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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Table of Contents Table of Contents List of Tips Introduction Welcome!......................i About the KT-76/KT-88 ................i Clean Up and Maintenance ................ii Center Supported Stands .................ii About The Manuals ..................ii Power ........................iii Polarization and Grounding..............iii Ground Loops....................iv AC Line Conditioning ................iv Guidelines for using the KT................v Temperature Guidelines ................v...
Page 4 Velocity Curve Diagram ....................... FtswL/FtswR....................29 Latching Pressure with Sustain or Sostenuto ....................... CV-Pedal/Voice Muting ................30 MIDI Parameters ....................31 Base Channel/Status ..................31 Base Channel Pressure................32 MIDI Mode/Xctrl..................33 Using Global Controllers in MONO Mode ....................... TOC — 2 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 5 Section 4 — Effect Parameters About Effect Parameters ..................49 Effect Modulation Parameters.................49 DRY/BYPASSED ....................49 DUAL EQ+REVERB ..................50 WARM CHAMBER ..................52 8-VOICE CHORUS ...................53 EQ-CHORUS+REVERB..................54 EQ-DDL+REVERB ....................55 DDL-CHORUS+REVB..................56 ENVCF-CHO+REVERB ...................57 FLANGER+REVERB ..................59 PHASER+REVERB....................60 ROTARY SPKR+REVB..................61 FL-CMP-DIST+REVB ..................63 DISTWAH-CHO+REVB...................65 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual TOC — 3...
Page 6 Selecting Edit (Drum) Sound Mode ...............72 Using Modulation .....................73 About Modulation ..................73 To Select a Modulator.................73 To Control Modulation Amount...............73 Specifying a Modulation Source ...............74 ENV 1, ENV 2, ENV 3 — KT Standard Sound Envelopes ......77 TOC — 4 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 7 FC2 Cutoff/Envelope2 ................101 FC2 Keyboard/FC1 Mod·FC2 ..............101 Editing the Filters..................102 More About Filters..................102 Env2 (50-53) and Env3 Pages (60-63)..............104 Output Pages (70 - 73) ..................104 Vol/Mod.......................104 KeybdScale/KeyRange ................105 Setting a Keyboard Zone ....................... ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual TOC — 5...
Page 8 Table of Contents Output Bus/Priority ...................108 Pan/Mod Source/Mod Amount ..............109 Vel Window ....................109 TOC — 6 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 9 KT Drum Sound ROM Wave Catalog............114 Direction .......................115 Press ENTER to Set GM Map ..............115 The “Hidden” ROM General MIDI Drum Map ...........116 Press ENTER to Set Ensoniq Map.............117 Change Sound mode ..................117 Pitch Pages (10 - 11) ..................118 Oct/Semi/Fine ....................118 Keyboard Pitch Tracking ................118...
Page 10 Selecting a New Sound and its Effect from MIDI.........150 Status......................151 Pressure ......................152 Sustain Pedal....................153 Timbre......................154 Release ......................154 Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer Digital Sequencing ....................155 What is a Sequence?..................156 What is a Song?....................156 About Sequencer Memory................157 TOC — 8 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 11 Edit Times in Song Mode................185 Setting the Edit Times in Real Time ............186 SEQ (or SONG) PUNCH OUT ..............186 Auto Punch/Tempo ...................187 Tap Tempo ....................187 Song Tempo Offset..................187 Sequencer Control Pages..................188 Loop/Countoff ....................188 Step Entry/Record ..................188 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual TOC — 9...
Page 12 Event Locating Display for Prog Changes ............217 Event Locating Display for All Events, Key Events and Key Pressure..217 AUDITION, INSERT and REMOVE ............218 Copy Track....................219 Erase Track....................220 Merge Track ....................221 Transpose Track ..................222 TOC — 10 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 13 Table of Contents Shift Track ....................223 Scale Track....................224 Filter Events ....................225 About the COPY Filter Mode ..............226 Quantize Track ....................227 (Track) Status ....................228 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual TOC — 11...
Page 14 Enabling/Disabling General MIDI with System Exclusive Messages ..246 More about SysEx Messages..............246 Sound Canvas MT-32 Mode Program Change Map........247 MIDI Controller Implementation in General MIDI Mode ......248 General MIDI Mode Controller Implementation Chart ......248 TOC — 12 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 15 Sending MIDI Sys-Ex Messages to another KT or to a Storage Device..253 SOUND DATA ....................254 SEQUENCER DATA ..................255 Receiving MIDI Sys-Ex Messages..............256 Storage Prompts and Error Messages ............257 Appendix KT MIDI Implementation ................I Registered Parameters..................I MIDI Implementation Chart................II Index Parameter Reference Card ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual TOC — 13...
Page 16 Quick Way to Save Changes in Select Seq/Preset Mode ........193 Moving Single Key Events that may be Off-Time............218 Using Headphones in General MIDI mode...............242 “Music-Minus-One” Applications................244 How to Replace the Card Battery without Loosing its Contents......249 Erasing RAM Memory Cards..................250 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual Tips — 11...
Page 17 List of Tips Tips — 12 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 18: Introduction
Introduction Welcome! Congratulations, and thank you for your purchase of the ENSONIQ KT-76/KT-88 keyboard. ENSONIQ redefines state-of-the-art performance with the latest addition to its family of synthesizers — the KT-76/KT-88. With 64-voice polyphony and a 76-key weighted action keyboard, the KT gives musicians the sound and feel of a real piano — along with all the benefits of a MIDI synthesizer.
Page 19: Clean Up And Maintenance
About The Manuals This manual covers two different products, the KT-76 and the KT-88. The KT-76 has a 76 note keyboard, whereas the KT-88 has an 88 note keyboard. In this manual, when there are notable differences, the keyboards will be specifically addressed as the KT-76 and the KT-88. When the text pertains to both products, they will be referred to as KT.
Page 20: Power
If not, check your connections and power source. Polarization and Grounding Like many modern electrical devices, your ENSONIQ product has a three-prong power cord with earth ground to ensure safe operation. Some products have power cords with only two prongs and no earth ground.
Page 21: Ground Loops
Besides protecting against surges and spikes, a line conditioner guards the equipment against excessively high or low line voltages. If you use the KT in lots of different locations with varying or unknown AC line conditions, you might consider investing in a line conditioner. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 22: Guidelines For Using The Kt
Grounded AC Power Power Mixer Audio Outputs Switch Phones It is a good idea to make sure your audio system is turned off (or down) when making connections, to avoid damaging speakers or other components. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 23: Be Careful
MIDI information from being “spit” out of the transmitting source during power up, which could confuse the MIDI receivers, thereby disabling them. If this should occur, turn off the receiving module, and then turn it back on. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 24: Battery Replacement Guidelines
Card batteries are easy to change, and do not have to be replaced by an Authorized ENSONIQ Repair Station. See Section 13 — Storage for how to change the card battery.
Page 25: Reinitializing The Kt
4. Press the {YES} button (the {ENTER} button acts as a “Yes” button to respond to questions on the display, and the {]} button acts as “No”). If reinitializing your KT does not correct the problem, contact an Authorized ENSONIQ Repair Station. To find the nearest Authorized ENSONIQ Repair Station, call 1-800-553-5151.
Page 26: How To Use This Manual
Single Digit Page Locations In Edit Track and System•MIDI modes, only the bottom {0} to {9} buttons are used to direct-dial the page location, as shown below: Edit Track page 0 Volume/Pan System•MIDI page 4 Base Channel/Status ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 27: Button Names
3. Press the upper {2} button. This takes you to the pages relating to the Click (metronome). 4. Press any of the lower {0} to {2} buttons to view the available Click pages. Pretty easy, huh? ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 28: Available Options For Your Kt
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Page 30: Section 1 - Controls & Basic Functions
This jack allows you to connect either a single (mono) or a dual (stereo) foot switch: • If you plug the ENSONIQ Model SW-6 Single Damper Foot Switch (which came with your unit) into this jack, it will perform the function assigned to the FtswR parameter (found on {SYSTEM"MIDI} page {2}).
