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Kurzweil MarkPro TWOiS User Manual

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  • Page 2 WARNING : Changes or modifications to this instrument not expressly The normal function of the product may be disturbed by strong elecro Magnetic approved by KURZWEIL could void your authority to operate the instrument. Interference. If so, Simply reset the Product to resume normal operation by following the instruction manual.

  • Page 3: Important Safety Instructions

    IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS 1. Read these instructions. 2. Keep these instructions. 3. Heed all warnings. 4. Follow all instructions. 5. Do not use this apparatus near water. 6. Clean only with dry cloth. 7. Do not block any of the ventilation openings. Install in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions. 8.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Loop Activate Left Split Reset Split Point MIDI Adjusting the Volume Balance MIDI Connection Drum Maps MIDI Channels Kurzweil Map & GM ReMap Headphone Out Reverbs and Effects Audio In/Out Reverbs Audio In Effects Audio Out Recording and Playing MIDI Messages...

  • Page 5: Set Up Music Rack

    SET UP MUSIC RACK HOW TO SET UP MUSIC RACK Assemble a fixed bolt first to the back (rear) of music rack support (prop). Do not keep too tight when assemble a fix bolt Tighten a fixed bolt after insert music rack to music support.

  • Page 6: How To Set Up Stand

    SET UP STAND...

  • Page 7: Features

    Features Welcome to the world of the KURZWEIL Mark-Pro TWOi S digital piano. The Mark-Pro TWOi S features digital representation of live instruments accurate to the finest details. You will hear the difference in tone as you play from bass to treble and from soft to loud, just as the original instruments.

  • Page 8: Installation

    Power Supply The Mark Pro TWOi S is a free volt product which can be used both on 110V and 220V. You can power this digital piano by plugging it into a standard household power outlet. Make sure the power switch on the bottom surface of the keyboard is turned off before you connect the power cord to the electrical outlet.

  • Page 9: The Controls & Connectors

    The Keyboard The keyboard of the Mark-Pro TWOi S has 88 weighted hammer action keys that will ensure you will have the original piano feeling when playing. They are also touch-sensitive for a true piano feel. In other words, the harder you press the keys (the faster, to be exact), the louder and brighter the sound gets.

  • Page 10: Front Panel

    The Controls & Connectors The Front Panel Demo Play Reverb and Effect Recording/ Volume Knob Playing Speaker Metronome/ Rhythm Reverb Song1 Song2 Metro / Rhythm Demo / Edu. Effect Play / Stop Track1 Track2 Tap Tempo Master Volume The Controls & Connectors...

  • Page 11: Front Panel

    Like a Piano Split Layer Voice Select Global Speaker Transpose Transpose Layer Piano E.Piano Organ / Key String / Voices Brass Guitar Perc. Default Panic Split Point Grand Piano Global / No / Yes Split Local Tune Touch Drum Map Intonation Loop The Controls &...

  • Page 12: Listen To The Demo Songs

    Listen to the Demo Songs The Mark-Pro TWOi S has 3 ensemble demos, 50 piano demos and 8 instrumental demos that will aquaint you with the sound of the Mark-Pro TWOi S. Ensemble Demos and Piano Demos Press . The red LED on the button blinks and the display shows dE1, meaning demo ensemble number 1.

  • Page 13: Bayer

    Instrumental Demos Press the button and check that the green LED in the button is on. Press one of the voice group buttons on the right side of the front panel. The demo of the selected instrument will play. Beyer In addition to the above demos, the Mark-Pro TWOi S also has an Education mode to play Beyer for young learners.

  • Page 14: Voice Select

    Voice Select The Mark Pro-TWOi S selects the piano voice by default when turned on, which can also be selected by the Grand Piano button on the left as shown in the following figure. In addition to the Grand Piano voice, the Mark-Pro TWOi S has 64 voices which can be classified to as 8 categories: 8 piano voices, 8 elec pianos, 8 organs/keyboards, 8 strings, 8 pads, 8 brasses, 8 guitars/voices, and 8 percussion sets.

  • Page 15: Layering Voices

    Layering Voices In addition to the 64 voices built in, the Mark-Pro TWOi S also lets you combine two of the 64 voices to make unique sounds of your own. It is called layering, and you can do this using the Layer button.

