User Guide

PC2 Made Easy

In KB3 Mode, the sliders function as the drawbars found on a standard tone wheel

organ. The bottom SW1-SW3 buttons control the Rotary and Chorus/Vibrato effects.

This is covered in detail in tutorial #14.

Other Buttons in the Zone Select & Assignable Controllers Section

There are two additional buttons in this section. One of these buttons is dedicated to

selecting the Global EQ feature. This button will always call up the EQ display no

matter what mode you are in. The EQ will affect all Programs and Setups, on all MIDI

channels.

Press the EQ button. The display has three parameters that can be adjusted with the

first three sliders. Or, you can select the parameters with the left and right arrow buttons

and use regular data entry methods to change the values. Each of the three bands can be

adjusted plus or minus 12dB. Press EQ again to return to the previous mode you were

in. The EQ settings are remembered as long as the PC2 is powered up. Each time you

turn the PC2 on, the EQ settings return to 0 dB for each band (Flat EQ).

The final button in this section change function depending on which mode you are in.

In KB3 Mode, this button switches the four sliders to control either the first 4 or second

4 drawbars of the standard 9 drawbars in a tonewheel organ. (The ninth drawbar is

controlled by the Mod Wheel.)

When you are in MIDI Setups Mode, this button is used to solo a single zone (as shown

previously). If you are in Internal Voices Mode, pressing this button triggers the Auto

Split/Layer Function, turning the program into aSetup, and soloing zone 1.

If you have started in Internal Voices mode and have gone into the Program Editor (by

pressing Timbre, Envelope, or LFO), then this button will solo the current Layer in the

program (more on this in tutorial #16).

Sound Parameters

The PC2 offers some basic editing of sounds. The three buttons in this section control

Timbre, Envelope, and LFOs. The actual parameters that you see in these menus will

change depending on whether you are editing a regular program or a KB3 program. In

addition, the parameters in the Timbre menu will change, depending on the program you

are editing. We will go through some examples of editing programs in tutorials 16 & 17.

Effects

The PC2 has 2 effects processors, A & B. Only one effects configuration (which includes

the setting for both Effects A & B) can be called up at a time. Each Program and Setup

can have its own Effects configuration, and when you call up that Program or Setup, its

effect configuration is selected. When you are playing a Program or a Setup, it is a

simple matter to see the current effect and change it if desired. But if you are sequencing

and playing different programs on different channels, then you must choose how you

will control the effects, since only one program or master setting can be in control. We

will cover how to do this in tutorial #30.