Alesis K2661 specifications Receive, Buttons Bttns, Change Setups ChgSetups, MIDIModeRECEIVE, 10-4

MIDI Mode

The RECEIVE Page

Buttons (Bttns)

If you set the value of the Buttons parameter to On, the System Exclusive (SysEx) messages generated by your button presses are sent to the MIDI Out port. This enables you to do two things: control a remote K2661 (or earlier model), and record sequences of programming button presses to a sequencer or SysEx software package.

If you have the MIDI In port of another K2661 (or K2600, K2500, or K2000) connected to the first one’s MIDI Out port, the second instrument will respond to every button press on the first instrument, just as if you were pressing the buttons of the second one. Keep in mind that both devices must be in exactly the same state (the same page in the same mode, with identical lists of RAM objects) when you start. Otherwise the button presses you make on the first instrument may execute other functions on the second instrument.

Much more useful is to send streams of button presses to your sequencer. When you dump them from your sequencer back to the K2661, the K2661 responds as if the buttons were actually pressed. This enables you to set up a variety of “macros,” which are strings of commands that can be executed all at once by a single initial command. For example, you can record a sequence of button presses that enters Disk mode, selects a specific SCSI device, and loads one or more banks of samples while you do something more entertaining. Again, it’s important to keep in mind that the state of your K2661 must be identical to its state when you recorded the sequence of button presses. If you’ve added or deleted any objects stored in RAM, for example, the sequence of button presses will select different objects when you play back the button press sequence.

Note: Make sure this parameter is set to Off before you initiate a SysEx dump of any kind. If this parameter is On when you start a dump, the buttons you press to begin the dump will also generate SysEx messages.

Change Setups (ChgSetups)

This parameter determines the exact timing of setup changes when you select a different setup—either by a normal data entry method or via MIDI program change commands. Choose KeyUp to indicate that you want setup changes to take place only when you’ve released all currently held notes. Choose Immed to indicate that you want such changes to happen immediately when you select the setup.

The RECEIVE Page

Press RECV to select the RECEIVE page, where you define the K2661’s response to incoming MIDI signals (with one exception pertaining to Quick Access mode, which we’ll explain later).

MIDIMode:RECEIVE

BasicChannel:1SysExID:0

MIDIMode:MultiSCSIID:6

AllNotesOff:NormalBendSmooth:On

ProgChgType:ExtendedLocalKbdCh:None

VelocityMap:1LinearBankSelect:Ctl32

PressureMap:1LinearPowerMode:User

XMITRECVCHANLSPrgChgRsetChPanic

Parameter	Range of Values	Default
Basic Channel	1 to 16	1
MIDI Mode	Omni, Poly, Multi	Multi

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