User Guide

PC2 Made Easy

Bank 4 KB3 Voices

Bank 5 User Created KB3 Voices

Because of the special needs of KB3 programs, buttons and sliders have specific

functions while in this mode. KB3 Mode will be discussed in more detail later.

If you are in a different mode (MIDI Setups or Internal Voices) and press KB3 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 KB3 button again, the PC2 will select the program you were

previously playing the last time you were in KB3 mode.

KB3 programs can only be played on a single MIDI channel. By default, this is channel 1.

It can be changed to a different channel by setting the KB3 Channel parameter in the

Global menu. But this will cause another change you need to be aware of. If you are in

Internal Voices Mode or KB3 Mode, the Keyboard always transmits on a single MIDI

channel. In Internal Voices Mode this is channel 1 by default (it can be changed by

altering the Internal Voices Setup, which is discussed in tutorial #32). But with KB3

Mode, in order to make sure that you will always be able to play a KB3 program, the

MIDI channel will change to whatever channel is selected as the KB3 Channel. If you are

just playing the Kurzweil by itself, you will never notice this change. But if you are

playing and external MIDI module along with the Kurzweil, then you could get

unexpected results when the Kurzweil switches from sending MIDI data on channel 1 to

sending on a different channel as soon as you enter KB3 Mode. For this reason, it is

generally best to leave the KB3 Channel at the default value of channel 1 unless you have

a specific reason to set it to a different channel.

The KB3 Channel will also be an issue if you are sequencing and want to use a KB3

program Ð you will need to make sure to assign the correct channel to the track you are

going to use for playing the KB3 program

MIDI Setups Mode

MIDI Setups mode is used when you want to split or layer two or more Programs. You

would also use it when you want to control any external MIDI modules or keyboards.

MIDI Setups also allow you to program all of the sliders, wheels, pedals, buttons, etc.

for specific applications.

MIDI Setups mode allows you to have up to 4 zones, with a different program on each

zone. Therefore, the maximum number of programs you can split or layer from the

keyboard is four. (But the instrument can still respond on all 16 MIDI channels from an

external MIDI controller or sequencer.)

MIDI Setups mode and Internal Voices mode function identically, with only a few

exceptions. You will always only have one zone in Internal Voices mode, since you are

playing a single Program. (It is possible to start in Internal Voices mode and add zones,

but when you go to save what you have done, you will have to save it as a Setup.)

As in Internal Voices Mode, the Sound Source buttons function while you are in MIDI

Setups mode, allowing you to call up the preset Internal Setups, or Setups using the

Expansion Voices, or User created Setups.

The display differs in MIDI Setups mode. Instead of Bank numbers, the Setups are

simply numbered, with the numbers increasing past 128, which would be the limit of