Editing Vast Programs - Kurzweil K2661 Musician's Manual

Program Mode and the Program Editor

Editing VAST Programs

Press the Sample soft button to enter the K2661's sampler. Refer to Chapter 14 for complete
information on the sampler.
Use the Chan– and Chan+ soft buttons to change the current MIDI channel. This changes the
MIDI channel the K2661 uses internally, as well as the channel you're using to send information
to other synths connected to the K2661's MIDI Out port (MIDI slaves). Changing the current
MIDI channel with the soft buttons also changes the corresponding setting on the MIDI-mode
TRANSMIT page.
Editing VAST Programs
The Program Editor is where you begin to modify the K2661's resident sounds, and to build
your own sounds around samples (ROM or RAM) and/or waveforms. There's virtually no limit
to the sounds you can create using the tools in the Program Editor.
This section describes the Program Editor as it applies to VAST programs. See Editing KB3
Programs on page 6-48 for information about editing KB3 programs. For Triple Mode, see
Chapter 12 of the K2661 Musician's Reference.
To enter the Program Editor, start in Program mode and press Edit. The Program-mode LED
will go out, and the ALG (Algorithm) page will appear.
The top line of the display gives you the usual reminder of your location. It also tells you which
layer you're viewing, and how many layers there are in the program. You can use the
Chan/Bank buttons to scroll through the layers, if the program has more than one.
Here's a method for jumping quickly to a specific layer in a program—it's especially useful in
multi-layered drum programs. Hold the Enter button and strike a key. The display will show the
layer(s) assigned to that key. If more than one layer is assigned to the same key, repeatedly
striking the key (while continuing to hold the Enter button) will cycle through all layers
assigned to that key. This method will work in most places within the Program Editor, but there
is an exception: if the parameter you have highlighted has a note number or control source as its
value, then holding Enter and striking a note will call up that note or control source (as
described in Intuitive Data Entry on page 3-6). For all other parameters, however, this method
will switch between layers.
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