The Arpeggiator (Arpeg) Page - Kurzweil K2661 Musician's Manual

The Arpeggiator (ARPEG) Page

The Arpeggiator takes input from the K2661 keyboard (or via MIDI) and turns it into a constant
rhythmic pattern. You can control the speed and nature of the pattern in real time. The
Arpeggiator resembles what were called "sequencers" on old analog synths—playing a finite
series of notes repeatedly, with changes in the series controlled by the notes you play. The
Arpeggiator can affect both the K2661 and external MIDI instruments. The notes produced by
the Arpeggiator in a given zone go to all of that zone's destinations: local, MIDI, or both.
The concept behind the K2661's Arpeggiator is fairly simple, although the options are extensive.
You might think of it as a "note processor," generating complex output from relatively modest
input. You can select any number of notes for the input, and tell the Arpeggiator to recognize
and remember them. This is called "latching" the notes. The Arpeggiator then processes them by
playing them repeatedly, and/or transposing them up and down the keyboard. You have
control over several processing parameters: tempo, velocity, order, duration, transposition,
orchestration, and whether the intervals between notes are filled chromatically. You can also tell
the Arpeggiator how to deal with new information coming from the keyboard. The settings you
define on the ARPEG page apply to all zones for which arpeggiation is activated; you can
program each zone individually to respond to or ignore the setup's arpeggiation values.
Figure 7-1 shows the processing order the K2661 uses to create arpeggios from your input:
Figure 7-1
Arpeggiator
Note
Key
Processing
Range
Arpeggiator Processing Sequence
Setup Mode and the Setup Editor
The Arpeggiator (ARPEG) Page
Zone 1 Parameters
Zone 2 Parameters
Zone 3 Parameters
Zone
Zone 4 Parameters
Enablers
Zone 5 Parameters
Zone 6 Parameters
Zone 7 Parameters
Zone 8 Parameters
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