Initial Volume Settings; Setting Initial Volume Per Track; Setting Initial Values For All Tracks; Volume Sources When An Initial Volume Is Not Set - Kurzweil Flash Play PC4 Musician's Manual

Song Mode
The MAIN Page

Initial Volume Settings

Each song file does not automatically save your volume setting for each track. To make a
song save your volume settings for each track, you must write an initial volume for each
track. Initial volume is the volume setting that will be used when your song is played back
from the start of bar 1. An initial volume setting is essentially a volume automation message
that is written before the first tick of a track. Initial volume settings are not automatically
written during recording because they make it harder to try out different volume settings
for a track. For example, an initial volume will reset any volume adjustments that you make
during playback each time the song is stopped and played from the start of bar 1, or if the
song is stopped and played from any point if the Control Chase parameter set to On on
the Song MISC page (see
volume settings, it is easier if you write an initial volume after you have found the desired
setting.

Setting Initial Volume Per Track

Follow these steps to change the current Rec Track's initial volume. While the song is
stopped, press the RECORD button, change the value of Volume, press the STOP button,
and save the song. Use the same method to quickly set initial program or pan settings.
Initial program, volume, and pan can also be set at the top of each track's event list (see
EVENT Page" on page

Setting Initial Values For All Tracks

An important last step before saving a finished song is to store initial values of Program,
Volume and Pan for all tracks. This can be done at any time, but is best done as a last step if
you plan to make a lot of adjustments to these settings. To write initial settings for all tracks,
press the KEEP soft button on the Song Mixer page (see
After pressing the KEEP soft button you must save your song to save these settings. Pressing
the KEEP soft button stores the current value of each track's Program, Volume and Pan
settings as initial settings. Be sure that these values on each track are set to the value that you
wish to store, as the settings may have changed if you have written any automation.
Note: Don't use the KEEP soft button if you would like certain tracks to not be stored with
initial values. In this case, only set initial values for each desired parameter as described above
in "Setting Initial Volume Per

Volume Sources When An Initial Volume Is Not Set

Volume settings are tied to MIDI channels, so the volume of each track will be dependent on
which MIDI channel is assigned to each track in each song. If an initial volume is not stored
with each track of a song, the each track will use the last volume setting set in each MIDI
channel. For example, if you are in Song mode and have played a song, and then you load a
song without initial volumes, the volume of each track of the newly loaded song will be set
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