  • Page 16: Adjusting The Volume Balance

    Adjusting the Volume Balance To make the added voice louder, while holding down Layer button, press the +/Yes button. Similarly, press the -/No button while holding down the Layer button, to make the added voice softer. Layer / No / Yes 1.

  • Page 17: Left Split

    Left Split You can divide the keyboard of the Mark-Pro TWOi S into two, left and right, and assign a different voice for each. It is called a split and you can easily do it with the Split button. When split, you can use left and right hands to play different voices. Activate left Split Press the Split button.

  • Page 18: Split Point

    Split Point Pressing the Split button changes the voice of the left side keys on the keyboard starting from Ab3 key by default. However, you can change the split point to other than the Ab3 key. Hold down the Split and the Layer buttons at the same time and press any key on the keyboard to change the split point.

  • Page 19: Drum Maps

    The drum map on page 25 will show you which key has what sound. Kurzweil Map and GM ReMap The Mark-Pro TWOi S supports two sets of drum maps: Kurzweil Map and GM ReMap. The Mark-Pro TWOi S uses the Kurzweil map for its drum sound by default, but for compatibility with General Midi instruments, it also supports GM remap.
  • Page 20 1. Press the Perc. button and press the 5 button. 2. Play the keyboard. 3. Press the Global button and the DrumMap button. 4. Press the +/Yes button and play the keyboard. 5. Press the -/No button and play the keyboard. The two drum maps contain essentially the same sounds in different orders.
  • Page 21 Drum Maps Keyboard Kurzweil Map GM ReMap Drum Maps...

  • Page 22: Reverbs And Effects

    Reverbs and Effects For sound realistically reverbrated in specific spaces or for special effects, the Mark-Pro TWOi S provides you with two independent types of digital signal processing: 64 sets of reverbs and 64 sets of effects. Reverbs Reverb, or reverbration occurs naturally when sound undergoes multiple reflections off the walls of a space.
  • Page 23 Changing Wet/Dry Mix Hold down the Reverb button and press +/Yes or -/No to change wet/dry mix, in other words, the amount of reverb. Reverb / No / Yes The reverb setting affects Mark-Pro TWOi S’s sound as a whole. That means, two or more voices are active by layer, split, or any other ways, the reverb setting is effective to all the voices in the same way.

  • Page 24: Effects

    Adds harsh harmonics to the tone, simulating the effect of Distortion a guitar distortion pedal on the sound. “colors” the timber of the sound. Filter Kurzweil’s unique speciality reverb that creates buzzy pitch LazerVerb effects. Other effects like panning, tremolo etc. Misc...
  • Page 25 Changing Wet/Dry Mix Hold down the Effect button and press +/Yes or -/No to change the wet/dry mix, in other words, the amount of the effect. Effect / No / Yes Effect List The three classifications on the last row are effective from 57 through 64, the Miscelleneous effects: Rotary Speaker Effects used for KB3 organs Enhancer...

  • Page 26: Recording And Playing

    Recording and Playing The Mark-Pro TWOi S allows you to record and playback your performance. Two song spaces are available each with two tracks. Recording ong1 and Song2 are two spaces where you can record. Select one of the spaces by pressing Song1 or Song2. The LED indicates the selected song.
  • Page 27 Seleting a track to recored Song1 and Song2 both have two tracks. When you select a song to record, you are in record ready mode with an empty track of the song selected. (If there is no empty track in the song, or both tracks are empty, track 1 is selected.) Press Track1 or Track2 Track 1 Track 2...

  • Page 28: Playing Back

    Start Recording with keyboard or Pedal In record ready mode entered, any one of three actions can trigger the recording: 1) Press any key. 2) Press any pedal. 3) Press the Play/Stop button. When you start recording by pressing the Play/Stop button, it is hard to syncronize your first note to the start of the bar.

  • Page 29: Metronome

    Metronome Metro / Rhythm Use the metronome when playing or recording to hear the desired tempo. Press the Metro/Rhythm button to be in Rhythm Selection mode where you can also select Metronome. When you press the Metro/Rhythm button, you can choose one of the 64 built in rhythms of which the first 4 rhythms are metronomes.

  • Page 30: Rhythms

    Rhythms The Mark-Pro TWOi S has 64 built in rhythm patterns. The first 4 patterns are metronomes (2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and 6/8) and the other 60 are various rhythms. Select a rhythm in Rhythm Selection mode. You can always play it by pressing the Play/Stop button in stop mode.

