Splitting Two Or More Programs - Kurzweil PC88 A Step By Step Manual

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2. Splitting Two or More Programs

1. Go through steps 1-4 in tutorial #1.
2. Press the Key Range button. The display will show the key range for zone 1, from C-1
to G9. (C4 is middle C on the keyboard.) You are going to make zone 1 be the right side
of the split, so you need to change the lowest note for this zone. The cursor is already
under the Low Note parameter. So, simply press and hold the Enter button, then strike
the key on the keyboard that you want to be the lowest note for the right side of the
split. The display will change to show that note.
3. Go through steps 5 and 6 in tutorial #1 to create the second part of your split.
4. Press the Key Range button. Since zone 2 is the left side of your split, you need to
change the high note so that it doesnÕt overlap with zone 1. Press the >> to move the
cursor to the High Note parameter. Press and hold the Enter button, then strike the note
on the keyboard that is one note lower than the note you chose for the lowest note in
zone 1. Play the keyboard. You should hear the two sounds split at the notes you chose.
5. Notice that if you press the sustain pedal when playing both sides of the split, both
sides sustain. Although this might be fine in some circumstances, often you wonÕt want
this. For example, if you create a piano and bass split, you will probably want the piano
part to sustain, but not the bass.
Hold the Controllers button and step on the sustain pedal. The display j umps to show
Zone:2 SwitchPdl1, Sw Type:Momentary. Press the >> to get to the On Control
parameter for Switch Pedal 1. Currently it is set to Sustain. Press 0, then Enter to set it
to None. Now play the keyboard and notice how the sound in zone 1 will sustain but
the sound in zone 2 does not.
6. Go through steps 8 and 9 in tutorial #1 to name and save your Setup.
You can easily add zones 3 and 4 using the same methods. Each zone can be set to any
range of notes, so you can have various zones layered while they are split with other
zones. Or create a 3 or 4 way split. Or overlap the zones only partially.