Glissando - Kurzweil PC1 - MUSICIANS GUIDE REV B Manual

Descriptions of Parameters
Setup Editor Parameters
Bipolar
Starts out the same way as Unipolar, but during downward note shifting, it continues past the
original pitch until it hits the shift limit in the opposite direction, where it reverses again.
Flt Reset
Adds a bit of apparent randomness to the process. Flt stands for "Float," and it means that when
the arpeggiator reaches the shift limit, it resets--but not to its original pitch as with plain Reset.
Like Unipolar and Bipolar, it looks at the first note that would exceed the shift limit, and
calculates the interval between that note and the shift limit. It then restarts the cycle of latched
notes, transposing the entire cycle by the interval it just calculated, then shifting each subsequent
cycle by the value of Note Shift, until it reaches the shift limit again.
Here's a very simple example. Suppose that the only note in the arpeggiator cycle is C 4, Note
Shift is 4 (a third), and Shift Limit is 7 (so notes won't get shifted above G 4). The arpeggiator
plays C 4, then E 4. The next note should be G 4, but that's above the shift limit--so the PC1
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calculates the difference between that G 4 and the shift limit (G 4): one semitone. It adds that
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difference to the original starting note (C 4) and plays that note next--C 4. The next note (F 4) is
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within the shift limit, but the next note (A 4) isn't, so it gets translated into D 4--and so on.
Flt Unip
Uses the same concept as Flt Reset and applies it to Unipolar mode: when the arpeggiator
reaches the shift limit, it calculates the difference between the next note and the limit, and
transposes the next cycle of notes down by that interval, then shifts each subsequent cycle down
until it reaches the original pitch.
Flt Bipl
Similar to Fit Uni, but the downward shift limit isn't the original pitch, it's the negative of the
Shift Limit value.

Glissando

When the Glissando parameter is On, the arpeggiator chromatically fills between latched notes.
When Glissando is on, the Arpeggiator ignores the Note Shift, Shift Limit, and Limit Option
parameters.
You must latch at least two notes to get a result. When Glissando is on, all notes played in the
arpeggiation range get latched, although you won't necessarily get meaningful results from all
latched notes. In general, try to get each subsequent note you latch to be a change in direction.
For example, try latching the following sequence of notes: C4, C5, G4, G5, C5, C6, G4, G5. The
"glissando" changes direction around each change in direction of the latched notes.
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