Page 31 Foot Switch (SW-10). When a single foot switch is connected, it behaves like the right foot switch (FtswR). 5. CV•Pedal This jack is for connecting an optional ENSONIQ Model CVP-1 ENSONIQ Control Voltage Foot Pedal, which is assignable as a modulator to CVP-1 various parameters within the KT.
Page 32: The Front Panel Controls
Whenever you want to change a sound, this mode must be activated. After pressing {SELECT_SOUND}, use the upper and lower {0} to {9} buttons to select any of the available sounds, or use the {VALUE} buttons. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 33: Direct-Dialing Banks
When a page with multiple parameters is displayed, successive presses on the lower {0} to {9} button will move between each of those parameters. The lower {0} to {9} buttons also have a special function when held: after about one second the first parameter on the page will become selected. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 34: Compare Button
{9} buttons are used to select and play any available Preset, Sequence or Song. In this mode, multiple tracks can be selected and stacked by pressing and double-clicking the {SEQUENCER/PRESET_TRACK} buttons. For more details see Section 8 — Understanding Presets. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 35 Sequence/Preset mode. Transpose Keyboard semi –6 –5 –4 –3 –2 –1 Hold This Button and Play a Note note Sequencer/Preset Tracks Replace Make Record Stop Play Track Sound Default Preset Play Replace w/FX Demo Copy Preset Continue ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 36 (if one is available). If all 70 locations have been defined, the “SORRY! No free Seq Location” message will be displayed. Holding down the {MAKE_DEFAULT_PRESET} button and pressing the {PLAY} button will select r:ROM Song 70 and will start playback of the Demo Song. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 37 1. Press and release the {TRANSPOSE_KEYBOARD} button without pressing any keys. The lit Transpose Keyboard LED will be turned off, and you will be returned to a normal, untransposed state. The previous transposed amount is remembered. • Pressing {TRANSPOSE_KEYBOARD} again will retranspose the keyboard to the last value. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 38: More About The Transpose Keyboard Function
• Voice key zones, Drum Sound key ranges and Track key ranges for playing on the KT keyboard will be transposed by the amount set. • Notes received from incoming MIDI will not be transposed. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 39: Pcmcia Memory Cards
PCMCIA Memory Cards Before you can access sounds and sequences from a card, you must first insert an ENSONIQ KTC series ROM card, an MC-512 RAM card, or any other KT formatted PCMCIA card into the card slot, as shown, with the label facing toward you. Take care to insert the card straight into the slot in a continuous fashion.
Page 40: Performance Controllers
Note that pressure generates a tremendous amount of data, and will consume sequencer memory much faster than other types of events, such as notes and program changes. You should turn pressure off when sequencing instruments that do not respond to pressure, such as piano and drum sounds. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 41: Selecting Sounds
To select a r:DRUM Sound: 1. Press {SELECT_SOUND}. 2. Press the upper {8} button to select drum sounds that use the ENSONIQ drum map. 3. Press any of the lower {0} to {9} buttons to select between the ten ROM drum sounds that use the ENSONIQ drum map.
Page 42: Sound Memory Configuration
The r:DRUM sounds are permanently stored in ROM memory and cannot be modified or replaced. • General MIDI Sounds — There are 128 “hidden” General MIDI sounds that can be accessed by pressing the{GENERAL_MIDI} button. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 43: Choosing Internal, Rom, And Card Sounds
Note that if there is no card installed, or there is no sound data on the card, the a:CARD and b:CARD banks will not be recognized. The current Sounds bank and Seq/Preset bank are independent: changing one does not change the other. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 44: Soundfinder™ Feature
Section 1 — Controls & Basic Functions SoundFinder™ Feature Sounds of similar types can be selected using ENSONIQ’s exclusive SoundFinder feature. SoundFinder searches for the next or previous sound of the same type. It searches through all of available memory, including the a:CARD and b:CARD sound banks (if a PCMCIA card is installed).
Page 45: Selecting Sequences/Presets Or Songs
Parameters for more information about the SaveChangesMode parameter. To play the Demo Song: • While holding down the {MAKE_DEFAULT_PRESET} button, press the {PLAY} button. This will select r:ROM Song 70 and will start playback of the Demo Song. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 46: Choosing Internal, Rom, And Card Sequences/Presets/Songs
The current Sounds bank and Seq/Preset bank are independent. Changing one does not change the other. The KT will default to the last selected i:INT sequence/preset/song location on power on. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 47: Using Parametric Programming
The KT always “remembers” which parameter was last selected on a given page. Be sure that the parameter you want to edit is selected before moving the Data Entry Slider and/or the {VALUE} buttons. There is always a parameter selected on any given page. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 48: To Change A Parameter
The lower {0} to {9} buttons previous page. When a lower {0} to {9} button is held for about one second, the first parameter on that page will automatically be selected. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 49 Section 1 — Controls & Basic Functions ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 50: Section 2 - System•Midi Parameters
Adjusts the overall master tuning of the keyboard up or down as much as one semitone. A value of +00 will set the KT to concert A=440 tuning. Note: When Tune is edited, the current value will be transmitted via MIDI, as a Registered Parameter Select message, on the Base MIDI Channel. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 51: Various Rom System Pitch-Tables
GRK-ENHARM — This pitch-table is derived from two enharmonic tetra chords (the intervals are, more or less, two quarter-tones followed by a major third), combined to form a seven-note scale. It is meant to be played on the white keys. Tone center is E. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 52 • 24-TONE-EQU — Centered on C4, this scale has an even quarter tone (50 cents) between each keyboard note, and each pitch octave covers 2 keyboard octaves. This tuning has been used ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 53 • REVERSE — This pitch-table simply reverses the pitch-tracking of the keyboard, putting the highest notes at the bottom of the keyboard and the highest notes at the top. Lots of fun. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 54: Touch/Pressure
FIRM — represents average pressure sensitivity. A FIRM setting should be right for the player with an average touch. • HARD — is for the strong player who presses the keys hard. It allows the widest possible range of pressure sensitivity. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 55: The Kt Velocity Response Curves (Touch)
MIDI Note On Velocity Keyboard Velocity • PIANO/SYNTH VEL2 — Dark line (thicker) is VEL2. Slightly harder key strikes are required for average playing, but this still allows a softer touch to reach maximum velocity levels. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 56 Keyboard Velocity • PIANO/SYNTH VEL5 — Dark line (thicker) is VEL5. This setting offers a smooth curve for players with strong fingers who desire a softer sound. It requires strong playing to reach the top velocity levels. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 57 MIDI Note On Velocity Keyboard Velocity • FIXED V127 — This setting is also a fixed velocity curve, with full volume. This is good for playing drum/percussion parts when you want a part without dynamic changes. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 58: Ftswl/Ftswr
6. To release the “latched” pressure value on the sustained note, either press the “latched” key again, or release the Sustain or Sostenuto pedal. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 59: Cv-Pedal/Voice Muting
• ON — Whenever you select a new sound, any voices that might be sustaining from the previous sound will be stopped. This is the default setting. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 60: Midi Parameters
The KT has a fixed MIDI transmitting scheme, depending on the mode it is in. In Select Sound mode, the KT always transmits on the Base Channel. In Seq/Preset mode, the KT always transmits on the individual track channel(s). ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 61: Base Channel Pressure
KT keyboard will not generate any channel pressure messages. This type of specialized pressure, which allows individual pressure control over each key, is found on many of ENSONIQ’s other keyboards, such as the ASR-10 and TS-10. • CHANNEL — The KT will receive Channel pressure and the KT will generate channel pressure on the Base Channel, affecting both KT sounds and external MIDI.
