Can anyone help me with locking the settings for the auto play chords on a KN2400.

I like to play with apc set to advanced 2 but when I load songs etc. which I have downloaded (brilliant stuff) they will insist on resetting my keyboard to whatever.
Even when playing a song and pressing one of the panel memory buttons it can change the APC in mid tune.

I think I've tried all the sections from the manual but no success.

Thanks

Hiya
Your question about APC baffles me a little as an owner of a KN7000, which I'd always been given to understand was an advanced version of the KN2400 and the KN2600.
Because my APC offers the choice of Basic; Fingered; or Pianist - there's nothing about 'advanced 2' available whatever that may be....
Do you mean APC or something else?

Thanks for the reply

Just to clarify, the KN2400 has 4 APC modes

Basic :- 1 fingered chords
Advanced 1 :- Accepts fingered chords but disregards unrecognisable chords
Advanced 2 :- Accepts fingered chords and for unrecognised chords it plays the auto accompaniment according to the keys pressed
Pianist :- Entire keyboard as piano

Hope that makes sense to you as I still need a solution

Hi,
When songs are recorded and saved, the settings include the acp function as well as most other aspects of the keyboard it was recorded on.
If the recordings use panel memories, which many of them do, just change those panel memories to the acp setting you enjoy and re-save them for your personal use.

Greg

Good morning (2004) Sapphire,

We're still (months not years) new users of the KN6000 but in that time we've come to understand some, if not all, of the technology involved.

Without sounding like geeks when your keyboard saves a 'sequenced song' it saves it in anything upto 7 different files. One of these files is the actual sequence itself. The remainder are for panel memory, sound memory, performance pads, sound fx, etc.

It sounds as if the 2600 will not accept the original APC format from whatever 'board it was originally recorded from. This has been a problem for us in that we can send a piece of music to friends with a 7000 but cannot play back their pieces because either they're using a rhythm the 6000 doesn't have or the voices used aren't installed even though we have the 6000's expansion board installed.

At the end of the day it show's that, at times, not all Technics 'boards like talking to each other. Sounds a bit like to UK or US government?

Have a peaceful new year,

Mark & Michie

Hi Greg

Thanks for taking the time to reply. It looks like I have a long task ahead of me re-saving all those files.


Happy new year to you.

Sapphire

Hi to Mark & Michelle

Thanks for the info. At last things seem to make some kind of sense. It's not what I wanted to hear but at least I now have some understanding of what's actually happening.

I see the new year has started very dismally (weather). I'm not a million miles from you.

Thanks for helping me understand.

Sapphire

yo sapphire...how's the KN2400 performing.....i'm just a rookie interested in the KN2600....

Hi kenshin81x

The KN2400 is a great keyboard and I did'nt think the KN2600 was worth the extra money as it only has a few extra rhythms and voices plus the SD card. However, it would have been worth the extra for the SD card alone. As usual, you learn by your mistakes.
I have very little experience of modern keyboards, my last being a Yamaha DX7 II (I'd rather not mention the cheap Casio and Yamaha keyboards I purchased) which in it's time was a brilliant keyboard (mid 1980's) and still has some very rich sounds although if I remember rightly it is only a max. of 16 note polyphonic using 1 voice. Very restrictive.
Back to the KN24/2600. If you have'nt got one then go and get one. You won't be sorry.
If you can afford the KN7000 then buy that. I wish I could.


Sapphire