New Shortcuts; New Triggering Methods - Kurzweil K2000 - GUIDE SUPPLEMENT - VERSION 3 Musician’s Manual Supplement

GKeyNum is a control source that uses the key number (global) to modify whatever it is
assigned to control. Higher notes have a very different effect from lower notes. You can use this
new Source to control any K2000 parameter, such as F/X depth, or to scale amplitude or pitch.
GHiKey and GLoKey work the same as GKeyNum except that they track the highest key
currently held and the lowest key currently held. By using one of these as the only source for
pitch tracking,you can create "mono-like" layers within a polyphonic program.

New Shortcuts

There are several new double button presses that provide programming short cuts:
• Double-pressing the two leftmost soft buttons returns Octave Transpose to 0.
Double-pressing again reverts to the previous setting for Octave Transpose.
• On editor pages that don't have Panic soft buttons, double-pressing the two rightmost soft
buttons sends an All Notes/Controllers Off message on all 16 MIDI channels. On pages with
Panic buttons, double-pressing the two rightmost soft buttons toggles between MIDI
Channel 1 and the previuosly-selected channel.
• Double-pressing the two center soft buttons on any editor page takes you to the Utility
page, for access to MIDIScope and other utilities.
• When in Disk mode, double-pressing the two leftmost soft buttons issues a SCSI eject
command to the currently selected SCSI device. This is useful for removable-media drives
(like Zip drives).
• Double-pressing the Chan/Bank buttons brings up a prompt asking if you want to hard
format the current SCSI device.
When editing a drum program, you can easily find a particular layer. Hold the Enter button and
strike a key. This automatically selects the layer correspondng to the key you strike.
Output boost/cut (on the MIDI-mode Channel page) now works "uniformly" for all layers in the
program when boosting or cutting.

New Triggering Methods

Audio Sampling Input (K2000S/RS / SMP-K/R) now doubles as a two channel "drum" trigger,
allowing audio signals to trigger samples. See Mode on page 2-3..
You can trigger sampling from the keyboard. See Version 3 only on page 2-4.
System Software Versions 2 and 3
Version 3 System Software
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