User Guide

PC2 Made Easy

TUTORIALS

Intro

These tutorials have been designed to start simply and increase in complexity. To avoid

a great deal of duplication, later tutorials will refer to steps from previous tutorials.

There are two ways of creating a Setup Ð starting in Internal Voices Mode and

(typically) use the AutoSplit function, or starting in MIDI Setups Mode.

Starting in MIDI Setups Mode - Editing from the Default Setup:

All of the tutorials start from the Setup 128, the Default Setup. One thing you want to

be careful of - if you start from an existing Setup and make changes, some of the

parameters from that original Setup may be set to do specific things, which will affect

what you are trying to do.

For this reason, it is usually easier to start with the Default Setup. If you do start with

one of the preset Setups, please be sure to look in Appendix E of the manual to see the

controller assignments for that Setup.

Another thing to be aware of - whenever you call up a Setup, the PC2 copies all of the

parameter values into an edit buffer. Any changes you make are made in that edit

buffer, and the changes donÕt go into memory until you Store that Setup. If no Setup

exists at a specific location, then nothing is copied into the edit buffer, and so the data

in the edit buffer is whatever was there from the last real Setup.

For example, letÕs say you start with a PC2 set to factory defaults (no user Setups saved

in memory). Now you call up Setup 1. All the parameters from Setups 1 are placed in

the edit buffer. Next you call up Setup #129 in the User bank. But there is no Setup

#129 yet in the instrument, so the display says ÒNot FoundÓ. Since nothing existed

there, the values from Setup #1 are still in the edit buffer and if you start editing those

values will be there unless you change them. As you can imagine, this can lead to

confusion.

So again, the best way to create your own Setup is to either start with Setup 128, or

start with another existing Setup if you know how its parameters are set and want to

make use of those settings.

There are actually four possible ÒtemplateÓ Setups you can start with. Setup 128

Default Setup has some of the controllers set to default settings for all 4 zones. For

example, the Switch Pedal 1 is set to Sustain and wheel 1 is set to Pitch Bend. Most

other controllers are unassigned. Setup 127 A Clear Setup has ALL of the controllers

unassigned. Setup 126 Internal Setup is a copy of the default setting for the Internal

Voices Setup, which is a special Setup that is used when in Internal Voices Mode. This

Setup has every physical controller set to a specific default value. The Sliders and

Switch Buttons are set to controller numbers, which typically are used to modify sound

and arpeggiator parameters. Setup 125 PC2R Control is a Setup specifically designed

for controlling a PC2R from a PC2. It has a different set of controller numbers assigned,

which are used in the remapping function of the PC2R.