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TUNING A PROGRAM
The next page down allows you to tune the program.
The program may be tuned in semitones or fine tuned in cents of a semitone. Use F1 to select
SEMI and F2 to select CENTS. Both parameters have a range of +/-50 and this is set using the
DATA wheel.
TRANSPOSING A PROGRAM'S PITCH
As well as the tuning, you may also transpose a program. The TRANSPOSE function is not a
pitch shift function as such but a MIDI transpose function - this overcomes the problem of
playing back samples out of their range. What this function does is introduce an offset so that
with a +12 setting, if you play C3 on the keyboard, this is offset to play the samples on C4 - it is
not playing the samples on C3 an octave higher and hence introducing transposition distortion
of any kind. The TRANSPOSE page looks like this:
Use the DATA wheel to set the transposition value.
NOTE: You may find that transposing a program using the TRANSPOSE function works
better than tuning it in semitones in the TUNE page.
SETTING MASTER OUTPUT LEVEL PARAMETERS
The next pages down allow you to control the program's master output level, pan position,
effects send, individual output routing, etc.. The first of them allows you to set the program's
loudness and responsiveness to velocity:
The LOUD parameter allows you to set the overall level for the program (00-99). The default for
this parameter is 80. This offers the optimum range for velocity and other dynamics. Setting it
higher than this will, of course, turn the overall level up but it will reduce the amount of
overhead for dynamics. Reducing this parameter will give greater extremes of velocity range
although please note that you will not be using the full resolution of the sampler's dynamic
range.
NOTE: This parameter also affects the level of the signal appearing at the individual outputs
and the real-time digital audio output (if the optional output expansion board is fitted).
The VELO(city) parameter sets how much velocity will affect the overall loudness of the
program. The default is +20 which gives a sensible dynamic range although this may be
changed if you wish. A setting of +50 will give you a very wide dynamic range where soft key
presses will produce virtually no sound and hard key presses will output a very loud sound
(although in this case, the LOUD parameter would need to be reduced for such extreme
velocity ranges). A setting of -50 will give the converse effect - a hard key press will produce
virtually nothing whilst a soft key press will give a loud output. At first, this may seem a bit
strange to allow this but this does enable you to crossfade between programs using velocity -
i.e. set one program to +50 and the other to -50.
Use F1 to select LOUD(ness) and set the value using the DATA wheel and press F2 to select
VEL(ocity) and use the DATA wheel to set its value.
S2000 Operator's Manual - Version 1.30
PROGRAM EDIT
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