Using The Modes; Program Mode; Setup Mode; Quick Access Mode - Kurzweil K2500 - PERFORMANCE GUIDE REV F PART NUMBER 910251 CHAP 4 Manual

Finding Square One
If, at any time, you don't know where you are, and the mode LEDs are all unlit, press EXIT one
or more times. This will return you to the entry level of whatever mode you were in, and if you
press EXIT enough times, you will always return to Program Mode, the startup mode. If you've
made any changes, you'll be asked whether you want to save before leaving any editor. Press
the No soft button or the EXIT button if you don't want to save. If you want to save, press the
Rename or Yes soft button, and you'll see the Save dialog, which is described in Chapter 5, in
the section called "Saving and Naming."

Using the Modes

You can play your K2500 regardless of the mode you're in. In fact, the only times you can't play
it are when you're in the middle of a disk operation (loading, saving, formatting) or a SMDI
sample transfer. With these two exceptions, the K2500's MIDI response is almost always active.
Even so there are three modes that are more performance-oriented than the others. These are
Program, Setup, and Quick Access modes. We'll describe each of the eight modes briefly in this
section.

Program Mode

The K2500 starts up in Program mode, where you can select, play and edit programs. The
Program mode entry level page shows the currently selected program, as well as a small
segment of the program list.
The Program, Keymap, and Sample Editors are nested within Program mode. They take you to
the core of the K2500's sound editing parameters. We'll discuss them in Chapters 6 and 15.

Setup Mode

Setup mode lets you select, play, and edit setups. Setups consist of up to eight separate zones,
split or overlapping, each having its own program, MIDI channel, and control parameters.
Setups are great for performance situations, whether you're playing multiple K2500 programs
or controlling additional synths connected to the K2500's MIDI Out port. Chapter 7 describes
Setup mode and the Setup Editor in detail. You can make use of Setup mode even if your MIDI
controller can transmit on only one MIDI channel at a time. To do this, go to the RECV page in
MIDI mode (by pressing the RECV soft button while in MIDI mode), and set the Local
Keyboard Channel parameter to a value that matches the transmit channel of your MIDI
controller. When you select Setup mode, the K2500 will interpret incoming MIDI information
according to the settings for the currently selected setup. See the discussion of the Local
Keyboard Channel parameter in Chapter 10 for details.

Quick Access Mode

Another feature for live performance, Quick Access mode enables you to combine programs
and setups into banks of ten entries. Each of these programs or setups can be selected with a
single alphanumeric button. Different banks are selected with the CHAN/BANK buttons.
There's a selection of factory preset banks, and you can use the Quick Access Editor to create
your own banks and store them in RAM. There's a full description in Chapter 8.

Effects Mode

Effects mode sets the behavior of the K2500's global effects processor. The Effects mode page
lets you tell the K2500 how to select preset effects when you change programs or setups, and
lets you choose a preset effect and mix level that's applied to every K2500 program. (There's
also an EFFECT page in the Program Editor, where you can select a preset effect and mix level
The Operating Modes
Using the Modes
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