Kurzweil K2500 - PERFORMANCE GUIDE REV F PART NUMBER 910251 CHAP 6 Manual page 14

Program Mode and the Program Editor
Program Editor— KEYMAP Page
Program Editor— KEYMAP Page
Press the KEYMAP soft button to call up the KEYMAP page. The parameters on this page
affect sample root selection—which samples are played on which keys.
EditProg:KEYMAP||||||||||||<>Layer:1/1||
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KeyMap:1|Grand|Piano|||||||||Stereo:Off|
Xpose|:0ST||||||||TimbreShift|:0ST||||||
KeyTrk:100ct/key||PlayBackMode:Normal|||
VelTrk:0ct||||||||AltControl||:MIDI70|||
SmpSkp:Auto|||||||AltMethod|||:Switched|
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PARAMETER
KEYMAP
TRANSPOSE
KEY TRACKING
VELOCITY TRACKING
SAMPLE SKIPPING
STEREO
TIMBRE SHIFT
PLAYBACK MODE
ALT CONTROL
ALT METHOD
Keymap
Assign a ROM or RAM keymap to the current layer. Keymaps are collections of samples
assigned to note and velocity ranges. There are nearly 200 ROM keymaps to choose from. You'll
find a list of them in the Reference Guide.
Transpose (Xpose)
Transpose the current keymap up or down as much as 60 semitones (5 octaves).
Key Tracking (KeyTrk)
This is one of the six common DSP control parameters. On the KEYMAP page, key tracking
affects the interval between notes. The default value of 100 cents (hundredths of a semitone)
gives you the normal semitone interval between each note. Higher values increase the interval;
lower values decrease it. Negative values will cause the pitch to decrease as you play higher
notes. You can create a mirror-image piano by setting the key tracking to –100 and transposing
the layer up 4 semitones. When you make changes to this parameter, you'll need to keep in
mind that KeyTrk on the KEYMAP page works in conjunction with KeyTrk on the PITCH page.
Therefore, you'll need to check the KeyTrk value on both pages to see how key tracking works
within a program.
Velocity Tracking (VelTrk)
This is another common DSP control parameter. As with the other parameters on the KEYMAP
page, this shifts the position of the keymap. Different attack velocities will play different pitch
shifts of the sample root assigned to that note range. If the shift is great enough, the next higher
or lower sample root will be played, which in some cases (like the drum programs) will play an
entirely different sound. Positive values will play higher pitches of the sample root when you
use hard attack velocities (they shift the keymap downward), while negative values will play
lower pitches.
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RANGE OF VALUES
Keymap list
60 semitones
2400 cents per key
7200 cents per key
Auto, Off, On
Off, On
60 semitones
Norm, Rvrs, Bidirectional, Noise Normal
Control Source list
Switched, Continuous
DEFAULT
1 Grand Piano
0
100
0
Auto
Off
0
OFF
Switched