User manual KURZWEIL STAGE PIANO MADE EASY STEP BY STEP GUIDE

[. . . ] THE STAGE PIANO MADE EASY A Step by Step Guide Includes 13 Different Tutorials Designed For Specific Applications Plus Programming Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts by David Fox SP Made Easy Young Chang Distributors Young Chang America, Inc. PO Box 99995 Lakewood, WA 98499-0995 Tel: (253) 589-3200 Fax: (253) 984-0245 support@kurzweilmusicsystems. com www. kurzweilmusicsystems. com YoungChang Akki Co. , Europe GmbH Industriering 45 D-41751 Viersen Germany Tel: 2162-4491 Fax: 2162-41744 www. kurzweil-europe. de support@kurzweil-europe. de Young Chang Canada Corp. #105 Toronto, ONT Canada M2H 3P7 Tel: (416) 492-9899 Fax: (416) 492-9299 Young Chang Akki, Co. 708-1 Yoksam-Dong, Kangnam-Gu Seoul, Korea 135-080 Tel: 2-3451-3500 Fax: 2-3451-3596 SP Made Easy BASIC CONCEPTS & USER INTERFACE ISSUES The Two Play Modes User Interface Basics Sound/Setup Select Mode Select/Param Edit Using the Physical Controllers 1 1 1 2 2 3 TUTORIALS Intro 1. [. . . ] Again, if you press the Edit button until the Left Zone LED is lit, you will see that it is set to the highest note number on your keyboard (103 for 76 note keyboards, 108 for 88 note keyboards). Notice that if you press the sustain pedal when playing both sides of the split, both sides sustain. Although this might be fine in some circumstances, often you wonÕt want this. For example, with a piano and bass split, you will probably want the piano part to sustain, but not the bass. Since we are currently on the piano zone, we will leave this zone set to 64. As we did before, the fastest way to reach off is to type 0, then Enter, then press the Down button once. Now when you play the keyboard and use the Sustain pedal, only the piano should sustain. If you started with Setup 1, you will probably want to save it to a different location number. SP Made Easy 3. Assigning the Slider to Control Only the SP If you tried moving the slider on the SP while playing either of the previous two Setups you created, you probably noticed that the volume on your external module was controlled as well as the volume on the SP. This is because the slider is a controller slider instead of a regular audio attenuator, and is sending MIDI volume messages on both zones of your Setup. If you don't want your module's volume affected by the slider on the SP, you need to turn the slider off for that zone. Controlling the Volume for the SP and External Module Separately Now that you have the Slider controlling the volume for the SP only, you might want to use a separate controller to control the volume of your external module. Since the A ribbon was previously assigned to Pitch Bend (the default in the factory presets), the Ribbon has been set to spring back to center when you let go of it. This means that currently, the volume will jump to a value of 64 when you remove your finger from the ribbon. If you want to be able to use Ribbon A to do pitch bend on your external module, then you can choose a different physical controller. If you have a continuous control pedal, you can choose that parameter. Since the top half of the B ribbon is set to the Mod Wheel controller, you might try using the bottom half. However, you should be careful when using this ribbon, especially for volume. If you are moving your finger over the top half of the ribbon to send mod wheel messages and your finger goes just below the center point, then you will be sending a high value for volume and the volume could jump suddenly. SP Made Easy 5. Assigning Volume to a Continuous Control Pedal By default, the Continuous Control pedal j ack is assigned to MIDI controller #4 (also called Foot). Although some MIDI instruments may respond to controller #4 for volume changes, many will not (including the SP sound engine itself). If you want to use a pedal for volume control, you will need to program that parameter for controller #7, similar to how we programmed the A ribbon for volume in the previous tutorial. [. . . ] For example, you might like to switch a function with a button instead of a pedal. The programming steps are exactly the same you simply choose a different controller. The thing to remember is that the controllers fall into two different types. Logically, you will want to pick a particular controller based on what type of message you are trying to send. [. . . ]