Kurzweil PC3LE Musician's Manual page 92

Program Mode
The Program Editor
When On, the program will play only one note at a time. This makes it possible to use and to
determine the behavior of the portamento feature. Do not set Ignore Release On (page 6‐26)
when you are using Monophonic programs, since the lack of Note Off messages will prevent
you from switching programs properly.
Legato Play
When Legato Play is on, a note will play its attack only when all other notes have been released.
This is useful for realistic instrumental sounds.
Portamento
This parameter is either on or off. The default value of Off means that portamento is disabled
for the current program.
Portamento is a glide between pitches. On actual acoustic instruments like violin and bass, it's
achieved by sliding a finger along a vibrating string. On most keyboards that offer portamento,
it's achieved by holding down a key that triggers the starting note, then striking and releasing
other keys. The pitch glides toward the most recently triggered note, and remains at that pitch as
long as the note remains on. The PC3LE gives you two ways to get portamento. See the Attack
Portamento parameter below.
When applying portamento to multi‐sampled sounds (Acoustic Guitar, for example), the PC3LE
will play more than one sample root as the pitch glides from the starting pitch to the ending
pitch. This may cause a small click at each sample root transition. You can eliminate clicks by
using the Mono Sample XFade parameter (see below.)
Portamento Rate
The setting for Portamento rate determines how fast the current note glides from starting pitch
to ending pitch. The value of this parameter tells you how many seconds the note takes to glide
one semitone toward the ending pitch. At a setting of 12 keys/second, for example, the pitch
would glide an octave every second. The list of values is nonlinear; that is, the increments get
larger as you scroll to higher values.
Attack Portamento (AttPt)
This parameter toggles between two types of portamento. When set to On, the PC3LE
remembers the starting pitch so you don't have to hold a note on to achieve portamento. The
pitch always glides to each new note from the previously triggered note. When set to Off, the
pitch will glide to the most recently triggered note only when the previous note is still on (in
other words, you must use legato fingering).
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