Kurzweil K2500RS, Musician'S Manual

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Program Mode and the Program Editor
The Program Editor—Pages
6-16
When set before the end point, it is used as an alternate start (the Alt point can be before or after
the normal Start point). When set after the end it is used as an alt end.
If you place the Alt point after the initial attack transients of the sample, then you can use the
Alt Switch to emulate legato playing in an acoustic instrument. As an example, set the Keymap
to "#14 Flute". Now set the Alt Switch parameter to Chan St (Channel State). Now if you play
notes separately, the initial breathy chiff will be heard. But if you play the notes legato
(connecting them smoothly), the Alt point is used and you do not hear the chiff. This is because
the Chan St is turned on as long as any note is being held. Most of the K2vxÕs ROM samples
have their Alt points set for purposes of legato play. In most cases the difference in attacks is
subtle, but for some sounds, like drums, the difference can be more noticeable.
For more information, refer to the discussion of the TRIM pageÕs Alt point on page 15--14.
Playback Mode
This gives you four options for manipulating the samples in the current layer as you trigger
them. Normal leaves the samples unaffected, while Reverse plays them in reverse. At a value of
Reverse, the samples will continue to loop as long as notes are sustained. To play them just once
in reverse, you would adjust the length of the layerÕs amplitude envelope (explained later in
this chapter). BiDirect (bidirectional) causes the samples to loop inÞnitely, alternating between
normal and reversed playback. Finally, Noise replaces the samples with a white noise
generator.
The PITCH Page
Press the PITCH soft button, and the PITCH page will appear. These parameters adjust the
pitch (playback rate) of the samples after the root has been selected by the keymap.
EditProg:PITCH|||||||||||||<>Layer:1/1||
Coarse: 0ST|||||||| |Src1||:OFF|||||||||||
Fine||:0ct|||||||||Depth|:0ct|||||||||||
FineHz:|0.00Hz|||||Src2||:OFF|||||||||||
KeyTrk:0ct/key|||||DptCtl:MWheel||||||||
VelTrk:0ct|||||||||MinDpt:0ct|||||||||||
|||||| | |||||| | |||||M a xDpt:0 c t||||| | |||||
<more| | ALG||| | LAYER| | KEYMAP | PITCH| | more>
PARAMETER RANGE OF VALUES DEFAULT
COARSE ADJUST –120 to 60 ST (semitones) 0
FINE ADJUST (cts)
±
100 cents 0
FINE ADJUST (Hz)
±
6 Hz 0
KEY TRACKING
±
2400 cents per key 0
VELOCITY TRACKING
±
7200 cents per key 0
SOURCE 1 Control Source list OFF
DEPTH
±
7200 cents 0
SOURCE 2 Control Source list OFF
DEPTH CONTROL Control Source list MWheel
MINIMUM DEPTH
±
7200 cents 0
MAXIMUM DEPTH
±
7200 cents 0
These parameters were described in the section on common DSP control parameters earlier in
this chapter, so we wonÕt repeat them here, but a word about the Fine Hz parameter is in order.