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MIDI KEYBOARD CMK-2 SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANUAL v1.5
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4. Piston Functions
Each piston can be configured for a particular function. To select these functions from a menu, click on any one of the
twenty piston buttons and navigate through the resulting drop-down menus. A dotted circle will appear in the selected
piston in Windows versions showing the current selection. On the Mac, shaded pistons indicate that the piston has been
assigned to something. Moving the cursor over an assigned piston will reveal what the current assignment is.
Figure 31: Piston function drop-down menu.
Note that configuring pistons in software does not affect the use of the two end buttons to set keyboard hardware
parameters as shown in Table-8. However, they should preferably be left unassigned on the bottom keyboard of a
multi-keyboard stack as their normal organ use is for SET and General Cancel. They can be assigned to something else
for other keyboards.
Three drop-down menus enable the user to select the MIDI device being controlled, specific function of that device
(that varies with piston function), and the MIDI output channel for the command (in some instances the MIDI channel
might not be the same as the one for the keyboard itself). Program Change number is normally the piston number from
1 to 20.
The above two screens show typical settings for a General piston for use with Classic control system. The Number
would then need to be assigned. Not all the function screens are shown, as most are self-explanatory. MacIntosh
version screens are similar.