Order; Beats; Tempo; Note Shift - Kurzweil K2661 Musician's Manual

Setup Mode and the Setup Editor
The Arpeggiator (ARPEG) Page

Order

This parameter determines the order in which the K2661 plays arpeggiated notes. Played causes
them to play back in the chronological order in which you played and latched them. Up means
that notes play in ascending pitch order, regardless of their chronological order. Down means
descending pitch order. Up/Down causes notes to play from lowest pitch to highest, then from
highest pitch to lowest, repeating the cycle until you stop the arpeggiation. The notes at the very
top and very bottom only play once. Up/Dwn Repeat is similar to Up/Down, except that the
notes at the top and bottom play twice (repeat) when the Arpeggiator reverses direction.
Random plays the currently-latched notes in completely random order. Shuffle plays them at
random, but keeps track of the notes so that no note repeats until all of the others have played.
Walk is a "random walk" order: each successive note is either the next or previous note (in
chronological order). For example, suppose you've latched four notes—G 4, B 4, D 5, and F 5—
in that order. The first note the Arpeggiator plays is the G 4. The second note will be either B 4
(the next note chronologically), or F 5 (the "previous" note chronologically—that is, the last
latched note). If the second note is B 4, the third note will be either D 5 or G 4. If the second note
is F 5, the third note will be either G 4 or D 5.
Simultaneous means that each note you play repeats in time with the Tempo value, sort of like a
digital delay with no decay. If you play a C and hold it while you play an E and a G, the
Arpeggiator will play all three notes at the same time and at the same tempo. This is the only
Order setting that allows two or more notes to sound simultaneously as intervals or chords.
Note that Simultaneous works well with Note Shift and Shift limit.

Beats

The Beats parameter sets the number of notes per beat. The tempo is based on quarter notes.
Therefore, if you set it to 1/4, you will get one note per beat of the clock. At 1/16, you will get
4 notes per beat. You can go all the way to 96 notes per beat (1/384), but at most tempos,
divisions smaller than 1/64 will sound pretty much the same.

Tempo

This sets the tempo, in beats per minute (bpm), at which the Arpeggiator plays when activated.
Tempo is tied to the K2661's internal MIDI clock, as is song playback. Consequently, if a song is
playing when you activate the Arpeggiator, the song's tempo defines the Arpeggiator's tempo,
overriding the Arpeggiator's settings. Inversely, if you activate the Arpeggiator, then start a
song, the Arpeggiator's Tempo setting defines the song's tempo.
You can change Tempo in real time by changing the assignment of any of the K2661's physical
controllers in the setup to Tempo. The range is 1 to 255 bpm.

Note Shift

You can tell the Arpeggiator to transpose all of the currently-latched notes each time it plays
through them. Note Shift determines how much transposition will occur for each cycle of notes.
For example, if you have latched C4 and F4, and you assign a Note Shift of 2, the Arpeggiator
will play C4, F4, D4, G4, E4, A4, and so on until it reaches the Shift Limit. The values can range
from -88 to 88, with 0 (the default) being no transposition.

Shift Limit

Shift Limit determines how far up or down the Arpeggiator shifts from the original note. The
minimum value is 0, and the maximum is 88. When the Arpeggiator reaches the limit, the
Arpeggiator responds according to the setting for the Limit Option parameter.
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