Kurzweil K2000 - GUIDE SUPPLEMENT - VERSION 3 Musician’s Manual Supplement page 115

Use the Add soft button to add steps to an arrangement. Use the CHAN/BANK buttons to select
different steps
Playback of the arrangement can start on any step; it doesn't have to be Step 1. Use the StartStep
parameter on the COMMON page to specify the beginning step of an arrangement. Once
playback of an arrangement has begun, you can trigger (and transpose) steps using Note On
events (see Triggering Steps From the Keyboard on page 3-60).
Song
The Song parameter defines the song assigned to the current step. Each step must have a song
assigned to it, or it won't play back. During playback, the current step's assigned song plays in
its entirety (unless you interrupt it by restarting/transposing it by triggering a note). If the
arrangement also contains recorded tracks, the step plays back along with the arrangement.
When the step completes playback, the sequencer either continues to the next step in the
arrangement, or stops playback—depending on the setting for the Mode parameter (described
below).
Mutes
Use the Mutes parameter for independent muting of each of the 16 tracks in the current step's
assigned song. The Mutes parameter has 16 values, representing the 16 tracks. Each track's
value is either a hyphen (unmuted) or an
one of the cursor buttons, then press either Decrement or Increment to change its value.
Xpose
This parameter defines the amount of transposition (in semitones) applied to the current step's
assigned song. This transposition gets applied to all tracks of the song—except those that are
designated as drum tracks. The important thing to remember here is that you need to designate
drum tracks in the song assigned to the step—not in the arrangement itself. Here's an example.
Suppose you're editing Song 204, which is an arrangement. You're looking at Step 1 of the
arrangement, which plays Song 201. You set the Xpose parameter to 12S. This means that
Song 201 will play back an octave above normal. That's fine, except that Track 1 of Song 201
contains percussion, and you don't want to transpose the percussion track—because that would
change all of the percussion sounds.
The first thing you do is save the current song, which is Song 204, the arrangement. Now you
return to the MAIN page in Song mode, and select Song 201 as the current song. You press Edit
to get to the COMMON page in the Song Editor, and you select the value for Track 1 of the
DrumTrack parameter. You change its value to
Song 201.
Now you can play Song 204 (the arrangement), and when Step 1 plays, it'll play Song 201 with
an octave of upward transposition on every track but Track 1.
Times
The Times parameter determines how many times a step plays during the playback of the
arrangement. You can set it to play any number of times from 1 to 120. When the step has played
the specified number of times, the sequencer either continues to the next step in the
arrangement, or stops playback—depending on the setting for the Mode parameter (described
below).
M (muted). To mute or unmute a track, select it with
D , which makes it a drum track. Finally, you save
Song Mode and Sequencing
The Song Editor (EditSong Pages)
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