This editor will work with the Kawai K5 and Kawai K5m.
So instead of sending a patch to temporary memory, Edisyn writes the patch to patch number SID-12 (the very last one). This will erase and overwrite this patch and basically treat it as a scratch area.
The display has two parts: the lower part shows the harmonics level, and the upper part shows the choice of envelope (there are five choices: 0="off", 1, 2, 3, and 4). If you are in Full Mode (see the Global tab), then the harmonics from both voices are shown together with a little divider line. Otherwise only the harmonics from the displayed voice are shown.
You can constrain which harmonics will be affected by your editing. For example, if you constrain the harmonics to "Odd", then only the odd harmonics will be edited when you drag your mouse over them. The other harmonics will be drawn in gray to indicate that they are unaffected by you. Note that there are several more harmonics options available to you than in the K5's own editor.
You can also constrain which envelope will be set when you edit -- this is useful because it can be hard to precisely set the envelope using the display. If you constrain the envelope to "3" for example, the the only options you'll be able to set will be 3 and OFF.
Last, you can set the harmonics to one of several presets such as sawtooth or square waves.
Note that drawing on the harmonics display will normally be jumpy and glitchy because every change you make on the display sends an associated MIDI parameter sysex messages to the synth, and this requires a significant pause or the K5 will not respond properly. You can disable this in one of two ways: either Disconnect MIDI, or turn off "Sends Real Time Changes", both located in the MIDI menu. After that you should find drawing in the display to be much smoother (and various other operations, like setting a Preset, to be much faster).
By | Sean Luke |
Date | April 2018 |