The Current Layer; Keymaps; Muting And Soloing Layers - Kurzweil PC2R Musician's Manual

The Timbre menu contains parameters that affect the nature of the sound in the current
program. The parameter you see now controls the cutoff frequency of a lowpass filter, one of the
two DSP (digital signal-processing) functions contained in each program. You can't change
which DSP functions are associated with a program, but you can change the values for the
existing functions.
By the way, you might think the display says
under the F . Turn the Alpha Wheel a couple of clicks to the left, and you'll see the cursor under
the value.

The Current Layer

Notice the zone buttons. In the Program Editor; they represent the layers of the current program.
When you enter the Program Editor, all the existing layers in a program are active (green LEDs),
so you can see that Program 000 has three layers. Unlit LEDs indicate nonexistent layers.
Pressing a zone button makes the corresponding layer the current layer—that is, the one
available for editing. The display shows the number of the current layer. The current layer is the
only one you can edit; to edit another layer, make it the current layer.
Now let's navigate through the Timbre menu. Press the Left cursor button repeatedly until the
display stops changing. The display should look like this:
Lyr:1||Keymap|L|>>
5|Piano|mp|Left

Keymaps

This shows you the keymap for the current layer. Every layer has a keymap assigned to it (two
keymaps if the program uses stereo keymaps). The keymap is the most basic component of a
program; it determines (among other things) which samples or waveforms the program plays.
Change the keymap, and you have a different sound. If you wanted to make the current
program an organ, for example, you'd change all the keymaps to organ keymaps.
Program 000 uses stereo keymaps, so in each layer there are separate keymaps for the left and
right sides. Press the Right cursor button, and you'll see the keymap for the right side. Most of
the PC2R's programs use mono keymaps, which means that only one of the keymap parameters
is active. If you look at the keymap parameters for a mono-sample program (like any of the
electric pianos) you'll see parentheses around one of the parameter names. That's the inactive
keymap; you can't change its value.
Program 000 is also a multi-velocity program; each layer represents a different keystrike
velocity. Note that layer 1 is the soft-strike (mp). Press Zone 2, then Zone 3, and you'll see that
Layer 2 is medium (mf), and Layer 3 is hard (f). Let's listen to each layer separately.

Muting and Soloing Layers

Press the Solo button, and you're soloing the current layer (notice that its layer LED turns red,
and an asterisk appears in the display next to the layer number). Press Zone 3 (if its LED isn't
already red) to solo Layer 3. Now play a key softly; you should hear nothing. Keep playing
louder, and eventually you'll hear the notes.
Press Solo again to deactivate soloing. Press Zone 2 twice. The first time you press it, Layer 2
becomes the current layer. The second time you press it, you mute Layer 2 (its LED turns
amber). Now start playing softly, and gradually play harder. You'll hear notes at first, then
E# , not F# . Actually, what you see is the cursor
Programming Your PC2R
The Program Editor
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