Kurzweil KDFX, Manual

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A Tour of KDFX
A Simple Studio
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The four Insert FX Buses have 4 PAUs to share among them, so if any bus uses more than one
PAU, it means that some buses cannot be assigned an FX Preset. This is a very common
situation, as you shall see. The Auxiliary FX Bus has its own set of 3 PAUs, which are
completely independent and not shared with the insert FX Bus PAUs.
You can Òpre-assignÓ a PAU value to an FX Bus, in which case any FX Presets that require more
PAUs than you have given the bus cannot be loaded into the bus. If you try to put an FX Preset
into a bus that requires more PAUs than are currently available on that bus, the PresetÕs name
appears in parenthesesÑthe same way a K2500 multi-layer drum program is displayed if you
try to access it on a non-drum channel.
Most often, the Allocation parameter will be set to ÒAutoÓ, in which case PAUs are assigned
dynamically as you assign FX Presets to the various buses. As you de-assign FX Presets to
buses, or assign FX Presets with smaller PAU requirements, the PAUs freed up are
automatically re-assigned to other buses where they are needed.
Input Editor
Press the soft button labelled INPUT . This page appears:
This is the input editor . It is showing input A, as indicated both on the left side and in the
upper right cornerÑuse the Chan/Bank buttons to view the other three inputs. Input A is the
ÒKDFX-AÓ stereo signal pair coming from the output of the K2500 Program Editor. In this case,
itÕs our piano program.
The ÒSÓ at the upper left says that the A input is being handled as a stereo feed; this can be
changed to two mono feeds. The ÒPÓ means that the stereo feed has a Pan control; you can
choose to make this a Balance control instead, by setting this parameter to ÒSBÓ
If you play on the keyboard, you can see the arrow next to the letter ÒAÓ ßashing, as audio is
being passed through this part of the Studio. The arrow on this page ßashes only as long as
there is an input signal present.
EditStudio:INPUT||||||||||||<>Input:||A|
||A||LoShelf||HiShelf||FXBus1||None
|||G:0.0dB||G:6.0dB||Lvl:-6.0d
|||F:123Hz||F:1568Hz|Pan:0%
|||||||||||||||||||||Wid:100%
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