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Control Slider 2 turns on the Key Hold function. Select a control source using Slider 3. The control source will usually be
assigned to one of the local switches A, B, or C, and activated with the footswitch.
To use the Key Hold function, first press and hold a key (or keys) on the keyboard. Next, press the control switch. The keys
may now be released, but they will continue to sound as long as the control switch is on (if the control switch is set for
momentary mode, it must be held down to sustain the notes; if it is set for toggle mode, it may be released). Any new keys
played at this time will not sustain. The sustaining notes will stop sounding as soon as the control switch is turned off.
A variation of Key Hold is activated by switching Control Slider 2 to Latch. Operation is similar to normal mode, except that
when a chord is being sustained by the control switch, any new keys pressed will be locked out, and only the chord will con-
tinue to sound. On some MIDI sound modules, restriking the keys held by the Key Hold function will cause the notes to turn
off. Most modules will assign additional voices at the same pitch of the sustained notes.
The Key Hold function is not available if the zone is bypassed.
TRANSPOSE
When creating a layered sound using several MIDI synthesizers or sound modules, the relative pitch of each layer has a major
effect on the overall sound. The TRANSPOSE screen is used to adjust the transpose interval for each sound module. The top
line displays the names of the devices controlled by zones one through four. The bottom line shows the transpose interval
for each zone. The transpose value has a range of +/- 60 semitones (equal to +/- five octaves). Use the value zero if no trans-
position is desired.
It is possible that several zones may be assigned to the same sound module. The transpose parameter may be set to a dif-
ferent value for each zone. This means that playing one note on the MIDI keyboard could produce a chord on a single sound
module (however it is more efficient to use the SL-2001 Chord function than to use multiple zones).
To set transpose intervals for zones five through eight, press the right arrow switch ( > ) ; the zone digits will display 58.
If a zone is bypassed, the output port will be displayed. The transpose function does not operate when^he zone is bypassed.
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