User Guide

PC2 Made Easy
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MIDI. So the first User Created Setup will be #129. You canÕt enter the bank number to
select a Setup from the front panel, you just enter the Setup number.
However, if you want to call up Setups from another controller that sends MIDI
messages, then the PC2 does respond to the bank controller followed by a program
change number. Details on how to do this are covered in tutorial #31.
The bank assignments in the PC2 for Setups are as follows:
Bank 0 Internal Setups (1-32, plus 125-128)
Bank 1 User Created Setups (129-256)
Bank 2 Expansion Block 1 Setups (257-?)
Bank 3 Expansion Block 2 Setups (385-?)
If you are in a different mode (Internal Voices or KB3) and press the MIDI Setups
button, it will blink. At that point, you can use one of the methods described above to
select a Setup. Or, if you press the MIDI Setups button again, the PC2 will select the
setup you were previously playing the last time you were in MIDI Setups mode.
User Interface Basics
The following is a review of some of the information covered in chapter 3 of the manual.
If you read nothing else in the manual, you should go back and read that chapter.
The buttons on the front panel are divided into sections.
Sound/Setup Select
We already mentioned how you can use these buttons to call up programs when in
Internal Voices mode, but you can also use them for calling up Setups when in MIDI
Setups mode. Notice that the 16 buttons are labeled with the numbers 1-16. By using
these buttons along with the Previous Group and Next Group buttons, you have access
to 16 different Setups at a time with only one button press. The 16 buttons can then be
used to access the Setups as follows:
Group A Setups 1-16
Group B Setups 17-32
Group C Setups 33-48
etc.
There are only 36 Presets in the Internal Bank, which are number 1-32 (Groups A & B)
and 125-128 (Group H, Sound Select Buttons 13-16). ). But when you create and save
your own Setups to the User bank, you will have a total of 128 locations, in 8 possible
groups (A-H).
1. Press the MIDI Setups button.
2. Press the #1 Sound Select button (also labeled Acoustic Piano 1). If you have just
turned on the instrument, the top line of the display should say S001 Dance C7. If it
doesnÕt, press the Previous Group button repeatedly until it does. You have now called
up Setup #1. Notice that the bottom line says A01, showing you that you are in Group