Kurzweil Music Systems Mark 112, Mark 12, Mark 152 Addendum
KURZWEIL MARK 12 USER’S GUIDE ADDENDUM
Kurzweil Mark 152/12 Version 2.0
User’s Guide Addendum
In our ongoing effort at Kurzweil to make your musical experience on the
Mark 152/12 as rewarding as possible, we have made a number of improvements and added several new features to the instrument. This document
describes these changes that make up Version 2.0 of the Kurzweil Mark
152/12. All changes described in this Addendum apply identically to the
Mark 152 and Mark 12 models.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
AUTO ACCOMP ANIMENT P AGE
Style Editor......................................................................................................................... 4
UNDERSTANDING STYLES................................................................................. 4-6
HOW TO RECORD A STYLE................................................................................ 6-8
Setting Up........................................................................................................... 6-7
Start Recording .................................................................................................. 7-8
Auditioning Your Style............................................................................................ 8
STYLE RECORDING OPTIONS.............................................................................. 8
COPYING A STYLE FOR EDITING ......................................................................... 9
IMPORTING SONG DATA FROM THE RECORDER ......................................... 9-10
OTHER STYLE EDITING FEATURES ...............................................................10-11
Volume .................................................................................................................11
Pan .......................................................................................................................11
Chord Change Mode ............................................................................................11
Wrap Point............................................................................................................11
Effects Mode.........................................................................................................11
Part Sound Override.............................................................................................11
STYLE KEY OF COMPOSITION (TRANSPOSE).................................................. 12
CREA TING AN AUTO SETUP................................................................................ 12
SAVING EDITED STYLES ..................................................................................... 12
New ‘Auto Chord’ Feature................................................................................................ 12
Chord Reader Enhancement ........................................................................................... 12
RECORDER
Song Track Features........................................................................................................ 13
TRACK COPYING.................................................................................................. 13
TRACK DELETING ................................................................................................ 13
Event Editor................................................................................................................. 13-15
EDITING EVENTS ................................................................................................. 14
NOTE ..................................................................................................................... 14
PROGRAM CHANGE ............................................................................................ 14
CONTROLLER....................................................................................................... 15
PITCH BEND.......................................................................................................... 15
AFTERTOUCH....................................................................................................... 15
NOTES OFF........................................................................................................... 15
LOOP ..................................................................................................................... 15
TRACK END........................................................................................................... 15
Recording a Tempo Track ................................................................................................ 16
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EDU-GAMES
Rhythm CopyCat.............................................................................................................. 17
RHYTHM COPYCAT PARAMETERS .................................................................... 17
Rhythm Builder................................................................................................................. 18
RHYTHM BUILDER PARAMETERS ...................................................................... 18
Scale Tester ..................................................................................................................... 19
SCALE TESTER PARAMETERS........................................................................... 19
MISCELLANEOUS NEW FEATURES
Octave Shift...................................................................................................................... 20
Changing Rotary Speed Using Pedals............................................................................. 20
Disk Play Features ........................................................................................................... 20
CHANNEL MUTES................................................................................................. 20
VOLUME CONTROL.............................................................................................. 20
Disk Load/Save ................................................................................................................ 21
Key Touch Adjustment Using Pedals ............................................................................... 21
Enhanced Panel Memory............................................................................................ 21-22
PANEL MENU ........................................................................................................ 21
PANEL MEMORY STEPPING................................................................................ 21
PANEL MEMORY RESET...................................................................................... 22
USER VARIATION FROM PANEL MEMORY ........................................................ 22
PEDAL ASSIGNMENTS......................................................................................... 22
(continued)
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New MIDI Master Page .................................................................................................... 22
Metronome Volume Setting.............................................................................................. 22
Enhanced Harmony Feature ............................................................................................ 23
Tempo Change Menu ....................................................................................................... 23
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AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT Style Editor
AUTO ACCOMPANIMENT
Style Editor
The Mark 12 allows you to create your own musical accompaniments, using any of the
sounds available, in whatever style you want. Press Edit Style to activate the Style Editor,
which provides this display:
Editing User Style 1 <Empty>
EZ-RECORD COPY STYLE IMPORT SONG
There are three ways to edit a style, as indicated by the soft button choices:
• EZ-RECORD lets you play the accompaniment parts directly into the style system.
Use the style control buttons to define the musical structure. This is the easiest and most
creative way to work.
• COPY STYLE allows you to copy another style. You can copy either a user style or
one of the Kurzweil styles found in the other style categories.
• IMPORT SONG gives you the ability to take musical track data from the Recorder.
The data may be imported from a MIDI file or other source and you can create style
tracks with it. This is the most complex and advanced way to create a style.
There are 7 user style locations in which to store your current styles. These are the same
locations used for loading styles from disk, and they can be accessed for play using the
User/Disk button. In the Style Editor you can move from one style location to another
using the Up/Down buttons. In the editor, style locations that are unused will be labeled
<Empty>. As soon as you start to create a style, the Mark 12 will name the style “User
Style X” (where X is the number of the style location being used). You can rename the
style using the menu system. (See pages 45-46 in your User’s Manual for further
information).
