User manual

Welcome

WAVEKRAFT is a wavetable editor for the Kurzweil K2700. A wavetable is a row of single-cycle waves, and a position that travels along the row: as it moves, the sound moves from one wave to the next. WAVEKRAFT sets up the row, what moves the position, and the filter, envelopes and effects around it.

WAVEKRAFT makes no sound of its own. Every patch becomes a real K2700 program: each wave is one VAST layer, and the layers are crossfaded inside the instrument, voice by voice. The app sends every change to the K2700 over USB as you make it, stores finished programs on it and reads them back. It keeps nothing itself: the programs live on the K2700, and a stored program plays on the instrument with no computer attached.

• 79 tables. 17 from the K2700's own ROM, and 62 more (740 waves) that the pack WAVEKRAFT WAVES.K27 puts on your K2700.
• Two oscillators. OSC A and OSC B, each with its own table, frames, tune, level and pan. OSC B can follow A's position, stay at a position of its own, or sweep on its own envelope.
• Three ways through the frames. SMOOTH blends, STEP jumps from frame to frame, PPG moves in small hard jumps. SHAPE is a separate engine that needs one voice a note.
• Eight position sources. The mod wheel, pressure, the bender, CC 20, an envelope, an LFO, a 16-step score and a random value at each note, and also velocity and the key.
• Filter. LP, LP 24, HP and BP, a stepped filter envelope (GRAIN) and a bit-reduction colour (DIGITAL).
• Effects. One insert chain (EQ, presence, chorus, flanger, delay) and a hall reverb, each on the K2700's own buttons, sliders and knobs.
• 210 programs in 14 categories in the pack. They live on the K2700: the app has none of its own.

Getting started

What you need

• A Mac with macOS 12 or later.
• A Kurzweil K2700 and a USB cable to its USB COMPUTER port. WAVEKRAFT needs it: without the K2700 there is no sound.
• The pack WAVEKRAFT WAVES.K27 on a USB stick (about 24 MB). It holds 740 waves, 210 programs and the effect chain WAVEKRAFT FX.

Loading the pack on the K2700

You do this once. On the K2700:

1. Press GLOBAL, then FILE, then LOAD, and choose WAVEKRAFT WAVES.K27 on the USB stick.
2. Press FILL. The K2700 asks which ID to fill from; accept it (or choose one), then press FILL again.
3. Wait until the K2700 has finished. Nothing that was on it has been replaced: FILL only uses free IDs.

Why the K2700 chooses the IDs

The K2700's LOAD puts each object in the first free ID it finds and corrects the references between them. So the programs, waves and chain land at IDs that depend on what your K2700 already holds. WAVEKRAFT does not need to know them in advance: at LINK on it finds the chain and the waves by name and the programs by a tag in their Info text. Two things follow:

• The numbers in this manual's bank list are places in the list, not K2700 IDs. Find a program by its name.
• If you rename a wave on the K2700, WAVEKRAFT stops recognising it. Rename programs as you like.

First sounds

1. Connect the K2700, switch it on, put it in Program mode and select MIDI channel 1 on it.
2. Open WAVEKRAFT. It starts on INIT TABLE, and the header says NOT LINKED.
3. Press LINK (top right). Its light blinks while it connects and stays on once the K2700 answers. The header then reads LINK, the K2700's version and CH 1.
4. WAVEKRAFT now finds the effect chain and the waves by name, then scans every USER program on the K2700. The display's bottom line counts through them (LOADING THE K2700'S PROGRAMS: 4512 OF 8191 · SCAN: STOP). Every WAVEKRAFT program goes into the PROGRAM list, and the first one opens.
5. Play the K2700's keyboard, or press PLAY in the middle of the panel: it plays a chord on the K2700 and runs the position on the display.
6. Step through the programs with PROGRAM ◀ ▶. The K2700 changes to each one too.
7. Change something. Every change goes to the K2700's edit buffer at once.
8. To keep it, press STORE (see Programs). Nothing is kept until you do.

