Kawai K4
Multi-Mode Patch Editor
This editor will work with the Kawai K4 and the Kawai K4r.
Communicating with Edisyn
Set your K4 to receive Program Changes (RCV PGM = NORM) and Exclusive (RCV EXCL = ON). See pages 79 and 80 of the manual. You'll also probably want your send channel and receive channel to be the same. I wouldn't set the receive channel to OMNI, as this might conflict with drums.
K4 Banks
You'd think that the "A, B, C, D" buttons on the K4 designate four banks. But they don't. For purposes of sysex (and for Edisyn's purposes) the K4 only has two banks: internal and external, each with 64 patches. Edisyn designates the "A, B, C, D" as so-called groups.
All Patch Sysex
If Edisyn receives an all-patch sysex message (representing the whole memory of the synthesizer) it cannot select from it messages for this patch editor. It will select messages for the K4 (Single) editor instead.
Hints
- The following effect patches are not used by any standard single, multi, or drum patch: 3, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 21, 22, 23, 28
- In all standard effect patches, Submix H is always "off".
Gotchas
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You can't make parameter changes in real-time.
- When you send a patch, the name isn't updated: but the sound has in fact been changed.
Librarian Support
Edisyn can quick-request a bank from this synthesizer via Request Bank from Synth. This is a lot faster than the patch-by-patch request method in Download Bank from Synth. So try it out.
Thanks
Thanks to Benjamin Wild (wildjamin@gmx.de) for bug reporting.
By
| Sean Luke
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Date
| August 2017
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