Page 62: Midi Mode/Xctrl
2. POLY — In this mode the KT will receive only on the Base MIDI channel. MIDI information on all other channels will be ignored. 3. MULTI — An ENSONIQ innovation, MULTI mode is the key to unlocking the potential of the KT as a multi-timbral receiver from an external MIDI sequencer. In MULTI mode, the 8 tracks of the current song or sequence can receive MIDI information independently and polyphonically on up to 8 different MIDI channels.
Page 63: Using Global Controllers In Mono Mode
The following controller numbers are commonly supported: Number Controller Number Controller Modulation Wheel Sustain Breath Controller Sostenuto Foot Pedal Sound Variation (Patch Selects) Data Entry MSB Harmonic Content (Timbre) Volume Release Time Attack Time Effect Modulation Brightness ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 64: Controllers/Prog Change
Internal RAM sounds (i:INT banks) are numbered from 001 to 079. • r:ROM sounds are also numbered from 001 to 079. • Card sounds (a:CARD or b:CARD banks) are numbered from 001 to 079. • The r:DRUM ROM sounds are numbered from 080 to 099. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 65: Bank Select And Program Change Implementation
LSB 10 000..079 - i:INT sounds with its effect LSB 11 000..079 - r:ROM sounds with its effect LSB 12 000..079 - a:CARD sounds with its effect LSB 13 000..079 - b:CARD sounds with its effect ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 66: Sysex/Id/Song Select
KT sequences and songs will cause the KT to transmit MIDI Song Select messages. MIDI Song Selects # 00-99 will select KT Sequence/Song locations # 00-99. Conversely, selecting Sequence/Song locations # 00-99 will cause the KT to transmit MIDI Song Selects # 00-99. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 67: Midi Trkname/Midi Loop
Loop=ON will prevent this problem from occurring. Note that the volume pedal is only active if CV-Pedal=VOL #7 on System•MIDI page 3, and that volume pedal changes will always be transmitted as MIDI volume (controller 7). ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 69: Section 4 - Effect Parameters
00 is silent and 99 is full volume. By assigning a modulation controller to one of these parameters, you can Tip: change the volume mixes of a group of tracks in real time, independent of the track volume settings. Modulation Destinations FX1-MIX FX2-MIX ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 70: Dual Eq+Reverb
Sets the amount of boost or cut applied to the FX2 EQ. Warning! Excessive gain levels may cause damage to your speakers and/or hearing. Range: 50 Hz to 10 KHz Sets the bandwidth for the FX2 EQ. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 71 Note: Whenever the reverb variation (Rev) is changed, the Decay Bias parameter is reset to +0, so that the reverb variation can be heard in its originally intended form. Modulation Destinations FX1-MIX FX2-MIX EQ1FREQ EQ1GAIN EQ1BW EQ1OUT EQ2FREQ EQ2GAIN EQ2BW EQ2OUT DECAY ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 72: Warm Chamber
The High Frequency Bandwidth parameter filters the signal going into the reverb, controlling the amount of high frequencies that will pass into the effect. The higher the setting, the more high frequencies will pass, resulting in an apparently brighter reverb. Modulation Destinations FX1-MIX FX2-MIX DECAY DAMPING ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 73: 8-Voice Chorus
-99 to +99 Controls the amount of feedback applied to the chorus. Positive settings are in-phase, negative values are out-of-phase, and impart a different tonality to the chorus. Modulation Destinations FX1-MIX FX2-MIX RATE DEPTH CENTER FDBACK ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 74: Eq-Chorus+Reverb
Controls the Dry/Wet mix of the chorus. Decay Bias See the description in the Dual EQ+Reverb algorithm. Modulation Destinations FX1-MIX FX2-MIX EQ FREQ EQ GAIN EQ BW EQ OUT CH RATE CH DEPT CH CNTR CH FDBK CH LEVL DECAY ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 75: Eq-Ddl+Reverb
Decay Bias See the description in the Dual EQ+Reverb algorithm. Modulation Destinations FX1-MIX FX2-MIX EQ FREQ EQ GAIN EQ BW EQ OUT DDL L DDL R DDL RGN SEND DECAY ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 76: Ddl-Chorus+Revb
See the description in the EQ-Chorus+Reverb algorithm. Decay Bias See the description in the Dual EQ+Reverb algorithm. Modulation Destinations FX1-MIX FX2-MIX DDL L DDL R DDL RGN SEND CH RATE CH DEPT CH LEVL CH CNTR DECAY ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 77: Envcf-Cho+Reverb
Env Amt Range: 00 to 99 Determines how much affect the envelope will have on the filter’s cutoff frequency. When set to 00, the Atck, Decay, Sustain, Rels, and Trig Mode parameters have no effect. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 78 Filter Fc and the filter Qc at the same time using the same mod source. By using a modulator (such as the Mod Wheel) with this setting, the effect will be more resonant as it brightens. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 79: Flanger+Reverb
Inverts the input signal before combining it with the flanged signal. It creates peaks instead of notches, for a different effect. Decay Bias See the description in the Dual EQ+Reverb algorithm. Modulation Destinations FX1-MIX FX2-MIX RATE DEPTH CENTER FDBACK NOTCH DECAY ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 80: Phaser+Reverb
Inverts the input signal before combining it with the phase-shifted version. It creates peaks instead of notches, for a different effect. Decay Bias See the description in the Dual EQ+Reverb algorithm. Modulation Destinations FX1-MIX FX2-MIX RATE DEPTH CENTER FDBACK NOTCH DECAY ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 81: Rotary Spkr+Revb
Determines the input gain to the amplifier simulation, creating a tube-like overdrive. Higher settings yield more distortion. Filter Range: 00 to 99 This parameter is the distortion tone control. Lower settings will yield a more raspy distortion tone, whereas high settings will give that mellow “amp growl.” ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 82 Mod Wheel — you’ll hear the rotary speaker change speed based on the position of the wheel (and the Speed Min and Max settings). With both types of modulation, the rotary speaker always takes the Inertia time to get to the Rotor Speed MIN and MAX settings. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 83: Fl-Cmp-Dist+Revb
10 louder isn’t sufficient, since “These go to 11. 11 is one more, isn’t it?” HiPass Cutoff Range: 00 to 99 Filters out low frequencies after the distortion signal path. The higher the value, the fewer low frequencies pass through. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 84 As natural reverb decays, some high frequencies tend to get absorbed by the environment. Increasing the value of this parameter will filter out increasing amounts of high frequency energy. Modulation Destinations FX1-MIX FX2-MIX FDBACK DECAY DAMPING ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 85: Distwah-Cho+Revb
Controls the rate of the modulation applied to the delay time of the chorus. Chorus Depth Range: 00 to 99 Controls the amount of modulation applied to the delay time of the chorus. Chorus Center Range: 00 to 99 Controls the delay time center of the chorus. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 86 Filter Fc and the filter Qc at the same time using the same mod source. By using a modulator (such as the Mod Wheel with this setting, you can create the “wah” effect. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 87: Section 5 - Understanding Sounds
Standard Sound Parameters. • You can assign low, medium or high priority to each voice in a sound, allowing you to control which voice(s) will be stolen first. See “Output Pages” in Section 6 — Standard Sound Parameters. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 88: Using The Compare Button/Led
• Press the {COMPARE} button so the {EDIT_SOUND} LED remains solidly lit. Then you can start editing the sound again from scratch. You will lose the edits to the sound you were working on before. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 89: Saving A New Sound Into Memory
2. Press {SAVE}. The display shows: Replace edit sound? 3. Press the {YES} button. The selected sound now resides in the edit buffer. Now proceed from step three as described above to write the sound to the new location. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 90: Kt Standard Sound Configuration
SINE/TRI POS/SINE Digital Filter POS/TRI Pitch Amplifier SAWTOOTH Mode Mod Source SQUARE Fc1 Mod Delay —> Fc2 Rate Position Depth LFO Depth Noise Src Source Mod Source Mod Source Mod Source Rate Noise NOISE1 Source NOISE2 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 91: Kt Drum Sound Configuration
All drum sounds are auto-detected by SoundFinder and form their own SoundFinder type. However, SoundFinder cannot differentiate between drum sounds that use the General MIDI Drum Map and those that use the ENSONIQ Drum Map. KT-76 Drum Sound Voice Configuration...
