Pitch Wheel And Key-Pressure Bend - Kurzweil K150 User Manual

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Press 0 (yes), and the program will be replaced. Press (no), and you will return to the
COPY current-program number TO current-program number
display, where you can enter a different program number.
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DELETE PROGRAM?
With the question mark flashing. Push 0 for "yes" or for "no". If you respond yes, the program will be deleted. Remember
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Pitch Wheel and Key-Pressure Bend

Note bending is when the played note rises or falls to another note by a smooth transition, as in Figure 6-1. It may or may not
return to the original note.
The K150X allows you to control this effect in two ways - through the pitch wheel or through key pressure. Here, in the
program editor, you select the ranges in semitones for both of the bending options. The .P-BEND switch in the Layer Editor
allows you to select whether either or both of these options is active for a particular layer. All layers in the program set to the
same option will have the same amount of bend. With the .P-BEND switch, you can select among four pitch bending
options: off, wheel, press, or both. (See Layer Editing for more information.)
Pitch Wheel Bending
Assuming your MIDI controller has an assignable pitch wheel, it can bend a played note up or down, depending on which
way the wheel is rotated (no bending occurs when the wheel is in the center of its rotation). In order to hear the effect of your
changes, the .P-BEND parameter in one or more of the layers being played has to have the value wheel or both, and there has
to be proper MIDI assignment of the pitch wheel signal and/or the key velocity signal from the MIDI controller to the
K150X.
When the display reads .P-BEND you can adjust how many semitones away from the played note wheel rotation can bend
the sound. Use INCR and DECR to change the value by 1 semitone increments, or enter a value using the numeric button-
pad and press ENTR.
The value given is the amount in each direction. For instance, if 3ST is the value, the pitch wheel will bend the played note 3
semitones up and 3 semitones down. The maximum range is +/-6O semitones. New programs have their P-BEND set at a
default value of 2ST.
The sign of the value shows the relationship between the direction the pitch wheel is rotated and the direction of the pitch.
The convention is usually.
Figure 6-1. Note Bending.
Wheel Direction
clockwise or up
Note Direction
up
6-3
Sign of Semitone Value
+