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Chapter 6: Creating and Editing Programs
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The fifth and sixth lines now contain four additional fields—
two decay thresholds and two new note number assignments.
These fields are used to play one of three sounds depending
on the envelope decay setting:
1. If the received note’s envelope decay is less than or
equal to the value in the first If over field, then only
the sound selected in the Sound field plays.
2. If the received note’s envelope decay is greater than
the value in the first If over field but less than or equal
to the value in the second If over field, then only the
note number selected in the first use field plays.
3. If the received note’s envelope decay is greater than
the value in the second If over field, then only the
sound assigned to the note number selected in the
second use field plays.
(The second If over field is limited to values at least
one higher than the first If over field.)
COMMENT: This feature is provided primarily to emulate the
way the Hi-hat Decay Slider worked with the old software.
Whenever the Hi-hat pad on an MPC60 with old software is
played, one of three different sounds (closed, loose or open
hi-hat) plays depending on the slider position. Also, the slider
varies the envelope decay time of the selected sound. With
the Version 3 software, this same function can be achieved
by selecting DCY SW in the Mode field. Because Note
Variation decay data in sequenced drum notes override the
program’s envelope decay setting, the data will also
determine which of three sounds (e.g., closed, medium and
open hi-hats) will play while simultaneously varying envelope
decay of the selected sound. If an MPC60 SET file is loaded
from disk, these parameters are automatically set to emulate
the behaviour of the old Hi-hat Decay Slider as part of the
conversion to a Version 3 program.
COMMENT: Regardless of which pad plays, the individual
program parameter data (tuning, envelope, velocity data, etc.)
for each of the three note numbers are used but only the main
note number’s mixer data (mix volume and pan, output
assignment, and output/echo send level) are used. The
advantage of this is that it is only necessary to adjust the
volume and pan, for example, of the main sound in the mix
instead of all three sounds.
Soft keys:
• The <Play> soft key:
Pressing this key has the same effect as playing the selected note
number at full velocity.
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