User Guide

PC2 Made Easy

Next, press the FX Mode button, then press the >> button to select the FX Channel

parameter. This can be set to Current or any MIDI Channel. The default is Current.

When this parameter is set to current, whichever program is assigned to the channel that

you are currently transmitting on will be the program that calls up the effects. If you go

to MIDI Receive Mode, whatever program is on the Channel currently in the display will

call up the effects. And if you go to MIDI Setups Mode, the program on Zone 1 will call

up the effects.

With this method, as long as you make sure that the program you saved for controlling

your effects is called up on channel 1 (assuming you use the default transmit channel

when in Internal Voices mode), you will hear the correct effects for your sequence. One

advantage to this method is that if you need to switch back and forth between

sequencing and performing, everything will always work. Whatever program or Setup

you call up for performing will have its correct effects assigned, and things will also

sound correct when you are sequencing, as long as you make sure you donÕt change your

transmit channel.

The disadvantage to this method is that if you go to MIDI receive Mode and start

switching channels, you will stop hearing the correct effect. Also, it does force you to use

your transmit channel for playing the program you are using to control the effects, and

this might not be convenient in every instance.

3. The final method is to choose a specific MIDI channel for your effects control. You can

choose a typically unused MIDI channel and set the FX Channel parameter to this

channel number. Channel 15 can be a good option, since people often use channel 16 for

a click, and if you start from the lowest channel and work upwards for your tracks, 15

will be the last one you hit before the click channel.

Once you have chosen a channel, you can then edit and save a ÒdummyÓ program that

has the effects you want assigned to that program. Since you are only using this program

to call up the effects settings you want, you donÕt have to worry about the actual sounds

in the program Ð just the effects settings.

Finally, in your sequence, you create a track that calls up this particular program and

assign the track to the MIDI channel you have chosen for effect control.

The advantage to this method is that no matter what mode you go to, you will always

hear the correct effects for your sequence, as long as you have the proper program and

bank change info to call up the correct ÒdummyÓ program on the correct channel. The

disadvantage to this method is that if you go to MIDI setups mode or Internal Voices

Mode for performance purposes, you wonÕt end up hearing the correct effect, unless you

have chosen channel 1 for your effect channel. (And this assumes zone 1 of your Setup is

assigned to channel 1).