Vgm Effects; Copying Effects; Effects And Drum Sounds - Kurzweil PC88 Musician's Manual

VGM Effects

We still havenÕt looked at the VGM boardÕs effects processor. If you have the VGM board
installed, press the right cursor button (assuming youÕre still in the Effects menu) to see more
parameters. (Another way to get here is to press both cursor buttons from an Internal effects
parameter.) These parameters affect the VGM sounds (Banks 1-3), whether theyÕre being played
locally or from MIDI. VGM effects parameters are stored with Setups just like the Internal
effects parameters.
The lights in the Effects section of the front panel will follow the Algorithm of the whichever
processor is being used in the current Zone: that is, if the current Zone uses a voice from Bank 0,
the lights will show the Internal effects Algorithm, if the current ZoneÕs voice is from a different
bank, the lights will follow changes in the VGM effects Algorithm. Changing the algorithm in
the Internal effects will not change the algorithm in the VGM effects, or vice versa. Nor will
changing one effects Algorithm change any parameters in the other effects processor Ñ so if you
have a set of parameters you like in one processor, you donÕt have to worry about losing them
while you fool around with the other processor.

Copying Effects

Sometimes you will want to have the two effects processors be quite different, and sometimes
(especially when you are in 64-voice mode) you will want them to be identical. An easy way to
achieve the latter is to use the Copy function. Make sure that one of the Internal effects
parameters is showing on the display, and press Copy . The display asks ÒCopy Int effect?Ó, and
you press Enter to do so. Press Effects to go back to the effects parameters, and scroll with the
right cursor until you get to a VGM effects parameter. Press Copy , and scroll once to the right.
The display says ÒPaste VGM effect?Ó. Press Enter and the parameters from the Internal
processor are loaded into the VGM processor. Press Store so you donÕt lose everything. You
can, of course, go the other way around, and copy from the VGM to the Internal. You can also
copy either of the parameter sets to a different Setup, pasting into either the VGM or Internal
processor.

Effects and Drum Sounds

If the VGM algorithm includes Chorus 1, Chorus 2, or Delay, the drum kits (and percussion
sounds such as ride cymbal and click) will not be affected. They will be processed by the
reverb, however.
Musician's Guide
Effects Editing
VGM Effects
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