The Effects Editor - Kurzweil K2500 - PERFORMANCE GUIDE REV F PART NUMBER 910251 CHAP 9 Manual

Effects Mode and the Effects Editor

The Effects Editor

The Effects Editor
There are four ways to reach the Effects Editor. One is to select Effects Mode, select the effect
you wish to edit, then press EDIT. You also can get there from the EFFECT page in the Program
Editor, simply by pressing EDIT. If you're in Setup mode, enter the Setup Editor by pressing
EDIT, then select the Program parameter and press EDIT again. You're now in the Program
Editor, where you can select the EFFECT page, and press EDIT to enter the Effects Editor. In any
case, you'll see a page that looks something like this:
EditEffect|||||<>Config:Ultimate|Reverb|
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DecayTime: 1.0s|EarlyDly:1ms|Dry|Level:0|
Room|Vol|:0.8||EarlyDff:5|||Early|Lvl:8|
HFDamping||:8||LaterDly:9ms|Later|Lvl:0|
Envelpmnt:0||||LaterDff:0|||||||||||||||
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Name||| Save||| Delete| Dump|||||||||||||||
The top line tells you that you're in the Effects Editor, and identifies the configuration
(explained below) of the currently selected preset effect. The bottom line labels the active soft
buttons. The parameters you see depend on the currently selected configuration.
The Name , Save , and Delete soft buttons handle the basic library functions for user-defined
effects, and the Dump soft button initiates a System Exclusive dump of the current effect's
settings.
Editing Effects
The K2500 interacts with the global effects processor as if it were a separate multi-effects unit
that's been mounted internally. There are 47 factory preset effects, and room for you to store 80
of your own preset effects. Like any other K2500 object, the preset effects are edited by selecting
parameters and changing their values.
Each factory preset effect—as well as any preset effects you create yourself—uses one of 27
available configurations. The configurations are simply different sets of familiar programmable
effects generators, the kind you'd find on any outboard effects unit—reverb, chorus, parametric
and graphic EQ, delay, and mixers. Various combinations of these effects generators make up
the configurations.
When you enter the Effects Editor, the configuration for the currently selected preset effect is
shown on the top line of the display. If you want to tweak a preset effect slightly, simply adjust
the values for one or more of the parameters on the page. You can then name and save the new
effect, either "replacing" the ROM preset or saving to a RAM location by giving it an unused
ID. If you "replace" a ROM effect with one of your own, deleting your effect will restore the
ROM effect.
Use the CHAN/BANK buttons to change the configuration to be used by the currently selected
preset effect. You'll want to do this only when you're creating new effects that differ in type
from the current effect, since changing the configuration can drastically change the nature of
the effect.
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