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Hello everyone and welcome to issue number 11 of Ketron News
and Tips (KNAT).
This issue is targeted for December 1, 2002. If you have a
question to ask or a tip to submit, please let me know at
jay@ketronus.com. Also I love your comments so don't hesitate
to let me have a response.
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The Lower Function
I had a great question from Dave Smith a few weeks ago regarding
something that I hold near and dear to my heart. That is in
regard to the action of the "Lower" voices.
For the most part, I just don't like "Lower" in
the styles. As far as I am concerned those sounds just don't
allow the music to "breathe". I like air around
the notes and consider the air as important as the notes themselves.
So I like to turn off the "Lower" voices.
On the X1, X4 and SD1 it is fairly simple.
There are two volume buttons for each major part group on
the extreme left side of your keyboard or module. These buttons
help you balance the various parts to each other depending
on your taste.
One of those button pairs is for the "Lower" voices
on the SD1 and on the X1 you can control each of the two "Lower"
voices independently.
Pressing both buttons at the same time brings the value to
"0" which means that no sound is heard.
The System is much better on the Vega and XD9/3. If you press
F4 "Arranger Mode" when you are in the Split Screen
you will get selections that allow you to control the way
the arranger reacts to Styles.
Press F4 again for "Low. Mute" and the lower stops.
The great advantage here is that you can then press "Save/Enter"
and then F3 "Power On Setup" and then F10 to save.
Then when you turn on your XD or Vega unit the setting will
still be there.
The Power On Setup trick does not seem to work on the SD1
or the X series of instruments.
For those of you who like and use the "Lower" voices
remember you can change the voice and volume on the style
itself if you press F5 "Arrange View" and then F4
for Lower1 and F5 for Lower2.
After pressing F4 or F5 you can then change the instrument
by choosing a different instrument from your regular set of
instruments just like you choose an instrument for your right
hand. You can also change the volume of the instrument by
using the "Value +/-" keys. After you have gotten
the sound you want for lower remember to save your style changes
using "Save/Enter" and then F2 "Styles".
At this point the different Ketron instruments have different
ways of handling the Style. Read your manual to see what to
do for your instrument. I always like to save the style variation
to the hard drive--just in case. For those of you who don't
have a hard drive, save to floppy.
Have fun and let me know some of the ideas you come up with
on your own. If they are good I'll just put them in the newsletter
and give you credit. See Below:
*Remember: "The term 'divine intervention' does not
refer to an act of congress." -- Clerd Farnsworth
In 1801 President Thomas Jefferson worried about the huge
size of Federal Government. After all, the number of government
employees had grown to 130 and the debt had ballooned to all
of $17 million, an amount equal to the hourly interest on
the debt in recent times. -- AMERICAN SPHINX