Programming Your Pc2R; Basic Editing Concepts; Overview; Beginning To Edit - Kurzweil PC2R Musician's Manual

Chapter 4

Programming Your PC2R

Basic Editing Concepts

So far we've explained the PC2R primarily from a performance standpoint, covering the
fundamentals of selecting programs and setups, and applying real-time controls and effects.
There's much more to the PC2R, however—you can modify existing programs, setups, and
effects in countless ways, or create completely new ones. We call this editing, and there are a few
concepts that apply to editing in general, whether you're working on programs, setups, or
effects.

Overview

Editing consists of changing the value of one or more parameters. A parameter defines one
particular component of a program or setup (or the PC2R itself). These parameters are
organized into menus—groups of related parameters. There are separate menus for programs,
setups, effects, and more. There's also a set of global parameters affecting the entire PC2R.
For example, in every MIDI setup, each zone has a parameter called MIDI Channel. This
parameter's value determines the channel on which the PC2R transmits (and possibly receives)
MIDI information. Every parameter has a default value set at the factory.
Note to PC2 keyboard owners: you'll notice a few differences in the names and the
organization of some of the parameters. We did this to accommodate the differences between
the keyboard models and the rack-mount model. If you prefer, you can program your PC2R
directly from your PC2. Go to the Global menu (on the PC2, not on the PC2R), and set the value
of the Xmit Buttons parameter to On. As long as the MIDI Out port of the PC2 is connected to
the MIDI In of the PC2R, this causes the buttons you press on your PC2 to affect your PC2R in
the same way. You might want to set the Local Control parameter on your PC2 to a value of Off
while you edit your PC2R, so you can hear the PC2R exclusively.

Beginning to Edit

If you want to change the value of any parameter, there are three basic steps:
• Entering an edit mode
• Finding a parameter and changing its value
• Naming and storing (saving)
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