Editing Conventions
Special Button Functions
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Special Button Functions
The mode buttons, as well as few of the other buttons, have additional functions, as described below:
Program
/ Mute 1 When you’re in the Program Editor, this button will mute Layer 1 of the current
program or the currently displayed layer for drum programs. While in the Setup Editor,
it will mute Zone 1 of the current setup, if the setup has three or fewer zones; mutes
current zone in setups with more than three zones. On MIXER page of Song mode,
mutes either track 1 or 9.
Setup
/ Mute 2 When you’re in the Program Editor, this button will mute Layer 2 of the current
program, if any. For drum programs, solos currently displayed layer. While in the Setup
Editor, it will mute Zone 2 of the current setup, if the setup has three or fewer zones;
solos current zone in setups with more than three zones. On MIXER page of Song mode,
mutes either track 2 or 10.
Q Access
/ Mute 3 When you’re in the Program Editor, this button will mute Layer 3 of the current
program, if any. For drum programs, solos currently displayed layer. While in the Setup
Editor, it will mute Zone 3 of the current setup, if the setup has three or fewer zones;
solos current zone in setups with more than three zones. On MIXER page of Song mode,
mutes either track 3 or 11.
Effects
/ FX Bypass When you’re in the Program Editor, pressing this button will bypass (mute) the preset
effect assigned to the current program, letting you hear just the sound of the layer(s)
you want to hear. On MIXER page of Song mode, mutes either track 4 or 12.
MIDI
/ Prev pg In the Program Editor, pressing this button will take you to the previously selected
editing page. The K2500 remembers the four most recently selected pages, so you can
press this button up to four times to backtrack through the pages you’ve viewed.
Pressing it a fifth time will take you back to the ALG page. On MIXER page of Song
mode, mutes either track 5 or 13.
Master
/ Mark This is handy for marking Program Editor pages that you use frequently. Pressing this
button will mark the currently selected page. You can mark as many pages as you like.
Then you can use the Jump button to select the marked pages in the order you marked
them. Marked pages will show an asterisk in the top line of the display, just before the
name of the page. A marked page can be unmarked by pressing the Mark button while
the page is visible. On MIXER page of Song mode, mutes either track 6 or 14.
Song
/ Jump Use this button to jump to pages in the Program Editor that you’ve marked with the
Mark button. This will cycle through all the currently marked pages in the order they
were marked. On MIXER page of Song mode, mutes either track 7 or 15.
Disk
/ Compare This button works in most editors, and lets you compare your edits with the original
version of the object you’re editing. When you press the Compare button, the display
changes to remind you that you’re listening to the original version. Press any button to
return to the currently selected page of whatever editor you’re in. On MIXER page of
Song mode, mutes either track 8 or 16.
Chan/Bank
/ Layer/Zone In the Program Editor, these buttons let you scroll through the layers in the currently
selected program. In the Setup Editor, you can scroll through the zones. In the Effects
Editor, you can scroll through the effect configurations. In the Quick Access Editor, they
scroll through the entries in the currently selected Quick Access bank. In the Keymap
Editor, they scroll through the velocity levels of multi-velocity keymaps. In Song mode,
switches record track.
Edit
Whenever the selected parameter’s value is an editable object or a programmable
parameter, pressing the EDIT button will take you to that object’s editor, or to the
parameter’s programming page.
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