FROM THE USER MANUAL

"OVERVIEW" The Kurzweil EventStation is a MIDI Event processor as well as a high-performance Percussion controller. The EventStation is a MIDI Velocity-processor: Using our 8-level format we can switch sounds, map, blend, scale, add, sequence them... and extend their durations... all from a single note. This is novel for a dedicated hardware controller, and most computer-based MIDI-mapping programs cannot do this to this degree. The EventStation Accepts a variety of input device types in a generalized format. The EventStation is a timing processor. Using the various Metronome functions you can have both onboard and external sequences with either the onboard clock or an external MIDI clock. The EventStation is a scratchpad sequencer for your live playing. Use it to create sequences and loops quickly.

"WHY THE EVENTSTATION": There have been several great MIDI percussion controllers that could convert common piezo trigger-pads or 2-Zone (Rim/Center) Pads to MIDI notes. Where these controllers have had dedicated inputs for handling the common electronics drum hardware, the EventStation has been designed to accept various types of triggers, pedals, switches, and pads and assign them to a wide variety of MIDI functions. There have also been a number of wonderful MIDI processors in the past that would re-assign incoming MIDI data to new data at the processor’s output. The EventStation takes advantage of its multifaceted input assignment structures to allow external MIDI devices to control the performance the same as the directly-connected hardware. As a Trigger-device the EventStation is optimized as a velocity-processor to give as much expression as possible to your playing. Velocity is used as a filter to trigger certain events and to adjust note-timing. Each of the EventStation’s 32 Inputs may be assigned to control groups of MIDI “Events” in a number of ways. Every effort has been made to “generalize” the User Interface so that, within the box, anything can be assigned to anything. The goal was to allow ultimate flexibility and above all, the ability to expand easily as new features present themselves.