UNDERSTANDING STYLES
In order to create a style, you should know something about how a style works. The best
way to get a feel for styles is to play with the various style features described in the Styles
section of your manual. Try the various forms of accompaniment, from Intro to Ending;
change the chords on which the styles are based using the Chord Reader; with the parts
button in the Auto Accompaniment section turn the various style parts on and off. Have
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some fun, too! Auto Accompaniment gives you the ability to play more music than you
thought you could. (See pages 28-31 in your User’s Manual for further information on
Styles).
A Mark 12 style is made up of many separate but related musical tracks, which are
grouped into sections, parts, and chord sections. These tracks are what you hear when a
style is being played in accompaniment, although the individual notes are transposed by
the style player to match the chord chosen by the chord reader.
There are six style sections in each style:
1. INTRODUCTION
2. ORIGINAL
3. VARIATION
4. FILL TO VARIATION
5. FILL TO ORIGINAL
6. ENDING
Each of these sections has up to five separate style parts:
1. Drums
2. Bass
3. Background A
4. Background B
5. Background C
In addition, each of these parts can exist in three separate chord sections, so that the
musical grooves vary from Major to Minor to Dominant 7th. In all, there can be up to 90
separate musical tracks in a Mark 12 style. It is important to note, however, that you can
make a very interesting and musically worthwhile style without having to compose all of
these tracks.
The Original and Variation sections are recorded as loops; that is to say, they repeat
themselves automatically, to produce a continuous musical groove as accompaniment.
The two Fills are generally short, one or two measure sections which link the looped
sections in a musical way. The Introduction and Ending can be as simple or elaborate as
you wish, either short or long, depending on the musical style. The Break section con-
tains no music, but gives a section of silence of the same length as the Fill To Main.
The chord section, as mentioned above, allows a style to be composed to match chords of
various types. This is an advanced feature, and you don’t need to worry about it if you’re
just getting started—just stick with Major. If you are a more accomplished musical
arranger, you may want to develop your tracks to match the various chords that can be
used to drive the auto accompaniment process. The Mark 12 recognizes 19 different
chords, and maps them to the chord sections as follows:
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CHORD STYLE CHORD SECTION
Major Major
Minor Minor
Augmented Major
Diminished Minor
Suspended Fourth Major
No Third Major
Major with Flat Fifth Major
Seventh Dominant
Major Seventh Major
Minor Seventh Minor
Seventh with Suspended Fourth Dominant
Major Seventh with Flat Fifth Major
Minor Seventh with Flat Fifth Minor
(half diminished)
Seventh with Flat Fifth Dominant
Augmented Seventh Dominant
Minor with Major Seventh Minor
Major with Added Ninth Major
Ninth Dominant
Seventh with Flat Ninth Dominant
After the Chord Reader recognizes a chord in the left hand, the Mark 12 alters the notes
in the style tracks to match that chord and transposes the music to the proper key. Note
that the Drums part is not transposed, and should be used for non-melodic sounds only.
HOW TO RECORD A STYLE
Choosing EZ-RECORD provides the following display:
Style 1 ORIG 120 Sound
OPTIONS QUANTIZE Real Drums
Setting Up
The screen shows the user style location and the style section of the track to be recorded.
The part to be recorded is shown by a flashing light in the associated part button. The
sound which will be recorded on the track as shown on the right of the display.
Use the Up/Down buttons to change the tempo.
When the Style Editor is active, the section buttons at the bottom of the Styles are active
to allow you to edit each of the various parts of a style. The light in the section button
will be lit when that section is being edited. When no lights are on, the Original section is
being edited. Press any of the various section buttons to edit the section, and press it
again to return to Original.
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You may press any sound category button or the Variation or User Variation buttons to
change the sound. You may also press the soft button under “Sound” to see the menu of
sounds associated with the specific sound category. Use Menu to exit this menu, but
remain in the Style Editor.
The style part buttons in Auto Accompaniment are also active during style editing, so you
can choose which instrumental track you want to work on. The lights in those buttons
have special meaning, as follows:
OFF: No music is found on this track
GREEN: Music is found on this track
YELLOW: Music is found, and the track is selected for editing
RED: No music is found, but the track is selected for editing
BLINKING: This track is in the process of recording
Start Recording
When the track and sound are set, you can start recording by pressing the Start/Stop
button in the Styles section. You will hear a single measure of countoff followed by a
special dual pitch metronome which helps you find the bar lines for playing. Recording
styles is done in Loop Mode, which means that at the end of the sequence (the last
measure of the section) the counter immediately returns to the start of the sequence
(measure 1). You can thus build up a part by playing some notes the first time through,
some more notes on the second time through, and so on. Note that this Loop Recording
Mode is active even for those style sections that are not looped. The un-looped sections
will play as expected when the style is used for auto accompaniment.
While the style is actively recording, the screen changes to the following:
Recording ORIG 120 Measure 1
CLEAR SOLO PLAY Real Drums
The CLEAR soft button will erase all the music recorded on the current track, but not
affect any other tracks. SOLO PLAY allows you to hear the track you’re currently working on without any of the associated parts; press SOLO PLAY again to hear all parts. The
light in the soft button will indicate the status of SOLO PLAY. You can also change the
sound being played on the track you’re recording by pressing a sound category button, or
by pressing the rightmost soft button in the menu.
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