Operator`s manual

Chapter 1: Introduction
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New Software Concepts — More Detail
Most of the operational differences between the old and new software
should be relatively simple for veteran MPC60 users to understand, but
some changes are more complex than others. Here is additional
information about the more complex changes.
The new Programs system
Version 3 software uses a new system of sound assignments called
programs. A program is a set of 64 sound assignments and sound
modifying parameters. There are eight different programs, each with a
unique set of sound assignments to a common bank of up to 128 sounds
in memory. Only one program can be active at a time. As result of this
new system, changing a pad’s assignment from one sound to another is
done merely by changing the contents of a data field. Changing from one
entire set of sound assignments to another is done by changing the
active program number. In addition to the sound assignments, each
program contains a unique set of sound modifying parameters for each
sound assignment. These parameters include envelope, tuning, velocity
modulation, and other data. This is explained further in Chapter 6,
“Creating and Editing Programs.”
SET files are replaced by the new Program files.
In the old software, all sounds and sound assignments were saved in
one large SET file. In order to change all pad assignments, it was
necessary to load a new SET file. Because of Version 3’s new Program
system of sound assignments, SET files have been replaced by PGM
(program) files. A PGM file contains all assignment information but no
sound data. Instead, when a PGM file is saved, all sounds used by the
program are also saved as individual sound files. This new method
allows different PGM files on the same disk to use the same sound files,
eliminating the problem of saving sound data redundantly in multiple SET
files. However, SET files can be loaded—the assignments are loaded
into a program and the sounds are added to sound memory.
There is another new save operation called Save All Programs and
Sounds. This saves a file with the extension APS containing the data of
all eight programs, followed by a sound file for every sound currently in
memory.
Saving of PGM and APS files is explained further in chapter 9, “Saving
To and Loading From Disk.”
Sounds and sequenced drum notes are now assigned to note
numbers instead of to pad names.
In the old software, sounds and sequenced drum notes were assigned to
one of a number of fixed drum pad names (HIHT, SNR1, DR01, etc.) In