Kawai K1
Multimode Patch Editor
This editor will work with the Kawai K1, the Kawai K1m, and the Kawai K1r.
Communicating with Edisyn
Turn of INT PROTECT and CARD PROTECT. Set your K1 to receive Program Changes (set RCV PGM to NORM) and Exclusive (RCV EXCL). See pages 38, 41, and 42 of the manual. You'll also probably want your send channel and receive channel to be the same.
Bank Sysex
This patch editor knows about bank sysex messages (which group together multiple patches) as well as single-patch sysex messages. If Edisyn loads or receives a bank sysex message, you will be given the option to edit a patch from it, to save the whole bank sysex, or to upload the whole bank sysex.
Important Note
The Kawai K1 has no sysex command which would enable Edisyn to send a patch to its temporary memory. However this is important to enable merging, nudging, hill-climbing, randomization, etc. Edisyn simulates a "send" to temporary memory by actually writing to patch number MID-8 (the very last one) or MED-8 (if you're working on the external card). This will erase and overwrite this patch and basically treat it as a scratch area.
If you have been paying attention, you'ld know that the K1 Single patch editor gave you the option of writing to iD-8 or writing every single parameter individually (and slowly). That's not an option here: you can't write individual parameters in multimode on the K1.
Gotchas
- When you update a parameter, it's not reflected on the K1's LCD until you move to something else and back again. Also when you send a patch, the name isn't updated: but the sound has in fact been changed.
- It might interest you that the K1's multimode sysex document is what we in the business call "insanely wrong". It is bizarrely, utterly wrong. See the source code for a discussion of the matter.
By
| Sean Luke
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Date
| December 2017
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