The panel at a glance

Using the controls

• Knobs. Drag up or down, or use the mouse wheel. Hold Shift for fine steps. Double-click to return a knob to the value it had when the panel opened. The new value shows for a moment on the display's top line.
• Endless knobs (the ones with a dot: TABLE, VALUE, FRAME, WAVE, CONTROL, SHAPE, STEP) move one step at a time.
• Which oscillator the display shows. Click anywhere inside OSC A or OSC B. The display and the FRAMES strip then show that oscillator (OSC B only while it is on).

Tables, frames and position

Three words carry the whole instrument.

• A table is a family of waves that belong together: a filter opening, a row of vowels, a set of bells.
• A frame is one wave of the table that the patch actually plays. Each frame takes one layer of the program and one K2700 voice per note, so you choose how many (see Voices and notes). The frames are spread evenly over the table, and the first and the last are always kept.
• The position says where along the frames the sound is, from 0 % (the first frame) to 100 % (the last).

The 79 tables

The display's TABLES page shows each table with its size and source, and the oscillator's small display shows its source after the frame count: 8 FRAMES WK.

ROM tables

METAL FX is inharmonic, for textures.

OWN tables

VOWEL M, VOWEL F, FM 1-1, FM 1-2, FM 1-5, FILTER, PWM, SYNC, ORGAN, BELLS, CHIP and COMB, 8 waves each. Their waves are named WKX on the K2700.

WK tables

Their waves are named WK on the K2700. Sixteen waves each, except those marked (8).

A wave named WK that this version of WAVEKRAFT does not know makes a table of its own, grouped by the name without its last number: WK NEW 01 and WK NEW 02 make the table NEW. It needs at least two waves, is listed last and has no drawing on the display.

OSC A

How many frames

• 16 is only for the WK tables of 16 waves. It costs 16 voices a note.
• 8 needs a table of 8 waves or more.
• 4 is available on every table.
• 2 is a single passage between two waves, at 2 voices a note. On a ROM table it starts at the table's cleanest pair of neighbours. On HIGH PARTIALS and CHOIR + PAD no pair is clean, and the display says NO CLEAN PAIR: the two waves will partly cancel half way. You can still use them, or choose other waves with WAVE. After you choose waves by hand the panel no longer warns about the pair: trust your ears.

If you step to a table with fewer waves than the current count, the patch takes all of them and no FRAMES light stays on (a table of 5, for example, plays its 5).

The FRAMES strip

The strip shows the frames of the oscillator in focus. The title says which: FRAMES · OSC A. Click a frame to choose it, or turn FRAME beside the display. The frames the position is on light up.

WAVE, FRAME LVL, MOVE and AUTO LEVEL work in MORPH only.

The display

The top line shows the oscillator in focus, its table and the engine, or the control you just touched. The bottom line shows the position and the voices (POS 0.34 · FRAME 3›4 · 8 VOICES/NOTE · 32 NOTES), or, with the LINK on, the LINK's state and the voices (see Messages). Six soft keys below it choose the page.

3D VIEW

The frames in depth. The bold wave is the sound at the position now, and the chosen frame is drawn a little darker. Click on the picture to set POSITION (OSC A).

WAVE

One large cycle of the wave at the position. Between two frames it also draws both of them faintly, and it names them and says how far along it is. Click on it to set POSITION.

MOTION

Pressing one of MOTION's source buttons opens this page. While PLAY runs, a line travels along the curve.

TABLES

Turn VALUE or click a row to choose a table for the oscillator in focus. A table whose waves are not on this K2700 says NOT LOADED.

WAVES

Turn VALUE or WAVE, or click a row, to change the wave of the chosen frame.

K2700

How the patch is built as a K2700 program: its layers, how the frames are spaced, the filter's place, the voices, the effect chain and where it was found on your K2700 (WAVEKRAFT FX AT 4096) or that it is missing. It explains; nothing here is edited.

Other pages

FX in the header opens the effects page (see Level and effects), and SCAN, READ or STORE open the programs page (see Programs). Any soft key leaves them.

Engines and modes

MORPH

The main engine. One layer for each frame, crossfaded in a chain inside the K2700, so the position works live, note by note. At any position at most two frames are sounding. Three modes, on OSC A's buttons, say how the frames are crossed:

PPG uses the last function generator each layer has, so only one direct source can drive it. RANDOM, a negative AMOUNT, a RELEASE with a decay or a loop, and OSC B's ENV with a negative DEPTH do not fit: the display says ONE DIRECT SOURCE ONLY, and if one of these is set later the mode falls back to STEP. A SCORE plays its steps with no smoothing in this mode. See What the K2700 can play.

