Kurzweil PC3K Series Musician's Manual page 200

Setup Mode
Recording A Setup To Song Mode
8.
Notes About Recording A Setup To Song Mode
Tempo: The tempo of a setup is set on the SetupMode:COMMON page (see The COMMON
Page on page 7‐56.) If you plan to record a song from the same setup several times, it is
convenient to set your desired tempo on the SetupMode:COMMON page and save it with your
setup. By doing this, you will not need to reset your setup tempo to the desired song tempo
every time you load your setup (as in step 5, above.)
Riffs: If you are using Riffs in your setup, do the following to make each Riff play at your setup's
tempo (which also becomes your song's tempo.) For each zone that has a riff, go to the
SetupMode:RIFF2 page (see The RIFF2 Page on page 7‐61) and set the BPM parameter to Setup.
Remember to save changes to your setup when exiting the Setup Editor.
Effects: When recording a setup into Song mode, the song will not retain the Aux or Master
effects settings of your setup. If you would like your song to use the same effects as your setup,
copy the settings of your setup's FX, AUX1, AUX2, and MASTER EFFECTS pages to the FX,
AUX1, AUX2, and Master Effects pages in your song. Alternatively, playing your song from
setup mode will allow you to hear the effects. To do this, load your song, press the Setup Mode
button to enter Setup mode and choose your setup, then press the Play/Pause button. This will
play your song from Setup mode, and the effects will be intact.
Mono Pressure: When recording a setup to Song mode with Mult selected for RecTrk in Song
mode, you may notice that every track has recorded Mono Pressure messages, even if there is
nothing else recorded on a track. If this bothers you, you can set the MonoPress parameter to
Off on the Song:Event Filter Recording page (see Song Mode: The Filter Pages (RECFLT and
PLYFLT) on page 12‐15.) This will prevent Mono Pressure messages from being recorded to any
track. Alternatively, you can erase Mono Pressure messages from specific tracks after recording.
To do this, go to the EditSong: Track page (see Song Editor: The TRACK Page on page 12‐21.) On
the EditSong: Track page, use the Chan/Layer buttons to choose the track to edit (visible in the
Track field at the top right corner of the display.) Set the Function parameter to Erase and the
Events parameter to MonoPress. Use the From and To fields to select the entire length of your
song, and press the Go soft button to erase Mono Pressure messages from the selected track.
Repeat this for each desired track. You can also choose ALL for the Track parameter to erase
Mono Pressure messages from all tracks.
Controller Messages: When recording a setup to Song mode with Mult selected for RecTrk in
Song mode, you may often be recording more controller messages than you realize. This can
happen because multiple setup zones often respond to the same physical controllers. This is
likely to be the case when you use a setup created by duplicating zones and do not change the
controller destination assignments for each new zone. Often this is the desired behavior, such as
when using zones to create layers. For example, if zone one sends pitch bend messages from the
pitch wheel, and you duplicate this zone to create a layered zone two, you will likely want the
zone two to send the same messages from the pitch wheel. This way the pitch of these layered
zones will bend simultaneously when using the pitch wheel. But say for example that you also
have a zone three with a different key range than zones one and two, but which sends the same
messages from the pitch wheel. While playing and recording your setup, the function of the
pitch wheel will be obvious, but some confusion can arise when you have recorded your setup
and you proceed to record more tracks in Song mode. Because you have recorded with Mult
selected for RecTrk, the track for zone three will have pitch bend messages recorded wherever
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After saving your song, you will be returned to the Song mode MAIN page, where your
saved song will be loaded. You can continue to record or edit the song in Song mode just
as you would with any other song (see Song Mode and the Song Editor on page 12‐1.) Each
program from each zone in your setup is automatically assigned to a track (change the
RecTrk parameter in order to record to a single track.) You can also continue to record
from Setup mode by going back to step 3, above. Remember to set the tempo (step 5
above) before recording, as the song tempo will change if your setup is saved with a
different tempo.