Arpeggiator Active; Key Range; Zone Enable - Kurzweil PC88 Musician's Manual

The Arpeggiator
The illustration below shows the processing order the PC88 uses to create arpeggios from your
keyboard input:

Arpeggiator Active

The Þrst parameter on the Arpeggiator menu is Arp Active Ñ is the Arpeggiator On or Off ?
This can be switched from here, or for convenience in live performance, it can be switched
using MIDI Controller number 116. This can either be assigned to a PC88 physical controller, or
come from an external MIDI source.

Key Range

Notes played on the keyboard within the range speciÞed by the Key Range parameter will be
processed by the Arpeggiator, while notes outside will not (but they will play normally).
Setting the Key Range Hi and Low notes can be done with the Data Entry wheel or buttons, or
by using Intuitive Entry: press and hold Enter and play the note you want.

Zone Enable

Zone Enable determines whether the Arpeggiator will play notes in the selected Zone. Turning
some Zones On and not others means that some Voices will be Arpeggiated and some will not.
If all Zone Enables are Off , then the Arpeggiator wonÕt do anything. The Arpeggiator not only
produces notes from the PC88 Ñ it can also control external MIDI instruments. Just as if you
were playing the keyboard normally, the notes produced by the Arpeggiator in a Zone will go
to all of that ZoneÕs destinations: local, MIDI, or both.
The notes that are generated by the Arpeggiator are restricted in each Zone to that ZoneÕs Key
Range. If the Arpeggiator, for example, tries to play a C#4 in a Zone, but that ZoneÕs Key Range
ends at C4, the note will not sound. However, another Zone whose Key Range ends at C5 will
be able to play the C#4 from the Arpeggiator. Therefore, setting a ZoneÕs Key Range can be
important in deciding how it will respond to the Arpeggiator. (The ArpeggiatorÕs Key Range
only restricts notes you play into the Arpeggiator, not notes created by the Arpeggiator.)
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Key Note
Range Processing
Zone
Enables
Zone 1
Processing
Zone 2
Processing
Zone 3
Processing
Zone 4
Processing
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