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Basic Effects Mode
A Complex Studio with Real-Time Control
Looking at the Studio
Starting from SetupMode, press Edit, then more> three times. Now press the KDFX soft button
to view the studio. The name of the studio associated with this setup, 202*Complex, appears.
Highlight the studio’s name and press Edit, and let’s dig into this studio.
Press INPUT if you’d like to look at the EditStudio:INPUT pages. These are all set up
straightforwardly, with Input A going to FXBus1, Input B going to FXBus2, etc. Press the Chan/
Bank buttons to move between the input groups.
On the FXBus Pages
Press FXBUS to look at the FXBuses. On FXBus1 is 205*CompresHK, a hard-knee compressor.
EditStudio:FXBus|Size:1|Free:1|<>FXBus:1
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FX1|!kCmpr©!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!h|
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FX:|205*CompresHK|||||||||||||||||||||||
In/Out||||:FXMod||||||||||||||||||||||||
None||||||:||||||||||||||||Alloc:Auto|||
<more||INPUT||FXBUS|||Add||Remove||more>
The In/Out parameter shown on this page is a bus override, similar to the ones we’ve seen in
earlier tutorials. However, instead of saying In or Out it says FXMod. This means that this
parameter isn’t controlled from inside the studio at all—it’s controlled by something outside the
studio.
As it happens, it’s controlled by the soft pedal, MIDI Controller 67—Switch Pedal 3 for K2661
keyboard users. We’ll see how this is done in a moment. Pressing this pedal causes the
compressor to kick in, squashing the dynamic range of the sound. The MakeUpGain inside the
compressor is set to 6.0 dB, however, so the level doesn’t change much when the compressor is
engaged.
Such control is useful on this program, which uses velocity-switching to change drum sounds.
As you play harder, the drum sounds change, but they also get louder, which you may not want.
With the compressor engaged, the drum sounds can change without getting louder.
There’s another FXMod, which is assigned to the Aux bus send level; this is indicated on the
EditStudio:FXSEND page (press more> followed by the FXSEND soft button to have a look). On
the Aux bus is a reverb, so this FXMod controls how much of the signal coming through here
will go to the reverb. It’s under the control of Slider G, MIDI Controller 27. Play the bass and
drums and move that slider, and you’ll hear the reverb go in and out.
EditSetup:KDFX||||||||||||||||All|Zones||
Studio:202*Complex||||||||||
Bus:|Param:|||||Adjust:||Source:||Depth:
FX1||In/Out|||||Out||||||SoftPd|||1
FX1||Aux|Lvl||||-55.0dB||MIDI27|||52dB
FX2||L|Fdbk|Lvl|0%|||||||MIDI26|||100%
<more||KDFX|||FXMOD2|FXMOD3|FXMOD4|more>
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