User Guide

PC2 Made Easy
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9. Switching from One Setup to Another With a Pedal
If you need to switch between Setups very quickly in performance, it can be useful to do
this with a switch pedal. To do the following tutorial, you will need a switch pedal
plugged into the Switch Pedal 2 jack in the PC2. (You could use Switch Pedal 1, but then
you wouldnÕt be able to use it for Sustain.)
1. Create a Setup with one or more zones, following tutorial #1 (from the section on
starting from MIDI Setups).
2. Hold the Controllers button and step on the pedal connected to the Switch Pedal 2
jack. The display will read Zone:1 Switch Pdl2, On Ctrl: 66 Sosten. (By default switch
pedal 2 is assigned to Sostenuto, which is the function of the middle pedal on an
acoustic piano.) If the display shows a different Zone, that is OK. Only one zone is
needed to accomplish what you want to do, and it can be any zone, as long as the zone
is active.
3a. Press 141, then Enter to select Goto Setup for the value. Make sure not to step on the
pedal until you have saved your Setup (step 5).
In addition to the 128 MIDI controller messages, there are a number of special functions
that can be assigned to a physical controller. They are listed on page B-9 of the manual.
You can scroll up to them with the alpha wheel, or enter specific numbers (documented
in the manual) to go directly to them.
4a. Press the >> button to get to the On Value parameter. You will use this parameter to
select the Setup number you want to switch to. HOWEVER, the number you choose will
NOT be the actual Setup number. Here is why:
The Goto Setup command only sends a single numeric message, which work just like a
program change. But it does not have the ability to specify a bank, since that would
require sending two messages (one for the bank and one for the Setup within the bank).
Because of this limitation, you can only select Setups in the User bank, using the Goto
Setup function.
The User bank starts with setup #129. But MIDI can only send a total of 128 values. So
if you set the On Value to 1, pressing the pedal will switch to Setup 129. Setting On
Value to 2 will select Setup 130. Etc.
So once you know the number of the Setup that you want to switch to, subtract 128
from that number and you will have the correct value to enter for the On Value
parameter.
3b-4b. Another option is to use the Setup Increment function instead of the Goto Setup.
In this case, you would type 139, then Enter when editing the On Ctrl parameter, then
set On Value to 127. This option will cause the PC2 to select the next higher numbered
Setup, when you Step on the pedal. You could also use another pedal and assign it to
Setup Decrement. Then the two pedals would allow you to step through the setups in
ascending or descending order. (But of course, you would need to assign the pedals to
these values in each Setup.)