Selecting A Song For Playback; Effect Selection During Recording And Playback; Synchronizing Songs - Kurzweil K2000 - MUSICIANS GUIDE Musician's Manual

Selecting a Song for Playback

Select the Song parameter with the cursor buttons, then use any data entry method to scroll
through the list of songs. Press the Play soft button, and the song will begin playing. Press the
Stop soft button, and the song will stop and ÒrewindÓ to the beginning. If you press Play while
the song is playing, the song will stop and the play pointer will revert to the Locate parameter,
and will show your current location in the song. At this point you have two options. If you
press the Play button again, the song will continue from its current location. If you press the
Stop soft button, the song will return to 0:0.
The K2vx automatically selects programs for playback based on the MIDI channel(s) and the
programs assigned to them at the time the song was recorded. When you start playback, the
K2vx sends program changes, on all relevant channels, to its sound engine and to the MIDI Out
port if the PChng parameter on the MIDI mode XMIT page is turned on.
If you want to use a different program for playback than the one originally recorded, youÕll
need to defeat this automatic program selection. To do so, set the ProgLock parameter to a
value of On. The ProgLock parameter is found on the MIDI mode CHANLS page; you can set it
independently for each of the 16 MIDI channels. When a channelÕs ProgLock parameter is set to
a value of On, the K2vxÕs sound engine will ignore all program changes it receives on that
channel, either via MIDI or from the K2vxÕs front panel.
When youÕve set the ProgLock for each of the channels used in the song, you can go to Program
mode, select the MIDI channels used by the song, and assign the programs you want to use.
When you return to Song mode and play the song, the automatic program changes are
defeated, and the song plays the programs you assigned.

Effect Selection During Recording and Playback

When youÕre recording or playing back a song, the preset effect applied to the song is
determined by the program assigned to the FX Channel. Only one effect can be applied at a
time, even for multi-part songs using more than one program. Depending on the combination
of values for the FX Mode and FX Channel parameters in Effects mode, the FX channel may
automatically track the current MIDI channel. In this case, if you change the current MIDI
channel during playback, or during a MIDI recording, the current FX Channel, and
consequently the current effect, will change also, which might not suit your needs.
Consequently, thereÕs a way to force the FX channel to remain constant during playback or
MIDI recording, even if you move to another mode during the playback or MIDI recording and
change the current MIDI channel.
This is done by setting the FX Mode parameter to a value of Auto, and the FX Channel
parameter to a value of CurrentÑwhich is the most generally useful combination of settings for
these parameters. In this case, when youÕre in Song modeÑor when you move to another mode
during playback or MIDI recordingÑthe FX Channel parameter is temporarily forced to a
value of 1. Therefore the effect is determined by the program assigned to MIDI channel 1, and
will not change, even if you change the current MIDI channel during playback or MIDI
recording.
Of course, changing MIDI channels during playback or MIDI recording will not change the FX
channel if the FX Channel parameter is set to a value from 1 to 16, or if the FX Mode parameter
is set to a value of Master.

Synchronizing Songs

The K2vx has an internal MIDI clock, which is always running at a speed set by the Tempo
parameter. When youÕre in Song mode and the Clock parameter is set to a value of Internal,
songs will sync to the K2vxÕs internal clock. At this setting, the clock signal is sent to the K2vxÕs
Effect Selection During Recording and Playback
Song Mode
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