SHAPE

One layer, one voice per note. No frames: the K2700's own processing bends a simple wave, and the position sets how much. TABLE chooses among three shapes:

In SHAPE there is no OSC B, no 24 dB filter (LP 24 plays as LP) and no DIGITAL. The strip draws the shape's steps. It is useful for big chords and long releases, where a frame chain would use up the K2700's voices.

SCAN

The button is there for sweeps recorded as long samples. The ROM tables and the pack have none, so the display says SCAN: NO SWEEPS IN THE ROM TABLES and the panel stays where it was. Do not confuse it with SCAN in the header, which reads the K2700's programs.

Motion

Five buttons choose what moves the position. Each brings up its own knobs and opens the MOTION page. The curve at the bottom draws the position over the 8 seconds after a note, and the line under it counts the voices.

What POSITION and AMOUNT do

AMOUNT runs from −100 to +100 %. Negative values run the source backwards.

With AMOUNT at 0, the position stands still at POSITION on ENV, LFO and the wheel, pressure or bender. That is also the only setting in which VEL → POS and KEY → POS count (velocity first): the two then decide the position, over POSITION as a starting point.

LIVE

With LIVE on CC 20 and the knob at 0 you have a still wave: the first frame. Most of the 210 programs are made that way. Which K2700 controls can move it is in The K2700's own controls.

ENV

The envelope is the K2700's ENV2, the same in every layer. Times are stored on the K2700's own envelope steps.

The K2700 runs no release on this envelope, so with RELEASE OFF the position stays where the key-up finds it. RELEASE works in MORPH only, by an extra envelope:

• An envelope that only rises (no loop, and DECAY at 0 or SUSTAIN at 100 %) needs no function generator.
• With a decay or a loop it takes one: it then does not fit with PPG, and AMOUNT must be above 0 (the display says NOT ON THE K2700: RELEASE WITH A DECAY: AMOUNT ABOVE 0).

Press POS ENV in the filter to make this same envelope open the filter (see Filter).

LFO

It is the K2700's LFO 1, the same phase in every layer, so the frames stay together. +TRIANGLE and +SINE start half way up, rising. The LFO starts with each note: two notes played apart are not in step.

SCORE

A rising and falling gesture of 16 steps, played by the K2700's own CC sequencer. The panel has no editor for the steps: a program READ from the K2700 keeps its own, and a new one uses the panel's.

The K2700's edit buffer does not carry the CC sequencer. While you edit with the LINK on, the app sends the 16 steps to the K2700 itself as CC 20, but only while PLAY is playing: notes played on the keyboard do not start them. Once the program is stored, the K2700 plays them on its own, and starts again when you play after every key has been released.

RANDOM

A new position at each note, held for the whole note and the same in every layer. It does not fit with PPG. The GLIDE knob does not change the program in this version.

OSC B

A second chain of frames after A's, with the same filter and the same amp envelope. It works in MORPH only, and adds its frames to the voices.

B's own sweep (ENV)

The sweep leaves the filter's envelope free, so A, B and the filter can each move differently.

Filter

One filter setting serves both oscillators, each with its own filter, after the crossfades.

The filter's envelope

Without POS ENV, the filter has an envelope of its own:

• A new patch's filter envelope follows the AMP section: its ATTACK, DECAY (50 ms at least, or 1 s if DECAY is 0) and SUSTAIN.
• A program read from the K2700 keeps the filter envelope it was stored with, including those of the 210 programs, whatever the AMP knobs do. To get a short filter sweep over a long sound, start from a program that has one.

GRAIN and the function generators

GRAIN needs a free function generator in the layer that holds the filter. On LP 24, or with DIGITAL on, it always has one. On LP, HP and BP it does not fit with PPG, SCORE, RANDOM, a negative AMOUNT or a RELEASE with a decay: the display says NO FREE FUN: USE LP 24, and GRAIN switches itself off if such a setting comes later.

Amp

The bottom row of FILTER · AMP, the same for both oscillators.