  • Page 31: Transposition And Tuning

    Transposition and Tuning Transposition by Half Steps Transposition means moving the pitches of the entire keyboard up or down by half steps. This is useful, for example, when you accompany a singer and the key is too high or too low, or when you play music written for a transposing instrument like a saxophone or a clarinet.

  • Page 32: Scale Or Intonation

    Scale or Intonation In addition to shifting pitches as a whole, the Mark-Pro TWOi S also lets you adjust the intervals between keys to detune and play exotic scales or intonations. The Mark-Pro TWOi S is set to equal temperatment by default, but in addition five more intonations are available.

  • Page 33: Like A Piano

    Like a Piano The Mark-Pro TWOi S can be just as simple to use as an acoustic piano by disabling all of the non piano functions. Reset to Piano Voice Press the Grand Piano button once. All the changes you have made to voices such as layer, split, reverb, etc.

  • Page 34: Global

    Global The Global button, in connection with the 8 buttons on its left (Local, Tune, Touch, etc) lets you to control various functions affect- ing the keyboard globally. Press the Global button. The display shows you GLo which stands Global for global.

  • Page 35: Tune

    Local control off is needed when using an external MIDI device with your Mark-Pro TWOi S such as a computer sequencer. In that case, your playing goes to the computer instead of the internal sound engine. The computer has control of the Mark-Pro TWOi S. To hear your playing, the computer should be set to send the MIDI signals back to the Mark-Pro TWOi S (called patchthru).

  • Page 36: Touch

    7. Hard 3 is the least sensitive. DrumMap The Mark-Pro TWOi S supports two sets of drum maps: Kurzweil Map and GM ReMap. By default, Mark-Pro TWOi S uses the Kurzweil map for drum voices, but for compatibility with General Midi instruments it also supports GM remap.

  • Page 37: Intonation

    You can connect the Mark-Pro TWOi S to external MIDI devices in 2 ways: 1) with MIDI in/out on the rear panel, and 2) with USB. If you want to do it in the first way, using MIDI in/out, you need to set USB off.

  • Page 38: Loop

    Loop You can play the demo songs in one of the following three modes: 1) repeating one song; 2) repeating all songs; 3) no repeat. The Mark-Pro TWOi S will play one selected demo song without repeat by default, but you may change the play mode with the Loop function.

  • Page 39: Midi

    MIDI "MIDI" stands for "Musical Instrument Digital Interface." It is an international standard that allows electronic musical instruments to communicate with each other, using a simple cableconnection. The Mark-Pro TWOi S is compatible with other MIDI instruments. MIDI Connection On the rear panel are two MIDI ports: MIDI In receives MIDI messages from other equipment.

  • Page 40: Midi Channels

    If you connect In to Out, rather than Out to In, the other instrument becomes the Master. And if you use two cables, connecting In to Out, a n d Out to In, you can use either instrument as the Master. You probably will want to use the Mark-Pro TWOi S as the master keyboard.

  • Page 41: Headphone Out

    Others Headphone Out A headphone jack allows private practice. Plugging in a pair headphones turns off the speakers.You can also insert a "dummy" stereo headphone adapter to silence the speakers. This is useful if you want to mute the internal speaker system while using a more powerful external amplification system connected to the Audio Out.

  • Page 42: Midi Messages

    MIDI MIDI Channels For MIDI to control several instruments, each playing a different part at the same time, it uses different channels. There are 16 channels available, and each one can transmit any number of notes to any number of instruments, over the same MIDI cable.
  • Page 43 The Mark-Pro TWOi S recognizes Volume messages, which control the overall volume of the sound on the MIDI channel on which they are sent. Controller 7 can be used by itself, or when subtle control is desired, controller 39 can be used with it.

  • Page 44: Program Change

    Program Change When you select a voice on the , it transmits a program change Mark-Pro TWOi S message. In the same way, it also receives program change messages when it is connected to an external device via the MIDI in port or USB port. MIDI...

  • Page 45: Appendix

    Appendix A A p p p p e e n n d d i i x x A A Specifications Specifications are subject to change without notice Physical Specification Mark-Pro TWOi S Dimension(mm) Weight Electrical Specification Voltage and Frequency Ranges 120 VAC 230 VAC Adapter Model PM0023A...

  • Page 46: Voice List

    Voice List Appendix...

  • Page 47: Piano Demo Song List

    MIDI Implementation Chart Appendix...

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