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EDIT PROGRAM - SINGLE

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KEYGROUP ZONES

Within each keygroup, you may assign up to four samples in what are referred to as

ZONES. These can be used for a number of things that include velocity switching and

crossfading, playback of stereo samples and layering.

To playback stereo samples or to layer sounds or just to do a simple velocity switch/xfade,

you could have something like this:

KG1 KG2 KG3 KG4 KG5

Here we have five keygroups, each with two zones being used. You could use this type of

assignment for playing back stereo samples where the left and right samples are

assigned to their own zones (1 and 2 respectively) in one keygroup and each zone is

panned hard left and hard right. As an example, you could have five stereo string

samples each sampled at G on every octave which could be assigned into such a

program.

This kind of program is also suitable for layering sounds on top of each other. In the

above example, four synth samples could be mapped out on the keyboard (one for each

octave, perhaps) and zone 2 of each keygroup could also contain the same sample as

zone 1 and these could be panned and detuned for a fat, pseudo stereo layered synth

sound. Of course, each zone could have different synth sounds in them.

This type of program is also suitable for a two way velocity switch - by setting zone 1 of

each keygroup to a velocity range of 0-90 and setting zone 2 to 91-127, you could, for

example switch between a thumbed bass and a slapped bass or a normal snare hit and a

rim shot using velocity.

To round things off, each keygroup has no less than four zones and a program may ‘look’

something like this:

KG1 KG2 KG3 KG4 KG5

Here, we have five keygroups, each using the four zones. This may be for a four way

velocity switch or for velocity switching between two stereo samples or for layering four

samples together.

The ultimate program, would be for each key to have its own keygroup with each

keygroup containing four samples using a four way velocity switch!

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Akai CD3000XL Operator's Manual Page 58