Mode; Triggering Steps From A Key - Kurzweil K2600 Musician's Manual

Song Mode and the Song Editor
Song Editor: The ARRANGE Page
played, or you can specify an inÞnite loop (Inf), in which case the arrangement will play that
step until Stop is pressed.

Mode

The Mode setting found in the Arrangement Editor determines whether an arrangement plays
the next step or if the sequencer will stop after playing the current step. Unless you want the
arrangement to loop (that is, return to step one after playing the songÕs Þnal step) set the Þnal
stepÕs mode to stop.

Triggering Steps from a Key

You can play and transpose the steps in your arrangement with the keys on your keyboard. This
is a good way to try out arrangement or composition ideas, and also has some exciting live
performance applications. If you were suddenly struck by inspiration at a gig, for example, you
could spontaneously repeat or transpose sections of an arrangement. See page 12-63 for more
information.
The four parameters along the bottom of the ARRANGE page let you set up real-time control of
the steps in an arrangement. Make sure that the TriggerCtl parameter, found on the COMMON
page (see page 12-43), is set to ON, which is the default, or to the global control source that you
are using to enable this feature. TriggerChan, also on the COMMON page will need to be set to
the current MIDI channel; the default is channel 1.
The control setupÕs Sync parameter (on the COMMON page in the Setup Editor) affects how
steps beginÑimmediately, or at the beginning of the next measureÑwhen you trigger the steps
from a key. See page 7-36 for a description of the Sync parameter.
LoKey
The Þrst parameter, LoKey, is the setting for the lowest note in a keyboard range, that when
played by the TriggerChan, will trigger the start of the current step. Triggering a step from the
LoKey will play back its song in its original key transposed the number of semitones set in the
Xpose setting. As you play up the keyboard chromatically, the step will transpose its song in
semitone increments. All tracks of a song being transposed by keyboard triggering will be
transposed accordingly, except for tracks deÞned as Drum Tracks on each songÕs COMMON
page.
HiKey
The highest note of the keyboard range designed to trigger the current step is set in the HiKey
parameter. HiKey deÞnes the largest transposition of a step from the key of the song triggered
by the LoKey. The HiKey must be a higher note value than the LoKey in order to trigger any
step from the keyboard.
Latch
If Latch is set to Off, any step you trigger with keystrikes continue to play only as long as you
hold down the key that triggered it. Set Latch to On if you want to trigger the step with a
keystrike, and have it continue playing after you release the key. In this case, the step plays for
its entire length, or until you either press Stop or retrigger the step.
VelTrk
Turn the VelTrk parameter On to make your real-time arrangements more dynamically
controllable. The original attack velocity of every Note event in the triggered stepÕs song will be
scaled to values determined by the attack velocity of the note you play when triggering.
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