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Credits
PLEASE WAIT’
- please do not touch any of the buttons on the sampler and wait. transfer will continue
normally in a few seconds.
while using Millennium in combination with my sequencer, drop-outs and other
artifacts occur
- while the sampler is communicating with your PC via SCSI, it will temporarily ignore
all MIDI messages. It is fine to run a sequencer alongside Millennium, as long as you
don’t play a sequence while working with Millennium. Similarly , it is important that
you do not press any buttons on your sampler while Millennium is communicating with
your sampler (particularly when sending/receiving samples).
when I load a previously saved program in Millennium, it doesn’t load any of the
related samples, or the samples do not play
- this can happen when the samples have a space at the start of their name. Windows
does not support spaces at the start of filenames, and therefore the spaces will be
truncated. If the program still contains samplenames with the spaces in them, Millennium will not be able to find those samples.
when loading a program from an S1000 or S3000 format CD, some of the program parameters such as filter settings aren’t read properly
- because the data format differs slightly depending on which type of sampler the CD
was intended for, some settings (such as filter frequence range) can differ. When
loading the programs via your sampler, the sampler will automatically convert the file
format. Millenniun can’t do this, so therefore some of the parameters may need
adjusting after loading.
Credits
Programming and concept: Jan van Valburg
Graphics and design: Konstantine Stamatis
Testing: Clive Loseby
Thanks to everyone at the Akai mailing list
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Troubleshooting Table of Contents
If auto-extract has created a marker where there shouldn’t be one, you can delete the
marker by selecting the ‘X’ tool from the top left of the window. Select the X and then
click on the marker. The marker will shrink and the red line will disappear , signifying
that the marker has been disabled. Clicking on it again using the delete tool will reactivate it.
Table of Contents
If auto-extract has left out a marker where you would like one to be, click on the
‘pencil’ tool, and then click somewhere on the waveform. However, it’s usually better
to make the auto-extract function very sensitive.
You might find that a marker only shows up when the slider’s sensitivity is very high.
This makes it unusable though, because so many other markers will appear at high
sensitivity . When this happens, you can ‘lock’ the marker. Click on the ‘lock’ tool and
then click the marker you want to lock. Now this marker will never disappear, even
when you decrease the sensitivity . To ‘unlock’ the marker, click on it again using the
lock tool.
Once you are happy with the placing of all the markers, click ‘extract’. Millennium will
make samples with the original name with ‘-1’, ‘-2’, etc. added to the end.
note: this works with stereo samples, too.
T roubleshooting
Below is a list of problems that you may encounter, their possible causes and solutions.
.wav files aren’t being saved, or aren’t being saved in the right place.
- Check that there is enough free space on the drive you are saving to.
- The sample path feature in settings might force the samples to be saved elsewhere
1 - Introduction Page 1
2 - Installation Page 2
3 - The Memory View Page 3
4 - Editing Programs Page 9
5 - The Multi Mixer Page 13
6 - Loading and Saving Page 14
7 - The Auto Extract function Page 18
8 - Troubleshooting Page 19
9 - Credits Page 20
when using the ‘send to’ facility, windows reports ‘access denied’
- You are trying to ‘send’ too many files at once. This is a limitation of Windows. T ry
selecting less files and then try again.
when I change a program’s parameters, the changes do not seem to take effect
- In multi mode, some changes only take effects once the program you make them to
has been re-selected. Try switching your sampler into single mode and then back into
multi mode. Alternatively , try sending a program change from your sequencer to reselect the program, or simply edit the program in single-mode.
Millennium has stopped responding and the sampler displays a message ‘BUSY
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Introduction The Auto-Ext ract Function
Introduction
Thank you for purchasing Millennium Pro. Millennium is a program for Windows 95,
designed to give you the power to effortlessly control the many functions of your
sampler through a rich, comprehensive graphical interface. Apart from allowing you to
remotely control your sampler, Millennium offers a wide range of features that will
make working with your sampler much easier and much more fun. Below are some of
Millennium’s key features:
Fast and reliable sample transfers.
Millennium allows you to send multi files, programs and samples to your sampler, at
speeds that can even exceed loading them from harddisk. Because the samples are
stored in .wav format on your PC’s harddisk they are easy to edit, and together with the
.prg and .mlt files they are easy to organize.
Intuitive, fast graphical interface.
Millennium offers you pleasing graphical interfaces for editing programs, keygroups
and multi files. Instead of many presses on the page up and down buttons, simply point
at the parameter you want to change and drag it to it’s right setting. The graphical
envelope display gives a clear representation of what the envelope will sound like, and
the Multi Mixer view lets you see all the important multi settings for all your parts in
on one convenient screen.
Full sample editor integration.
Millennium allows you to integrate sample editors such as Cool Edit or Sound Forge
into your sampler. Simply double-click on the sample you want to edit, and it will be
loaded into your editor. Once you are done, the sample will automatically be sent back
into your sampler. It’s almost as if your favorite sample editor is inside your sampler.
Advanced editing features.
Millennium has many advanced features such as automatic pitch detection, automatic
BPM detection, automatic generation of drum-map programs, keygroup sorting and
removing of unused samples. Tedious operations that would normally take a long time
can be done in a matter of seconds, leaving more time to get on with the fun part of
making music.
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The Auto-Extract Function
The auto-extract function allows you to chop a sample up into smaller pieces. It can be
useful for chopping up a drum-loop into individual drum hits, or to chop up a
multisampled instrument into individual notes. This function can be accessed by rightclicking on a sample and selecting ‘auto-extract’. A window like this will be displayed:
The auto-extract function can divide a sample up into chunks. The positions that
divides one chunk from the other is called a marker. The auto-extract function will load
the sample into the PC’s memory and analyze it’s volume, placing markers at the start
of parts with high volume. The idea is that the markers will be placed at the start of
drum hits.
The markers show up on the display as red dotted lines with a small triangle at the top.
You can listen to the individual chunks by clicking on the sample between them.
You can zoom in and out of the waveform by using the + and - icons at the top of the
window .
You will see a slider at the center top of the screen. Moving this slider around will
make the auto-extract function more or less sensitive, making more or less markers
appear.
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