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Kurzweil K2600 - MUSICIANS GUIDE REV A PART NUMBER 910330 CHAP 10 Manual

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  • Page 1

    Midi mode the transmit page 10-1 chapter 10 midi mode press the midi-mode button to enter midi mode. There are three pages in midi mode: ¥ transmit (xmit soft button) ¥ receive (recv soft button) ¥ channels (chanls soft button) youÕll use these pages to determine what midi messages the k2600 transmi...

  • Page 2

    10-2 midi mode the transmit page rack-model owners, keep in mind that only the program change type, program change, and buttons parameters operate as programmed if the localkbdch parameter on the receive page does not match the transmit channel of your midi controller. If you set them to match, the ...

  • Page 3

    Midi mode the transmit page 10-3 patch thru featureÑalso known as play thru, and soft thruÑis on. This will prevent the k2600Õs midi signal from looping back on itself, which can cause problems. If you deactivate your sequencerÕs patch thru feature, set the control parameterÕs value to both , and th...

  • Page 4

    10-4 midi mode the transmit page buttons (bttns) if you set the value of the buttons parameter to on , the system exclusive (sysex) messages generated by your button presses are sent to the midi out port. This enables you to do two things: control a remote k2600 (or earlier model), and record sequen...

  • Page 6

    10-6 midi mode the receive page all notes off if this parameterÕs value is set to normal, the k2600 responds to all notes off messages received over midi. Ignore causes these messages to be ignored. If youÕre using a roland product as a midi controller for your k2600, youÕll want to set the value of...

  • Page 7

    Midi mode the receive page 10-7 bend smooth this parameter can improve your k2600Õs performance when youÕre driving it from a midi guitar controller. Its default value is on. You may Þnd that pitch bending seems to carry over from the previous note to the next note, causing it to start on the wrong ...

  • Page 8

    10-8 midi mode the receive page this enables you to receive the messages listed in the Þrst column of table 10-1 from a midi source, and remap them to whatever values are available for the parameters listed in the second column. The third column lists the studio-editor page where each parameter appe...

  • Page 9: The Channels Page

    Midi mode the channels page 10-9 bank select bankselect allows you to choose between having the k2600 respond to controller 0 or controller 32 or both. The reason for this is that various manufacturers have chosen one method or the other. The four possible values for this parameter are: 0 only respo...

  • Page 11: Program Change Formats

    Midi mode program change formats 10-11 volume this sets the volume for any program assigned to the currently selected channel. A value of 0 is silence, and a value of 127 is full volume. The value of this parameter will change in response to midi volume (midi 07) messages, unless the vollock paramet...

  • Page 12

    10-12 midi mode program change formats next, the k2600 gives you 999 program change numbers to work with. These are organized into ten banks of 100 each (the memory banks). A programÕs object id is its program change number, as discussed on page 5-2. This makes it easy to keep track of your programs...

  • Page 13

    Midi mode program change formats 10-13 0Ð9. The next pch in the range 0Ð99 will select the correspondingly numbered program in the newly selected bank. The following table of examples should help make it clear. Kurzweil program changes when you use the kurzweil program change format, youÕll use pch ...

  • Page 14

    10-14 midi mode program change formats quick access banks—extended (qa ext) using this setting is similar to using the extended program change format, but it goes one step further. Incoming program change commands are interpreted just as they are in the normal extended format. But the resulting prog...

  • Page 15

    Midi mode program change formats 10-15 if the zeros memory bank is currently selected remember that in the zeros memory bank, the quick access bank ids go through 75. So if the zeros memory bank is the current memory bank, you can send mc 0 or 32 values as high as 7 for the bank range command. And y...

  • Page 16

    10-16 midi mode program change formats gm programs. When you load the Þles (actually one Þle split over two ßoppies), the k2600 loads the programs into the memory bank you select, and also loads them into quick-access banks, with the programs ordered so that they respond correctly to program change ...

  • Page 17

    Midi mode the soft buttons in midi mode 10-17 the soft buttons in midi mode the Þrst three soft buttons select the three midi-mode pages. The prgchg soft button lets you send a program change command on any midi channel. The rsetch soft button lets you return all channel parameters to their default ...

  • Page 18

    10-18 midi mode the soft buttons in midi mode youÕve set the channel and the program change number, press the send soft button to send the program change command. Or press the cancel soft button if you donÕt want to send it. You can change the channel and the program number as many times as you want...