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A layer's own effects

LYR FXProgram FX · Layer-Specific · Another Layer's

Every layer plays through the program's insert chain unless its LYR FX page says otherwise. Layer-Specific FX gives the layer an insert chain of its own and its own two sends into the program's Aux 1 and Aux 2; Use Another Layer's FX sends it through a Layer-Specific layer's chain and sends. One program can then hold a compressor on the kick alone, or a pad that skips the phaser.

SEE IT MOVE

THE EFFECT ITSELF
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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 THREE MODES

Use Program FX: the program's insert chain and sends, the default. Layer-Specific FX: a chain and a Send 1 and Send 2 of the layer's own, into the same aux chains. Use Another Layer's FX: through the chain and sends of a layer that is Layer-Specific.

NO CHAIN AT ALL

A Layer-Specific layer may name no chain (None): it skips the program's insert and keeps only its sends. The factory's drum kits do this to give each drum its own amount of reverb.

USE IT FOR

A compressor or an enhancer on one drum, a rotary on the organ half of a split, a layer kept out of a chorus, a pan or a phaser, a layer heard only in the reverb.

WATCH OUT

Each chain takes FX units of the 32, and a program runs up to 8 insert chains, its own and its layers'. The aux chains stay the program's: a layer chooses how much it sends, not which reverb.

IN THE FACTORY PROGRAMS

122 factory programs give a layer FX of its own: 499 layers are Layer-Specific and 429 more use another layer's. 403 of the 499 name no chain and keep only their sends; 61 of the programs are drum kits.

THE LAYERS' OWN CHAINS

no chain, sends only403
Pad Depth Forte13
DrmCMP4PrgNew6
Snare Compressor6
Timbered Taps4
DrumComp subtle4
SnrEnhanceComp4

THE PROGRAMS, BY CATEGORY

Drum kits61
E.Piano18
Piano10
Guitar/Bass9
Hybrid7
Synth5

FIND THEM ON YOUR K2700

9 Smooth Grand 9ftlayer 20 · Pad Depth Forte
21 Studio Grand 7ftlayer 21 · Pad Depth Forte
45 Film Pianolayer 3 · Timbered Taps, layer 4 · Timbered Taps
60 TrampAmpReedEPlayer 18 · ChorVerb for Pad
420 Power Trem Strgslayer 2 · Trem Layer
838 New Beautylayer 7 · Hall Reverb 1

HOW TO ON YOUR K2700 · 921 Shrugie Kit

Shrugie Kit gives its kick a chain of its own, and its toms and snare share it. See each layer's choice on its LYR FX page.

  1. In Program mode choose 921 Shrugie Kit (KEYPAD, 921, ENTER).

    Program mode with 921 Shrugie Kit

  2. Press EDIT, then LYR FX. Layer 1, the kick, is Layer-Specific FX: a chain of its own, kickcmp5 (ID 226), and its own Send 1, 32%, scaled by MIDI28, Slider 9.

    The LYR FX page of 921 Shrugie Kit, layer 1, the cursor on Layer FX Mode (Layer-Specific FX)

  3. Press CHANNEL/LAYER ▲ three times, to layer 4, a tom: Use Another Layer's FX, layer 1. The toms and the snare's sample play through the kick's chain and its send.

    The LYR FX page of 921 Shrugie Kit, layer 4, the cursor on Layer FX Mode (Use Another Layer's FX)

  4. Press CHANNEL/LAYER ▼ twice, to layer 2, the snare's body: Use Program FX. It plays through the program's insert chain and sends, on the FX page.

    The LYR FX page of 921 Shrugie Kit, layer 2, the cursor on Layer FX Mode (Use Program FX)

  5. Back on layer 1, with the cursor on the mode, turn the Alpha Wheel one step down: Use Program FX. Play: the kick loses its compressor and its booth, and plays through the program's FX.

    The LYR FX page of 921 Shrugie Kit, layer 1, the cursor on Layer FX Mode (Use Program FX)

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