User Guide

PC2 Made Easy

27. Using MIDI Receive Mode

MIDI Receive Mode allows you access to all 16 MIDI channels that the PC2 listens on. It

is important to be aware that the PC2 is always listening on all 16 MIDI channels, no

matter which mode you are in. So if you are in MIDI Setups mode and playing on four

channels from the keyboard, the other channels are still accessible via the MIDI In port.

(The only time this is not true is if you change the MIDI In parameter in the Global menu

to Remap. The MIDI IN parameter is covered in more detail in the additional

information section at the end of this document.)

The most obvious reason you would want to use MIDI Receive Mode is if you are

sequencing or using another external controller.

1. Press the MIDI Receive button. If this is the first time you have gone to this mode since

powering up the unit, the display will show you Channel 1. If you have previously been

to this mode and chose a different channel, it will return to that channel. This display

also shows if that channel is turned On or Off, and if it is On, it will show you the

program currently on this channel. You can scroll to the On/Off and Program

parameters by pressing the >> button.

Although you will normally want to leave all channels turned On, you might need to turn

a channel off if you have more than one MIDI instrument and are sequencing using a

sequencer or MIDI interface with only a single MIDI Out. In this case, since all MIDI

devices need to be chained together, you can direct specific channels to each MIDI

instrument by turning off selected channels in each instrument. For example, you might

turn off channels 9-16 in the PC2 and channel 1-8 in your other MIDI instrument.

2. To select a different MIDI channel, you can either keep pressing the MIDI Receive

button to increment through the channels, or use any data entry method to select the

channel you want, while the cursor is on the Channel parameter. Another easy way to

select a specific channel is to hold the MIDI Receive button and press one of the

numbered Sound Select buttons. The PC2 will jump to that channel number.

3. Press the >> button 3 times to scroll past the On/Off and Program parameter and the

display will change to show Volume and Pan parameters. Press >> two times and the

display changes again to show the FX Routing parameter. Finally, press >> once more to

show the wet/dry levels for the effects. If you press >> three more times, you will go to

the next MIDI channel.

As you can see, in addition to selecting a program for each channel, you have the ability

to manually set MIDI volume and pan levels independently for each channel, along with

the FX routing and wet/dry mix for FX-A and FX-B. Remember that the A>B wet/dry

amount is global and therefore if you change it while on any MIDI channel, you will see

the same amount when you go to the next MIDI channel.

Although you may want to manually set these values from the MIDI Receive page, it is

also possible to send MIDI program change and controller messages from your sequencer

so that you can automate selecting the correct amount for each track in each individual

sequence you have. To change volume and pan, you would send the standard controller

#7 and #10. For the effects parameters, #91 controls FX-B wet/dry, #92 controls the

Global A>B wet/dry, #93 controls FX-A wet/dry, and #94 controls the FX Routing.