User Guide

PC2 Made Easy

the Zone is already in the display, then pressing the same numbered Zone Select button

will mute it (or unmute it if the zone is already muted). As this Setup demonstrates, you

can save a Setup with a zone muted, allowing you to call up the Setup and have certain

sounds layered or split, and then bring in another zone while you are playing, by

pressing the appropriate zone button.

6. Press the MIDI Transmit button. The top line now shows Zone 3 0:060. When you are

editing any parameter the top line always shows you the current zone, as well as the

bank and program number of the program assigned to that zone (in this case, it is the

Internal Voices bank 0, Program 60 - Trombones. The bottom line says MIDI Channel:03.

showing you that zone 3 is assigned to channel 3.

7. Press the Zone 1 button. It shows you that zone 1 has program 111 from the Internal

Voices bank and is assigned to channel 1.

8. Press the Zone 1 button again. Notice that the Zone 1 button turns orange - the zone is

muted. The display also shows a Ò-Ó after the zone number in the display, to indicate

that it is muted. The mute function works both when playing and editing a Setup. This

can be useful when you are creating your Setups - you can temporarily mute a zone to

hear the others. Press the Zone 1 button again to unmute the zone.

9. Press the Solo button. The Zone 1 button turns red, showing that zone is soloed. If you

play the keyboard you will only hear the bass. Press the Zone 2 button. It switches to

red and the Zone 1 button to green, soloing the piano.

10. Press the Zone 3 button. Now press the Ò-Ò button or turn the wheel counter-

clockwise until the MIDI Channel says Off. The Zone 3 button is now not lit at all,

showing you this zone has been turned off. All of the zone 3 parameter values are still

remembered Ð the zone has simply been turned off.

In Internal Voices Mode

When you are Internal Voices mode, the zone buttons access the AutoSplit functions

(labeled above the buttons), giving you a fast and simple way of creating a basic setup.

In Internal Voices mode, you can play one program at a time, since Internal Voices mode

is based on the internal setup, which contains a single zone. If you wanted to create a

multi-zone setup with different programs in each zone, you could go to MIDI Setups

mode, then start programming (editing): assigning MIDI channels and programs to zones,

assigning physical controllers, and so on. This gives you a great deal of control and

flexibility, but it takes a bit of time.

If youÕre on stage and you suddenly decide that your solo needs two sounds instead of

one, you donÕt want to take the time to edit a setup; you just want to add another

sound as quickly as possible. Fortunately, the PC2 makes it easy to do this kind of thing

without doing any actual editing. In this case the 4 zone buttons are used to add a Layer

sound to the main sound, add a split sound on the left side of the keyboard, and add a

layered sound for the split sound.

As an example, weÕre going to start with piano, layer it with strings, add a split with

bass, then layer the bass with clavinet.

1. Press Internal Voices (in the Sound/Setup Select region), then Internal (in the Sound

Source region), then the Acoustic Piano 1 Sound Select.