Building Your Own - Kurzweil K2600 Musician's Manual

Basic Effects Mode
A Tour of Effects Mode
So hereÕs a summary of the FXMods in this studio:
¥ Soft pedal puts compression on the bass and drums.
¥ Slider F controls the feedback on the chorus on the piano/string pad. Slider E controls the
LFO speed on that chorus.
¥ Slider D controls the feedback on the delay on the breathy ßute.
¥ Foot Pedal controls the delay time on the breathy ßute.
¥ Slider G controls the reverb send for all three zones.
A Note About Effects in Setups
This applies primarily to K2600R users who are playing their units with a conventional MIDI
keyboard. In order to play setups, which normally require a multi-zoned/multichannel
keyboard like the K2600 or PC 88, the K2600R includes a parameter called Local Keyboard
Channel (LocalKbdCh), which is found on the MIDI-mode RECEIVE page. If you set this
parameter to the transmitting channel of the keyboard, then the K2600 takes all incoming MIDI
data on that channel and treats it as if it was coming from a local keyboardÑthat is, it plays all
the zones in the setup.
However, when you use this feature, the K2600 will respond to certain MIDI Controller
messages coming in on this channel only if the Controller has been speciÞed as a destination on
the controller assignment pages in the setup (SLIDER, SLID/2, etc.)Ñand then, only if the setup
assigns the customary physical controller to that MIDI Controller.
For example, Slider A is customarily assigned to Data (MIDI Controller 6), but if on the setupÕs
SLIDER page, Slider A has been reassigned to something else, then Data messages coming from
the external keyboard on the local keyboard channel will not be recognized. Therefore, any
MIDI Controller message that is not in its customary place in the setup cannot be used as a
KDFX Source, because the setup will not recognize it. See Table 10-1 on page 10-8 for a list of
physical controllers affected by using the local keyboard channel.
This is not an issue in Program mode, or when using the K2600 with a sequencer. In those cases
the LocalKbdCh should be set to None, and there is no restriction on the MIDI data passing
through. More on this in Chapter 15.

Building your own

Now that weÕve walked you through a complex studio, here are some hints on how to go about
building your own.
First, you want to decide whether you want the studio to be static, or to be dynamic under
FXMod control from the K2600 keyboard and/or an external MIDI source. If itÕs to be static, the
value of FX Mode must be Master, while if itÕs to be dynamic, the value of FX Mode must be
Program, Setup, or Auto, depending on how you want to approach it.
Then you need to look at how your program outputs are arranged, so you can design the studio
intelligently. If youÕre using internal setups, look at the output assignments on the various
zones, and change them so that sounds that need different effects are separated, and those that
can use the same effects are grouped. If youÕre using a MIDI sequencer, you might want to use
the Channel output overrides in MIDI mode, and arrange your sequence so that the assignment
of tracks to FXBuses is determined by the tracksÕ MIDI channel assignments.
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