Страница 1: ... professional MIDI DIGITAL SAMPLER B o b a a S o o a aaanoaaQ 3 P Ifct SB US fc g S 5 s o d i _ i WARNING To prevent fire or shock hazard do not expose this ap pliance to rain or moisture Operator s Manual ...
Страница 2: ... manual thoroughly Should a problem persist write down the model and serial numbers and all pertinent data regarding warranty coverage as well as a clear descrip tion of the existing trouble Then contact your nearest authorized Akai Service Station or the Service Department of Akai Electric Company Tokyo Japan TWO CORE FLEX IMPORTANT The wires in this mains lead are coloured in accordance with the...
Страница 3: ...PAGE 01 PROGRAM SELECT COPY RENAME DELETE PAGE 02 KEY LOUDNESS INTERACTION POSITIONAL CROSSFADE PAGE 03 KEYGROUP SELECT COPY DELETE IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT PAGES 04 to 16 PAGE 04 VELOCITY CROSSFADE VELOCITY SWITCH THRESHOLD PAGE 05 SOFT SAMPLE RANGE ASSIGNMENT PAGE 06 SOFT SAMPLE LOUDNESS FILTER TRANSPOSE AND FINE PITCH PAGE 07 HARD SAMPLE RANGE ASSIGNMENT PAGE 08 HARD SAMPLE LOUDNESS FILTER T...
Страница 4: ...ght signals left and right mix outputs and mono mix output Of course this list just skims the surface for example with an optional hardware card the S900 becomes a full featured sam pling drum machine You will find out much more about the S900 s capabilities over the course of this manual but since you are no doubt very eager to get started let s set up the S900 and play back some sounds SET IT UP...
Страница 5: ... program 5 Turn up your audio amplifier turn up the S900 Output control for a confortable listening level and play your master control ler The MIDI RECEIVE light towards the right side of the LCD should light up as you play and you should hear some pretty life like sounds coming out of your amplifier if not check your connections If the MIDI RECEIVE light does not light up the S900 is not receivin...
Страница 6: ... on power if it is not already 2 Insert a blank double sided 3 5 disk as shown previously in Fig 1 Push gently until the disk locks in place 3 Press the DISK function button The LCD will show Page 01 the Load Disk page There are several other pages associated with the DISK function and three ways to access them Enter the page number directly with the numeric 0 9 PARAMETER KEYS This must be a two d...
Страница 7: ... the disk is ready for use with the 3900 Pop out the disk and you have a formatted disk ready for later experiments Now let s learn how to select parameters within a page Press the EDIT PRESET function button and select Pag 06 Again we don t need to concern ourselves with the specific LCD message other than to know that an asterisk indicates a parameter that may be altered Two gadgets help you loc...
Страница 8: ...me period is short you have hit the key hard and want a loud sound if this time period is longer you have hit the key softly and want a soft sound Therefore even though velocity is measuring the speed at which a key goes from key up to key down we will consider it as an indication of how hard or soft you hit the key 2 A Sample is a single sound that you record into the S900 To cover more than one ...
Страница 9: ...t the EDIT SAMPLE function Go through the EDIT SAMPLE section of this manual and vary parameters on the various pages carefully noting the effects on individual samples caused by these parameter variations As mentioned above as long as you don t save to disk you won t lose any data on the disk 3 Start making your own samples Insert a blank formatted disk into the S900 select the REC function and g...
Страница 10: ...f a two digit number is required then 9 would be entered as 09 Some parameters expect a yes no answer or a positive negative indication for these use the ON and OFF buttons Important If the LCD asks you to press ENT after altering a parameter do so To enter a name 1 When the cursor specifies a parameter that requires a name press the LETTER button The cursor will be replaced by a line under the le...
Страница 11: ...t signal will appear NOTE This must be the same number as the S900 basic MID channel selected on Page 1 if you want to trigger the S900 NOTE SELECT Point arrow at Key and use the 0 9 keys or CONTROL to enter the desired MIDI note number middle C 60h VELOCITY SELECT Point arrow at Velocity and use the 0 9 keys or CONTROL to enter the desired velocity loudness TRIGGER NOTE Press the Play parameter b...
Страница 12: ... CONTROL to scan the catalog of available programs or enter the name of the program you want to load 2 Point arrow at PR only to load only the program data Point arrow at PR Sample to load the programed samples that make up the program 3 After making your choice press ENT The disk activity light wili turn on to indicate that loading is taking place PAGE 03I LOAD SAMPLE FROM DISK 03 LOAD SAMPLE ENT...
Страница 13: ...i Disk 1 To erase a sample point arrow at Sample Turn CONTROL to select the sample to be erased Press ENT 2 To erase a program point arrow at Program Turn CONTROL to select the program to be erased Press ENT 3 After making your selection press ENT The disk activity light will indicate that erasure is taking place The Disk space in dicator will update the percentage of the disk allocated to data No...
Страница 14: ...0UDNESS INTERACTION P STflONAL CROSSFADE H2 Key loudness 00 Positional crossfade OFF KEY LOUDNESS INTERACTION This sets how much the pitch of the note being played affects the loudness 1 Point arrow at Key loudness 2 Rotate CONTROL between 50 and 50 for the desired degree of interaction With 00 Key Loudness the loudness remains constant no matter where you play on the keyboard Increasing the Key L...
