INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1 FEATURES ....................................................................................................................2 ABOUT THIS MANUAL ..................................................................................................5 FRONT PANEL ..............................................................................................................6 TAKING CARE OF YOUR DISKS ...................................................................................8 REAR PANEL .................................................................................................................9 SETTING UP THE S3000XL ..........................................................................................11 CONNECTIONS ..............................................................................................................11 LOADING THE DEMO FLOPPY DISKS ..........................................................................12 MOUNTING THE S3000XL .............................................................................................13 GETTING AROUND THE S3000XL ................................................................................14 OPERATING MODES .......................................................................................14 SOFT KEYS .....................................................................................................14 SELECTING PARAMETERS AND ENTERING DATA ........................................ 15 MARK AND JUMP KEYS ..................................................................................16 NAMING FILES - THE NAME KEY ....................................................................17 THE ENT/PLAY KEY ........................................................................................ 17 LCD CONTRAST ............................................................................................................17 RECORD LEVEL, MAIN VOLUME, HEADPHONE OUTPUT ............................................18 HOW THE S3000XL WORKS ........................................................................................ 19 S3000XL FLOWCHART .................................................................................................20 SINGLE MODE ...........................................................................................................................23 SELECTING PROGRAMS .............................................................................................. 23 VIEWING PROGRAMS ..................................................................................................24 SETTING PROGRAM LEVELS, PAN, FX SENDS ..........................................................24 SETTING PROGRAMS’ MIDI PARAMETERS .................................................................25 SETTING PROGRAM LOUDNESS AND VELOCITY ....................................................... 26 LOADING FROM FLOPPY DISK ....................................................................................28 LOADING FROM HARD DISK ........................................................................................ 28 DELETING PROGRAMS ................................................................................................30 RENUMBERING PROGRAMS ........................................................................................ 32 USING THE S3000XL IN ‘OLD AKAI’ MODE! .................................................................33 USING SELECT PROG - PROGRAMS WITH THE SAME NUMBER ..................33 LAYERING PROGRAMS................................................................ ...................33 CREATING KEYBOARD SPLITS ......................................................................33 USING RENUMBERING TO CREATE MULTI-TIMBRAL SETUPS .....................34 SINGLE VS MULTI ........................................................................................... 35 MULTI MODE - COMBINING SEVERAL PROGRAMS .................................................................37 ASSIGNING PROGRAMS TO PARTS ............................................................................38 SETTING A PART’S MIDI CHANNEL ..............................................................................38 MIXING THE PARTS ......................................................................................................38 SENDING PARTS TO THE INTERNAL EFFECTS ........................................................... 38 ASSIGNING PARTS TO THE INDIVIDUAL OUTPUTS .................................................... 39 TUNING AND TRANSPOSING PARTS ...........................................................................39 SETTING A PART’S LOW AND HIGH KEYRANGES ......................................................39 SETTING A PART’S PRIORITY ......................................................................................40 INITIALISING A PART ....................................................................................................40 SETTING UP A MULTI ...................................................................................................41 MODIFYING THE MULTI ................................................................................................42 NAMING A MULTI ..........................................................................................................43 SAVING A MULTI ..........................................................................................................43 LOADING A MULTI ........................................................................................................43 RENUMBERING PROGRAMS ........................................................................................ 44 USING MULTI MODE FOR LAYERING PROGRAMS ......................................................47 USING MULTI MODE TO SET KEYBOARD SPLITS ......................................................48 PROGRAM EDITING ...................................................................................................................50 WHAT IS A KEYGROUP? .............................................................................................. 51 KEYGROUP ZONES ......................................................................................................52 OVERLAPPING AND CROSSFADING KEYGROUPS ..................................................... 53 ASSIGNABLE PROGRAM MODULATION ......................................................................54 EDIT SINGLE .................................................................................................................58 NAMING PROGRAMS - COPYING AND RENAMING ......................................................59 DELETING PROGRAMS ................................................................................................60 MIDI PAGE ....................................................................................................................64 OUTPUT LEVELS PAGE................................................................................................ 66 PAN PAGE ....................................................................................................................69 THE TUNE PAGE ...........................................................................................................71 MODULATION PAGES .................................................................................................. 72 PITCH BEND ....................................................................................................72 LFO1 ................................................................................................................74 SETTING LFO1 MODULATION DEPTH ............................................................77 LFO2 ................................................................................................................78 SETTING UP THE SOFT PEDAL ......................................................................81 PORTAMENTO .................................................................................................82 KEYGROUP PARAMETERS - CREATING KEYGROUPS ...............................................85 MAPPING OUT YOUR KEYGROUPS - SETTING KEYSPAN ............................88 ASSIGNING SAMPLES TO KEYGROUPS AND ZONES - SMP1 .................................... 90 SMP2 ...............................................................................................................93 SMP3 ...............................................................................................................95 THE FILTERS .................................................................................................................96 ENV1 - SHAPING AMPLITUDE ......................................................................................99 ENV2 - SHAPING THE FILTER .......................................................................................101 USING THE FILTER AND ENVELOPE GENERATORS ..................................... 102 THE SECOND FILTERS .................................................................................................103 CREATING 24db/8ve 4-POLE LOWPASS FILTER ............................................107 THE TONE PAGE .............................................................................................109 ENV3 .............................................................................................................................111