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EQ, enhancer and compressor

Tone · DynamicsBands · Hi Drive · Threshold · Ratio

These shape the tone and the dynamics, not the space. The 5 Band EQ has bass and treble shelves and three bell-shaped mids; the 2 Band Enhancer splits off the highs, drives them and mixes them back; the compressor turns the level down above a threshold by a ratio, so loud and soft come closer.

SEE IT MOVE

THE EFFECT ITSELF
THE SOUND · ONE LOOP
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Computed in your browser with KINSPIRATION's effects, sample by sample, with the values the program's own controllers give its chains. The phrase going in is a simple stand-in for the program's layers.

WHAT TO KNOW

THE EQ

Each band is a gain in dB at a frequency, the mids with a width in octaves. Many factory chains switch their EQ in from a button (EQ Enable).

THE ENHANCER

CrossOver splits the bands; Hi Drive pushes the high band into a soft curve that adds harmonics, Hi Shelf brightens it; Lo Mix and Hi Mix balance the two.

THE COMPRESSOR

Above Threshold, Ratio holds the level back (4:1: a quarter of what goes over gets through), with a soft knee 12 dB wide; Attack and Release set how fast. The factory's compressors listen to their own output (FdbkComprs In), which makes them gentler than their Ratio: the curve on the left shows it.

WATCH OUT

A boost adds level: 12 dB more bass into a compressor makes it work harder. The factory's pianos compress at 2.8:1 to 4:1, and gently.

IN THE FACTORY PROGRAMS

Playing in the factory programs: 5 Band EQ in 573, SoftKneeCompress in 203, 2 Band Enhancer in 104, Resonant Filter in 42. The compressors' median ratio is 6:1.

TONE AND DYNAMICS THAT PLAY

5 Band EQ573
SoftKneeCompress203
2 Band Enhancer104
Resonant Filter42
3 Band EQ39
3 Band Enhancer31
3 Band Compress22

COMPRESSOR RATIOS

under 2:10
2 to 3:111
3 to 5:156
5 to 10:1144
10:1 and up4

FIND THEM ON YOUR K2700

3 Velvet Grandinsert · SoftKneeCompress 2.8:1 above -36.4016 dB
43 Hip Hop Pianoinsert · SoftKneeCompress 4:1 above -35.5 dB
90 PG's Meltinsert · SoftKneeCompress 3.5:1 above -72 dB
218 Phase sw Organinsert · SoftKneeCompress 3.5:1 above -79 dB
548 VASprSaw+Allpassinsert · HardKneeCompress 3:1 above -39 dB
640 Dist Filter Bassinsert · SoftKneeCompress 3.6:1 above -57 dB

HOW TO ON YOUR K2700 · 16 Blues Piano

Blues Piano's EQ is switched in from Button 1 and set by Knob 1 and Knob 4.

  1. In Program mode choose 16 Blues Piano (KEYPAD, 16, ENTER).

    Program mode with 16 Blues Piano

  2. Press EDIT, then PARAMS. INS Bass Gain is on Knob 1, at 127: the bass shelf at +16 dB, the top of its range.

    The PARAMS page of 16 Blues Piano, the cursor on INS Bass Gain (127)

  3. Turn Knob 1 to the middle, 64: the bass shelf at 0 dB, and the piano thinner.

    The PARAMS page of 16 Blues Piano, the cursor on INS Bass Gain (64)

  4. INS EQ Enable is on Button 1, at 127: press Button 1 and the whole EQ goes out, to compare.

    The PARAMS page of 16 Blues Piano, the cursor on INS EQ Enable (127)

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