Arrangement Parameters: The Common Page; Timing Issues - Kurzweil K2000 - GUIDE SUPPLEMENT - VERSION 3 Musician’s Manual Supplement

to the track you want to mute, and press either the Increment or Decrement button to change
the dash to M. This mutes the track.
Muting tracks is a good way to make several different-sounding steps out of the same song. If
you create a multi-step arrangement in which each step uses the same song—with different
tracks muted in each step—you can bring different parts in and out in each step.
Xpose
You can transpose any step up or down. This allows you to transpose the song without having
to edit the actual song data. Every track in the step gets transposed.
This is great for many sounds, but not so useful for steps containing programs that have
different timbres assigned to different keys—like drum programs. Fortunately, you can
designate any track as a drum track, which prevents it from getting transposed when you
transpose the step. You must designate drum tracks in the individual songs that are used as
steps in the arrangement, not in the arrangement song.
To designate a drum track, go to the COMMON page for the song containing the track in
question. Find the DrumTrack parameter, and move the cursor to highlight the dash
corresponding to the track in question. Press either the Increment or Decrement button to
change the dash to a D. Don't forget to save.
Times
You can set any step to play from 1 to 120 times before stopping or continuing to the next step in
the arrangement.
Mode
This is normally set to Next. In this case, the arrangement will play the next-highest-numbered
step once the current step is finished. If the last step is set to Next, the arrangement will repeat
Step 1. To make the song stop after the last step, set the last step's Mode parameter to Stop.

Arrangement Parameters: the COMMON page

Start Step
This determines the step number where the song starts. Normally this is 1, but it can be any step
in the arrangement.
Tempo Control
You can choose whether the tempo is controlled by the arrangement song itself or by each song
in the arrangement. When set to Song the sequencer uses the tempo and time signature set in
the arrangement song itself. When set to Arrange, it uses the various tempos and time signatures
used in the arrangement's constituent songs.

Timing Issues

You might encounter timing problems when using the Arrangement Editor; notes can be
delayed when the arrangement switches from step to step. Here's how to avoid the problem.
Each time you record a track for the first time, the K2000 places four events right at the
beginning of the track: Bank Change, Program Change, Volume, and Pan. If you go into the
Event Editor, you'll see these four messages appearing at 1:1:000. Normally they'll be the first
four events you will see.
Song Mode and Sequencing
Getting Started with the Sequencer
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