Chapter 2 A Tutorial - Kurzweil V150 Owner's Manual

Chapter 2
A Tutorial
The purpose of this tutorial is to help familiarize you with many of the features found in the
V150/V110. To do this, we'll push a few buttons and configure the V150/V110 to play four
different sounds. Then we'll adjust a few more features, and save everything to what we call a
Panel Memory, which enables you to select that exact configuration at any time by pressing a
single button.
This tutorial assumes you are already familiar with the general operation of the front panel
navigation controls such as the display buttons (the ones surrounding the display), and the
Up/Down/Left/Right buttons. See page 1-4 if you need a reminder.
Starting Point
You'll soon be adding sounds and placing them in different parts of the keyboard. You'll
probably be doing a lot of this as you enjoy your V150/V110. But you'll often want to start over
with just a single sound playing. There's a quick and easy way to do this: press the first and
second Panel Memory buttons at the same time. This selects the Stereo Grand Piano sound,
without any other sounds (this is the default Panel Memory). Play a few notes to make sure
you're hearing just the Stereo Grand Piano sound.
You can use this short cut at any time to return to the default Panel Memory. You can also turn
off sounds by pressing the corresponding display buttons (Split, Layer, and SplitLayer) twice—
once to select a part of the keyboard, then again to silence it. You can't turn off the Main sound,
by the way.
Layering a Sound
We're going to add a Layer sound now. Press the display button labeled Layer. Now press the
Voices sound category button. Use the Up/Down buttons to select the sound called The Croons.
Play the sounds and listen to the scat vocals layered with the piano. If the balance between the
two sounds isn't to your liking, don't worry—we'll balance them out a bit later in this tutorial.
Adding a Split
We're going to split the keyboard, and play a different sound with the left hand. Press the
display button labeled Split. Now press the Bass sound category button. Select the
Upright Bass 2 sound using the Up/Down buttons. Note how the piano and vocals are limited to
the right side of the keyboard, while the left side plays an acoustic bass.
Changing the Split Point
The default keyboard split point (the place where the left hand sound meets the right hand
sound) occurs at the F
point to be A
on the keyboard. Play to confirm the split point is correct.
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below middle C, sometimes referred to as F
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below middle C (A 3). Press the Split Point button and then strike the A
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3. Let's change the split
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3 key
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