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What are these programs in parentheses?
While you are scrolling through different programs on various MIDI channels, you may
occasionally see a program that is in parentheses and doesn't make any sound. The parentheses
tell you that you have selected a drum program without being on one of the drum channels.
Unlike normal programs on the K2500, which can contain up to 3 layers, drum programs can
have as many as 32 layers.
Current drum channels are 1-7 and 12.
ProgramMode||||Xpose:0ST|||<>Channel:9||
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@|141|Slo|Ensemble||||
Drum|Program||||||#|142|W|Tell|Orchestra
|11|layers||||||||#|143|(Jazz|Band)|||||
||||||||||||||||||#|144|(Rock|Quartet)||
DrumChans:|1-7,|12#|145|Gargantuanism|||
%%%%%%^%%%%%%^%%%%$|146|Weeping|Guitar||
Octav-|Octav+|Panic||Sample|Chan-||Chan+
Even though drum programs don't have to have drum sounds assigned to them, we use the
name drum program because that is the most likely purpose for a program with 32 layers. The
only limitation for a drum program is that it must be played on a MIDI channel that has been
designated as a drum channel. A drum channel can play any program - it does not have to play
a drum program, but a drum program must be played on a drum channel.
You can have up to 8 drum channels on the 2500. Channels 1 through 8 are drum channels by
default, but you can change this to be channels 1 through 7 plus the channel of your choice. To
set that channel, go to the Master page and set the Drum Channel parameter to any value
between 9 and 16 to select that channel plus 1 through 7. In the example above, DrumChan on
the Master page has been set to 12.
Control Setup
Version 2 of the K2500 software provides a new control setup feature. You specify the control
setup in the CtlSetup parameter on the MIDI XMIT page; by default it's 99 DefaultSetup. Zone
1 of the control setup (which can be any available setup) defines the functions of the various
controllers on the K2500 for all programs. This is especially important on keyboard models of
the K2500, since they have eight programmable sliders, two ribbon controllers, and a number
of assignable buttons. So for example, if you want to reprogram the long ribbon to send to a
destination other than AuxBend2, you would either change the control setup or edit the current
control setup.
Two important things to remember about the control setup are:
The current control setup will be used by all programs. You cannot change the control
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setup from within program mode.
The control setup does not affect the sound of a program. Samples and keymaps are still
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assigned within the program editor. The local program(s) assigned to a setup are ignored
by programs that use the setup as a control setup.
Complete information on setups is in Chapter 7 of this manual.
Program Mode and the Program Editor
Current MIDI channel is 9. Parentheses
around drum program names show that
they won't sound on this channel.
The Program Mode Page
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