Arrangement Parameters: The Arrange Page - Kurzweil K2000 - GUIDE SUPPLEMENT - VERSION 3 Musician’s Manual Supplement

Song Mode and Sequencing
Getting Started with the Sequencer
First of all, many pieces of music tend to be composed in sections. If your music tends to feature
various sections repeated in varying order, using the Arrangement Editor can be easier than
copying those sections and pasting them into a single song.
The second reason has to do with memory requirements. No objects (aside from samples) can be
larger than 64k (10,000 to 16,000 notes, depending on the amount of controller information you
record). You may need to use arrangements to accommodate the size of long musical pieces.
When you're recording songs that you intend to combine into arrangements, it can be helpful to
name the songs Part 1, Part 2... or Chorus, Verse... That way, when you're putting together the
arrangement, you can quickly identify each section. You might also want to organize the IDs of
the songs. For example, you could start numbering the songs at the second ID in a memory bank
(301, 302...), then save the arrangement song at the first ID in the bank (300, in this example).
That way, you can create a file containing the arrangement song and its constituent songs, and
when you load it into the K2000, the arrangement (the one you're likely to want to play) will be
the first song in the bank.
Once you have your songs, you're ready to create another song to use as the arrangement.
1. In Song mode, select 1 NewSong as the value for the CurSong parameter. This is to make
2. Press Edit, and set the Tempo parameter to match the tempos of the songs you'll be
3. Press either more soft button, then press Save. The save dialog gives you the opportunity
4. Press the ARRANG button (you're still in the Song Editor). The top line of the display
5. Press Add to add another step to the arrangement. Select the song you want for the
6. Save, then press Exit to return to the MAIN page in Song mode. Notice that there are now

Arrangement Parameters: the ARRANGE page

Mutes
The Mutes parameter has 16 values, in groups of 4. By default, tracks are unmuted (active), as
represented by the dashes. To mute a track, move the cursor to highlight the dash corresponding
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sure you start with an "empty" song (without any note or controller information that you
may not want). In some cases (like making a song with more than 16 tracks), you'll want to
have existing song data. But for now, start with an empty song.
adding to the arrangement. (This assumes they are all the same tempo. We'll cover how to
deal with different tempos later on.)
to rename the song and give it the ID of your choice. Press Save again when you've made
the changes you want.
tells you that you're looking at Step 1 of a song that contains one step. Cursor down to the
Song parameter and select the song you want to use for the first step in the arrangement.
second step. Continue adding steps and selecting songs as needed. If you need to get rid
of a step, select the step and press the Delete soft button.
If you press the Play soft button while on this page, you'll hear the currently selected step.
(If the step's Mode parameter is set to Next, the K2o00 will play the next step when the
current step finishes.) Once you have more than one step in an arrangement, you can use
the Chan/Bank buttons to scroll through the steps.
three dashes below the Program parameter. Press Play, and the dashes change to indicate
the current song, and the current step. The Locate parameter shows the bar number of the
arrangement, not the bar number of the current step. For example, if the first step in an
arrangement has 16 bars, then when Bar 1 of Step 2 is playing, Locate will show 17:1,
not 1:1.