Page 92: Selecting Edit (Drum) Sound Mode
1. Press {SELECT_SOUND}, then either the upper {8} or {9} button. 2. Press {EDIT_SOUND}. You have just entered Edit (Drum) Sound mode, with the selected drum sound in the edit buffer. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 93: Using Modulation
(here, +00), there is an easy way to reach that value. With the parameter selected, press the {[} button, and while holding it down, press the {]} button, and then quickly release both buttons. This automatically sets the modulation amount to +00. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 94: Specifying A Modulation Source
ENV 2 is permanently routed to the filter cutoff frequency. It can also be assigned as a modulator elsewhere. • ENV 3 always controls the volume or amplitude of the voice. It can also be selected as a modulator elsewhere. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 95 See Section 2 — System•MIDI Parameters for more details. TIMBRE — Timbre Control This is a special modulator, unique to ENSONIQ, which is intended as an “extra” real-time performance controller. TIMBRE can be assigned like any other modulator, wherever a modulation source is selected.
Page 96 Velocity means how hard you strike a key. Selecting VELOC as a Modulator allows you to modulate any manual level with velocity. Velocity as a modulation source only goes positive (though assigning a negative modulation amount will make the level reduce with increased velocity). ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 97: Env 1, Env 2, Env 3 - Kt Standard Sound Envelopes
Although the envelope shape in the above illustration is the most commonly used (a rise followed by decays), other shapes are possible. For more information on the specific envelope parameters, see Section 6 — Standard Sound Parameters. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 98 Section 5 — Understanding Sounds ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 99: Section 6 - Standard Sound Parameters
This parameter has three functions; to select whether to edit one voice or all voices within a sound; to select which voice will be edited (if one voice is selected); and to determine the playback status of that voice. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 100 SOLO — The selected voice will play and can be selected, and all other voices will be muted. This is convenient for occasions when you’d like to hear how your edits are affecting a particular voice. Remember: The Voice Status value that is flashing is the one that is selected for editing. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 101: Wave Class/Wave Name
Wave Name Here you select the actual wave that the voice will play. When this parameter is flashing, the Data Entry Slider and the {VALUE} buttons will select only among the waves in the current wave class. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 102: Kt Standard Sound Rom Wave Catalog
BIG BELL DIGITAL WAVE 1 MUTED TRUMPET TRANSWAVE AY CRYSTAL DIGITAL WAVE 2 TROMBONE TRANSWAVE AA SYNTH BELL SYNKEY WAVE SOLO FRENCH HORN TRANSWAVE OH NOISE VOCAL WAVE FRENCH HORN SECT TRANSWAVE-Z AIR LOOP BRASS SECTION SPECTRUM ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 103: Delay Time/Direction
The illustration below shows a typical wave of this category, with the Start Index set in the middle range, near 50. Negative modulation Positive modulation Start Point ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 104: Sample Shift/Mode
+02=D4), whose sample will be played on all keys below it, overriding the normal multi- sample key map. Keys above the selected key will play their multi-samples as normal. The same key’s sample will be stretched regardless of the Pitch page 10 Oct/Semi settings. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 105: Voice Restrike Decay Time
Normal values are around 3. The higher the value, the longer the fadeout time. If you hear clicking sounds when you restrike a note, setting the Restrike time Tip: to higher values may eliminate the click. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 106: Soundfinder Type
Range: various (see below) Allows you to define a sound class for your sounds for use with ENSONIQ’s exclusive SoundFinder™ feature. This setting can also be used by third-party editor librarian software for “automatic-sorting” of sounds by type. The available types are: •...
Page 107: Change Sound Mode
Drum Sound into the edit buffer and place the KT in Edit (Drum) Sound mode. To Change the Current Sound Mode: • Press {ENTER}. The display momentarily shows “Command Successful!,” changes between modes, and then displays Edit Sound page 00. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 108: Oct/Semi/Fine
This feature allows for the creation of bi-directional pitch envelope shapes, while conveniently ensuring that voices will always sustain at the normal pitch setting (eliminating the need to offset the pitch setting for different envelope shapes). ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 109: Keyboard Pitch Tracking
OFF — All keys play at the same pitch (C4 if the Oct/Semi/Fine parameters have not been edited). If the Oct/Semi/Fine parameters have been edited, the wave’s pitch will be transposed by the amount set on that page. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 110: Glide/Glide Time
(e.g. C4 to D4) as it will to glide between notes that are far apart (e.g. C4 to C7). ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 111: Levels/Time
If the PEAK level is set higher than the BREAK level, this would function as another decay stage. DECAY 1 The time it takes the envelope to go from PEAK to BREAKPOINT. DECAY 2 The time it takes the envelope to go from BREAKPOINT to SUSTAIN. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 112: Levv/Atckv/Velcurv
VelCurv Range: QUIKRISE, CONVEX, LINEAR, and CONCAVE This selects which of the four available velocity response curves the envelope will use if the velocity level control (LevV above) is set to some value other than zero. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 113: Mode/Keyboardtrk
This depends on a combination of envelope mode and wave type. A (looped) sustaining wave will continue to use the voice until the envelope reaches zero. For a sustaining wave, when the envelope mode=NORMAL or REPEAT: ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 114 Positive values will make all envelope times (except Release) shorter for keys above F4+, and longer for keys below F4+. Negative values will have the opposite effect. Envelope times for F4+ are not affected by this parameter. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 115: Press Enter To Select Defaults
3. After selecting the envelope shape, pressing {ENTER} places it into the voice. The display momentarily shows “Command successful!” then returns to the “Press ENTER to Select Defaults.” page. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 116: Kt Default Envelope Values
REPEAT REPEAT TRI CONVEX REPEAT SLOW LFO CONVEX REPEAT SLOW REPEAT CONVEX REPEAT VIBRATO CONVEX REPEAT DETUNE LFO CONVEX NORMAL SHAKUHACHI CONVEX REPEAT SIREN CONVEX FINISH PITCH DOWN CONVEX FINISH PITCH DOWN2 LINEAR NORMAL ALL ZEROS ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 117: Lfo Pages (30 - 32)
Their main use is to randomize or “humanize” pitch when applied as pitch modulator. They can also be used to randomize any other modulation destination. Typically, they might look like this: NOISE 1 NOISE 2 +100 +100 -100 -100 Noise Rate Noise Rate ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 118: Depth/Dlay/Mod
POS/TRI — a positive-only triangle wave useful for simulating vibrato on instruments like the guitar where a player can only bend notes up. • SAWTOOTH — commonly used for special effects. • SQUARE — this positive-only square wave is useful for producing in-tune trill effects. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 119 If you set the LFO Rate to 00, and the Restart parameter to ON, you can use the Tip: LFO as a gated modulator with a variable depth. Use Wave = SQUARE, because it starts high. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 120: Filters Pages (40 - 44)
