Start from the Mix we setup in layers on the previous page.
1. Press MIX SELECT button 1/9 to select Mix Channel 1.
2. Press soft button 5 ( KBD ) and use soft knob 2 to set Mix Channel 1’s KBD HI note
down to B3 , the B below Middle C. This effectively makes Mix Channel 1 the
“lower” or left-hand keyboard zone.
3. Next, we’ll set up Mix Channel 2 to be the “upper” or right-hand keyboard zone.
Press MIX SELECT button 2/10, and use soft knob 1 to set Mix Channel 2’s KBD LO
note up to C4 , Middle C.
The A6’s keyboard is now “split” between Middle C and the B below it with Mix
Channel 1 playing notes up to and including the B key and Mix Channel 2 playing all
notes from Middle C and above.
Tip: To set the Hi and Lo values using the keyboard instead of the knobs, turn soft
knob 3 ( USEKBD ) to set this feature to -ON-. When either KBD LO or KBD HI is
highlighted (by turning their soft knobs or by pressing soft button 5 ( KBD ), play
any note on the keyboard to set the value. Make sure to turn this off to avoid
inadvertently changing split points.
Another neat trick: To get a "hole in the middle", so one mix channel will play at the
low end and high end of the keyboard but NOT in the middle, simply set KBD
LO so it's higher than KBD HI . The channel will play all notes except between
those two points, creating a "hole" where no notes play for that Mix Channel,
while notes on either side will play (up and down to the limits of the MIDI note
range). So a Mix Channel with a KBD LO limit of C6 and a KBD HI limit of C5
would be playable from the range of C-1 to C5 (inclusive) and from C6 to G9.