Bend Smooth; Local Keyboard Channel (Localkbdch) - Kurzweil K2661 Musician's Manual

Bend Smooth

This parameter can improve your K2661's performance when you're driving it from a MIDI
guitar controller. Its default value is On.
You may find that pitch bending seems to carry over from the previous note to the next note,
causing it to start on the wrong pitch. This is probably due to the automatic pitch smoothing
provided by the K2661. If this is happening, try setting the BendSmooth parameter to a value of
Off.

Local Keyboard Channel (LocalKbdCh)

Note: Changing the setting of the Local Keyboard Channel parameter is useful only when your K2661 is
receiving MIDI information from an external source—maybe you have a favorite MIDI keyboard that you
use to control all the gear in your studio, or you use a lot of outboard sequencing. If you're using the
K2661 as a standalone music workstation or performance keyboard, you can ignore this parameter.
The available values for this parameter are None, and 1–16. The default is None, which disables
the local keyboard feature, since you may not want to send your MIDI controller's MIDI
information to devices connected to the MIDI Out port.
It's important to understand that a setup is a control-oriented object, designed to transmit note
and control information. The K2661 itself transmits on up to eight channels when in Setup
mode. If you are using a keyboard controller that sends information on only one MIDI channel,
you need a way to distribute that information from one channel to eight channels. This is what
the LocalKbdCh parameter does. It takes the signal coming in via one channel and turns it into
different information, depending on where you are in the K2661.
The local keyboard channel changes the way the K2661 performs in other modes as well. It
changes the incoming information depending on what you have displayed in the K2661. For
example, if LocalKbdCh is 1, and you're in Program mode with Channel 5 in the display, then
the information coming in on Channel 1 gets remapped to Channel 5, and you hear the program
assigned to Channel 5. But if you set LocalKbdCh to None, then if you send on Channel 1, you
hear the program that is assigned to Channel 1, even if you're looking at Channel 5.
Local Keyboard does more than just change the MIDI channel. When Local Keyboard Channel is
set to None, you will notice that the Octav– and Octav+ soft buttons found in Program, Setup,
Quick Access, and Effects modes do not function. If you use the Local Keyboard Channel
parameter, however, they function correctly. And you can even use it to change one type of MIDI
Controller number to another.
Here's how it works. The K2661 receives MIDI information on the channel that corresponds to
the value you set for this parameter, and relays it to its MIDI Out port, using the MIDI channels
currently shown in the display. If you're in Program mode (or in Quick Access mode with a
program selected), the K2661 relays the LocalKbdCh MIDI information to the channel to which
the program is assigned. If you're in Setup mode (or in Quick Access mode with a setup
selected), the K2661 relays the LocalKbdCh MIDI information to all the channels currently used
by the setup.
The K2661 also remaps certain MIDI Controller messages so that they correspond (in most
cases) to the default assignments for the K2661's physical controllers (as listed in Table 10-1).
This enables you to receive the messages listed in the first column of Table 10-1 from a MIDI
source, and remap them to whatever values are available for the parameters listed in the second
column. The third column lists the Studio-editor page where each parameter appears. Note that
MIDI Mode
The RECEIVE Page
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