Kurzweil K2600 Musician's Manual page 303

duration. For example, if you have a Duration of 1/8 and a Gate Time of 75%, then striking a
note will produce a duration of 180 (75% of 240). But if you hold the note and press Step>, then
the duration will be 420 (180 + 240), instead of 360 (75% of 480).
You can strike more than one note at a time to enter chords. You can also strike several notes one
at a time (holding on to the previous notes) to create a chord. As long as you do not release all of
the notes, the Locate parameter will stay at the same point and the notes will be entered as a
chord. If you want to create a chord where certain notes have longer durations than others,
strike the notes of the chord, then release the notes you wish to be shorter and press the Step>
button. The box on the right will change to show only the notes you are still holding with their
longer durations.
If you make a mistake while entering notes, you have two ways to Þx it. With Dub Mode set to
Merge, if youÕre still holding the note, you can press the <Back soft button. If you set the Dub
Mode to Erase, you can press the <Back button to erase the previous event, then strike the
correct note. Or you can set the Locate parameter to the proper spot and strike the correct note.
DubMode
DubMode determines if the note events entered in the STEP page will merge with, or erase all
other existing MIDI events located on the selected track, and in the Bars and Beats being
step-edited.
You would set DubMode to Erase to replace all existing track data just in the Bars and Beats you
edit. Data before and after the edited locations will be preserved. Set to Merge to add note
events to existing track data.
The DubMode value will reßect the last value given to the Mode parameter on the Song-mode
MAIN page, and if the DubMode in the Step Editor is changed, the Mode parameter on the
MAIN page will be changed to the same value.
Duration
The actual duration of a note event entered in step time is determined by the values given for
the Duration, ModiÞer, and GateTime parameters.
The Duration parameter sets the base note duration where 1/1 is a whole note, 1/2 is a half note,
1/32 is a thirtysecond note, and so on. The setting for this parameter, along with its ModiÞer,
determine the size of the jump from the current song location to the next step entry location. The
double button press of the Plus/Minus buttons is one method of selecting a stepÕs duration.
Use the alphanumeric buttonpad to quickly select a note duration and modiÞer whenever the
cursor is positioned over the Duration parameter. These are the buttonpad duration settings:
1 whole note
2 half note
3 thirtysecond note
4 quarter note
5 sixtyfourth note
6 sixteenth note
7 applies a dotted modifier to current duration
8 eighth note
9 applies a triplet modifier to current duration
0 removes any modifier
Song Mode and the Song Editor
Song Editor: The STEP Page
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