User Guide

PC2 Made Easy

1. Go to MIDI Setups Mode and call up Setup #5 Synth/E Piano. If the bottom line does

not say 1:Serious Classi, press the Zone 1 button. Notice that the FX-A button is lit,

showing you that zone 1 is assigned to FX-A.

2. Now press the Zone 2 button. The FX-B button is lit, showing you that zone 2 is set to

FX-B. If you press FX-A, it now lights and the FX-B button is no longer lit. You have just

changed zone 2 to go to FX-A. Press FX-A again, the button light goes out and now this

zone is dry (no effects). Press FX-A and FX-B simultaneously to send a zone to both

effects processors. Press FX-A again to return zone 2 to its original setting of FX-B.

3. Press the Select buttons for FX-A and FX-B. You will see which effect is chosen for

each effects bus (Dist Cab EPiano for FX-A and Elegant Hall for FX-B). You can change

the effect for each bus by using any data entry method.

4. Press the Wet/Dry button. The bottom line shows the wet/dry mix for each effects

bus. Notice that FX-A amount is in parenthesis. This shows you that the current zone

(zone 2) is not being sent to FX-A. But there is still an amount that is remembered for

each bus. So if you switch zone 2 to use FX-A, it will use the currently set value of 76%

wet for the Distorted Cabinet effect.

5. Each zone in a Setup (and each MIDI channel) can have its own separate wet/dry

mix. In zone 2, the wet/dry mix for FX-B is 6%. Press the Zone 3 button. Notice that this

zone is set to 8% for the same effects bus. We will show how to set the wet dry mix on a

per channel basis in our tutorial on using effects when sequencing.

6. Now look at the top line of the display. It says Global A>B 5%. In addition to having

to separate effects busses, you can feed the output of FX-A into FX-B, and this

parameter allows you to choose how much of the signal from FX-A goes into FX-B. The

display says Global, because this amount is the same for all zones (and all MIDI

channels).

We will cover more details on using effects in tutorials 18 & 30.

System

This section has three buttons, Global, MIDI Receive, and Panic.

Pressing Panic will send the MIDI All Notes Off and MIDI All Controllers reset messages

on all channels, which will stop any stuck and return controller values to their defaults.

We will cover the Global functions at the end of this document, and The MIDI Receive

button is covered in tutorial #27.

Functions

This section has three buttons: Compare, Copy, and Store. We will be covering the use of

the Store function in the first tutorial.

Using the Compare function is easy. Press it at any time when you are editing a Program

or Setup to compare the currently edited version with the previously stored version. If

you are editing a Setup, the Z in the top right hand corner of the display will change to a