Alesis K2661 Musical Instrument User Manual


 
Song Mode
Getting Started with the Sequencer
12-11
(Program, Setup, etc.) double as track-mute buttons while you’re on the MIX page; press one or
more of them and the corresponding tracks are muted Press them again to bring the track back
into the mix.
Use the Tr 1-8 / Tr 9-16 soft button to toggle between banks of eight tracks, either 1–8 or 9–16.
When you press this soft button, the horizontal bar repositions itself below the affected tracks.
Table 12-1 shows the K2661’s mode buttons, and which tracks they mute when you’re on the
MIX page:
Let’s listen to our song with and without drums:
1. On the MIX page, press the Play soft button. The song, with all of its instruments, begins
to play.
2. Press the Program mode button on the front panel. The Program-mode LED lights, and
Track 1 (the drum track) is muted.
3. Press the Program mode button again to unmute the drum track.
Using your K2661’s front panel buttons, you can mute one or more tracks at once, or even
mute eight tracks at a time.
Available Buttons 1-8 9-16
Program 1 9
Setup 2 10
Quick Access 3 11
Effects 4 12
MIDI 5 13
Master 6 14
Song 7 15
Disk 8 16
Table 12-1 Track Muting in Song Mode
SongMode:MIX|<>Prog:46||Brt|Saxy|Lead|||
|||WXWXWXWX|WXWXWXWX|WXWXWXWX|WXWXWXWX||
|||wxwxC{wx|wxwxwxwx|wxwxwxwx|wxwxwxwx||
||||z|z}~|z||z|z|z|z||z|z|z|z||z|z|z|z||
||||_|_|_|_||_|_|_|_||_|_|_|_||_|_|_|_||
|||P|P|P|R||-|-|-|-||-|-|-|-||-|-|-|-|||
|||*****************||||||||||||||||||||
Record||Play|||Stop||Tr9-16||Keep|||OK||
Quick Mute Track Bank Indicator
Toggles track muting
between tracks 1-8
and tracks 9-16.