User Guide

PC2 Made Easy
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This means that if you are on Sound Select button #1, and press the Next Group button
repeatedly, the Setup numbers will increment by 16 Ð starting with 1, then 17, then 33,
etc.
But in Internal Voices Mode, it works exactly the opposite. If you press the Sound Select
#1 button, and then press the Next Group button repeatedly the program numbers will
increment by 1, starting with 0, then 1, then 2 etc. There is an obvious reason for this
difference Ð it allows us to group similar programs with consecutive numbers. In other
words:
Acoustic Piano 1 programs 0-7
Acoustic Piano 2 programs 8-15
Electric Piano 1 programs 16-23
etc.
Although this is not normally something you would normally think of when playing the
presets, it IS something you want to be aware of when creating User programs. If you
want to be able to call up your User programs with a single button press using the Sound
Select buttons, then you will want to save them using an appropriate ID number. For
instance, if you want to be able to call up one of your programs with the Sound Select #1
button, you would need to save the program as ID# 0-7. If you want to call it up
programs with the Sound Select #2 button, you would need to save the program as
ID#8-15, etc.
If you are in KB3 Mode, it works the same way as in Internal Voices Mode. Although
you wonÕt see a group letter displayed (A-H), each Sound Select button will remember
which of the eight possible programs for that button was selected with the
Previous/Next Group buttons. In the case of the Internal Bank, there are only 16 preset
programs, so the Group Buttons have no effect. But if you are storing your own KB3
programs in the User Bank, then there are 128 available IDs to store the programs and
the Group buttons will function.
Data Entry
This section is very simple and should be familiar to anyone who has used other
electronic instruments as well as automated teller machines (ATMs). The alpha wheel
allows you to scroll through values quickly. The Ò+Ó and Ò-Ó buttons let you increment
or decrement by single values, and the numeric keypad lets you enter a specific value. It
is also used for naming Setups and Programs. You always need to press the Enter button
when using the numeric keypad to register the value (except when using the naming
function, as described in tutorial #1).
Zone Parameters
Almost all of the Setup editing features of the PC2 are accessed through this section.
Under each button is a series of parameters, which you access using the << and >>
buttons under the display. You then use the Data Entry section to change the value of
the currently displayed parameter.
1. Press the MIDI Setups button twice. Type, 1, 2, 8, then Enter on the numeric keypad.