Control Setup; The Soft Buttons In Program Mode - Kurzweil K2600 Musician's Manual

Program Mode and the Program Editor
The Program Mode Page
You can play any program on the KB3 channel, but you can play KB3 programs only on the KB3
channel.
If youÕve used a K2000 or K2500, youÕll remember that you would occasionally see parentheses
around the names of drum programs, as well. The K2600 can play drum programsÑup to 32
layersÑon any channel. The Drum Channel parameter no longer exists.

Control Setup

The control setup deÞnes what the K2600Õs physical controllers (wheels, sliders, pedals, etc.) do
while youÕre in Program mode. ItÕs a convenient way to apply the controller assignments in
your setups globally. Just choose an existing setup to be the control setup, using the CtlSetup
parameter on the MIDI-mode TRANSMIT page. Then while youÕre in Program mode, many of
the controller assignments for Zone 1 of the control setup also apply to the programs you play
(this is true for MIDI control messages as well, unless you have turned off MIDI control).
If you donÕt like the way the physical controllers work in Program mode, you can either select a
different control setup, or edit the existing one. Any changes you make to the current control
setup will also affect the way that setup works in Setup mode.
There are a few important points to remember about the control setup:
¥ The current control setup is used by all programs in Program mode.
¥ You cannot change the control setup from within Program mode.
¥ The control setup doesnÕt affect the sound of a program, only the assignments of certain
physical controllers. The samples and keymaps assigned to a program are unaffected by the
control setup. While youÕre in Program mode, the K2600 ignores the programs assigned to
the setup that you choose as the control setup.
¥ Almost all of the VAST programs in the K2600 are designed to respond to the controller
assignments in the default control setup (97 ControlSetup). Therefore youÕll want to use
97 ControlSetup as the control setup in most cases, with two exceptions. When youÕre using
the local keyboard channel (that is, when the value of the LocalKbdCh parameter is
anything but None) and playing a KB3 program from an external MIDI source, use a control
setup thatÕs conÞgured for KB3 control, as described on page 6-8 (if LocalKbdCh is None,
97 ControlSetup is Þne for playing KB3 programs from an external MIDI source). If you
want to change the controller assignments for any program or set of programs (either VAST
or KB3), use a control setup that has the controller assignments you want.
See page 7-4 for a table listing the parameters that affect Program-mode controller assignments.

The Soft Buttons in Program Mode

The Octav-/Octav+ buttons are a shortcut for quick transposition in 12-semitone increments.
You can use them to transpose the entire K2600 as much as three octaves up or down. The top
line of the display shows the current amount of transposition (Xpose). Pressing both Octave
buttons simultaneously returns the transposition to zero.
If youÕre using a K2600R, the Octav-/Octav+ buttons are functional only if the value of the Local
Keyboard Channel parameter (LocalKbdCh) matches the current MIDI channel of your MIDI
controller. In this case, the K2600R will apply transposition to the notes it receives on the local
keyboard channel (but not on other channels). The LocalKbdCh parameter is on the RECEIVE
page in MIDI mode.
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