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KOACH · Editing a sound · Lesson 4 of 7

Keymaps and tuning

KEYMAP pageKeymap · Transpose · Key Tracking · Coarse · Fine

The KEYMAP page chooses the samples a layer plays and how the keys move them. Transpose shifts the whole layer in semitones, Key Tracking sets how far each key moves the pitch (100 cents a key, or 0 for the same pitch on every key), Stereo adds a second keymap for the right side. The PITCH row on DSP CTL adds Coarse and Fine.

SEE IT MOVE

THE K2700'S SCREEN
WHAT EACH LAYER SOUNDS
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The screens are the K2700's pages for the factory program named; the maps are drawn from its layers and its PARAMS rows. Nothing plays here: open the program on your K2700 and listen as you go.

WHAT TO KNOW

TRANSPOSE

Transpose moves the layer in semitones and reads the keymap at the moved key: two layers a fifth or an octave apart make a chord or an octave on every key.

KEY TRACKING

100 ct/key plays a semitone a key. 0 gives every key the same pitch, for drums, noises and effects; 50 a quarter tone a key, a scale squeezed by half, around C4.

DETUNE

The PITCH row's Fine, in cents, detunes a layer against another: a few cents apart they beat and thicken, as two players do.

WATCH OUT

Timbre Shift picks other samples at the same pitch: higher sounds smaller, lower larger. Far from the sample's own key a sample sounds unnatural, sped up or slowed down.

IN THE FACTORY PROGRAMS

3,026 factory layers are transposed, 1,946 play stereo keymaps, 962 are detuned by a Fine, 751 shift their timbre; 838 play every key at the same pitch.

TRANSPOSE

-12 ST516
+12 ST356
-24 ST125
+24 ST123
+2 ST107
-2 ST104
+19 ST92

KEY TRACKING

0 ct/key838
10 ct/key42
5 ct/key26
50 ct/key24
20 ct/key16

FIND THEM ON YOUR K2700

41 SMiLE/RkyRaccoonlayer 4 at Transpose +12
298 Weeping Stringslayer 6 at Transpose +12
451 Movie FXlayer 1 at Transpose +24
733 Sax Section layer 9 at Transpose -12
840 Simple Muteslayer 3 at Transpose +7
948 Bendir layer 18 at Transpose +24

HOW TO ON YOUR K2700 · 97 Spaced Out Bach

Spaced Out Bach stacks one electric piano three times: as played, a fifth up, and an octave and a fifth up.

  1. In Program mode choose 97 Spaced Out Bach (KEYPAD, 97, ENTER).

    Program mode with 97 Spaced Out Bach

  2. Press EDIT, then MORE and KEYMAP. Layer 1 plays keymap 840, RM Electra Pno, at Transpose 0 ST, Key Tracking 100 ct/key: a semitone a key.

    The KEYMAP page of 97 Spaced Out Bach, layer 1, the cursor on Transpose (0 ST)

  3. Press CHANNEL/LAYER ▲, layer 2: Transpose 7 ST, a fifth above.

    The KEYMAP page of 97 Spaced Out Bach, layer 2, the cursor on Transpose (7 ST)

  4. Layer 3: Transpose 19 ST, an octave and a fifth. Every C you play sounds C, G and the G above.

    The KEYMAP page of 97 Spaced Out Bach, layer 3, the cursor on Transpose (19 ST)

  5. Turn layer 3's Transpose to 24 ST: two octaves up instead, a high C over the fifth.

    The KEYMAP page of 97 Spaced Out Bach, layer 3, the cursor on Transpose (24 ST)

  6. Key Tracking at 0 ct/key plays every key at the same pitch, as drums and noises do. To detune a layer, the PITCH row on DSP CTL adds a Coarse in semitones and a Fine in cents.

  7. Press EXIT and answer NO to leave the factory program as it was, or SAVE to keep your version on a USER ID.