Kurzweil K2661 - The PITCH Page; The PERC Page; Percussion

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Program Mode and the Program Editor
The PITCH Page
The PITCH Page
The PITCH page for KB3 programs is much like the PITCH page for VAST programs. The only
difference is that for KB3 programs, there are no FineHz, KeyTrk, or VelTrk parameters. For a
full description of the PITCH-page parameters, see page 6-27.
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The PERC Page
Percussion is a characteristic feature of tone wheel organs. It’s especially useful while soloing,
since percussion adds an extra plink (actually an extra tone at a defined harmonic) to the attack.
You can reach the percussion parameters by pressing the Perc and Perc2 soft buttons.
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Percussion:Off||||||LowHarm||:DrawBar4||
Volume||||:Soft|||||HighHarm|:DrawBar5||
Decay|||||:Slow|||||StealBar|:DrawBar9||
Harmonic||:Low||||||||||||||||||||||||||
VelTrack||:0%|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Percussion
This is where you turn the percussion effect on or off. Percussion is created by a decaying
envelope applied to one of the nine drawbars. The percussion effect is “single-triggered,” which
means that once it’s triggered, it won’t trigger again until all keys (or whatever you’re using to
trigger notes) go up. So if no keys are down, and you play a chord, percussion gets applied to all
notes in the chord (and in fact, to all notes that are triggered during the short duration of the
percussion envelope). Once the envelope runs its course, any notes you play while at least one
Parameter Range of Values
Percussion Off, On
Volume Soft, Loud
Decay Slow, Fast
Harmonic Low, High
Velocity Tracking 0–100%
Low Harmonic Drawbar 1–9
High Harmonic Drawbar 1–9
Steal Bar None, Drawbar 1–9