User Guide

PC2 Made Easy

(Appendix C in the manual documents the controller assignments). These Initial Values

allow you to have the controller be set to a specific amount when the program is first

called up, so you can depend on the program always sounding a specific way. At any

point after that you can move the controller and the program will respond accordingly.

The initial value parameters include:

Mod Wheel

Breath (for the breath controller input)

Data (Controller #6, which is the default for Slider C)

Controller #9 (the default for the SW2 button)

Controller #12, (the default for the SW3 button)

Controller #13 (the default for Slider D)

Controller #29 (the default for the SW5 button).

Press the >> button until you get past the Controller #29 Initial Value and you will see

ÒCapture MIDI Vals?Ó. If you press the Yes (Enter) button while on this parameter, all

the Initial Value parameters will be set to the current position of the various controllers.

This is great because you can play around with the sound, moving the controllers as you

desire, and when you find something you like, just go to this parameter and instantly

you can set the program to sound this way every time you call it up.

8. Now press the Timbre button again. This will jump you back to the First DSP

parameter. (You could also press the << button numerous times to get to it Ð this is just

a shortcut). There are a few more parameters in this menu. Press the << button and you

will see the Lo and Hi note parameters. These work the same way they do in a Setup.

This allows you create a split within a program, using different layers assigned to

different note ranges Ð the same concept as you would do with zones in a Setup. It is not

possible to add or delete layers within a program, but starting with a program with more

than one layer, you can customize a split.

9. Press the << button twice. Now you see the Keymap parameter. A keymap is a

collection of individual samples assigned across the keyboard, and will consist either of

samples of actual instruments or waveforms. In the current program, layers 1 & 2 use the

Sawtooth Wave and layers 3 & 4 use the Saw Wave Dullest. This is why you hear a

different sound when you use SW5 to switch between layers.

If Layer 1 is not currently in the display, press the zone 1 button to make it the currently

editable layer. Change the Keymap to 179 Square Wave. Now press the zone 2 button

and set Layer 2 also to 179 (if the layer is still muted, press the zone 2 button again.

Play the keyboard to hear the difference.

As we mentioned earlier it is not possible to change the DSP functions within a given

program. But since you can change the keymap for any program, if you find a program

that has synthesis parameters that you want to work with, you can edit that program

and select the basic sound that you want run through those DSP functions. As you can

see, this gives you a great deal of flexibility in editing sounds.

Now press the << button once more. This time you see (Keymap). There are actually two

keymap parameters. In the case of stereo samples, one is used for the left side and one

for the right. Since this program started with a mono waveform, the second keymap

parameter doesnÕt do anything and canÕt be changed, as indicated by the Ò( )Ó. If you

start with a program that uses stereo samples, you will find that the two parameters say

ÒKeymap RÓ and ÒKeymap LÓ. If you edit one of these programs you can assign any