User Guide

Playing Your PC2R
Selecting Programs and Setups
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Selecting Programs and Setups
Select a performance mode by pressing Internal Voices, KB3, or MIDI Setups.
Once you’re in a performance mode, you can select the programs or setups either by turning the
Alpha Wheel, or by sending program change messages from your MIDI source. If you’re
scrolling with the Alpha Wheel, you’ll notice that you can scroll from the Internal Voices
programs into the KB3 programs, and vice versa. The LEDs in the mode-selection buttons
change accordingly. You can’t scroll out of MIDI Setups mode, however. If you scroll to the end
of the list of setups, the list wraps around to the other end.
You can also select programs and setups by category, using the Group button. In Internal Voices
mode, the factory programs are categorized into groups of eight related programs. For example,
the group Piano 1 contains eight piano programs (1A–1H). In KB3 mode, they’re categorized by
bank—either Internal or User. In MIDI Setups mode, they’re categorized into groups of
16 setups.
In Internal Voices mode, you’ll see a bank index at the top right of the display (for example, 1A,
which is the bank index for Program 000. The bank index consists of a numeral (from 1–16,
representing the program group) and a letter (from A–H, representing the program within the
group). That’s 16 groups of eight programs, which accounts for the 128 programs in each
Internal Voices bank.
To select a program by category, press the Group button to view the list of program categories.
Use the cursor buttons or Alpha Wheel to scroll through the list of categories. Press Enter to
select the first program in the current category.
There are 35 categories: 32 for factory Internal Voices programs; one for user-defined Internal
Voices programs; one for factory KB3 programs; one for user-defined KB3 programs. All the
Internal Voices programs and KB3 programs are accessible this way; you can scroll back and
forth between the Internal Voices banks and the KB3 banks.
In KB3 mode, the programs themselves aren’t organized into categories, so there’s no bank
index shown in the display. Still, you can use the Group button to select the Internal bank of KB3
programs or the User bank of KB3 programs (press Group, then use the Alpha Wheel or cursor
buttons to select a bank, then press Enter.
Note that if the value of the Wrap/Skip parameter (in the Global menu) is set to On, you can’t
enter the User bank of KB3 programs unless you’ve stored at least one user-defined KB3
program. When Wrap/Skip is On, if the User KB3 bank is empty when you try to enter it, the
PC2R skips to the next available program, which happens to be Program 000 in Bank 6. (This
isn’t true in the case of the User Internal Voices bank, since it actually contains a factory
program.)
In MIDI Setups mode, there’s a bank index in the lower left of the display. Setups are
categorized into eight groups of 16 setups. The bank index consists of a letter (A–H, representing
the setup group), and a numeral (1–16, representing the setup within the group). That’s eight
groups of 16 setups, accounting for the 128 setups in each MIDI Setups bank.
To select a setup by category, press the Group button to view the list of setup categories. Use the
Alpha Wheel or cursor buttons to scroll through the list of categories. Press Enter to select the
first setup in the current category. By storing related setups in groups of 16 (001–016, 017–032,
etc.), you can make it easier to get to the setups you want. For example, you could use groups to
arrange setups according to your playlist for a gig—a group or two for each set.
When you’re in Internal Voices mode or KB3 mode, you can select not only programs, but
program banks. Press the Left cursor button to select the bank ID parameter, then turn the Alpha
Wheel to select a different bank.