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Advanced KDFX
Real-time Control of KDFX
When KDFX is under setup control, any FXMods in the programs within the setup are ignored. If
you have a program that contains a studio and FXMods that you would like to use while
playing a setup, import the KDFX from the program into the current setup.
MIDI Control and Setup Mode
You’ll notice that when you set FX Mode to Setup, FX Chan goes to None, and can’t be changed.
The MIDI receive channel for controlling KDFX is not determined here, it’s determined in the
setup itself: it’s the channel used by Zone 1 of the setup. Any incoming MIDI commands on
other channels, while they may play sounds in the setup, will not affect KDFX parameters.
If for some reason you don’t want KDFX to be in Setup mode while you are playing a setup—for
example, if you want it to be under control of an external MIDI device and not change studios
when you change setups—you can set the FX Mode to Program. In this case the program that is in
the zone assigned to the FX Channel, (which may or may not be part of the setup) will control
KDFX.
So for example, say a setup has three zones, which are assigned to channels 2, 4, and 6. If
FX Chan is set to 6, then the studio (and FXMods) assigned to the program in Zone 3 will be
active. If none of the zones’ channel assignments match the FX Channel—say it’s set to 16—then
nothing you do on the K2661 will control the studio and FXMods. However, an external MIDI
source, like a sequencer, sending on channel 16 will control the studio and FXMods, and the
program that is on channel 16 will determine what they are.
This technique can be useful when you want to have a sequencer control KDFX, while you are
also playing along on the K2661 keyboard in Setup mode.
KDFX in Program Mode
If you are playing the K2661 in Program mode, then you must make sure that the current
channel of the K2661 (at the upper right of the Program-mode page) agrees with the FX Channel
(on the Effects-mode page). Otherwise the local keyboard commands, while they will control the
other current program parameters, will not address KDFX. If FX Chan is set to Current then you
don’t have to worry about this.
Performance Modes and Effects Control
Here’s how to tell what’s controlling what, depending on the various modes. See FX Channel
below for information about the MIDI channel for external control of KDFX. Note that you can
use SysEx commands to control KDFX regardless of the setting for FX Mode.
K2661
Mode
FX
Mode
Value
What Sets Physical
Control Assignments
(Sliders, Wheels, etc.)
What Controls
KDFX
MIDI Channel for
Control of KDFX
Program Program
or Auto
Control setup Program’s
FXMods
FX Chan
Setup Setup or
Auto
Setup Setup’s FXMods Channel used by
Zone 1
Setup Program Setup FXMods of
program on
channel assigned
as FXChan
FX Chan
Table 15-1 Modes, Control Assignments, and Effects Control
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