Song Mode

Song Mode: The MISC Page

Quantize is used to quantize your performance as you record it in. However, you may wish to record without quantization and go back and quantize at a later point. To do this, use the Quantize function in the Track Editor.

Grid

This setting determines the size of the Input Quantize grid expressed as a fraction of a Bar with a 4/4 meter. Set Grid to 1/1 for whole note grid, 1/16 for sixteenth notes. All of the standard note durations and every fractional Bar divisions in between (including triplets, for example, 1/12 = 1/8tr, 1/24 = 1/16tr, and so on) are available as the size of the Input Quantize grid. You can select commonly used Grid values by double-pressing the Plus/Minus buttons.

Swing

The Swing percentage is applied to the quantize grid. Zero percent swing is straight time, 100% produces a swing (triplet) feel. A positive Swing value determines how close every other grid location is moved to a point 1/3 of the way towards the next grid point. Negative Swing moves every other grid location closer to a point 1/3 of the way towards the previous grid point.

Sync

The Sync parameter is used in conjunction with Clock. It controls transmission and reception of MIDI sync messages except actual clock. These are the messages it controls: Song Start, Song Stop, Song Continue, Song Select, and Song Position Pointer.

Song Select

Song Select is a command similar to a Program Change command; it enables you to select songs via MIDI. Like other MIDI messages, Song Select has 128 values. That’s about half the number of songs you can store in the K2661, so if you have a lot of songs, you can’t use Song Select to select all of them.

The K2661 maximizes the number of songs you can select by remapping Song Select values of 0–127 so they match the way songs are stored in the K2661’s RAM banks (75 in the Zeros bank and 20 in each of the other nine banks). If you want to use Song Select extensively, you should number your songs according to the song IDs listed in the following table. Songs in the Zeros, 100s, and 900s banks are not available for selection with Song Select.

Song Select Value

Song ID

 

 

0–19

200–219

 

 

20–39

300–319

 

 

40–59

400–419

 

 

60–79

500–519

 

 

80–99

600–619

 

 

100–119

700–719

 

 

120–127

800–807

 

 

Song Position Pointer

The K2661 sends a Song Position Pointer message via MIDI when you start a song. The message indicates the location (Bar and Beat) at which the song starts playing—often that’s the start of the song (1:1), but you can set the Locate parameter anywhere you want, and start the song from

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