AKAI S20
Owner's Manual

S20 Basics

S20 Basics
Your S20 can easily record any source sounds from a CD; It can take samples of acoustic instruments such as piano, strings, percussion, etc., or sound effects such as wind, rain, human voice, etc. These or other sounds can easily be fed to the S20 as long as they are in the form of audio signals that can be connected to the S20's INPUT. Once these sounds have been recorded or sampled, you can simply play them using the 16 bank keys or an external MIDI keyboard. Also, these samples can be edited using several edit parameters like BEAT LOOP FUNCTION that enables tempo-matched looping.

Banks
The S20 provides 16 banks, into each of which you can record a sample or load sample data from sound library disks. Each bank has edit parameters such as looping, level, pitch, etc.

Memory
Your S20 comes with 1-megabyte of RAM installed. A portion of the S20's memory is used in the operating system. Its remaining memory is used for the user area where you can record or load up to 14 seconds of mono sample data sampled at 32 kHz. You can display the total sampling time by pressing the up cursor key in Play mode; Other cursor keys display the remaining free memory display. You can use the total sampling time (user area) freely for each of 16 banks; One bank can use up all the user memory or several banks can share it, as shown in the following illustrations. Example 1: All memory used for bank 1 only.

*In this case, you can no longer record or load in other banks.

S20 - Version 1.00

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