User Guide

PC2 Made Easy

You can also select a Program by typing its number on the numeric keypad and then

pressing Enter. Appendix C in the original manual and pages 13 & 14 in the version 2

supplement manual list all the Internal Voice programs and their numbers. In addition,

once you are on a program, you can scroll through them in numeric order by using the

alpha wheel or the + and - buttons under the wheel.

You can also switch between programs in two different banks using the numeric keypad.

To do this you type the bank number, then the Ò+/-Ò button, then the program number.

For example, if you are in Bank 0 and you want to go to program 52 in Bank 6, you type

6, +/-, 5, 2, and Enter.

The bank assignments in the PC2 for regular programs are as follows:

Bank 0 Internal Voices 1

Bank 1 User Created Voices

Bank 2 Expansion Block 1 Voices

Bank 3 Expansion Block 2 Voices

Bank 6 Internal Voices 2

Bank 7 General MIDI Drum Voices (added when you add the Expansion Block 1)

You will need to know the bank numbers if you are sending the bank controller from an

external MIDI device such as a sequencer, or if you switch banks from the numeric

keypad, as discussed above. (Note that Bank 0 and Bank 6, the programs in the basic

PC2, are referred to as the Internal Voices banks, which is not to be confused with

Internal Voices mode. You can play programs from the other banks while in Internal

Voices mode. But you are always playing just one program at a time in Internal Voices

mode.)

If you edit a sound in any of the preset banks and save it, it will always be stored in the

User Bank.

If you are in a different mode (MIDI Setups or KB3) and press the Internal Voices

button, it will blink. At that point, you can use one of the methods described above to

select a sound. Or, if you press the Internal Voices button again, the PC2 will select the

program you were previously playing the last time you were in Internal Voice mode.

KB3 Mode

KB3 mode is a special mode for playing KB3 programs. These programs are physical

models of a classic tone wheel organ (the Hammond B3). There are two banks for KB3

programs Ð Internal Preset and User Created. There are only 16 preset KB3 programs,

therefore the 16 Sound Select buttons can be used to select them, but the Previous Group

and Next Group buttons wonÕt function while you are in the Preset bank. However, there

are 128 slots in the KB3 User bank, so they can be used in that bank. Again, obviously,

the sound category names above the Sound Select buttons donÕt apply when selecting a

KB3 program.

As in Internal Voices Mode, the Bank number is shown in the top left of the display, but

instead of the bank name, the display then shows the program number and name. This is

because the bottom line is used to convey other information, including the settings of the

nine drawbars and the Chorus/Vibrato setting.

The bank assignments in the PC2 for KB3 programs are as follows: