Operator`s manual

224 Version 1.21
UTILITIES /
EXT APM CONTROL You may select any one of the 128 MIDI control parameters to be used
as a controller in the APM matrix (see Appendix A for a full listing of
these).
AFTERTOUCH This is a ‘system-wide’ parameter that allows you to select whether the
S6000 responds to CHANNEL or POLYPHONIC aftertouch.
With channel aftertouch, pressing harder on one note will affect all notes
that are held. With polyphonic aftertouch, pressing harder on one note
affects only that note. Polyphonic aftertouch is therefore much more
expressive, especially with ensemble sounds such as strings or brass
where one voice can be made brighter or louder or to have more vibrato,
whatever.
Your MIDI keyboard (or other controller) must be capable of generating
polyphonic aftertouch for this to work. If your keyboard or controller only
generates channel aftertouch (as most aftertouch-equipped keyboards
do) and you select polyphonic aftertouch in this parameter, you will get
no aftertouch at all. This is because the MIDI commands for channel
aftertouch are not recognised by polyphonic aftertouch and are therefore
ignored.
At the bottom of the screen are 32 (1-16A and 1-16B) ‘PPMs’ meters that allow you to monitor
incoming MIDI. This can be useful for troubleshooting. Also shown above these is whether or not
MIDI clock is being received. Its tempo is also shown although, if MIDI clock is not being received,
it shows the default 120BPM.
MIDI FILTER
Pressing this will show this screen:
This page allows you to selectively filter out certain types of MIDI events on selected MIDI channels.
This can help to reduce bottlenecks at the MIDI inputs and therefore help to keep note-on delays
to a minimum.
The MIDI event types are selected using F2/F10 for note-on, F3/F11 for aftertouch, F4/F12 for
wheels (pitchbend and modwheel) and F4/F13 for MIDI volume. The channels are selected using
the CURSOR </> keys. Use the DATA wheel to turn them on and off.
With the cursor on ALL, you can disable the selected MIDI event on all channels.
Use MIDI A and MIDI B (F14 and F15) to select the MIDI input.