Section 1 — Controls & Basic Functions
ENSONIQ KT Musician’s Manual 11
Performance Controllers
The KT features some real time performance controllers that are used to modify sounds as you
play for maximum expressiveness. Two of the most important controllers are located to the left
of the keyboard:
Pitch Bend Wheel
This wheel bends the pitch of a note up or down. The wheel is normally centered, where it has
no effect on the pitch — moving the wheel up or down will bend the pitch by the amount
specified in the Bnd parameter found on {SYSTEM"MIDI} page {0}.
Modulation (Mod) Wheel
Perhaps the most common use of the Mod Wheel is to add vibrato, but it can also be assigned as a
modulator anywhere within the KT voice architecture to alter the pitch, timbre, volume, effect
and a great many other aspects of the sound.
Pressure (After-touch)
Another important controller is Pressure. Pressure (often called after-touch) is a modulator that
allows you to change the sound in various ways by pressing down harder on a key or keys after
the initial keystrike. The KT keyboard is capable of generating Channel Pressure and can receive
Poly-Key™ Pressure via incoming MIDI.
Like the Mod Wheel or CV Pedal, pressure is a modulator, and can be chosen wherever a
modulator is selected in the KT. Pressure can be assigned to alter the pitch or volume of voices,
the filter cutoff frequency, LFO depth, pan location, and a wide variety of effect parameters.
There are two types of Pressure:
• Channel Pressure, also called Mono pressure, affects all notes that are playing when you
exert pressure on any of the keys. For example, if you play a three-note chord, pressing
down harder on any of the three notes of the chord will modulate all three notes. This type of
pressure is the more common of the two types.
• Poly-Key Pressure, also referred to as polyphonic pressure, affects each key independently.
For example, if you play a three-note chord, pressing down harder on any of the three notes
of the chord will modulate only that note. The other two notes will remain unaffected.
Although the KT keyboard will not generate Poly-Key pressure, it will receive it via incoming
MIDI.
Each preset or sequencer track can be programmed to receive Poly-Key pressure, channel
pressure or none at all. If you wish to change the pressure type for a given track, you can do
so on Edit Track page 6 (press {EDIT_TRACK}, then the lower {6} button).
Note that pressure generates a tremendous amount of data, and will consume sequencer memory
much faster than other types of events, such as notes and program changes. You should turn
pressure off when sequencing instruments that do not respond to pressure, such as piano and
drum sounds.
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