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EDIT PROGRAM /

A positive setting is the normal selection and this effect is particularly

useful for simulating percussion instruments (try it with a bass drum)

because if you play hard, you hear the initial attack but if you play softly,

you don’t. Thus you can add more or less attack and ‘stick noise’ to the

sound using velocity. It can also be very effective with such instruments

as a heavily bowed cello - by setting a high positive value, hard keystrokes

will play the aggressive bowing whilst soft keystrokes will not. The same

could be done with overblown saxes or flutes, even synth sounds that

have a pronounced attack.

It is also recommended to use this with the VELOCITY > ATTACK

parameter found in the AMPLITUDE ENVELOPE (see later in this

section).

PLAYBACK As per the main ZONES page.

SELECTING AND EDITING ZONES

This is not unlike the MULTI mode where you first select a part using the soft keys on the left and

then editing them using the parameter keys on the right, opening windows if necessary. So, for

example, to transpose Zone 2 by an octave, press F3, press FINE TUNE (F12) and then press the

WINDOW key (or press F12 again) to open the window where you can set the SEMITONE TUNE.

Close the window when you’ve finished.

TIP: When you select a keygroup zone using F1-4, if you now go to EDIT SAMPLE, the

sample in the selected zone is automatically selected for editing.

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