Performance Features
Muting and Soloing
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Muting and Soloing
Setups can give you a nice thick sound, with a different program in each of the four setup zones
(you can arrange the zones so that they all play on different parts of the keyboard, or you can
have them all overlap). You can make your setups even more versatile by muting or soloing
zones, changing the sound by pressing a single button.
Muting
You can mute any or all zones in a setup. Muting one zone has no effect on the other zones. To
mute (or unmute) a zone, it must be the current zone (the bottom line of the display shows the
number of the current zone, followed by the name of the program assigned to that zone). When a
zone is current, each press of its zone button toggles between muting and unmuting. If a zone is
not the current zone, press its zone button
twice
to mute or unmute the zone (the first press
makes the zone current, then each subsequent press toggles between muting and unmuting).
Soloing
Not surprisingly, you can solo only one zone at a time, and that’s the only zone you’ll hear,
regardless of the status of the other zones. When you press the
Solo
button, whatever zone was
current at the time becomes the soloed zone (the LED in its zone button turns red). Once the
Solo
button is on, pressing any zone button once solos that zone.
The AutoSplit Feature
Muting and soloing are slightly different depending on whether the AutoSplit feature is on.
When it’s on, a soloed zone expands to cover the entire keyboard--it doesn’t matter what the
settings are for the AutoSplit key or for the zones low and high notes (key range). Similarly, if
you mute both of the zones above the AutoSplit key, the zones below the AutoSplit key expand
to cover the entire keyboard, and vice versa. This is great for performance situations, because you
can use the whole keyboard no matter which zone(s) you’re using.
If you press the octave shift button (
SW1
) when the AutoSplit Feature is on, it transposes the
layers in the lower part of the keyboard up one octave, and transposes the layers in the upper
part of the keyboard down one octave.
When AutoSplit is off, soloed zones remain within the limits defined by the setup. Likewise,
unmuted zones stay within their limits if you mute both of the zones on the other side of the split
point. This silences part of the keyboard, which isn’t as useful as it could be.
By default, AutoSplit is on in the internal setup, enabling you to make quick layers and splits at
any time when you’re in Program mode (we recommend that you leave it this way). All of the
factory setups have AutoSplit turned
off
, and when you save a quick layer or split, the resulting
setup also has AutoSplit turned off. You can turn it back on for any setup, however, as described
on page 4-20.
There’s one more thing to remember about AutoSplit. When you make a quick layer or split,
you’re in a kind of transition between Program mode and Setup mode. You start off in Program
mode, but as soon as you press one of the
Zone
buttons, the
Setup
button lights up and the
Program
button becomes unlit. As long as you stay in this quick-layer-and-split semi-mode, you
can mute and unmute each zone with a single button press; you don’t have to make the zone
current first. It’s a nice performance feature. (By the way, soloing works the way it usually does.)
