Kurzweil PC88 - Latch Mode; Play Order

The Arpeggiator
Musician’s Guide
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Latch Mode
Latch Mode determines how the Arpeggiator will respond to notes played on the keyboard.
Keys means that the Arpeggiator will only play while you are holding down one or more keys.
As you play different notes, they get added to the Arpeggiator, and as you release notes, they
get taken out. The Arpeggiator has a consistent tempo, which is adhered to no matter how fast
or slow you play the keyboard, so some notes may take a little while to speak after you play
them, until the ArpeggiatorÕs clock catches up. This clock stays constant as long as you are
playing any key, but if you let go of all the keys, then the clock ÒresyncsÓ itself, and the
Arpeggiator starts immediately when you play the next key.
In the next three modes, the Arpeggiator is listening to a switch to latch notes on and off. That
switch happens to be MIDI Controller 119, which in this Setup (and as a factory default) is
assigned to Button
G as a Toggle: press the button once and the Arpeggiator starts, press it
again and it stops.
In Overplay mode, the Arpeggiator will grab (ÒlatchÓ) any notes that are being held when the
switch goes on, and will continue playing them, even after you let them go, until the switch is
turned off. Any new notes you play on the keyboard will sound normally, and will not be
arpeggiated.
Arpeggiation mode (ÒArpegÓ) is similar: any notes held when the switch goes on will be
latched and arpeggiated, and keep going until the switch is turned off. Subsequent played
notes will join in the arpeggiation, but will not latch: when you let go of such a note, it will no
longer play in the arpeggiation.
Add mode means that any note played after the switch goes on will be added to the
Arpeggiator, and will keep playing after you let go of the key, until you shut the switch off.
Auto mode doesnÕt listen to the switch: the Arpeggiator goes on whenever you play a note. The
note is latched on. Play more notes, and they get latched on, too. You donÕt have to be holding
notes for them to stay on: as long as you hold down at least one key, every note played is added
to the Arpeggiator. Therefore, you could have 88 notes going at once, if you were so inclined.
Pedals mode is a combination of Keys, Add, and Overplay modes. If neither latch controller is
on, notes will arpeggiate only while you are holding down keys (similar to Keys mode). If you
activate Controller 119, the keys currently held down will latch, and any additional keys played
while Controller 119 is on will also latch (similar to Add mode). When Controller 119 is off, any
keys that are not currently held down will be removed from the arpeggiation. If you activate
Controller 118, keys currently held down will latch, and any additional keys played while
Controller 118 is on will play normally (similar to Overplay mode). This mode is called Pedals
mode because you might want to assign Switch Pedal 1 to Controller 119 (Latch 1) and Switch
Pedal 2 to Controller 118 (Latch 2) to make the pedals function similarly to sustain and
sostenuto pedals.
Play Order
This parameter determines the play order: how the notes will come out of the Arpeggiator.
Played means they will play back in the order they were entered. Up means they will play in
ascending order of pitch, regardless of their original order. Down means (you guessed it!)
descending order of pitch. Up/Dwn means they will play up, then turn around and play down,
and keep cycling like that until the Arpeggiator stops. The notes at the very top and very
bottom only play once. Up/Dwn Rp is the same thing, except the notes at the top and bottom
play twice (repeat) before the Arpeggiator turns around.
Random picks the notes out from the currently-latched ones totally at random. Shufße picks
the notes out at random, but keeps track of the notes so that no note repeats until all of the