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Page 54 CD3000XL OperatorÕs Manual
USING MULTI MODE TO SET KEYBOARD SPLITS
Using the same techniques for layering programs described above, you may also set key splits.
For example, you may have an acoustic bass sample and a piano which you want to set up so
that the bottom two octaves play the bass sound and the upper three octaves the piano.
Assign the bass to one part and the piano to another and set both parts to the same MIDI
channel. Now go to the RANGE page and in the bass part, set the to C 0 and the
to B2 and in the piano part, set the to C 3 and the to G 8. You will
now have the following keysplit:
BASS
PIANO PART 1
PART 2
MIDI Ch 1
MIDI Ch 1
C 0 B 2
C 3 G 8
You could take this a stage further and add strings to the whole things. I.e.:
BASS
PIANO PART 1
PART 2
MIDI Ch 1
MIDI Ch 1
C 0 B 2
C 3 G 8
STRINGS PART 3 MIDI Ch 1
C 0 G 8
You could create an even more sophisticated split:
BASS
PIANO PART 1
PART 2
MIDI Ch 1
MIDI Ch 1
C 0 B 2
C 3
G 8
PART 3 MIDI Ch 1
C 5
B 4
BRASS
In this example, we have bass on the bottom octaves, piano between C3 and B4 with some
brass on the very top octaves.
There are even more possibilities. For example, by putting the piano into PART 4 as well on the
same MIDI channel and detuning it against PART 1, you could create a ‘honky tonk’ piano
effect on MIDI channel 1. Similarly, if the bass part is a synth bass instead of acoustic bass, you
could also assign that same bass sound into PART 5, set the same MIDI channel and LO/HI key
ranges as PART 2, detune it and pan it hard left and hard right to create a pseudo stereo
detuned synth bass sound in the bottom octaves.
The possibilities are almost endless (up to the 16 part limit in fact)!