User Guide

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Programming Your PC2R
Effects Edit Mode
Selecting Different Effects
On page 3-16 we briefly described performance aspects of changing effects. Here we’ll go into a
bit more detail about selecting effects.
1. Enter Effects edit mode as described in the previous subsection.
2. Find the FXA Select or FXB Select menu, then press Enter.
3. Use the Alpha Wheel to change the effect displayed on the bottom line.
This procedure applies to any performance mode, as long as you’re using one of the standard
effects in both effect blocks. Things are a bit different if you’re using one of the specialized KB3
effects (IDs 395 and 396). Only the KB3 programs use these effects by default, but you can apply
them to any setup or program if you want.
The KB3 effects are complex multi-stage DSP functions that use the FX-A and FX-B blocks in
tandem (to accommodate the extra processing requirements). In this case, the first parameter in
the FXB Select menu is inactive. If you select it, you’ll notice that its value is in parentheses, and
you can’t change it (although you can edit the other parameters in the menu).
When you’re using one of these effects, anything else that’s routed to FX-B bypasses the KB3
effect. When you’re using a KB3 effect in one of the zones or channels of a setup, you might want
to route the other zones or channels to FX-B (unless you want the KB3 effect applied to all zones
or channels of the setup).
You can change the effect associated with the current program or setup as often as you like
without actually affecting the program’s or setup’s definition. Unless you save your changes, the
original effect gets reapplied to the program or setup as soon as you exit Effects edit mode. See
Saving Effects on page 4-29 to learn how to save the current effect settings to the current program
or setup.
Editing Effects Parameters
Most effects have four parameters that control various aspects of the effect (the special KB3
effects we mentioned above have three additional parameters that we’ll describe at the end of
the following procedure). Our sound engineers determine which parameters go with which
effects; you don’t get a choice of parameters, but you can edit their values any way you want.
1. Select the effect you want to edit, using the FXA Select or FXB Select parameter.
2. Press the Right cursor button one or more times to select one of the four parameters
associated with the current effect.
3. Change the value of the current parameter.
4. If desired, save your changes, as described in Saving Effects on page 4-29.
KB3 Effects
The double-block KB3 effects we mentioned in Selecting Different Effects—the ones with IDs 395
and 396—are associated by default with every KB3 program (remember that you can use them
with any program or setup if you want). These effects have two special properties that set them
apart from the standard single-block effects.