User manual AKAI S20

[. . . ] WARNING WARNING The S20 is designed to be used in a standard household environment. Power requirements for electrical equipment vary from area to area. Please ensure that your S20 meets the power requirements in your area. If in doubt, consult a qualified electrician or Akai Professional dealer. [. . . ] In Play mode you can play 16 banked samples using bank keys or other controls on the main panel. You can also use the unit as a MIDI sound module in this mode. Playback with Bank Keys Load the "Sound DISK #I" supplied. When the sample data is finished loading, LEDs for each bank containing samples will light up. Pressing any lit bank key plays the assigned sample. Playback with Hold Feature By using HOLD/LOOP, a sample set to LOOP ON can repeatedly be played after releasing its bank key. With the following examples use "Sound DISK #1". See page 36 for data loading. Note: Banks that are set to LOOP OFF (ONE SHOT) will not produce repeated playback when their bank keys and HOLD/LOOP are pressed. · Making a Sound layer · Press the bank 1 key followed by HOLD/LOOP for a drum loop. · Press the bank 2 key followed by HOLD/LOOP for a bass phrase layered on the drum. · Press the bank 3 key followed by HOLD/LOOP for a synthesizer phrase layered on the drum and bass. · Pressing ALL STOP stops all playback of currently looped sample phrases. Note: The S20 can play up to 8 samples at a time. When you attempt to play nine or more samples, samples currently playing will stop in the order specified with PRIORITY (See page 32. ). S20 - Version 1. 00 17 Play Mode · Switching to Another Loop · Press the bank I key followed by HOLD/LOOP for a drum loop. Consecutively press the bank 2 key followed by HOLD/LOOP for a bass phrase layered on the drum. Press HOLD/LOOP followed by the bank 3 key; The drum and bass loops stop and you have only the synthesizer loop from bank 3. Pressing ALL STOP stops all playback that currently loops. Press HOLD/LOOP along with the bank 1 key. Press HOLD/LOOP along with the bank 2 key. Press the bank 3 key along with HOLDILOOP. Press ALL STOP. · · Canceling Loop Playback · ALL STOP Pressing this key stops all current playback regardless of looping or non-looping samples. · STOP Pressing this key stops a selected sample. · Press the bank I key followed by HOLD/LOOP for a drum loop, press the bank 2 key followed by HOLD/ LOOP, and press the bank 3 key followed by HOLD/LOOP for a triple loop of the drum, bass and synthesizer samples. · Pressing the bank 1 key along with STOP stops only the drum loop; The other two samples go on looping. Press the bank 1 key along with STOP 18 S20 - Version L00 Play Mode Reversing a Sample Pressing REVERSE along with a bank key plays the sample in reverse. When REVERSE is released, the playback becomes normal. For a sample that normally plays as "A, B, C, D, E, F, G", pressing REVERSE at "F" results in "E, D, C, B. . . If REVERSE is released at "B", the playback becomes normal (as "C, D, E, F. . . ") at that point. Hint. When you reverse a sample with LOOP OFF, you obtain the best result by pressing its bank key with REVERSE already held down. Note: Pressing REVERSE does not affect loops that are currently on hold with their bank keys released. S20 - Version L00 19 Sampling Sampling Sampling refers to a series of processes that transforms an analog waveform into digital data and stores it into memory; It consists of sampling, quantizing and digitizing. [. . . ] Using the MIDI note offset value for each panel key, you can control other panel keys using a two octave range on the keyboard. · Recording Panel Key Operations to the Sequencer With "NOTE ASSIGN-0N", you can record a serees of selected panel buttons to an external MIDI sequencer and play it back. This allows you to reproduce the panel key operations by playing back the recorded data from an external sequencer. (Note that the MIDI output channel on the S20 is fixed to "1 ". ) When doing this, it is impotant to set the same base key note when you record and play the performance. Otherwise, you will not have correct playback. [. . . ]