User manual KURZWEIL PC88 MADE EASY STEP BY STEP GUIDE

[. . . ] THE PC88 MADE EASY A Step by Step Guide Includes 27 Different Tutorials Designed For Specific Applications Plus Programming Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts by David Fox PC88 Made Easy Young Chang Distributors Young Chang America, Inc. PO Box 99995 Lakewood, WA 98499-0995 Tel: (253) 589-3200 Fax: (253) 984-0245 support@kurzweilmusicsystems. com www. kurzweilmusicsystems. com YoungChang Akki Co. , Europe GmbH Industriering 45 D-41751 Viersen Germany Tel: 2162-4491 Fax: 2162-41744 www. kurzweil-europe. de support@kurzweil-europe. de Young Chang Canada Corp. #105 Toronto, ONT Canada M2H 3P7 Tel: (416) 492-9899 Fax: (416) 492-9299 Young Chang Akki, Co. 708-1 Yoksam-Dong, Kangnam-Gu Seoul, Korea 135-080 Tel: 2-3451-3500 Fax: 2-3451-3596 PC88 Made Easy BASIC CONCEPTS & USER INTERFACE ISSUES The Two Play Modes User Interface Basics Sound/Setup Select Data Entry Zone Parameters Zone Select Effects Editing Shortcuts - 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 5 6 TUTORIALS Intro 1. [. . . ] (If you originally chose Transpose Down in step 2, then set Off Ctrl to Transpose Up. ) 5. Now play the keyboard, then press the E button and play the same notes again. You will hear the keyboard transposed in the direction and amount that you chose. Keep in mind that if you use this technique on a Setup with more than 1 zone, you will have to program each zone for the same transposition, if you want them all to transpose. You may have noticed that there is also a button marked Transpose in the Zone Parameter section. If you simply want a zone to always be transposed by a specific amount (for example, to have one zone an octave higher than another zone), then it is much simpler to use the Transpose button instead of programming a controller. But if you need the ability to switch back and forth between transposition and no transposition, the method described above is the way to do it. For example, you could create a Setup with one zone transposed up an octave from another zone using the Transpose button, then use controller method to move both zones by a minor 3rd. PC88 Made Easy 14. Panning Zones Hard Left & Right If you are using the PC88 in a recording studio or playing live and have the need to run different sounds out of different outputs, then you need to be able to pan individual zones hard right or hard left. To follow this tutorial, you will need to have both outputs of the PC88 plugged into a mixing board or stereo amp. If using a mixing board, make sure that the two channels are panned hard left and right on the board or you wonÕt hear the separation. Press 127, then Enter to set the On Value to 127, which will pan the piano sound hard right. (If you play the piano now, you wonÕt hear it panned yet, but donÕt worry. ) 4. Press 64, then Enter to set the Off Value to 64, which will set the pan back to center. Now repeat steps 2-6 of this tutorial for zone 2, but in Step 3, set the On value to 0, so that the bass will be panned hard left. The Entry and Exit State parameters are very useful for when you want to assign a controller to send a specific value of something when you select a Setup without having to touch that controller (they work similar to the Entry and Exit value parameters for continuous controllers). You can set a controller to turn On or Off when you select the setup and when you leave that setup. If the Entry or Exit State is set to None, then the controller remains as it was when you select or leave the Setup. For example, if we left the Exit State to None in this Setup, then the G button would remain turned On when we left this Setup. 27 PC88 Made Easy This Setup was designed so that simply by calling it up, the zones would be panned the way we wanted, but when we leave the Setup, panning is returned to normal. This way, other Setups which use the same MIDI channels wonÕt be panned. Of course, you might want to have all of your Setups panned in the same manner. But by using the Exit State or Exit Value parameters, you can ensure you donÕt have any unexpected surprises when you select a different Setup. PC88 Made Easy 15. [. . . ] Then press Enter. 51 PC88 Made Easy To copy all the parameters from one zone to a zone in a different Setup: 1. If you have already entered the Setup Editor, make sure you are NOT on one of the parameters within the Controller menu. Press the >> button, then press the Zone button for the zone you want to paste into. To copy all the controller parameters from one controller to another: 1. [. . . ]