Times are stored on the K2700's envelope steps.

Level and effects

In the header

The insert chain

Every program has the chain WAVEKRAFT FX in its insert: a 5-band EQ, a presence enhancer, a dual chorus, a flanger and a ping-pong delay, in that order. A part is filled in on the page while it is on. A new patch opens with the chorus on at 80 % and 0.10 Hz, and the reverb at 50 %.

• ◄ FX and FX ► choose a part (or click it on the page).
• ON switches that part on or off.
• The three encoders set its values; their labels change with the part.
• On the EQ, FREQ swaps the three gains for the three frequencies. On the other parts the same button is BYPASS, which takes the whole chain out of this program.

The flanger's period and the delay's times follow the tempo the K2700 runs at. STORE keeps every value in the program; no other program is affected.

PLAY and HOLD

Voices and notes

The K2700 has 256 voices. A WAVEKRAFT note uses one voice for each layer it plays, so a patch with N voices per note can sound 256 ÷ N notes at once. The display's bottom line and the line under MOTION show the count as you work.

Notes still sounding in their release count too, and the sustain pedal holds them longer. When the K2700 runs out of voices, it has to cut notes.

Spending them well

• A still wave needs only 2 frames. The 210 programs all use 2 frames an oscillator: 2 to 6 voices a note.
• A pad that moves slowly often sounds as good on 4 frames as on 8.
• Big chords and long releases: fewer frames, and OSC B on 2.
• LP 24 and DIGITAL cost one voice per oscillator each time the filter is in its own layer: on a sound with OSC B that is 2 voices per note.

Programs

PROGRAM ◀ ▶

Steps through INIT TABLE, a plain patch to start from, and every WAVEKRAFT program the SCAN found on your K2700. Loading one replaces the panel, so anything not stored is lost. The K2700 changes to that program too, and it goes whole to the K2700's edit buffer; the row on the programs page follows. Until the LINK is on there is only INIT TABLE.

SCAN

Reads every USER program on the K2700, 4096 to 8191, and opens the programs page. It lists each program it found: W and WAVEKRAFT for one of ours, o and OTHER for any other program; and the first 8 free IDs, as (EMPTY), where STORE can write. Choose a row with VALUE or a click. The SCAN happens by itself at LINK on, and it fills the PROGRAM list.

Press SCAN again to stop it. What it found stays, and the programs of the list it had not yet reached are left as they were.

READ

Opens the chosen WAVEKRAFT program on the panel, field by field, as it is now on the K2700: what you changed on the K2700's own panel comes back with it. Times and frequencies come back on the K2700's own steps.

STORE

Writes the program as the panel has it on the K2700. It always takes two presses within 3 seconds. The display asks first: OVERWRITE 4152? or STORE TO 4152?, with PRESS STORE AGAIN.

• A program from the list stores to its own ID unless you are on the programs page.
• On the programs page it stores to the chosen row: an empty ID or a WAVEKRAFT program. Press SCAN first if the page is empty.
• A new patch (from INIT TABLE) goes through the programs page: choose an empty ID.
• WAVEKRAFT will not write over another app's program: 4097 IS ANOTHER APP'S PROGRAM.

WAVEKRAFT reads the program back to check it, then selects it on the K2700 on channel 1, so the K2700 plays it with its own reverb. The display says STORED 4152 and SELECTED ON CH 1. If the chain was missing, STORE writes it first: STORED 4152 + FX CHAIN AT 5100.

Programs of other apps

Programs that WAVEKRAFT did not make are listed as OTHER. They can't be read (NOT A WAVEKRAFT PROGRAM) or written over. They stay as they are.

Old programs

A WAVEKRAFT program whose waves the panel can't find on this K2700 is marked WAVEKRAFT (OLD) and left out of the PROGRAM list, and the SCAN says 12 OLD ONES LEFT OUT. That happens to a program on the pack's waves when those waves have been deleted from the K2700, or to one from an earlier bank built on waves that are no longer there. READ says AN OLD PROGRAM.