127 lets all the original signal pass through the filter. Lower cutoff settings allow fewer high frequencies through, somewhat like turning down the treble on a stereo. Envelope2 Range: -99 to +99 Determines the amount or depth by which envelope 2 will affect the filter cutoff frequency. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 121: Fc1 Keyboard/Mod
Allows the modulator assigned to FC1 to also modulate FC2. FC2 has no modulation source of its own. Enabling this parameter is the only way to apply modulation to FC2. When “FC1 Mod FC2= ON” the modulation source for FC1 and its modulation amount will be applied to FC2. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 122: Editing The Filters
Every filter has a “knee” in its response curve, known as the cutoff frequency. This is the frequency at which the filter begins filtering out frequencies. The filter cutoff frequency can remain fixed over time, or it can be varied by modulating the filter with an envelope, LFO, velocity, etc. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 123 12 dB/oct freq. cutoff #1 amplitude 24 dB/oct freq. cutoff #2 frequency Filter Configuration 3 Filter 1=3LoPass Filter 2=1HiPass Bandpass 6 dB/oct freq. 18 dB/oct freq. amplitude cutoff amplitude amplitude cutoff frequency frequency frequency ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 124 Section 6 — Standard Sound Parameters Filter Configuration 4 Filter 1=2LoPass Filter 2=2HiPass Bandpass 12 dB/oct freq. 12 dB/oct freq. amplitude cutoff amplitude amplitude cutoff frequency frequency frequency ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 125: Output Pages (70 - 73)
Determines how much the modulator selected above will affect the volume of the voice. By assigning the volume modulators to different voices within a sound, you Tip: can create real-time voice crossfading (e.g. making strings swell underneath a piano). ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 126: Keybdscale/Keyrange
Full Some attenuation is heard Volume Level KT-76 keyboard KT-88 keyboard MIDI Note numbers 0-127 With KeybdScale=-99 and KeyRange=A0 to C8: Full Some attenuation is heard Volume Level KT-76 keyboard KT-88 keyboard MIDI Note numbers 0-127 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 127 Section 6 — Standard Sound Parameters With KeybdScale=-99 and KeyRange=C4 to C5: Full Volume Level KT-76 keyboard KT-88 keyboard MIDI Note numbers 0-127 With KeybdScale=+99 and KeyRange=C2 to C6: Full Volume Level KT-76 keyboard KT-88 keyboard MIDI Note numbers 0-127 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 128: Setting A Keyboard Zone
Now play the high key: the note you played is entered as the high key, and the cursor disappears. If you made a mistake, or want to enter a different range of values, just select the parameter again and repeat the process. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 129 HIGH is best used only for specific applications in which you want to protect a voice or voices from being stolen — such as drums or a sustaining “pad” sound in a sequencer track. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 130 Values from 000 to >124 mean that the voice will only play when the key velocity is greater than the number shown. Values from <=016 to <=124 mean that the voice will only play when the key velocity is less than or equal to the number shown. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 131 Section 6 — Standard Sound Parameters ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 132: Section 7 - Drum Sound Parameters
KT’s keyboard. You’ll notice that each time you play a new key, the current key number changes. However, the key range parameters (Low Key and High Key) and the wave name change every several keys. If you count, you’ll discover that there are 17 of these changes, corresponding to the 17 voices. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 133: Creating "Holes" In The Key Map
The result would be something like this: As you can see, the 11 voices defined cover the entire range of the KT-76’s keyboard. This has the effect of “covering up” the remaining six voices (shown in shading).
Page 134: Wave Class/Wave Name
Here you select the actual wave that the voice will play. When this parameter is underlined, the Data Entry Slider and the {VALUE} buttons will select only among the waves in the current wave class. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 135: Kt Drum Sound Rom Wave Catalog
Likewise, if you pressed a key that was assigned OPEN HAT 1 -KG1 and before it decayed, you pressed a key that was not assigned a key group, OPEN HAT 1 -KG1 would not cut off. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 136 Section 7 — Drum Sound Parameters In order for this feature to work, the keys pressed must both have the same key group number. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 137: Direction
The following diagram shows the “hidden” General MIDI Drum map. Note that keys outside of the General MIDI range are silent. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 138: The "Hidden" Rom General Midi Drum Map
MARACAS WHISTLE -KG6 WHISTLE -KG6 _____ GUIRO -KG3 GUIRO -KG3 _____ CLAVES WOODBLOCK WOODBLOCK _____ CUICA -KG4 CUICA -KG4 _____ TRIANGLE -KG5 TRIANGLE -KG5 _____ SHAKER SLEIGHBELL WINDCHIME _____ CASTANET DRY TOM _____ TAIKO NOT USED ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 139: Press Enter To Set Ensoniq Map
This command erases the key map currently residing in the edit buffer, setting all the voices to the 17-voice default ENSONIQ drum map. This ENSONIQ drum map completely covers up the “hidden” ROM General MIDI drum map. The illustration below shows the default ENSONIQ...
Page 140: Pitch Pages (10 - 11)
OFF — All keys play at the same pitch (C4 if the Oscillator Tune parameter has not been edited). If the Oct/Semi/Fine parameters have been edited, the wave’s pitch will be transposed by the amount set on the Oct/Semi/Fine page. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 141: Filter Page
In NORMAL mode, this defines the time it will take the envelope to return to zero after the key has been released. When in FINISH mode, this controls the amount of time it takes for a voice to return to zero after the Gate Time. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 142: Levv/Mode
BREAK Voice is assigned Voice is released when envelope gets to zero, even if key is still down. Looped Voice KEY UP KEY DOWN SUSTAIN=0 For unlooped, non-sustaining, waves (specifically percussion and drum waves) the voice ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 143: Output Pages (70 - 71)
— doing so can result in clipping (distorting) when you play more than one or two notes. Range: -98 (panned left) to +98 (panned right) Pans the voice within the stereo mix. A value of +00 centers the voice. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 144: Output Bus/Velcurv
This selects which of the four available velocity response curves the envelope will use if the velocity level control (the LevV parameter on Edit Sound page 61) is set to some value other than zero. QUICKRISE CONVEX LINEAR CONCAVE Keyboard Velocity Keyboard Velocity Keyboard Velocity Keyboard Velocity ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 145: Creating A Custom Drum Kit
If you press different keys on the keyboard, the display will show the wave class and wave name for that particular voice range. By using the Data Entry Slider and the {VALUE} buttons as described in step 8, you can change all 17 voices within each drum sound. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 146: Setting Key Ranges
Section 7 — Drum Sound Parameters Setting Key Ranges “Rock Kit-EM,” like other ENSONIQ drum map sounds, is divided into 17 separate voices as shown below: Rock Kit-EM Drum Map OPEN HAT 1 -KG1 RIDE CRASH CLOSED OPEN CYMBAL SIDESTICK 1...
