Kiwi Technics Kiwi-30 User manual

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Table of Contents
Kiwi-30 Features................................................................5
Kiwi 30 Flow Chart.............................................................6
Kiwi 30 Front Panel............................................................7
Kiwi 30 Parameter Edit Map..............................................8
Front Panel Des ription.....................................................9
Kiwi-30 BUTTONS....................................................................................................10
MIDI CHANNEL.........................................................................................................10
PARAMETER BUTTON.............................................................................................11
CARTRIDGE BUTTON..............................................................................................11
Kiwi-30 BUTTONS....................................................................................................12
WRITE BUTTON.......................................................................................................12
UP/DOWN BUTTONS...............................................................................................12
BUTTONS '1' to '8'.....................................................................................................13
Kiwi-30 Upgrade Notes...................................................14
Digital Os illators......................................................................................................14
Portamento...............................................................................................................14
Display......................................................................................................................15
Fa tory Presets.........................................................................................................15
Midi Re eived...........................................................................................................15
Midi Pani .................................................................................................................16
Note Hold..................................................................................................................16
Edit Buffer Compare.................................................................................................16
LFO Generators........................................................................................................17
Envelopes.................................................................................................................17
Write Prote t.............................................................................................................17
Master Tune..............................................................................................................17
Sequen er.......................................................................18
Sequen er Writing / Editing.....................................................................................19
C) Playing.................................................................................................................21
Arpeggiator......................................................................22
Chord Mode....................................................................23
Parameter Editing............................................................24
DCO Parameters.......................................................................................................24
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VCF Parameters........................................................................................................24
LFO Parameters........................................................................................................25
Modulation Matrix.....................................................................................................26
VCA Output Level.....................................................................................................27
VCA LFO Level..........................................................................................................27
VCA LFO Sele t........................................................................................................27
VCA ENV Sele t........................................................................................................27
VCA Dynami s..........................................................................................................27
Voi e Mode...............................................................................................................27
Voi e Mode Steal......................................................................................................27
Voi e Mode Sta ato................................................................................................28
Detune.......................................................................................................................28
Analogue Feel...........................................................................................................28
Seq One Shot...........................................................................................................28
Seq Key Down Play..................................................................................................28
Seq Auto Transpose.................................................................................................28
Seq Auto Trans Reset...............................................................................................28
Sequen e Complete.................................................................................................28
SEQ Step Timing......................................................................................................29
Pat h Clo k...............................................................................................................29
ARP Mode.................................................................................................................29
ARP Range................................................................................................................29
ARP Step Timing.......................................................................................................29
ENV ADSR................................................................................................................29
Chorus......................................................................................................................29
Global Parameters Edit...................................................30
Midi In Channel.........................................................................................................30
Midi Out Channel......................................................................................................30
Seq Midi Out Channel..............................................................................................30
Enable MidiCC..........................................................................................................30
Enable Midi Sysex....................................................................................................30
Enable Program Change..........................................................................................30
Midi Soft Through.....................................................................................................30
Midi Clo k Gen.........................................................................................................30
Master Clo k Sour e................................................................................................30
Master Clo k Rate....................................................................................................30
Master Fine Tune......................................................................................................30
Clo k Display............................................................................................................30
Guitar Mode..............................................................................................................31
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Tone Dump Importing.....................................................32
Setting up with External Devi es.....................................33
Using the PG-200............................................................34
Firmware Updates...........................................................35
Test Mode........................................................................36
Upgrade install................................................................37
Midi Data.........................................................................46
Continuous Controllers............................................................................................47
Real Time Commands..............................................................................................51
Midi Sysex Support.........................................................52
Midi Sysex Data........................................................................................................53
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Kiwi-30 Features
•1536 Tones in 3 sets of 512 an be stored and edited. It is also possible to temporarily edit any Tone.
•Tones an be edited using the front panel or midi.
•Tones are stored in Flash memory so no battery is required.
•Midi Through is onverted to Midi Out so Dumps an be saved and midi lo k generated.
•MidiCC & Sysex support for all parameters and Midi Sysex support for Tone Dump & Load. The Kiwi30 will support
full midi ontrol and editing in real time.
•Key Assign Modes are Poly Single, Poly Dual, Poly Triple, Unison & Solo
•Ea h Key Assign mode an have Sta ato/Legato, Steal/No Steal with five steal modes (Highest, Lowest, Oldest,
Newest, Quietest)
•Portamento in all modes
•DCO Key Assign Detune available in all key modes. In addition there is a 'Analog Feel' parameter that add an
adjustable small random frequen y to ea h note. Detune is best used with Poly Dual, Poly Triple or Unison keying
modes for greatest effe t
•Three independent envelope generators. These are traditional ADSR type. Ea h ENV Mod an sele t from ENV 1 - 3
and has an Inverted or Normal modes.
•Three independent Low Frequen y Os illators. These have 6 waveforms ea h
•Ea h LFO Mod an sele t from LFO 1-3. LFOs an be plus and minus base note or plus base note only.
•Internal Master Clo k with the range 5-299 BPM.
•Full Matrix mod system that an hannel any mod sour e to any mod destination.
•Polyphoni Aftertou h
•Guitar Mode where midi hannels 1-6 ontrol voi es individually.
CHORD MODE
•Any hord with up to 6 notes an be set and played from any key
ARPEGGIATOR
•The Arpeggiator is lo ked from the Master Clo k and an be independently divided to Half Note, Quarter Note, 1/8
Note, 1/8 Note Half Swing, 1/8 Note Full Swing, 1/8 Note Triplets, 1/16 Note, 1/16 Note Half Swing, 1/16 Note Full
Swing, 1/16 Note Triplets, 1/32 Note, 1/32 Note Triplets, 1/64 Note.
•Arp modes are Up, Down, Up and Down, Random, As Played and 1, 2, 3 or 4 o taves
•Arp an be Started, Stopped & Continued using Midi Commands
•Appeggiator will Output Midi Data
SEQUENCER
•8 separate 124 Max step Polyphoni sequen es an be reated and stored
•Sequen es an be edited
•The Sequen er is lo ked from the Master Clo k and an be independently divided to Half Note, Quarter Note, 1/8
Note, 1/8 Note Half Swing, 1/8 Note Full Swing, 1/8 Note Triplets, 1/16 Note, 1/16 Note Half Swing, 1/16 Note Full
Swing, 1/16 Note Triplets, 1/32 Note, 1/32 Note Triplets, 1/64 Note.
•Sequen er will Output Midi Data
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Kiwi 30 Flow Chart

