User Guide

PC2 Made Easy

16. Program Editing – Internal Voices

All programs in the PC2 can be edited. and you can save your edits to the User Bank.

All program editing parameters are contained within the Timbre, LFO, and Envelope

menus, found in the Sound Parameters section of the front panel.

Both regular and KB3 programs can be edited, and since there are substantial differences

between the two types of programs, we cover editing of regular programs in this tutorial

and editing of KB3 programs in the following tutorial.

1. Press the Internal Voices Button, and select program #80 Solar Lead. Play the

program to get a feel for what it sounds like. You should be sure to try moving the

different physical controllers to hear the changes in the sound. For example, Slider C

opens and closes a filter, Slider D control the amount of resonance applied to the filter,

and the SW5 button switches between two different sounds. When you are finished

playing, make sure that SW5 is turned off, Slider C is all the way DOWN, and Slider D

is all the way UP..

2. Press the Timbre Button. Each program can have up to 4 Layers (although many will

have fewer). You can tell how many layers are in a program by looking at the four zone

buttons. Each button that is lit up represents a layer. Notice that the top line of the

display shows Lyr:1 2P Lowpass. This indicates that you are currently editing Layer 1

and the currently selected parameter is a 2 Pole Lowpass Filter setting. You canÕt add or

delete layers in a program, but you can make substantial changes to the existing layers.

3. The 4 zone buttons work identically to the way the function in Setups Mode. Pressing

a zone button will switch the display to that Layer. Once that Layer is in the display,

pressing it a second time will mute that layer. Pressing again will unmute that layer.

Unlike with Setups, muting is only temporary. Once you save your changes and exit the

program, all layers will be active. The main reason for muting is to allow you to hear the

changes you make while you are editing.

Press the Zone 3 button twice. The Zone 3 button turns orange, indicating that layer 3 is

muted. Notice there is also a Ò-Ò in the display after the layer number, once again

indicating it is muted. Press the Zone 4 button twice to mute that layer as well. Now

play the keyboard. Notice that you donÕt hear any difference in the sound. Remember

that in step 1, we talked about SW5 switching between layers. Press SW5 to turn it on

and play the keyboard again. Now you hear nothing. This is because, in this program,

SW5 is programmed to switch between playing Layers 1 & 2 or Layers 3 & 4.

If you are editing a program and hear no changes, you might want to mute all layers but

that layer and make sure it is currently active. Some times that layer might be limited to

a range of notes, or it might have a switch programmed to turn it on or off, as in this

example. If you look in appendix C in your manual, you will find a list of all the preset

programs and their control sources. It is a good idea to be aware of these settings when

you go to edit a program so that you know if a certain physical controller may be

affecting what you hear.

Turn SW5 back off and unmute Layers 3 & 4. For the rest of this example, we will only

work with editing layers 1 & 2, but you can apply any of the same changes to layers 3 &

4 and use SW5 to switch between the two sets of layers.