Kurzweil PC2 [60/170] A few important points about entry values

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Programming Your PC2

The Setup Editor

6. Press > repeatedly until you see the Entry Value parameter. Set its value to 85.

7. Save the setup as 132 EntryFX.

A Few Important Points About Entry Values

Crossing the Entry Value

Suppose that Slider A happens to be all the way up when you select Setup 132. Wet/dry mix is

now at 85 on Channel 1. Now you want to use the slider to fade the chorus out. If you move the

slider, you donÕt want it to suddenly jump to the current value; since the slider is all the way up

(set to 127), it would jump to 126 the moment you moved the slider down and the chorus would

suddenly get wetter.

To avoid this problem, the PC2 is designed so that once you set an entry value for a physical

controller, it wonÕt become active until you pass the point of the entry value. So as you move

Slider A down for Setup 132, nothing happens until you reach 85. At that point, the slider kicks

in, giving you a smooth fade.

Avoiding Extra Controller Motion

Now suppose you want to have a piano-and- strings setups like Setup 132, but you donÕt want

to hear the chorus at all when you select the setup. Instead, you want to bring it in later. To do

this, you could set the entry value for Slider A in Zone 1 to 0.

Imagine that the slider is all the way down when you Þrst call up the setup. Remember that the

slider must go past the entry value before it becomes active. In this example the entry value is 0

and the current position of the slider is also at MIDI 93, value 0 (minimum). When you move the

slider up, the MIDI 93 value goes to 1, and therefore hasnÕt crossed the entry value, and therefore

nothing happens as you move the slider up. YouÕd have to move the slider up slightly, then back

down so that it goes to MIDI 93 value 0, then the next time you move it up, the slider will be

active. To avoid having to move the slider up, down, and up again, set the entry value to a very

low number other than 0, such as 5. The value is so low that you wonÕt hear the chorus, but as

you push up the slider the Þrst time, it will go past 5 and become active.

Setting Exit Values

Suppose that youÕre using Setup 132 in a performance, and you Þnish a tune by fading out the

chorus with Slider A. Its MIDI Controller value is now 0, and will stay at 0 until you move the

slider again, or until something else forces it to move.

Unless, of course, you reset Channel 1Õs wet/dry mix somehow. ThatÕs where exit values come

in; they let you specify MIDI Controller values when you leave a setup. We recommend that you

get in the habit of setting exit values for physical controllers whenever you set entry values.

This is less of a problem for some controller, like volume and wet/dry controls, since the PC2

has default entry values for these controllers. ItÕs just something to keep in mind when youÕre

creating your own setups.

LetÕs revisit Setup 132, and specify some exit values.

1. Select Setup 132. WeÕll assume that Zone 1 is current.

2. Press and hold Controllers and move Slider A.