Working with the K2700

The LINK

Press LINK to connect, and again to disconnect. WAVEKRAFT finds the K2700's USB MIDI port by its name. It plays on MIDI channel 1: select channel 1 on the K2700. With the LINK on, the patch plays in the K2700's edit buffer and every change is sent as you make it; only the parts that changed travel. Disconnecting first releases any notes it was playing.

• What the K2700 shows. The K2700's screen keeps the name of the program it entered, and it runs its system tempo: the edit buffer carries neither a name nor a tempo. PROGRAM ◀ ▶ and STORE move the K2700 to the program itself.
• K2700 ELSEWHERE: LINK. If you select another program on the K2700, WAVEKRAFT stops sending. Press LINK to send the patch to the K2700 again.
• What travels with a stored program. The motion, the filter, the effects and the K2700 controls all go with it. A stored program plays and moves on the K2700 alone.
• What the app plays while you edit. LIVE's CC 20 and the SCORE's steps (with PLAY).

EFFECTS ON THE K2700

The insert effects are one USER chain, WAVEKRAFT FX, that the pack brings. At LINK on WAVEKRAFT looks for it by name. If it is missing, it asks:

• WRITE puts only the chain on the K2700, at the free ID shown. Nothing there is replaced.
• NOT NOW leaves it. The insert effects are not heard, the bottom line ends in FX CHAIN MISSING, and the first STORE writes it before the program.

Which effects you hear

The insert chain plays as you edit, but the reverb sits on the K2700's aux 2, and the K2700 loads its aux effects only when it enters a program. While you edit, it plays the aux effects of the program it was on, and only those of the channel selected on its front panel. So WAVEKRAFT's reverb is heard when:

• the K2700's panel is on channel 1, the LINK's channel;
• the K2700 is on a WAVEKRAFT program stored on it. PROGRAM ◀ ▶ selects the program on the K2700, and STORE selects the one it writes; or select one of your WAVEKRAFT programs on the K2700 and press LINK to send the patch into it.

When another program's effects are playing, the display's bottom line alternates with FX OF 4097 …, and the chain on its aux 2.

What the K2700 can play

Every layer on the K2700 has four function generators (FUNs). WAVEKRAFT's crossfades use three of them in every frame after the first, which leaves one. So some settings exclude others:

A program can also have 32 layers at most. No combination on the panel reaches that, and any change that would not fit is refused with NOT ON THE K2700: … on the bottom line.

The K2700's own controls

A stored program answers the K2700's panel, so it can be played without the app.

CC 20

On a program on LIVE at SLIDER (CC 20), CC 20 is the wave's position, and the program shows it on the K2700's PARAMS page as WT Position, with the value you stored as its starting value. The K2700's own knobs and sliders do not send CC 20 in Program mode. To play it by hand:

• send CC 20 on channel 1 from another controller, or assign a slider to CC 20 in a zone of a Multi on the K2700;
• or choose MOD WHEEL, PRESSURE or BENDER as CONTROL before you store, if you want it under your hand on the K2700 itself.

With the LINK on, a K2700 control or another controller sending CC 20 on channel 1 also moves the panel's LIVE knob.

Messages

What the panel says, and what to do about it. Short messages appear for a moment on the display's top line; the state of the LINK stays in the header and on the bottom line.

The LINK

The effect chain and the waves

SCAN, READ, STORE

The panel

The 210 programs

The pack holds 210 programs in 14 categories, mostly simple sounds: two waves an oscillator, 2 to 6 voices a note. The number below is only the program's place in this list. On your K2700 each one has the ID the LOAD gave it, so find it by name; the SCAN puts them all in the PROGRAM list.

The first list of waves is OSC A, then, after the plus, OSC B with its interval, detune and level. Fixed means the wave stands still: that is LIVE at 0, and CC 20 moves it. The chorus is on in all of them, slowly (0.22 to 0.40 Hz), and the reverb is on Slider 9 (see The K2700's own controls).

Bells (24)

Immediate attack, no sustain, a long tail; the filter opens and closes with the note; a big reverb.

Glass (14)

Fine brilliance and high harmonics; highpass and bandpass filters.

Mallets (14)

Short and round; velocity opens the filter or changes the wave; little reverb.

Digital keys (20)

Digital electric pianos and keys: a falling sustain, medium chorus, very sensitive to velocity.