Page 147: Saving Your Edited Drum Kit
3. Press the{BANK} and {0} to {9} buttons to select the memory location where the newly edited drum sound is stored. 4. Press the {REPLACE_TRACK_SOUND} button again to install the newly edited drum sound into the sequencer track. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 148 Section 7 — Drum Sound Parameters ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 149: Section 8 - Understanding Presets What Is A Preset
KT’s ability to create keyboard splits, and layer both KT as well as remote MIDI sound sources. Although we cannot determine what external MIDI sound sources you will be using, these Performance Presets can be invaluable tools in understanding and using your KT keyboard. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 150: What Is The Difference Between Presets And Sequences
Sound & Performance Parameters Note & Controller Data Track 7 Sound & Performance Parameters Note & Controller Data Track 8 As you can see, a preset is contained within a sequence, acting as a “template” for note data. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 151: What Are Tracks
Press the {SEQUENCER/PRESET_TRACK} {1} button. The display looks something like this: Track Number Bank Location Program Number Trk01 i:INT 00 Dynamic Grand Name of sound on track 1 This displays the sound on Track 1. Pressing other {SEQUENCER/PRESET_TRACK} buttons will select the other seven tracks. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 152: Three Ways To Create A Preset
7. Select a sound for the first track of your preset using the upper and lower {0} through {9} buttons, and the {BANK} button (if the sound you want is in a different bank). 8. Press the {REPLACE_TRACK_SOUND}. The sound you selected is now placed on track 1 of ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 153: To Modify An Existing Preset
(REPLACE_TRACK_SOUND} button. Double-click on this button to replace a track along with its effect. 6. When you’re done, save your preset by pressing the{SAVE} button twice (once to confirm the name of the preset, which you could change at this time; and once to save the preset). ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 154: Layering Sounds With The Track Buttons
Set the effects routing to DRY for any of the sounds that are incompatible (see {EDIT_TRACK} page 1, in Section 9 — Preset/Track Parameters). • Change the preset/sequence effect algorithm to be something more suitable (see Section 3 — Understanding Effects for details on editing the effect parameters). ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 155: Using The Replace Track Sound Function
{0}, then the lower {6} button). Note that you don’t have to press {BANK} to change banks — SoundFinder will automatically do that for you. 3. Press {REPLACE_TRACK_SOUND} again to exit Replace Track Sound mode, and replace the sound with the one you just selected using the SoundFinder feature. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 156: Replacing The Sound Along With Its Effect On A Track
Sequence/Preset mode. The newly installed sound’s effect setting becomes the current preset effect. The layered combination of tracks will not change. This allows you to replace the effect settings for a layered combination of tracks without changing which tracks are selected and/or layered. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 157: A Note About Replacing Sounds Used By Sequences/Presets
Card location. As in the example above, you will hear the sound from the a:CARD bank location #17, even though it may not be the intended sound. This is because the sequence/preset recognizes the sound location only, not the actual sound. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 158: About Edit Track (Performance) Parameters
These parameters can be used to create complex performance set-ups for your KT and other MIDI equipment. For a full description of the performance/track parameters and their functions see Section 9 — Preset/Track Parameters. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 159: Using The Layer Lock Feature
{CURSOR} buttons, or by “direct dialing” with the lower {0} to {9} buttons. 4. Pressing a {SEQUENCER/PRESET_TRACK} button will not change the combination of layered tracks, but instead will select that track for Performance Parameter editing. 5. To exit “Layer Lock” Edit Track mode, press any mode button. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 160: About The "Save Changes?" Page
As mentioned above, you can avoid being asked to save changes by setting the Save Changes parameter to U-SAVE MANUALLY. For live performance, and other applications in which you want to experiment with tempo, track parameters, etc. without being bothered about saving the changes, this is the preferred setting. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 161: Using The Make Default Preset Button
If System•MIDI page 4 Base Channel Status = LOCAL, the Default Preset will have only Track 1 selected. • If System•MIDI page 4 Base Channel Status = BOTH, the Default Preset will have Track 1 layered with Track 5. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 162 {ENTER} button, the click (metronome) will start, and you can begin recording. After pressing the {STOP"CONTINUE} button from Record, you will be prompted to “Keep first ### bars?” as per normal sequencer operation. From this point onward, the Default Preset template will behave just like any other sequence. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 163: To Copy Preset Data
{CURSOR} buttons to choose which character to edit. 7. When a new name has been written, press the {ENTER} button to complete the command. The display will briefly read “Command Successful!” to acknowledge the operation. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 164: About The Kt Rom Presets
Inspiration (an octave higher for added presence), and Sparkle Pad (for added high-end shimmer). Track assignments are as follows: Dyno Roads Inspiration Sparkle Pad Dyno Roads Dyno Roads Dyno Roads Dyno Roads Dyno Roads solid flashing flashing ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 165: Rpset02 - Acbass/Kybrds(I)
The left hand bass remains constant as different right hand instruments are selected. Track assignments are as follows: Studio 6-String Pedal Steel Muted Guitar 12-String Guitar Mellow Nylon Studio Guitar Nylon & Strings Woody Bass solid flashing ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 166: Rpset06 - Pno/Solohorns(I)
After all, you’ve got 64 voices to work with! Track assignments are as follows: Principal Organ Flute Stop Organ Sunday Pipes Pipe Organ Concert Brass Movie Strings Heavenly Voices Church Bells solid flashing flashing ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 167: Section 9 - Preset/Track Parameters
Output page ({EDIT_SOUND} upper {7}, lower {3}) for each voice. Setting this parameter to any other pan value will override the original settings and will shift the voices of the sound toward the newly defined stereo-panned location. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 168: Output
Replace w/FX function is used to install a sound and its effect. This ensures that any pre-programmed effect modulation in a sound will still function. See Section 3 — Understanding Effects for more information. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 169: Keyrange
Warning: If the key range is set to where the High Key is below the Low Key, then the track will not play. To correct this situation, reselect the KeyRange parameter and reset the key range values. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 170: Performance Tip - Creating Keyboard Splits
Warning: Do not transpose a track whose status is MIDI or BOTH while holding keys down or while the sequencer is running. This could cause the MIDI key-up events to be missed by a receiving external MIDI device, causing notes to “hang.” ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 171: Chan/Prog
Internal RAM sounds (i:INT banks) are numbered from 001 to 079. • r:ROM sounds are also numbered from 001 to 079. • Card sounds (a:CARD or b:CARD banks) are numbered from 001 to 079. • The r:DRUM ROM sounds are numbered from 080 to 099. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 172: Bank Select And Program Change Implementation
LSB 10 000..079 - i:INT sounds with its effect LSB 11 000..079 - r:ROM sounds with its effect LSB 12 000..079 - a:CARD sounds with its effect LSB 13 000..079 - b:CARD sounds with its effect ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 173: Status
Incoming MIDI data will be recorded by the sequencer Playing the sequencer track (pressing {PLAY}) plays local voices Playing the sequencer track sends out MIDI NO in MULTI or MONO-B modes, YES in OMNI, POLY, and MONO-A modes. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 174: Pressure
Either channel pressure or Poly-Key pressure will be received via incoming MIDI. Note: The KT sequencer will always record both channel and Poly-Key pressure (received via incoming MIDI), no matter what the Track Pressure parameter is set to. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 175: Sustain Pedal
The bass notes will not be affected by the sustain pedal (because the bass track sustain is set to OFF) but the chords will sustain. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 176: Timbre
Higher values lengthen the release time, whereas lower values shorten the release time. All tracks whose MIDI Status is set to BOTH, MIDI, or *EXT* will send a MIDI Continuous Controller message (controller #72) with the indicated value whenever this parameter is edited. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 177: Section 10 - Understanding The Sequencer
So if you’re trying to squeeze one more track into a sequence when there isn’t much memory left, you know to go easy on the controllers. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 178: What Is A Sequence
This gives you a total of 16 tracks to work with (for more information, see “Song Tracks” later in this section). ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 179: About Sequencer Memory
Presets/Sequences and 30 Songs in group B) when it is plugged into the card slot. Card Sequencer Memory ENSONIQ MC-512 RAM Cards (or any PCMCIA RAM card) can be used to store two banks of 80 Sounds (which we refer to as a:CARD and b:CARD), and two banks of 100 Presets/Sequences/Songs (also a:CARD and b:CARD).
