Renumbering; Programs With The Same Number - Akai S1000 Series Operator's Manual

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A powerful (and useful) feature of the S1000 is its ability to continue sounding a
sustained note of a program, even when another program has been selected. With most
synthesizers and samplers, changing a patch or program automatically stops the sound
from the machine until a key is pressed. The S1000, however, continues to sound the
release or sustained portion of a program during and after program changes. This makes
for "seamless sound" when sequencing with a lot of Program Change messages.

Renumbering

On the S1000, program numbers correspond to patch numbers on a synthesizer. When a
MIDI Program Change message is received, the appropriate program is selected.
However, to match S1000 programs with the patch numbers on your synthesizer, you
may want to renumber the programs, so that selecting a brass sound on the S1000 will
call up a similar (or complementary) patch on a remote synthesizer module. To do this,
press the button. As the screen informs you on this page, you select the program to
RNUM
be renumbered using the CURSOR, knob, and alter the current number to the new
number using the DATA knob. You can also use the number pad 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, press
according to the new number. Carry on renumbering programs until you are happy with
the final result, and then press

Programs with the same number

Most synthesizers do not allow you to assign the same number to different patches.
However, the S1000 allows you to have many programs with the same number. This is
not an oversight, but is a way of allowing you to select more than one program
simultaneously with one selection procedure or Program Change command. Each
program could be set to a different MIDI channel for multi-timbral work with a
sequencer, for instance, or different programs could be split over the keyboard for live
work. Bear this in mind when renumbering - it's a very powerful feature of the S1000.
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. The programs in memory will be resorted
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to return to the main SELECT PROG page.
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Sampler functions
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