How can I use Pictures in my song and show them on display?

Tips & Tricks
K7

N1

A. PRESET/USER PICTURES.

In the memory of the technics are preset factory pictures, numbered from 1 to 100.
You can also fill the PICTURE LIST with 30 other pictures, which you can use in your songs.

(If you wish you can download a slideshow which shows you all the preset pictures. See also the blue KN7000 reference guide)

STARTING POSITION

Load any recorded song (the sequence) into the KN7000

·          Push  button <PROGRAM MENUS>

·          Choose <SEQUENCER>

·          Choose <RECORD & EDIT>

·          Choose <STEP RECORD>

·          Choose <CTL> at the bottom of the display.

 In this control-track you enter the positions where and when the picture is to be shown on the display.

You are now in the first measure of the song

·          Choose a place with <MEAS> and/or <CURSOR> where you want to have the picture show on display…..

(Under the button <PIC> is the word <PICTURE>. That is for loading a self made picture in the PICTURE LIST)

·          Choose <PIC>

At the bottom of the display you see <PIC (PRESET) = 1>

You can scroll through this with the <PRESER/USER> button and/or the <VALUE> button.

·          Choose e.g. <PIC(PRESET)=1>

·          Press <YES>

Result: Preset Picture number 1 is located on measure 1 (you should see an *-asterix)

Press down at the display the button <MEAS>  and go e.g. measure 5

·          Press <PIC>

·          Choose e.g. <PIC(PRESET)=3>

·          Press <YES>

Result: Preset Picture number 3 is located on measure 5 (the *-asterix)

Press down at the display the button <MEAS>  and go e.g. measure 9

·          Press <PIC>

·          Choose e.g. <PIC(USER)=1>

o         (if above <VALUE> you can read ‘NO DATA’ then you have not filled the (USER) PICTURE LIST yet with self made pictures. In that case, please, follow the B-procedure below this page…)

·          Press <YES>

Result: User Picture number 1 is located on measure 9 (the *-asterix)

And so on …(with a maximum of 30 pictures!)

·          If you are ready press button <PROGRAM MENUS>

Now you can press <START/STOP>button and the display shows the pictures at the measure you have choosen.

·          Be aware to <SAVE> your song (include the pictures):  because when you load a new song into the sequencer, the  previous "picture sequence" and the <PICTURE LIST> will be erased.

·          When you look at the (saved) files with Windows Explorer you will see the usual song-/filenames (01XXXXX.XXX) and the XXXX.jpg-files.

B. SELF MADE/USER PICTURES

To work with self made, and not preset pictures, you have to load them in the (USER) PICTURE LIST.
You have to remember to write down what number belongs to what picture, because the display shows only numbers when editing in the sequencer.

The same STARTING POSITION as above.

Load any recorded song (the sequence) into the KN7000

·          Push  button <PROGRAM MENUS>

·          Choose <SEQUENCER>

·          Choose <RECORD & EDIT>

·          Choose <STEP RECORD>

·          Choose Control-track named <CTL>

·          On this track you enter and locate the positions where and when the picture is seen on the display.

You are now  in the first measure of the song

·          Choose <PICTURE>

The <PICTURE LIST>MENU is now on display

The diplay shows a list with 30 numbers.

If you did not load any pictures , all places will be empty. Otherwise you should see some numbers with a filename (picture).

·          Press <PICTURE LOAD>

Choose

A.      Load from disk or

B.      Load from SD-card

If the list of the disk or the map of the SD-card is empty there are probably no compatible pictures on the disk or in the SD-map.

Choose

·          the <FILE> and

·          the <TRIMMING> and

·          the <USER PICTURE >NUMBER to the place the picture must be saved in the (USER) PICTURE LIST.

·          Then press <LOAD>

Result: User Picture from disk/SD-card is saved now in the PICTURE LIST on place/number X.

Be aware: it is not yet stored in the sequencer (you don’t see an *-asterix yet).

Now you can go on with the A-procedure described above.

The main difference (compared to preset pictures) is that you now can choose pictures you have loaded into the Picture List and use them in your songs/sequencer.

C. ABOUT THE PICTURE FORMAT:

You can only use:

·          pictures with the extension <jpg> (not JPEG!) or <bmp>

·          pictures with a maximum of 640 x 240 pixels

N.B. don't use too much colordepth when saving in jpg-format. A colordepth of 256 works fine.

Be aware that the interval between the pictures to be load is not too short. You can experiment with this by changing the *-asterix in the step-record-mode. In the KN7000 guide Technics advises an interval of 2 counts with a tempo of 120.
But as described, it depends on how large is the picture, the resolution and tempo. It's just a matter of experiment with this.

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