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Performance Features
Muting and Soloing
Muting
You can mute any or all zones in a setup. Muting one zone has no effect on the other zones. To
mute (or unmute) a zone, it must be the current zone (the bottom line of the display shows the
number of the current zone, followed by the name of the program assigned to that zone). When
a zone is current, each press of its zone button toggles between muting and unmuting. If a zone
is not the current zone, press its zone button
twice
to mute or unmute the zone (the Þrst press
makes the zone current, then each subsequent press toggles between muting and unmuting).
Soloing
Not surprisingly, you can solo only one zone at a time, and thatÕs the only zone youÕll hear,
regardless of the status of the other zones. When you press the
Solo
button, whatever zone was
current at the time becomes the soloed zone (the LED in its zone button turns red). Once the
Solo
button is on, pressing any zone button once solos that zone.
The AutoSplit Feature
Muting and soloing are slightly different depending on whether the AutoSplit feature is on.
When itÕs on, a soloed zone expands to cover the entire keyboardÑit doesnÕt matter what the
settings are for the AutoSplit key or for the zones low and high notes (key range). Similarly, if
you mute both of the zones above the AutoSplit key, the zones below the AutoSplit key expand
to cover the entire keyboard. And vice versa. This is great for performance situations, because
you can use the whole keyboard no matter which zone(s) youÕre using.
When AutoSplit is off, soloed zones remain within the limits deÞned by the setup. Likewise,
unmuted zones stay within their limits if you mute both of the zones on the other side of the
split point. This silences part of the keyboard, which isnÕt as useful as it could be.
By default, AutoSplit is on in the internal setup, enabling you to make quick layers and splits at
any time when youÕre in Internal Voices mode (we recommend that you leave it this way). All of
the factory setups have AutoSplit turned
off
, and when you save a quick layer or split, the
resulting setup also has AutoSplit turned off. You can turn it back on for any setup, however, as
described on page 4-25.
ThereÕs one more thing to remember about AutoSplit. When you make a quick layer or split,
youÕre in a kind of transition between Internal Voices mode and MIDI Setups mode. You start off
in Internal Voices mode, but as soon as you press one of the zone buttons, the MIDI Setups
button lights up and the Internal Voices button becomes unlit. As long as you stay in this quick-
layer-and-split semi-mode, you can mute and unmute each zone with a single button press; you
donÕt have to make the zone current Þrst. ItÕs a nice performance feature. (By the way, soloing
works the way it usually does.)
Once you save your quick layer or split, it becomes a regular setup, with AutoSplit turned off.
Even if you turn it back on (to make soloed and unmuted zones expand across the entire
keyboard), youÕre no longer in the special quick-layer-and-split mode when youÕre playing the
setupÑyouÕre in regular MIDI Setups mode. Consequently, you have to make a zone current
before you can mute or unmute it.