Alesis K2661 MAST2, Confirm, Intonation Key IntonaKey, Master2GMSamples8192KMemory485K, 11-4

Master Mode

The MAST2 Page

Confirm

Confirmations are special displays that the K2661 shows you when you are about to alter memory permanently. The confirmations ask if you really want to do what you’re about to do, and give you another chance to cancel the operation you’re about to execute. With the Confirm parameter set to Off, these prompts do not appear. You’ll still be alerted before doing something that might cause you to lose your work, but your margin of error is slimmer with confirmations turned off.

Intonation Key (IntonaKey)

This sets the tonic, or base note from which the currently selected intonation table calculates its intervals. If you select G as the intonation key, for example, and the intonation table you select tunes the minor 2nd down by 50 cents, then G# will be a quartertone flat relative to equal intonation. If you change the intonation key to D, then D# will be a quartertone flat. If you use nonstandard intonations, you’ll want to change the intonation key as you change the key you’re playing in. If the Intonation parameter is set to Equal, changing IntonaKey has no effect.

You can also set the intonation key from an external MIDI device. Note On events at C -1 through B -1 (MIDI note numbers 0 through 11) will set the intonation key at C through B, respectively.

To trigger notes in the range required to set the Intonation key, you can transpose the K2661 temporarily from its front panel, or from your MIDI controller if it has the ability. Alternatively, you could create a setup with just the lowest octave transposed down two octaves, then select it when you want to change the Intonation key. If you’re driving your K2661 from a sequencer, you could simply insert the appropriate note events anywhere in the sequence to change the intonation key.

The MAST2 Page

Press the MAST2 soft button to reach the MAST2 page:

Master2GMSamples:8192KMemory:485K

Vocoder:Off

ViewMode:List

DigitalOutputFormat:AES

DigitalOutputLength:24Bit

ResetMAST1

The MAST2 page enables you to perform a hard reset of your instrument (this deletes everything in RAM, so be careful!), and to turn the vocoder feature on and off.

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