Buttons (Bttns); Change Setups (Chgsetups) - Kurzweil K2600 - MUSICIANS GUIDE REV A PART NUMBER 910330 CHAP 10 Manual

MIDI Mode
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Buttons (Bttns)

If you set the value of the Buttons parameter to On , the System Exclusive (SysEx) messages
generated by your button presses are sent to the MIDI Out port. This enables you to do two
things: control a remote K2600 (or earlier model), and record sequences of programming button
presses to a sequencer or SysEx software package.
If you have the MIDI In port of another K2600 (or K2500, or K2000) connected to the Þrst oneÕs
MIDI Out port, the second instrument will respond to every button press on the Þrst instrument,
just as if you were pressing the buttons of the second one. Keep in mind that both devices must
be in exactly the same state (the same page in the same mode, with identical lists of RAM
objects) when you start. Otherwise the button presses you make on the Þrst instrument may
execute other functions on the second instrument.
Much more useful is to send streams of button presses to your sequencer. When you dump them
from your sequencer back to the K2600, the K2600 responds as if the buttons were actually
pressed. This enables you to set up a variety of Òmacros,Ó which are strings of commands that
can be executed all at once by a single initial command. For example, you can record a sequence
of button presses that enters Disk mode, selects a speciÞc SCSI device, and loads one or more
banks of samples while you do something more entertaining. Again, itÕs important to keep in
mind that the state of your K2600 must be identical to its state when you recorded the sequence
of button presses. If youÕve added or deleted any objects stored in RAM, for example, the
sequence of button presses will select different objects when you play back the button press
sequence.
Note : Make sure this parameter is set to Off before you initiate a SysEx dump of any kind. If this
parameter is On when you start a dump, the buttons you press to begin the dump will also generate
SysEx messages.

Change Setups (ChgSetups)

This parameter determines the exact timing of setup changes when you select a different
setupÑeither by a normal data entry method or via MIDI program change commands.
Choose KeyUp to indicate that you want setup changes to take place only when youÕve released
all currently held notes. Choose Immed to indicate that you want such changes to happen
immediately when you select the setup.
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