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6.2.1. Selecting a Track
To select a track, press one of the Track buttons. The button of the selected track will light up.
As soon as you start to play notes, the LEDs above the keyboard will light up in the colour of
the current track.
6.2.2. Muting a Track
Mute a track by pressing its Mute button, which will turn red. You can mute multiple tracks
simultaneously. When a track is muted and selected, the keyboard can be used to play
notes on that track's MIDI channel.
6.2.3. Soloing a Track
The Mute button has a second option: to solo a track, hold down SHIFT and press its Mute
button. The Mute button now turns blue. Solo is exclusive: only one track can be soloed at a
time.
The Solo function is intelligent: when you deactivate it by pressing it once more it will return
to the state it was in before you pressed it. If you pressed it from mute state, it will return to
mute; if the track was active when you pressed it, it will return to active state.
Pressing this button again (with or without SHIFT held down) exits Solo mode and goes back
to mutes if there were any — except for the current track, whose Mute button becomes unlit.
Solo takes priority over mute.
6.2.4. Creating Splits
By splitting the keyboard into two parts you can play a sound on the lower part of the
keyboard that is different from the sound you play on the upper part. Splits are a handy
feature if you want to solo with your right hand over an accompaniment (for example,
chords or a bass line) you play with the left.
To create a split, hold down a first Track button and then another Track button. While holding
down both Track buttons, press a key to define the split point (the lowest note of the upper
part). The first Track button that you held down becomes the upper part and the second
becomes the lower part. The LEDs above the keyboard will tell you which is which by
displaying the colour of the tracks that make up the split.
The default split point is the keyboard's second C from the left. The upper part includes all
MIDI notes including and above the split point. Even when there is already an active split,
you can still hold down two Track buttons to set another split point.
To deactivate the split, press the two appropriate Track buttons simultaneously. On release,
the split will be deactivated.
While the split is active, you can still switch focus between the two tracks by pressing one of
the two Track buttons. Transpose, Octave, pitch bends, SHIFT functions (SHIFT + key), steps
and the parameter changes you make with the main encoders all apply to the track in focus.
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