AKAI S950 FOR BEGINNERS

Hi To all AKAI S950 Gurus on the board ,

like to start a Beginners Quick Start on S950 thread:)


Just got mine few days ago and struglin' between long confusing manual and self trial and error experimentation.

Question 1)

DEFAULT TONE PROGRAM and OWN CUSTOM PROGRAMS:

When S950 boots up it loads a TONE program by default that plays a sine wave sound across
all range,

When i create my own program with samples mapped to MPC1000 Bank A 16 pads

I still can hear the TONE program playing along with my Program Samples when i hit the pads on MPC100...??!

So i tried to erase, mute or deselect TONE program but it still comes out trough Stereo output of
S950 ...

What am i doing wrong and how to properly create custom Program to play samples via Stereo
output of S950 without TOne program and that the samples dont cut each other off as opposed to
assigning them to a individual MONO outputs?

i have followed DFACE video tutorial on Youtube withch is nice but doesnt cover that TONE program problem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXP13duwPaY


sorry if its a basic question

thanks in advance
jazzroom

Erase the program. The keygroups of the tone program maybe assigned to the same midi channel. I have a template program on disk I always mount before booting up. The s950 will automaticaly load up that program stored on ur disk.

I have set everything to the same midichannel. 32 keygroups in chromatic order with the outputs already assigned to them.

Then it's just a matter of recording the sample, copy it, truncate the parts u don't want and assign them to the keygroups. From here the programming and the sequencing starts.

Getting that filtered bassline is very easy on the 950. Just copy the keygroups of the samples. Filter the copyed samples and mix it together with ur mixer.


PS. The outputs are just monophonic. No way to work around that. U can use the stereo outs, pan one hard left and the other hard to the right to create 10 outputs.

jazzroom wrote:Hi To all AKAI S950 Gurus on the board... like to start a Beginners Quick Start on S950 thread:)

Sorry to spoil the party here jazz, but MPC Studio Environments is the place to go for what you want.

Check out my post in the following thread for some useful Akai S950 stuff.

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=133297

Reply to any of the threads I have listed, no real need to start a new one.