Soft pads (26)

A slow entry, A and B detuned and spread in the stereo; a low filter; generous chorus and reverb.

Digital strings (14)

A soft or phased saw, a medium entry, a wide chorus, a lowpass with a slow envelope.

Voices (14)

Fixed formants; the mod wheel or a slow envelope changes the vowel; a wide choir.

Organs (12)

No filter envelope, a short attack, a constant sound; flanger or chorus for the movement.

Brass and reeds (12)

The filter opening on the attack, like a breath; soft attacks.

Flutes (8)

Almost a sine, breath by velocity and pressure, a room reverb.

Basses (16)

Low and centred, few effects, a filter with a short envelope.

Soft leads (12)

Monophonic in spirit, the wheel or pressure on the wave, a discreet delay.

Plucks (14)

A dry attack, the filter closing quickly; the delay gives the space.

Atmospheres (10)

The only ones with visible motion, always slow and between two waves.

Recipes

Each starts from INIT TABLE (PROGRAM ◀ until the header shows it) with the LINK on, and ends with STORE. Values are starting points: move them.

A pad that moves on its own

1. OSC A: TABLE on SOFT LP (the WK one), FRAMES 8.
2. MOTION: LFO. RATE 0.09 Hz, SHAPE +SINE, AMOUNT +60 %, POSITION 0 %.
3. OSC B: ON. TABLE on RESO LO, FRAMES 4, FOLLOW A, DETUNE +8, LEVEL −5 dB, PAN R 40. On OSC A, PAN L 40.
4. FILTER: LP, CUTOFF 4.5 kHz, RESO 0, KEY TRK 30 %.
5. AMP: ATTACK 900 ms, DECAY 2 s, SUSTAIN 85 %, RELEASE 2.2 s, VEL 6 dB.
6. FX: on CHORUS, AMOUNT 55 %, RATE 0.22 Hz. REVERB 38 %, TIME 4.5 s.
7. The display shows 12 voices a note, 21 notes. If chords run out of voices, go to FRAMES 4 on A and 2 on B: 6 voices, 42 notes.

A sweep in steps (PPG)

1. OSC A: TABLE on HI PEAKS, FRAMES 8, then PPG (50 positions).
2. MOTION: ENV. ATTACK 0, DECAY 2.5 s, SUSTAIN 0 %, LOOP OFF, RELEASE OFF, AMOUNT +100 %, POSITION 0 %. The position falls through the table in steps.
3. FILTER: LP 24, CUTOFF 2 kHz, RESO 8 dB, FLT ENV +24, POS ENV on, GRAIN on, DIGITAL 25 %.
4. AMP: ATTACK 2 ms, DECAY 3 s, SUSTAIN 60 %, RELEASE 800 ms, VEL 12 dB.
5. 9 voices a note, 28 notes.

A bass

1. OSC A: TABLE on SIN>SAW, FRAMES 2. Choose frame 1 and turn WAVE to WK SIN>SAW 12. TUNE −12.
2. MOTION: LIVE, CONTROL on SLIDER (CC 20), LIVE at 0: a still wave.
3. FILTER: LP 24, CUTOFF 600 Hz, RESO 6 dB, FLT ENV +30, KEY TRK 30 %.
4. AMP: ATTACK 2 ms, DECAY 300 ms, SUSTAIN 40 %, RELEASE 140 ms, VEL 14 dB. In a new patch the filter's envelope follows these.
5. REVERB 5 %, TIME 0.95 s. On CHORUS, AMOUNT about 12 %.

The bank's RESO BASS and ROUND BASS have a shorter filter envelope of their own: start from one of them to keep it.

A bell

1. OSC A: TABLE on BELL B, FRAMES 2, PAN L 12.
2. MOTION: LIVE, CONTROL on SLIDER (CC 20), LIVE at 0.
3. OSC B: ON, TABLE on GLASS, FRAMES 2, OWN, POSITION 0 %, INTERVAL +12, LEVEL −10 dB, PAN R 18.
4. FILTER: LP, CUTOFF 11 kHz, KEY TRK 60 %, FLT ENV +14.
5. AMP: ATTACK 2 ms, DECAY 7 s, SUSTAIN 0 %, RELEASE 6 s, VEL 12 dB.
6. FX: on CHORUS, AMOUNT 35 %, RATE 0.22 Hz. REVERB 33 %, TIME 5 s.

