User manual AKAI S950

[. . . ] WARNING Power requirements Power requirements for electrical equipment differ from area to area. Please ensure that your machine meets the power requirements m your area. 50Hz for UK and Australia Precautions FOR CUSTOMERS IN THE UK IMPORTANT FOR YOUR SAFETY What you should know to protect yourself and the Akai S950. Watch out!You might get an electric shock Never touch the plug with wet hands. [. . . ] Data can be input using the CONTROL knob or the keypad. The default settings have been sensibly chosen on this page and it is often unecessary to have to change any of them. As a result, you can go to the next page which displays: >12 WARP *Velocity 0 #KG# *Attack offset +00 Time 99 This allows you to add a pitch sweep to a note's attack so that the sound starter slightly sharp or flat depending on the settings of this page. This can be used to create more realistic brass, sax and vocal and choir effects as well as a whole variety of special effects. It can also be used to add pitch bend to drums to add some 'zest' to a badly tuned kit. Data is input in the usual way by selecting the required keygroup and moving the coursor across the display using the 'cursor > and/or <' -buttons and entering numeric values using the CONTROL knob or the keypad. The various fields offer the following facilities. VELOCITY: This field allows you to vary the effect of pitch warp using keyboard attack velocity. Of course, this parameter will have no effect regardless of its settings if the ATTACK OFFSET field described below is set to 00. TIME: This sets the length of time the pitch bend takes. 0 = short with pitch bend times getting longer with higher settings. ATTACK OFFSET: This sets the amount of pitch sweep. -50> give an upwards rising pitch sweep whereby the pitch slides up to the note and positive going effects (i. e. +50> have the opposite effect with the pitch sliding down to the note. The next page is also concerned with pitch sweep effects and is where you can set the parameters for the Low Frequency oscillator or LFO. The page rends: >13 LFO fKG# (Depth #Rate *Delay +Desync 0 42 64 ON where # is the currently selected keygroup. As usual, data can be input by selecting the appropriate keygroup and moving the cursor to the required fields using the 'cursor < and/or >' buttons and then setting parameters using the CONTROL wheel or the keypad. The functions are fairly self-explanatory and are: 40 DEPTH: This sets the amount of LFO sweep. 0 = no effect with modulation depth increasing with higher numeric values. With any value higher than 1, the LFO effect will be n permanent part of the sound. RATE: This sets the speed of the LFO pitch sweep. 0 = very slow and the LFO rate gets faster as you increase the settings (note: the ranges of 30-45 are recommended for typical vibrato effects). [. . . ] The world of modern music is very exciting right now. It's not only synths that have microprocessors In them but reverb, other effects devices and mixers also have them so, using MIDI, It is possible to have your keyboard controlling them as well - using a sequences synchronised to a timecode on a mufti-track tape, it is possible to run the mufti-track with acoustic instruments and vocals and have as many as sixteen or more sequenced synths, samplers and modules being mixed in 'live' whilst the sequences also controls effects switching AND the mix levels for a fully automated mixdown. The older synths with their voltage control were good, but they weren't that good!! 83 ADDENDUM FOR S950 MANUAL The 5950 is not capable of recognizing sounds that were defined as soft samples on an 5950 (i. e. any samples that have the "j<" symbol after the sample name). [. . . ]