Kurzweil PC3LE6 Musician's Manual page 88

Setup Mode
The Setup Editor
values for triggering more useful octaves. See the table below for Shift Pattern step ranges and
their corresponding starting octave.
Total # of Shift Pattern Steps
1-12
13-24
25-36
37-48
Selecting The Desired Octave Range:
You adjust the starting octave manually, using the Offset parameter on the corresponding
controller's setup page. In the Offset field, the addition or subtraction of the number of steps in
your current shift pattern will raise or lower the starting octave in relationship to the default
starting octave. For example, in a shift pattern with 3 steps, an Offset value of 9 would cause a
controller value of 0 to make Shift Key Number trigger notes in octave C3-C-4, 3 octaves above
the default C0-C1. Offset values that are not multiples of the number of current shift pattern
steps will change which step the pattern begins on at controller value 0, thus offsetting the
relationship between all of the controller's values and current shift pattern's steps.
Adjusting Controller Range:
When using Shift Key Number, the number of steps in the Shift Pattern also affects the range of
values that will cause a controller to trigger a shift pattern step, and in turn affect the useful
range of the physical controller. With a shift pattern of 12 notes, the 128 different notes that the
PC3LE can trigger are evenly spaced over the range of the controller. Patterns with less than 12
steps will trigger notes in every octave over a shorter range of the controller. For example, in a
shift pattern with 3 steps, by default the controller values 0 to 2 will trigger notes starting in the
lowest possible octave, and controller values 27 to 30 will trigger notes in the highest possible
full octave. Using a knob for this controller, only about 1/4th a turn of the knob would be
triggering notes. This decreased useful range makes the controller harder to use accurately. To
remedy this, you can adjust a controllers behavior by using the Scale parameter on the
corresponding controller's setup page (see Scale below.) Adjust the Scale value to stretch the
useful values of the controller across it's whole physical range. A scale value of less than 100%
will be helpful for patterns with fewer than 12 steps. Experiment by adjusting the scale value
until the highest desired note is triggered at the top of the controller's physical range. See Scale
in the Continuous Controller Parameters section of this chapter for more details on the Scale
parameter. For shift patterns with more than 12 steps, you will run out of controller values
before your shift pattern triggers in every octave. If you want to be able to access all of the
available octaves, you can achieve this by setting multiple controllers to Shift Key Number.
Next, use the Scale and Offset parameters for each controller, adjusting each to trigger the
desired range of octaves.
7-24
Default Octave Shifting
Starting Octave
C0-C1
C1-C2
C2-C3
C3-C4