Page 180: Sequencer "Transport Controls
• Pressing {RECORD} while the sequencer is playing will put the sequencer into “overdub” mode. It will wait for you to start playing before going into Record on the current track. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 181: Sequencer Status
To exit Audition Stop and return to the normal stop state, you must first instruct the KT to KEEP either the NEW or the original OLD track (see KEEP NEW/OLD screen later in this section). ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 182: Select Sequence Mode Pages
2. Repeatedly press the {BANK} button to select the appropriate bank. 3. Press a top {0} to {9} button to select the first digit of the Sequences/Presets and Song page. 4. Press a bottom {0} to {9} button to select the second digit of the page. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 183: Choosing Internal, Rom, And Card Sequences/Presets/Songs
Note: If the new sequence uses a different effect algorithm than the previous one, the audio output will be muted temporarily while the new algorithm is loaded. See Section 3 — Understanding Effects for more information on effect algorithms. Creating a New Sequence or Song ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 184 {CURSOR} buttons to choose which character to edit. 8. Now that you’ve selected a location, time signature, and name for your sequence, press the {ENTER} button again. The display will briefly read “Command Successful!” ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 185 {CURSOR} buttons to choose which character to edit. 8. Now that you’ve selected a location and name for your song, press the {ENTER} button again. The display will briefly read, “Command Successful!” ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 186: Erasing All Sequencer Memory
00 and 70 respectively (there is always one song and one sequence in memory). • Note that when a ROM Sequence/Preset/Song is selected, this command cannot be performed, and the display will momentarily show “Cannot edit ROM!” ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 187: Recording A Sequence
2. Select the Countoff page by pressing the upper {1} button, then the lower {0} button. Select the “Countoff” parameter and set to “Countoff= RECORD”. This will play a one bar countoff before recording (but not when playing back) all tracks. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 188 This will determine the length of the sequence. 4. Press the {YES} button to keep the track, defining the length of the sequence, or 5. Press the {NO} button to erase the first track and start over, leaving the sequence length undefined. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 189: The Keep New/Old Page
The KT always gives you a chance to audition changes to the track data before deciding whether to keep them. You’ll find this capability to be of great use for those occasions when you need to hear both versions back-to-back to make a decision. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 190: Re-Recording A Track
When the foot switch is set to control sequencer STOP/CONT, depressing the Tip: foot switch while the sequencer is running in Overdub Standby mode (lower case “odub”), forces the sequencer into Overdub Record mode (upper case “ODUB”). This allows for hands-free punch ins without using punch times. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 191: Playing Along With A Sequence/Auditioning New Sounds And Effects
10. Now when you press {PLAY}, the original sound on the track will play up to the point that you recorded the program change; it will then change to the new sound (the one selected in step 8 ) at the point that you pressed the lower {0} to {9} button. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 192: About The "Save Changes?" Page
You can avoid being asked to save changes by setting the SaveChangesMode parameter to U- SAVE MANUALLY (Sequencer Control, page 5). For live performance, and other applications in which you want to experiment with tempo, track parameters, etc. without being bothered about saving the changes, this is the preferred setting. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 193: Recording Midi Tracks
LOCAL tracks. When this is the case, be sure that you assign LOCAL status (as opposed to BOTH) to the tracks that you want to play only on the KT. This will avoid sending unintended MIDI data to external instruments. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 194: Mixing, Muting And Soloing Tracks (Track Volume Functions)
Play, M means Mute, and S means Solo. For tracks that have no recorded data, there will be a dash (-) in the display (see the discussion of Track Mute Status in Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters for details). ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 195: Routing Sounds To Effects In Sequence/Preset Mode
(such as the MOD WHEEL, PRESSURE, the TIMBRE control, etc.) will not affect the effect. See Section 8 — Understanding Presets for more information. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 196: Working In Song Mode
Flashing iSONG71 Tempo+00 Your Song Name 6. Set the tempo of the song (optional, this step could be done at any time). When you set the ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 197 14. Repeat steps 11 through 13 until you are finished assembling your song. 15. To hear your song, press the (SELECT_SEQ/PRESET} button, and then press {PLAY}. See Section 11 — Sequencer Parameters for more information about the Edit Song Step parameters. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 198: Switching Effects In Song Mode
Program a rest into the beginning of sequences in which the effect will switch to a different algorithm from the previous one, or create a silent one-bar sequence whose only function is to switch to a new algorithm. Then make sure the following sequences use the same algorithm. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 199: Song Tracks
• You can change the sound on a song track using {REPLACE_TRACK_SOUND}, just as you would a sequence track. • You can enter record (by holding down {RECORD} and pressing {PLAY}) and record on any ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 200: Viewing Sequence Tracks In Song Mode
To Record Mix or Pan Changes to Sequence Tracks in a Song 1. Select a song containing sequence tracks you want to mixdown. 2. Press {EDIT_SEQ/PRESET} and select the Sequencer Control page by pressing the upper {1} button, followed by the lower {1} button. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 201: To Record Mix Or Pan Changes To A Song Track
Here you can audition the changes before deciding whether to keep the new or the original track. 10. To mix another track, press a different {SEQUENCER/PRESET_TRACK} button, select the Volume or Pan parameters and then repeat the procedure. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 202: More About Mixdown Mode
618.56 309.28 206.19 154.64 895.52 447.76 298.51 223.88 612.24 306.12 204.08 153.06 882.35 441.18 294.12 220.59 606.06 303.03 202.02 151.52 869.57 434.78 289.86 217.39 600.00 300.00 200.00 150.00 857.14 428.57 285.71 214.29 594.06 297.03 198.02 148.51 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 203 342.86 171.43 114.29 85.71 340.91 170.45 113.64 85.23 1/4 NOTE 1/8th NOTE 1/8 TRIPLET 1/16th NOTE 338.98 169.49 112.99 84.75 337.08 168.54 112.36 84.27 335.20 167.60 111.73 83.80 333.33 166.67 111.11 83.33 331.49 165.75 110.50 82.87 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 204 Assign a controller to modulate the effect delay times, and select a specified Tip: minimum and maximum range so that you can create unique poly-rhythms in real time. See Section 3 — Understanding Effects for information on assigning effect modulators. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 205 Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 207: About Midi
Also, each can be played from its own keyboard (as well as from the KT’s) without affecting the others, because MIDI Thru jacks only pass along incoming MIDI data, and do not transmit what is played on the instrument. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 208 Note: The KT allows MIDI transmission of release velocity (how fast the key is let up). Some modern keyboards and synth modules respond to this feature allowing you to better articulate your sound. However, the KT voices do not respond to release velocity. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 209 {SELECT_SEQ/PRESET} button followed by the appropriate {0} to {9} buttons to select its memory location. Note: The Make Default Preset function can also be used to configure the tracks of a sequencer/preset to send MIDI information, and is explained in Section 8 — Understanding Presets. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 210 1. Press {SYSTEM"MIDI}, followed by the lower {6} button. The display looks like this: Flashing MIDI Mode=OMNI Xctrl = 002 2. Using the Data Entry Controls, select the MIDI Mode parameter and set it to MULTI. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 211 8 tracks to receive on any of the 16 available MIDI channels. You can also set a track’s MIDI Status to *EXT* so that it does not receive incoming MIDI at all (press the lower {5} button to select the MIDI Status page). ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 212 1. Connect the MIDI Out of the drum machine to the MIDI In of the KT. 2. Press {EDIT_SEQ/PRESET}, the upper {1} button, then the lower {2} button. 3. Using the Data Entry Controls, select the Clock parameter and set it to “Clock=MIDI.” ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 213 KT sequencer location from a remote sequencer, computer or drum machine, and vice versa. They are set up as follows: MIDI Song Selects 00-99 will select KT Sequence/Song locations 00-99. Selecting Sequence/Song locations 00-99 will cause the KT to transmit MIDI Song selects 00-99. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 214 Select each track (by pressing its {SEQUENCER/PRESET_TRACK} button) and edit it accordingly. Unlike MONO A, in this mode the consecutive MIDI channel assignments are not automatic. You must manually set the tracks to six consecutive MIDI channels. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 215 Other General MIDI Requirements A General MIDI sound module must respond to all 16 MIDI channels, with dynamic voice allocation, and a minimum of 24 voices. It also must respond to velocity, pitch bend, mod wheel, ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 216 4. Some computer games offer General MIDI as an optional sound source. The KT will provide high quality sound variations for this enjoyable leisure activity, enhancing the excitement and thrill of your computer games. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 217 Synth Brass 2 Sweep Pad Applause Gunshot Note that the names listed above are as they appear in the KT, and not as they appear in the General MIDI Spec. The only differences are in spelling. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 218 Shaker Shaker Jingle Bell Jingle Bell Jingle Bell Jingle Bell Belltree Belltree Belltree Belltree ____ Castanets Castanets Castanets Castanets Mute Surdo Mute Surdo Mute Surdo Mute Surdo ____ Open Surdo Open Surdo Open Surdo Open Surdo ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 219 Open Triangle ____ Shaker Shaker Shaker Applause Jingle Bell Jingle Bell Jingle Bell Belltree Belltree Belltree ____ Castanets Castanets Castanets Mute Surdo Mute Surdo Mute Surdo Wind Chime ____ Open Surdo Open Surdo Open Surdo Applause ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 220 Section 12 — The MIDI Connection • There are four additional sounds assigned to keys in the MT-32-KIT: 90 (F6+) Crash 92 (G6+) Train 93 (A6) Jet 94 (A6+) Helicopter ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 221 Computer (with MIDI Interface) connected to KT-76 Keyboard Using KT General MIDI Sounds with an External GM Sequencer Connecting the KT keyboard to a computer (or other General MIDI sequencer) 1. Power down all electronic devices before making any connections.
