Kurzweil PC2 [76/170] Sending program changes only

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Programming Your PC2

Using the PC2 to Control External Slaves

Another example: If the Roland required you send Controller 0 with a value of 81 and Controller

32 with a value of 2, then you would have 81 x 128 + 2 = 10,370. Again, entering 10370 for the

Bank parameter will show both 81/2 and 10370.

Sending Program Changes Only

Imagine that youÕre playing the PC2 and another keyboard at the same time. You want to be able

to change programs on the second keyboard when you change setups on the PC2, so you need

to send MIDI to the second keyboard. You donÕt want to send note information, however, since

youÕre actually playing the second keyboard (and not slaving it from the PC2). You can easily

create a setup that sends program change information, but doesnÕt play notes on the receiving

instrument.

1. Press the MIDI Setups button, then 127, then Enter. You have called up Clear Setup. Press

Copy, then Enter. You have now copied a zone from this setup into the edit buffer.

2. Press MIDI Setups, then 128, then Enter. You have called up Default Setup. Press Copy,

Press the > button. The display should now say

Paste|into|zone|1? Press the Zone 2

button, then Enter. (The display will say Zone|pasted, then revert back to

Paste|into|Zone|2?)You have now pasted all the parameter values from Zone 1 of

Setup 128 into Zone 2 of Setup 127.

3. Press the MIDI Xmit button. Set the MIDI channels that you want for zones 1 and 2. Press

the > button. Set zone 1 to Local and zone 2 to MIDI.

4. Press the Program button and choose the programs that you want for zones 1 and 2.

5. Make sure that the display is on zone 2. Press the Key Range button. Press the > button

twice to get to the Note Map parameter. Press 0, then Enter to set it to Off.

6. Name and save your setup.

Now when you call up the setup, it will send a program change to your second keyboard, but

since the note map for that zone (and therefore MIDI channel) is turned off, no note information

is sent to the external keyboard when you play the PC2.

This procedure is also an example of the Copy and Paste feature. You pasted all the settings and

assignments from the Clear Setup (which has all of its controllers disabled) into the setup you

were editing. This is a quick way to make sure that you donÕt accidentally send controller

information to the second keyboard; if you had copied a zone with controller assignments, those

assignments would affect the second keyboard as well.

You can use this technique to send program changes to any device, like an effects processor or

sequencer. You can also use the same technique for zones assigned to the PC2 itself! LetÕs say

you have two keyboards. On the PC2 keyboard, you want to play an internal program or

programs (up to three). On your external keyboard, you want to play its own sounds and also

play a program from the PC2. But your external keyboard doesnÕt have the abilities the PC2 has

for calling up different programs. So you create a zone in the PC2 setup to call up the internal

sound you want, but set the Note Map for that zone to Off. So when you call up the setup, it

chooses the sound you want to be played from the external keyboard, but the PC2 wonÕt play

that zone.