Panic button? :S

[Sargas]

This far, all the Kurzweil keyboards I've tried as got a button called "Panic". When you press it, a moose (or something, don't really remember) pop up on the screen and says "I'm panicking!" for a few seconds, then everything returns to normal....

Does it do anything else than simply showing a moose on the screen? It feels a bit like if the developers was like "Ehm, guys... We've got one button too many here.... What should we do with it?" :S

I've always wondered what that button actually does, so I hope anybody knows

 

[Mourndark]

It's not just a Kurzweil thing - my 8x8 has one. It sends note off messages to all notes on all channels, and probably resets all controllers to 0 as well - it's for when MIDI messages get lost and you need some way to reset everything. "All my notes are sustaining - PANIC!". It's incredibly useful, particularly when using complex setups live and you've got sysex flying everywhere (I don't advise it...)

Not sure why a moose though - are they easily panicked?

 

[kanthos]

A moose once bit my sister...

 

[Mourndark]

No realli! She was Karving her initials on the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink".

 

[Mourndark]

(I am so very sorry for my previous post...)

 

[Sargas]

It's not just a Kurzweil thing - my 8x8 has one. It sends note off messages to all notes on all channels, and probably resets all controllers to 0 as well - it's for when MIDI messages get lost and you need some way to reset everything. "All my notes are sustaining - PANIC!". It's incredibly useful, particularly when using complex setups live and you've got sysex flying everywhere (I don't advise it...)

Not sure why a moose though - are they easily panicked?

Ah, okey, cool. I've never really gotten that far when trying them out in the stores, but that's actually a pretty nice function, then.

I don't really know about the moose, though. But I doubt that they're easily panicked...