Page 222 MIDI Channel number. This allows you to connect the KT MIDI Out jack to the MIDI In jack of a computer sequencer/hardware sequencer/other MIDI sound module. This feature adds MIDI Controller capability to the KT while in General MIDI mode. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 223 MIDI. No matter what the setting of this parameter, a CVP-1 Pedal connected to the CV•Pedal jack will always control the volume of the selected Track/Channel. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 224 System•MIDI page 2, FtswR is set to SUSTAIN. • System•MIDI page 3, CV-Pedal is set to VOL #7. System•MIDI page 8, SYS-EX setting is set to ON. • Exiting General MIDI will restore your original settings. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 225 Sounds mode, with the last Select Sounds mode sound selected. • When in General MIDI mode, the Universal SysEx General MIDI Off message is the only SysEx message that will be received; all other SysEx messages are ignored. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 226 MIDI channel 10 will always select the MT-32 Drum Map. Transmitting a Bank Select value of 0-126 MSB will return the MIDI channel to normal MIDI program change reception, selecting sounds from the General MIDI Sound Map as described on the previous page. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 227 (All Notes Off) of the 16 General MIDI Track/Channels. Registered Parameters: These Registered Parameters are received independently on each of the 16 General MIDI Track/Channels. 0 Pitch Bend Range 1 Fine Tuning 2 Coarse Tuning Program Change 0-127. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 228 The KT will read (but will not write to) the 64 kByte PCMCIA ROM Cards. These ROM cards are used by the ENSONIQ KTC Series sound library. ROM Cards are formatted like RAM Cards, but a:CARD and b:CARD Preset/Seq/Song Banks are smaller.
Page 229 Section 13 — Storage Memory Card Configurations PCMCIA (or ENSONIQ MC-512) RAM Cards can be used to store two banks of 80 Sounds (which we refer to as a:CARD and b:CARD), and two banks of 100 Presets/Seqs/Songs (also a:CARD and b:CARD). The 100 Presets/Seqs/Songs available on RAM cards are divided into 70 Presets/Sequences and 30 Songs, just like in the KT (i:INT and r:ROM).
Page 230 ROM sounds. 6. Once you have selected the operation you want from the four options above, press {ENTER}. 7. The copy function is almost instantaneous. The display will read “Command Successful” after the sounds have been copied. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 231 — this is simply a limitation of the storage medium. Data in the b:CARD sequencer bank can be backed-up via MIDI System Exclusive to any device that can record Sys Ex data (such as an ASR-10, TS-10, or TS-12). ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 232 These dumps can be understood by another KT, or can be recorded by a remote MIDI device that has MIDI Sys-Ex Recorder capabilities (such as the ENSONIQ TS-10, ASR-10, or a computer), to be stored and later retransmitted to the KT.
Page 233 {ENTER}. The display will show “Please wait . . . sending data” while the data is being transmitted. When the transfer is complete, the display will return to the “Press ENTER to Store Sounds” display. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 234 {ENTER}. The display will show “Please wait . . . sending data” while the data is being transmitted. When the transfer is complete, the display will return to the “Press ENTER to Store Sequences” display. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 235 Or, if a song is received, it will be placed in the lowest-numbered empty song location in the current sequencer bank. After it is received, the new sequence or song will be selected. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 236 KT, with the KT power on, you will not lose the data stored on the card. Do not turn off the KT’s power while the card is installed with the battery removed, or any data on the card will be lost. ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 237 Section 13 — Storage ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 238 For Fine Tuning, which is an 8-bit value internally, the most significant 7 bits are offset by 64 and shifted once before being sent as Data Entry MSB (Controller 6). The least significant bit of the internal value is transmitted as bit 6 of Data Entry LSB (Controller 38). ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 239 Refer to Section 12 — The MIDI Conection for information about Notes Controller Implementation in General MIDI mode. Mode 1= OMNI ON, POLY Mode 2= OMNI ON, MONO O = YES Mode 3= OMNI OFF, POLY Mode 4= OMNI OFF, MONO X = NO ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 240 Current Seq Bank Free Memory 194 Battery vii Cutoff frequency 102 Beta 24 CV pedal 2, 30, 57 Bnd 22 CVP-1 Control Voltage Foot Pedal xi, 2, 30, 75, Breath Controller 75 Bus 42 Busses 122 Button Names x BW 50 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 241 Detune Rate 52 Understanding 39 Diffusion 52 ElBass/Kybrds(i) 143 Digital Oscillator Chip 39 ElecBass/Gtrs(i) 143 Digital Sequencing 155 ENSONIQ drum map 117 Direct-Dialing 14, 17, 161 Env Amt 57 Banks 4 Env Pages 91 Direction 83 ENVCF-CHO+REVERB 57 Display 4...
Page 242 Setting a 147 Disable 246 Key Up event 155 Drum Map 115 KEYBD 46 Hidden 116 KeybdScale 105 Enable 243 Keyboard GS/MT-32 Compatibility 237 Filter tracking 101 MIDI Out 243 Layouts 147 Percussion 237 Pitch Tracking 89, 118 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 243 MS-1 Music Stand xi Mic-level input vi MT-32 237, 247 MIDI MULTI mode 33, 232 About 229 Multi-sampled 81 Assigning reception channels 233 Waves 84 Bank Select 36 Music software 238 Breath Controller 75 Channel 149 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 244 Pno/SoloHorns(i) 144 Phaser PnoStr/Orch (i) 144 Center 60 Polarization iii Depth 60 Pole 102 Rate 60 Poly-Key™ Pressure 11, 76 PHASER+REVERB 60 Poly-rhythms 181 Phones 10 Polyphonic pressure 11, 32, 76 PITCH 75 Polyphony Pitch bend 22 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 245 About 170, 193 Diagram 1 Mode 192 Reboot viii Page Record 190 About 138 Registered Parameter Select 21, 22 Scale Track 224 Reinitializing viii Select Seq/Preset Button 5 Release 154 Select Sequence Mode Pages 160 Rels 57 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 246 VINTGSYN 86 Erase 198 VOCALS 86 Import 203 WINDSECT 86 Information 198 Sounds Position Pointer 235 Changing Locations 69 Rename 199 Saving to Memory 69 Tracks 177 Selecting 12 Uses effect from 191 Speed Max 61 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 247 Command pages 214 Status 80 Copy 219 Stealing 93, 120 Described 129 Voices Erase 220 Understanding 67 Merge 221 Vol 121 Mute Status 172 Volume 145 Quantize 227 Volume Slider vi Range 214 Replacing sounds 133 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 248 Modulaton note 66 Walkman™ 10 WARM CHAMBER 52 Wave classes 81 Wave pages 79, 111 WAVE-LIST 82 WAVEFORM 81 Waves 79 Wedding Ceremony 144 Weighted-action i Werkmeister 22 WHEEL 46, 75 WHL+PR 75 XCtrl 34, 46, 75 ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...
Page 249 Index ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual...

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