Effects; Just The Beginning; A Note About The Vgm Board And The Pc88Mx - Kurzweil PC88 Musician's Manual

If you would like to store this Setup, press the Store button, and see "Replace Setup 16?" Now,
move the alpha wheel clockwise until it stops asking to replace existing setups, and instead
says, "Save Setup 33? (or "Save Setup 65?" if you have VGM installed). Press the Enter button
now, and it will save the new Setup.
Exiting Without Changing a Setup
If you donÕt want to save the Setup, press MIDI Setups followed by the sound select button
that lights up when you press MIDI Setups; this returns you to the unedited Setup.
Alternatively, you can go directly to Internal Voices mode (without saving the edits you made
to the Setup) by pressing Internal Voices followed by one of the sound select buttons. More
details about naming and saving setups may be found in Chapter 5

Effects

Our last stop on this get-acquainted tour is setting the effects. You may have noticed as you
were changing instruments in the Internal Voices mode that the Effects lights changed as well,
and so did the reverb and chorus. The PC88 is capable of generating a huge variety of reverb
and delay effects, and each Internal Voice comes with its own effect assigned to it.
You can change the effect assigned to a Voice. Go back to Internal Voices mode. Press the left-
most button under the Effects label to toggle among Room, Stage, and Hall-type reverbs. The
lights show what you have selected. You can also select no reverb at all: the lights go off. The
middle button lets you adjust the tone color of the reverb: Bright, Normal, or Warm. The right
button lets you choose from among two Chorus effects, a Delay, or no effect. The reverb and
the effects selections are independent of each other, so you can use one without the other. The
effects settings are remembered with each Internal Voice, so if you select a different Voice and
then come back to this one, the effects will be as you left them.

Just the Beginning!

ThatÕs the quick tour, which should give you some idea of the capabilities of the PC88. If
anything weÕve covered so far was confusing, or you have questions about any aspect of what
youÕve just done, feel free to jump around this manual to look up the things that interest you. In
the next chapter weÕll start again from the beginning, in depth.

A Note About the VGM Board and the PC88mx

The PC88 has many important extra features when the optional VGMª (Voice/GM expansion)
board is installed, although the basic operation is the same with or without the board. In those
places in the manual where a special explanation is needed for a VGM board feature, weÕve put
the VGM logo in the margin. By the way, when you start up the PC88 a message will appear on
its display to indicate whether or not a VGM board is installed.
The PC88mx model comes with the VGM board already installed. Refer to the sections of this
manual with the VGM logo in the margin for information on the PC88mxÕs features.
Musician's Guide
Effects
Room Bright Chorus 1
Stage Normal Chorus 2
Hall Warm Delay
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