A vowel on the mod wheel

1. OSC A: TABLE on VOWEL M (the WK one), FRAMES 8.
2. MOTION: LIVE, CONTROL on MOD WHEEL, AMOUNT +100 %, POSITION 0 %.
3. FILTER: LP, CUTOFF 7 kHz, KEY TRK 30 %.
4. AMP: ATTACK 400 ms, DECAY 1.5 s, SUSTAIN 90 %, RELEASE 1.5 s, VEL 6 dB.
5. STORE it: on the K2700 alone, the wheel moves the vowels.

Velocity changes the wave

1. OSC A: TABLE on EP DIG, FRAMES 2.
2. MOTION: stay on ENV and set AMOUNT to 0 %. On OSC A, VEL → POS +70 %.
3. FILTER: LP, CUTOFF 8 kHz, KEY TRK 60 %, FLT ENV +10.
4. AMP: ATTACK 2 ms, DECAY 3 s, SUSTAIN 20 %, RELEASE 600 ms, VEL 18 dB.

A program made this way shows ENV lit and AMOUNT at 0 when you read it back: the velocity is in VEL → POS.

Every note different

1. OSC A: TABLE on HI COMB, FRAMES 8. RANDOM in MOTION.
2. FILTER: LP, CUTOFF 6 kHz, KEY TRK 40 %, FLT ENV +10.
3. AMP: ATTACK 1 ms, DECAY 1.2 s, SUSTAIN 0 %, RELEASE 800 ms, VEL 16 dB.
4. FX: on DELAY, press ON, AMOUNT about 25 %.

A gesture in time

1. OSC A: TABLE on PHASE SW, FRAMES 8.
2. MOTION: SCORE, STEP 1/8, SMOOTH 30 %.
3. Press HOLD, then PLAY, to hear the 16 steps while you edit. STORE it to hear them from the keyboard.

One voice a note

1. ENGINE: SHAPE, TABLE on SAW › WRAP.
2. MOTION: ENV. ATTACK 0, DECAY 2 s, SUSTAIN 20 %, AMOUNT +100 %, POSITION 10 %.
3. FILTER: LP, CUTOFF 3 kHz, RESO 3 dB, KEY TRK 60 %.
4. 256 notes: chords and long releases cost next to nothing.

A second oscillator with its own sweep

1. OSC A: TABLE on SOFT, FRAMES 2.
2. MOTION: LIVE, CONTROL on SLIDER (CC 20), LIVE at 0.
3. OSC B: ON, TABLE on HI FORCE, FRAMES 8, ENV. ATTACK 0, DECAY 1.5 s, DEPTH +100 %, POSITION 0 %, INTERVAL +12, LEVEL −9 dB.
4. Each note opens with a bright sweep on B over A's steady tone.

On the Mac

The Mac app is the panel in a window of its own, with the compiler and the LINK inside it: no browser is needed.

• No sound, no files. The app opens no audio output and keeps nothing on the Mac: the K2700 plays and keeps every program. STORE is the only save.
• MIDI menu. Chooses the MIDI inputs that reach the panel, so that a control on CC 20 moves LIVE while the LINK is on. All Sound Off (⌘.) releases the notes the app played and sends All Notes Off and All Sound Off to the K2700.
• Quitting does the same and switches the LINK off.

In your browser

WAVEKRAFT in your browser is the same panel, compiler and LINK, with nothing to install. It has no programs of its own: at LINK on it finds your K2700, scans it and loads every WAVEKRAFT program there. It needs Chrome or Edge on a Mac or a PC and the K2700 on USB: the page reaches it through Web MIDI, and the browser asks once to allow MIDI with SysEx. Safari and every browser on the iPhone and iPad have no Web MIDI.

• The K2700 keeps your programs. The page keeps nothing: STORE puts a program on the K2700, READ opens it again.
• All Sound Off (⌘. or Ctrl .) releases the notes the page played.
• Closing the page or switching the LINK off sends note offs, All Notes Off and All Sound Off, so no note is left hanging.

Troubleshooting