Kurzweil K2500 - PERFORMANCE GUIDE REV F PART NUMBER 910252 CHAP 12 Manual page 4

Glossary
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Parameter
Pixel
Program
Program Editor
RAM
ROM
Sample
SCSI
SMDI
SMF
Semitone
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A set of performance or programming parameters that appear as a group in the
display. The entry level page for each mode appears when you select the mode. Most
other pages are selected with the soft buttons, from within an editor.
A programming feature. The name of the parameter describes the function it
controls—transposition, for example. Each parameter has a value associated with it,
which indicates the status of the parameter.
A contraction of "picture element." The K2500's display consists of a screen with
small square dots (the pixels). Each pixel lets light through or blocks it depending on
whether it is receiving an electrical charge. The combination of light and dark dots
creates a pattern that you recognize as text or graphics. The K2500's display is 240-by-
64 pixels, in other words, 64 horizontal rows, each containing 240 pixels, for a total of
15360 pixels.
The K2500's basic performance-level sound object. Programs can consist of up to 3
layers (32 layers for programs on the drum channel); each layer has its own keymap
(set of samples) and sound-processing algorithm.
The set of parameters that lets you modify the sound of ROM or RAM programs.
Enter the Program Editor by pressing the EDIT button while in Program mode, or any
time the currently selected parameter has a program as its value.
Random Access Memory, one of the two basic types of computer memory. RAM can
be both read from and written to. When you load samples into the K2500, or save a
program you've created, you're writing to RAM. Compare ROM.
Read Only Memory, one of the two basic types of computer memory. You can retrieve
the information stored in ROM, but you can't write (save) new information to it. The
onboard sounds of your K2500 are stored in ROM.
A digital recording of a sound that can be assigned to a keymap as part of the process
of building a program. Samples are stored in ROM (factory-installed) or in RAM
(loaded from disk).
Pronounced "scuzzy," this acronym stands for Small Computer Systems Interface. It's
simply a standardized form of information exchange that allows any SCSI equipped
device to communicate with any other SCSI device. Two or more SCSI devices—they
can be computers, hard disks, printers, just about anything that sends or receives
information in standardized form—are connected via special cables to their SCSI
ports. This configuration is much faster than serial information exchange, the
precursor to SCSI.
Pronounced "smiddy," this acronym stands for SCSI Musical Data Interchange. It's a
new format for data transfer, based on the SCSI format, which uses parallel input/
output rather than serial, as used by MIDI and standard SCSI operations. This enables
data to flow much faster. You can use SMDI to transfer samples to and from the K2500
using software packages from Passport and Opcode.
Standard MIDI File. MIDI Type 0 files are single track, while MIDI Type 1 files are
multi-track. The K2500 can read and write Type 0 files and read Type 1 files.
In "Western" music, the standard interval between the twelve notes in the scale. There
are twelve semitones to an octave. The interval between C and C# is one semitone.