MIDI Mode
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10-7
Bend Smooth
This parameter can improve your K2600Õs performance when youÕre driving it from a MIDI
guitar controller. Its default value is On.
You may Þnd that pitch bending seems to carry over from the previous note to the next note,
causing it to start on the wrong pitch. This is probably due to the automatic pitch smoothing
provided by the K2600. If this is happening, try setting the BendSmooth parameter to a value of
Off.
Local Keyboard Channel (LocalKbdCh)
Note: Changing the setting of the Local Keyboard Channel parameter is useful only when your K2600 is
receiving MIDI information from an external sourceÑmaybe you have a rack model 2600, or you have a
favorite MIDI keyboard that you use to control all the gear in your studio, or you use a lot of outboard
sequencing. If youÕre using the K2600 as a standalone music workstation or performance keyboard, you
can ignore this parameter.
The available values for this parameter are None, and 1Ð16. The default is None, which disables
the local keyboard feature, since you may not want to send your MIDI controllerÕs MIDI
information to devices connected to the K2600RÕs MIDI Out port. If you want to use Setup mode
on the K2600R, however, youÕll probably want to change the setting of this parameter. This is
because LocalKbdCh enables you to take advantage of the K2600Õs eight setup zones, even if
your MIDI controller transmits on only one MIDI channel at a time.
ItÕs important to understand that a setup is a control-oriented object, designed to transmit note
and control information. On the keyboard version of the K2600, the keyboard itself transmits on
up to eight channels when in Setup mode. But with the rack, if your keyboard sends information
on only one MIDI channel, you need a way to distribute that information from one channel to
eight channels. This is what the LocalKbdCh parameter does. It takes the signal coming in via
one channel and turns it into different information, depending on where you are in the K2600.
The local keyboard channel changes the way the K2600 performs in other modes as well. It
changes the incoming information depending on what you have displayed in the K2600. For
example, if LocalKbdCh is 1, and youÕre in Program mode with Channel 5 in the display, then
the information coming in on Channel 1 gets remapped to Channel 5, and you hear the program
assigned to Channel 5. But if you set LocalKbdCh to None, then if you send on Channel 1, you
hear the program that is assigned to Channel 1, even if youÕre looking at Channel 5.
Local Keyboard does more than just change the MIDI channel. When Local Keyboard Channel is
set to None, you will notice that the OctavÐ and Octav+ soft buttons found in Program, Setup,
Quick Access, and Effects modes do not function. If you use the Local Keyboard Channel
parameter, however, they function correctly. And you can even use it to change one type of MIDI
Controller number to another.
HereÕs how it works. The K2600 receives MIDI information on the channel that corresponds to
the value you set for this parameter, and relays it to its MIDI Out port, using the MIDI channels
currently shown in the display. If youÕre in Program mode (or in Quick Access mode with a
program selected), the K2600 relays the LocalKbdCh MIDI information to the channel to which
the program is assigned. If youÕre in Setup mode (or in Quick Access mode with a setup
selected), the K2600 relays the LocalKbdCh MIDI information to all the channels currently used
by the setup.
The K2600 also remaps certain MIDI Controller messages so that they correspond (in most
cases) to the default assignments for the K2600Õs physical controllers (as listed in Table 10-1).
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