Kiwi 30 Front Panel

Kiwi 30 Parameter Edit Map

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Front Panel Des ription
The Kiwi-30 front panel differs from the original MKS-30 and the Kiwi-30 Upgrade redefines many of the buttons on the
Roland MKS-30. Many of the buttons have been assigned new or multiple fun tions and others now operate differently.
The new layout an be seen on the front panel layout on the previous pages.
Be ause of the number of parameters in the Kiwi-30 ea h parameter has a three button addressing system that looks like
113. These refer to the First, Se ond and Third buttons needed to sele t a parameter. See the parameter edit table on the
previous page for details. An example would be 418 whi h is ENV2 Release Rate.
Most of the other buttons have also hanged use and fun tion and are des ribed next in more detail.
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Kiwi-30 BUTTONS
MIDI CHANNEL The Button Labeled “MIDI
CHANNEL” is used to sele t the
MODE of the Kiwi-30. The Kiwi-30
has six modes of operation. The
Mode the Kiwi-30 is urrently in is
shown on the left of the bottom line
of the display on the front panel (1 to
6).
A long press of the MODE B tton
will ret rn the synth to the TONE
Mode from any of the other
Modes.
The six modes are
1 - TONE Mode.
There are 3 SETs of 512 Tones
making a total of 1536 Tones in
memory. Pressing BANK will
in rement the urrent Set number
from 1->3 and then this will loop
ba k to 1. The left most LED digit
displays the urrent Set number.
Ea h Tone within a Set has a four
number identifi ation in the form
3:3:2:1. The First digit is the Set
number, the se ond is the Group
number, the third is the Bank and the
forth is the Tone. The lowest tone
number is 1:1:1:1 and the highest is
3:8:8:8. These are displayed from left
to right on the four front panel digits.
The UP & DOWN buttons will step to
the Next & Previous Tones. If Next is
pressed with Tone 3:8:8:8 showing
the next tone will step to 1:1:1:1.
The CARTRIDGE button is used to
set and lear a Chord. If notes are
playing when this button is pressed a
Chord will be set. If no notes are
being played when this button is
pressed then the Chord will be
leared.
5 - NAME EDIT
The Name of the urrently loaded
Tone an be edited using the
following keys.
Dynami s = Move LEFT to next letter
Parameter = Move RIGHT
Up/Down = Change letter
2 - ARP Mode
The 'CARTRIDGE' Button will start and
stop the ARP playing.
Tone Button '7' sets Arp Mode
Tone Button '8' sets Arp Range
3 - SEQ Mode
The 'CARTRIDGE' Button will start and
stop the Sequen e playing.
The TONE buttons '1-8' will load the
sequen e stored under that number
into the edit buffer.
Pressing the 'WRITE' button will enter
Seq Edit Mode. Details about Seq Edit
Mode an be found in the Sequen e
se tion of the manual.
4 - DUMP Mode
Five different dumps are available.
1) CURRENT TONE. Button '1'
followed by the 'WRITE' button will
dump the urrentl TONE.
NOTE - Any temporary edits will be
lost. Yo sho ld save any edited
tones or Seqs before starting any
d mps.
2) CURRENT GROUP. Tone Button '2'
followed by the 'WRITE' button will
dump the 64 tones in the urrent
Group. This is a large dump.
3) SEQ EDIT BUFFER. Button '3'
followed by the 'WRITE' button will
dump the SEQ EDIT BUFFER.
4) ALL SEQ. Button '4' followed by the
'WRITE' button will dump ALL 8
SEQUENCES. This is a large dump.
5) GLOBAL PARAMETERS. Button '5'
followed by the 'WRITE' button will
dump the GLOBAL PARAMETERS.
6 - CLOCK
The Internal Master Clo k rate an be
set using the UP & DOWN buttons.
The range is from 5 to 299 BPM. The
'DYNAMICS' button an be used to set
a TAP TIMER while in this mode.
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