Akai MPC-3000 v3.0 Owners Manual.pdf - Fdiskc

Chapter 6: Creating and Editing Programsately following the attack phase. This is similar to the“envelope initial decay” parameter on most synthesizers.2. END: The decay phase of the envelope always ends exactlyat the end of the sound playback. The point at which thedecay starts is determined by the decay parameter. Thiswas called fadeout on the MPC60 and is very useful forcreating a smooth fade down just before the end of asampled sound.The Vel Mod (Velocity Modulation) section:• The Attack field:This field sets the amount of effect that note velocity has on attacktime (0-100%). If set to 0, note velocity has no effect on attack; if setto higher values, attack time will increase as you play lower velocities.That is, hitting a pad hard will produce a faster attack thanhitting it softly.• The Sft st (soft start) field:This field controls the amount of time (0-5000 ms) that will be addedto the sound’s Soft Start location when notes with low velocities arereceived. (The Soft Start field is located in the screen accessed bypressing the PROGRAM/SOUNDS key and selecting option 6 fromthe menu.) This provides a good simulation of the way a real drumsounds differently when hit softly. If you set this field above 0,hitting a pad more softly will start playback later in the sample,causing fewer attack transients to be heard. Notes with velocity = 1will add the full amount of time entered here to the Soft Startlocation; notes with velocity = 127 will add nothing; notes withvelocities in between will add time proportionately. If this field is setto 0, note velocity will have no effect on the Soft Start location.• The Volume field:This field sets the amount of effect that note velocity has on volume(0-100%). If set to 0, note velocity has no effect on volume; if set tohigher values, the volume will decrease as you play lower velocities.The Tune/Poly section:• The Tune field:This sets the tuning. The range is from -240 (-24 semitones) to 240(+24 semitones) in increments of 0.1 semitone.• The Poly field:This is a choice field with three options:1.POLY: Multiple plays of the sound are assigned to additionalvoices, allowing polyphonic overlap. This is usefulfor sounds like ride cymbals, for which you don’t wantnew notes to cut off old ones.Page 126