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Kurzweil MARK 12 V2.0 - ADDENDUM User Manual

Summary of MARK 12 V2.0 - ADDENDUM

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    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 1 kurzweil mark 152/12 version 2.0 in our ongoing effort at kurzweil to make your musical experience on the mark 152/12 as rewarding as possible, we have made a number of improve- ments and added several new features to the instrument. This document desc...

  • Page 2: Table of Contents

    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 2 table of contents auto accompaniment page style editor ......................................................................................................................... 4 understanding styles .......................................................

  • Page 3: Table of Contents

    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 3 table of contents (continued) edu-games rhythm copycat .............................................................................................................. 17 rhythm copycat parameters ............................................................

  • Page 4: Auto Accompaniment

    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 4 auto accompaniment style editor auto accompaniment style editor the mark 12 allows you to create your own musical accompaniments, using any of the sounds available, in whatever style you want. Press edit style to activate the style editor, which provid...

  • Page 5

    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 5 auto accompaniment style editor some fun, too! Auto accompaniment gives you the ability to play more music than you thought you could. (see pages 28-31 in your user’s manual for further information on styles). A mark 12 style is made up of many separat...

  • Page 6

    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 6 auto accompaniment style editor chord style chord section major major minor minor augmented major diminished minor suspended fourth major no third major major with flat fifth major seventh dominant major seventh major minor seventh minor seventh with s...

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    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 7 auto accompaniment style editor you may press any sound category button or the variation or user variation buttons to change the sound. You may also press the soft button under “sound” to see the menu of sounds associated with the specific sound catego...

  • Page 8

    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 8 auto accompaniment style editor press start/stop again to stop the recording, or use the part buttons to change the part you’re working on, without leaving the recording process. This allows you to build up the style section in an interactive way, addi...

  • Page 9

    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 9 auto accompaniment style editor copying a style for editing pressing the copy style soft button provides a menu like this: copy style to user style big band 1 copy you can choose to import individual tracks by selecting the middle soft button and choos...

  • Page 10

    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 10 auto accompaniment style editor the options soft button provides the following menu: chord sect start measure length major 1 4 measures the chord section and length parameters have the same meaning as in style recording. If the length is less than the...

  • Page 11

    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 11 auto accompaniment style editor volume you can vary the relative volume of style parts. You can adjust the volume from 0% to 100%. To return to the default setting, press the up and down buttons at the same time. Pan stereo panning may be adjusted usi...

  • Page 12: New ‘Auto Chord’ Feature

    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 12 auto accompaniment style editor style key of composition (transpose) the style player on the mark 12 works on the assumption that the style music itself is composed in the key of c; this allows the style player to transpose the style on playback to ma...

  • Page 13: Recorder

    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 13 recorder event editor recorder song track features the song track menu in the recorder section has a new look. When you press edit song in the recorder section and the menu button the following menu will be displayed: editing track 1 edit copy delete ...

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    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 14 recorder event editor to move around events in the track you can use the next or next/up and next/down button combinations. The fast forward and rewind buttons will move forward and backward respectively in the track and will move in increments of one...

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    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 15 recorder event editor controller controllers represent the virtual controls that the mark 12 uses to adjust the music you hear. Examples are volume, stereo pan, sustain pedal, soft pedal. The display shows the controller name and an associated value. ...

  • Page 16: Recording A Tempo Track

    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 4/98 version 16 recorder miscellaneous changes/features recording a tempo track you can now record a tempo track (sometimes referred to as a conductor track) along with your song data on the mark 12. This special track has no musical notes or midi controllers o...

  • Page 17: Edu-Games

    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 17 edu-games changes/features edu-games rhythm copycat one of the most basic elements of music is rhythm, and this game can help you learn to hear and reproduce rhythmic patterns on the keyboard. Rhythm copycat is based on simple beat patterns, ranging f...

  • Page 18: Rhythm Builder

    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 18 edu-games changes/features rhythm builder moving beyond simple repetition, rhythm builder gives you the chance to hear how various beats might be put together to make real music. Rhythm builder is based on the same sort of beat patterns found in rhyth...

  • Page 19: Scale Tester

    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 19 edu-games changes/features scale tester another basic concept in music theory is the scale. You may already have had a little exposure to scales in the single note copycat game, but this game really gives you the chance to play scales directly. The ma...

  • Page 20: Miscellaneous New Features

    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 20 miscellaneous new features miscellaneous new features octave shift the octave shift button now functions similarly to other mark 12 buttons. Press the button once to turn on the shift mode; the led in the button lights to indicate this. The two halves...

  • Page 21: Disk Load/save

    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 21 miscellaneous new features disk load/save there are now three pages to the load menu. The new page provides this display: disk load all songs all styles all files these changes also apply to the save menu. Key touch adjustment using pedals when using ...

  • Page 22: New Midi Master Page

    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 22 miscellaneous new features panel memory reset you can reset the mark 12 back to its default operating state by pressing and holding the panel 1 button, and then pressing the grand piano button. All the options that are gener- ally stored in a panel me...

  • Page 23: Enhanced Harmony Feature

    Kurzweil mark 12 user’s guide addendum 910320 23 miscellaneous new features enhanced harmony feature the harmony feature has been enhanced. The menus for harmony type selection now feature three harmony types per page. You can move between the pages with the next button, as in other menus. The fourt...