EDIT PROGRAM - SINGLE
Page 92 CD3000XL OperatorÕs Manual
On the S1000 and S1000 and in early versions of S2800, S3000 and S3200 software, you
needed to create a separate program, make it 1 voice polyphonic and assign it the same
program number as the rest of your drums. Now, you may do all this within one program which
you may find more convenient.
Another application for this function is when using the MONO LEGATO mode. When the
MONO LEGATO mode is switched ON, the program becomes monophonic. The limitation of
this, however, is when you play a mono legato run across a program that has several multi-
samples in different keygroups. For example, in a multi-sampled flute program, as you play
across the keygroups, those keygroup’s samples will not play and you may end up with a
situation where, in an extensive run downwards, you are playing a C5 flute sample on C2. This
would probably result in an unnatural timbre due to extreme transposition of the sample.
To overcome this, by assigning all the keygroups to the same mute group, although the
program is monophonic, as you play across each keygroup, so those keygroup’s samples will
play in turn and, in the above example, you would be correctly playing the C2 sample on C2.
The downside to this, however, is that as you cross into each keygroup, so the samples’ attack
will be re-triggered. If the attack of the samples is fairly pronounced, you may hear this but,
depending on the setting of the envelope generators, this may not be too noticeable. If,
however, the samples have no pronounced attack (i.e. in the case of raw, sampled synth
waveforms), then the transition across the keygroups will be smooth.
It is up to you to decide which is best. If accurate transposition is more important than the
samples re-triggering, then you should use the mute group function in conjunction with the
MONO LEGATO mode. If, however, the samples re-triggering every time you cross into a new
keygroup not acceptable, then maybe you should use the mono legato mode without the
mute group function although you may run into problems associated with extreme
transposition of samples. If, as mentioned, the samples do not have a pronounced attack, then
a combination of mono legato and the mute group function will give you a smooth transition
across the keygroups.
The final field on this page is . This may be switched between ONE and ALL and allows
you to edit only the keygroup selected in the field (ONE) or all
keygroups (ALL).
You may select the keygroup you want to edit in the if you wish
but you may also select the keygroup in any of the keygroup pages.

TIP: A very quick way of selecting keygroups on the CD3000XL is to press and hold the EDIT

key and play a note on the keygroup. This will select that note’s keygroup. For example, in a

program with five keygroups spanning C0-B1, C2-B2, C3-B3, C4-B4, C5-G8, playing G3 will

select keygroup 3 - i.e. the one spanning C3-B3. In the case where keygroups are layered or

overlap, pressing and holding EDIT and repeatedly playing the note will select each keygroup

in turn. This is a very fast way of selecting keygroups.

Pressing the key will take you back to the main PROGRAM EDIT screen and give you
access to the other global pages.