Kurzweil PC3K Series Musician's Manual page 193

sync to external MIDI clock. You can also manually choose a tempo by selecting a value from 20
to 400 for BPM. Use the Alpha Wheel or ‐ /+ buttons to choose between the options or set a
tempo. You can also use the alphanumeric pad followed by pressing the Enter button to enter a
tempo.
SyncZone
The SyncZone parameter determines which zone a riff will sync to. You can choose to sync to a
riff or arpeggio in a specific zone by setting SyncZone to Riff 1–16 or Arp1‐16, and the current
riff will always sync to the riff or arpeggio in the set zone. For example, if you have a drum riff
in zone 1 and a bass riff in zone 2, you may always want the bass riff in zone 2 to sync to the
drum riff in zone 1. In this case you would set the bass riff SyncZone to Riff 1.
You may want to have a little more freedom and not be tied to the drum riff as the main
"timekeeper." Maybe you want to start with the bass riff and have the drum riff start later. In
this case you would set SyncZone to FirstRiff.Av. With this setting, the riff will look for the first
available riff to sync to. So if both the drum riff and the bass riff have this parameter set to
FirstRiff.Av., the riff that is started first will be the master. If the bass riff starts first, the drum
riff will see that as the first available riff to sync to and will do so. If the drum riff is started first,
the bass riff will see that as the first available riff to sync to and will do so. This can be very
handy if you have multiple riffs and want to do some live remixing; you could have the drums
drop out, and—as long is there is a riff playing—they will sync back up when triggered again.
You can also choose FirstArp.Av., which behaves the same way as FirstRiff.Av., but makes your
riff look for the first available arpeggiator to sync to. A setting of Main Seq. will sync the riff to
the song currently loaded in Song mode. You can select a song in Song mode, then play it from
setup mode with the front panel Play/Pause button. (Doing this temporarily replaces the programs
in your setup's zones with the program used for each channel in the song, so it's best to make a setup that
uses the same programs as your song on the same MIDI channels. If you plan on syncing riffs with a
song, it may be easier to start by creating a setup, then recording the setup into a song. See Recording A
Setup To Song Mode on page 7‐69 for details.) A setting of First Avail. will sync the riff to the first
available riff, arpeggiator, or song from Song mode.
Note: If you have multiple riffs or arpeggiators already playing when using FirstRiff.Av., FirstArp.Av.,
or First Avail. for the current riff, the current riff will sync to the riff or arpeggiator of the lowest
numbered zone that has a riff or arpeggiator playing.
SyncType
The SyncType parameter allows you to choose how your riff will sync to other riffs,
arpeggiators, and Songs (depending on your settings made for the SyncZone parameter.) With
SyncType set to None, your riff will start playing as soon as it is triggered. It will not sync to
anything. With SyncType set to DownBeat, if there is already something playing to sync to, the
current riff will wait for the downbeat of the next measure before starting; so, you can trigger the
riff to start ahead of time, and have it start in sync at the downbeat of the next measure. If
Syncing to an arpeggiator, see Num Beats on page 7‐53 for details on changing when an arpeggiator's
downbeat will occur. With SyncType set to AnyBeat, if there is already a something playing to
sync to, the riff will wait only until the next beat. Depending on when you trigger the riff, it will
sync up, but it may be on an upbeat or a downbeat.
With SyncType set to DownBeatWait, the riff will wait for the downbeat of the next measure to
start. The difference from DownBeat is that if there is nothing playing to sync to, the riff will not
start. This can be useful if you want to start multiple riffs synced to one riff. You could have a
bass riff set to DownBeatWait, for instance, and trigger the riff while no other riffs are running.
As soon as you start another riff, the bass riff will start playing as well (provided that it is set to
sync to another riff or to the first available riff.) If another riff is already running,
DownBeatWait behaves just like DownBeat.
Setup Mode
Riffs
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