounds which can be used in the
S2000). To load sounds from hard disk, ensuring that the disk drive or CD-ROM player is
connected properly and its SCSI ID is set to 5, press LOAD followed by F2 (HDSK - hard disk).
You will see a page that shows you the disk partition label (A, B, C, etc.) and the name of the
currently selected volume. Press F1 and use the inner DATA wheel to select the partition.
Press F2 to select the volume name field and use the inner data wheel to scroll through the
volumes on the selected partition. Once you have selected the volume you wish to load, press
PAGE DOWN once to get to the HDSK LOAD page and press F2 (GO) and then F1 (CLEAR).
Any sounds currently in memory will be cleared out and all the sounds (programs and samples)
from the selected volume will be loaded into the S2000. Loading from hard disks or CD-ROMs
is much faster than from floppy (although the time it takes to load a volume still depends on the
number and size of the samples being loaded). After a brief time, the S2000 will be ready to
play. Select the SINGLE mode where you may select programs using the inner DATA wheel or
via MIDI program change commands from your MIDI controller.
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