Technics KN7000 · PlayingChoose a sound, including the extra Sound Explorer list

Sounds and parts

The KN7000 has 1,236 sounds, counting the organ drawbars, organ tabs, accordion registers and 41 drum kits. Source: Manual, p. 207

Three parts are played on the keys: Right 1, Right 2 and Left. A part is one layer of sound with its own settings, and each part keeps its own sound. Source: Manual, pp. 34–35

• The PART SELECT buttons, RIGHT1, RIGHT2 and LEFT, choose which part a new sound goes to. Source: Manual, p. 35
• The CONDUCTOR buttons, with the same three names, choose which parts are heard. Pressing the CONDUCTOR RIGHT1 or RIGHT2 also selects that part in PART SELECT. Source: Manual, pp. 35, 39

Most of the 18 SOUND GROUP buttons open a list of sounds of one kind on the screen. Sound Explorer gives a longer list, sorted into groups. Source: Manual, pp. 11, 35–36

Choosing a sound

1. Press RIGHT1, RIGHT2 or LEFT in PART SELECT.
2. Press a SOUND GROUP button, such as STRINGS & VOCAL. The group’s sounds are listed on the screen.
3. Press the button beside the sound’s name, either side of the screen.
   • The list may run to more than one screen page. The PAGE buttons move between them.
4. Play. If the part isn’t heard, turn on its CONDUCTOR button.

Source: Manual, pp. 35, 39

Choosing a sound also sets the effects that suit it. Source: Manual, p. 35

The keys respond to touch in two ways. Playing a key harder makes it louder (initial touch). Pressing down on a key already held adds an effect (aftertouch). Source: Manual, p. 35

Sound Explorer

Sound Explorer is a longer list of sounds, sorted into groups such as piano, electric piano and percussion. Source: Manual, pp. 35–36 The GM2 sounds are chosen here. GM2 (General MIDI Level 2) is a world standard for MIDI sounds, so that song files play back with the sounds they were made with. Source: Manual, pp. 36, 123

A community report counts about 527 sounds that appear only in Sound Explorer, not under any SOUND GROUP button. Source: Community report

1. Press RIGHT1, RIGHT2 or LEFT in PART SELECT.
2. Press SOUND EXPLORER to turn it on.
3. Choose a group with the ∧ and ∨ buttons by the screen.
4. Press the button beside the sound’s name, either side of the screen.

Source: Manual, pp. 35–36

• A button on the screen switches the list between groups (CATEGORY) and A to Z order (ALPHABET). Source: Manual, p. 36

Other sound groups

• DRUM KITS chooses a drum kit: drum and percussion sounds played on the keys. Source: Manual, p. 35
• The SOUND GROUP MEMORY button holds sounds that have been edited and stored. Source: Manual, pp. 35, 177
• EW EXPANSION chooses the sounds of a Wave Expansion Board, sold separately, once a dealer has fitted one. Source: Manual, pp. 34–35
• DIGITAL DRAWBAR, ORGAN TABS and ACCORDION REGISTER open screens of their own, for building organ and accordion sounds. Source: Manual, pp. 36–38

Options

• SOUND LOAD OPTION stops chosen kinds of setting, such as effects, from changing when a new sound is chosen. Press PROGRAM MENUS, choose SOUND, then SOUND LOAD OPTION. Choose an item with ▲ and ▼, and set its filter to ON or OFF with ∧ and ∨. Source: Manual, pp. 30, 160 With the filter on, that setting stays as it is when the sound changes. Source: Inferred
• After playing back a recording or style made on another model, or after MIDI from other equipment, a part may play a different sound from the one chosen. Choose the sound again. Source: Manual, p. 201

Manual pages

KN7000 owner's manual, pp. 35–36.

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Guide P3 · last checked 13 Nov 2026