Страница 15: ...nt determines the range from lowest note to highest note covered by a sample Example If you have a sample recorded at C3 MIDI note 60 and want to transpose it plus and minus one octave the low note would be C2 MIDI note 48 and the high note would be C4 MIDI note 72 If there is no soft sample which is the case if velocity threshold thus precluding the use of a loud sample see Page 04 the LCD will s...
Страница 16: ...emitones from 50 semitones up 50 or 50 semitones down 50 00 gives no transposition Note Not all samples are capable of being transposed over the full range FINE PITCH hard sample pitch Point arrow at fine Use CONTROL or the and number keys to fine tune the sample pitch up to just over a flatted fifth 99 or an equivalent amount in the downward direction 99 00 gives no pitch change PAGE 091 KEYGROUP...
Страница 17: ...ven with very hard playing at 1 28 playing hard gives strong warps 2 Point arrow at Time Use CONTROL to set the amount of time over which the warp occurs 0 short 1 28 long 3 Point arrow at Attack offset Use CONTROL or the and 0 9 keys to set total amount of pitch warp and direction Examples 00 gives no pitch warp 25 gives a slight warp from fiat to normal pitch 50 gives a strong warp from flat to ...
Страница 18: ...of these outputs Point arrow at Output Voice s Use CONTROL or enter a two digit number with the 0 9 keys as follows 00 All The keygroup audio output will appear at the Mix Out jack 01 08 Mono The keygroup output will appear at output jack 1 8 as designated This is recommended for MIDI mono mode as separate keygroups can respond to separate MIDI channels and produce separate audio outputs 09 Left T...
Страница 19: ...tes a continuous sustained tone from a short sample is an art and a science Much of this art in volves finding the proper loop points and sample length the parameters adjusted on PAGES 06 07 and 08 Fig 3 graphically shows a flute note s amplitude envelope Note how there is an attack phase as the player blows wind into the flute where the flute level builds up to full Then comes a sus tained portio...
Страница 20: ...the end a thousand sample points at a time point arrow at Coarse Use CONTROL or the 0 9 keys enter a three digit number such as 007 4S6 etc to specify the coarse end point 2 To vary the end one sample point at a time point arrow at Fine Use CONTROL or the 0 9 keys enter a three digit number such as 009 138 etc to specify the exact end point PAGE 08 LOOP LENGTH 8 LOOP LENGTH Co rs F i n A u t o S 2...
Страница 21: ...hiess splice point with no level variations The S900 cir cumvents this problem by crossfading between the two sam ples over a specified number of samples 1 st sample 2nd sample Crossfade region of splice end of first sample transitions smoothly into second sample PAGEIQJ SPLtCE X FADE select samples to be spliced name new sample 1 SPL 1 CE 2nd s a m p a name iSAMPLE 2 X FADE New s am p name NEW SA...
Страница 22: ...level When using velocity switch EDIT PROGRAM Page 04 this sample will play when velocity data is above the specified velocity switch threshold By sampling a soft instrument sound as 2 and a loud instru ment sound as 3 playing harder will produce the timbral changes associated with playing an instrument dynamically The sound will crossfade smoothly from the soft sample to the loud sample with velo...
Страница 23: ... trigger level and may be changed by turning the control As soon as you press any key on the S900 or keyboard and the signal to be sampled exceeds the set threshold sampling will begin STJEP9J SAMPLING Once sampling has been initiated an arrow in the upper LCD line will move from left to right to indicate how much sampling time has elapsed When the arrow reaches the right side of the LCD the selec...
Страница 24: ...tored on the Operation Guide Disk each one clearly explaining the features of the S900 1 WELCOME This is simply an introduction The S900 s vast memory makes high quality sound and sampling for long periods of time possi ble This program also serves as a POWER ON LOAD constant pitch demonstration 2 SAW PGM On this program saw tooth waves have been sampled and looped This program is used mainly for ...
Страница 25: ...DOUBLE TRACK DOUBLE DENSITY Interna memory 750K byte 32 Scanning ONE SHOT LOOPING ALTERNATING A D S R Velocity Attack Velocity Release Velocity cross fade Velocity switch Positional cross fade Attack pitch offset Velocity LFO delay rate depth Filter Key tracking Velocity Sample merge RS 232C or EQUIVALENT MIDI IN OUT THRU REC trigger x1 Micinput P B trigger x1 Line input P B trigger x1 Line output...
Страница 26: ...SE FINE 07 LOUD SAMPLE NAME LOW HIGH KEY L 08 LOUDNESS FILTER TRANSPOSE COARSE FINE 09 ENV ATTACK DECAY SUSTAIN RELEASE 10 VLCTY SENS LOUDNESS ATTACK FILTER RELEASE II PITCH WARP VELOCITY TIME OFFSET 12 L F O DEPTH RATE DELAY DESYNC ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF 13 LFO DEPTH AFTER TOUCH MOD WHEEL 14 KEY FILTER CONSTANT PITCH ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF ON OFF 15 MIDI CHANNEL OFFSET MIDI CH 16 OUT PUT VOICE...
Страница 27: ...orized Disk x X After Touch Key s Ch s Pitch Bender Control Change 1 64 x X O 9n V 1 127 O 9n V 0 or 8n V 1 127 x O O used Velocity release Prog Change True System Exclusive O O 0 12 Half tone step 7 bit Modulation wheel Damper pedal O 1 1 32 32 o by Preset num ber value ID 4 7 System Song Pos Song Sel Common Tune x x X X X X System Clock Real Time Commands Aux Local ON OFF A11 Notes OFF Mes Activ...
Страница 28: ...AKAI 610513B1 610605 1 Printed in Japan ...
