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TRIGGERING TAKES FROM MIDI

This powerful function of the S3000XL’s disk recording capabilities allows you to

simultaneously playback audio from the hard disk whilst sequencing programs in the

S3000XL. To set a up a list of takes for MIDI triggering, press the SONG key (F2 in all disk

record pages) to get the following screen:

This shows a blank, empty song or take list. To create a new list of takes, press F2 again.

This takes you to the S.ED or SONG EDIT page where you may assemble your list.

Pressing gives you this display:

Here we can see that the first take is blank and has some default parameters assigned to

it. Assign your takes as described above and edit the parameters if necessary.

USING MIDI TRIGGERING

The method for assembling a list of takes for triggering from MIDI is described above.

Once you have set up a series of takes for MIDI triggering, simply sending the appropriate

MIDI notes on the selected channel(s) will cause them to play back. Typically, a list of

takes for MIDI triggering may look something like this:

Here we can see a typical setup for spinning in material over a sequenced backing track.

We can see that there are two backing vocal recordings which will trigger when they

receive C1 and C#1 and a guitar solo will start to playback on C3 with a brass riff playing

off C4. All the takes are on MIDI channel 16 although, in practice, there is nothing to stop

you setting different MIDI channels for some or all of the takes. For example, you could

have set the backing vocals to MIDI channel 15, the guitar solo to MIDI channel 14 and

the brass riff on MIDI channel 16. In this way, you can reserve tracks on your sequencer

especially for certain audio parts. This may be useful if you need to slip parts using the

track shift function on your sequencer.

In the above example, you can see that some takes have fades set for them. This facility

is useful for ‘softening’ the start and end points of a take whose edit may be a bit abrupt.

The range for both fade in and fade out times are 10 seconds (actually 9999 milliseconds

but who’s counting one millisecond!). To soften an abrupt attack or end, fades of around

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