Kurzweil K2600 Musician's Manual page 252

Song Mode and the Song Editor
Getting Started with the Sequencer
Mix Your Song
The MIX page lets you change the panning and volume levels for the tracks in your song.
Needless to say, this is one of the most important steps in the completion of your song
production, and potentially one of the most creative. This example will keep things simple by
showing you how to change the volume level of one of your instruments. WeÕll also take a quick
look at the track mute feature.
1. Press the MIXER soft button to bring up the MIX page.
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Track 3 Volume Level Fader
2. Use the Right or Left cursor button to position the cursor over Track 3Õs volume level
3. Use the Alpha Wheel to turn down the volume of the track by changing the position of the
4. Press the Keep soft button and save the change.
Using the Mode Buttons to Mute a Track
Finally, weÕll take a quick look at the track mute feature, which lets you use the K2600Õs mode
buttons to mute individual tracks. This can be invaluable during mixdown.
You may have noticed a horizontal line underneath the sliders for Tracks 1 through 8 on the MIX
page. As the illustration below shows, this is the ÒQuick Mute Track Bank Indicator,Ó showing
which bank of eight tracks will respond to the eight track-mute buttons. The eight mode buttons
12-10
The icons that represent pan-position knobs and volume-level faders resemble the
controls on a traditional mixing board. Manipulating them should be quite intuitive.
Simply position the cursor over a pan position knob or volume level fader, then turn the
Alpha Wheel to set the level you want. On keyboard models, the sliders control the
volume of the current bank of channels (as indicated by the line near the bottom of the
display). In the diagram below, the sliders would control the volume on Channels 1Ð8.
For example, suppose you want to turn down the organ on Track 3:
fader on the MIX page.
Although the tracks arenÕt numbered on the MIX page, theyÕre laid out logically: left-to-
right, from 1 through 16 consecutively. Track 3, then, is the third track from the left.
volume slider.
Now when you play back the song, Track 3Õs volume starts playing at the newly set level.
You can also record real-time volume and pan changes from the MIX page or enter
numeric values for these parameters on the MAIN page.