Special Modes; Midi Receive Mode; Global Mode; Objects - Kurzweil PC1 - MUSICIANS GUIDE REV B Manual

Performance Features

Overview

Special Modes

While you're in Program mode, press Main to go to a special setup editor that controls the
internal setup (see Editing the Internal Setup on page 4-21 for more information). The internal
setup defines controller assignments and other characteristics for all the programs in Program
mode. Pressing Main also enables you to create quick layers and splits, as described on page 3-17.

MIDI Receive Mode

Use MIDI Receive mode to configure each MIDI channel independently (this is the mode to use
when you're driving your PC1 from a multi-channel sequencer). You might think of this mode as
a special performance mode for configuring individual MIDI channels-program assignment,
volume and pan settings, effects routing, and the Wet/Dry mix of the effects.

Global Mode

Use Global mode to make changes that affect the entire PC1-for example, tuning and
transposition, MIDI clock source, program-change protocol, and more.

Objects

Throughout this manual, we'll occasionally mention objects, which may sound a bit technical, so
we'll explain. Object is the collective term we use to refer to any chunk of information that the
PC1 stores or processes. Many of these objects are invisible to you, but you'll be working
regularly with the highest-level object types: programs, setups, and effects. When you're editing
programs, you might also use System Exclusive (SysEx) messages to store programs, setups or
effects to an external device--or use a single SysEx message to store all the objects you've
modified while editing.

The Internal Setup

The two performance modes are quite different from a musician's viewpoint. The most
noticeable difference is the way the liquid-crystal display (LCD) looks in each mode, as you'll
learn on page 3-7.
Behind the scenes, however, the performance modes aren't as different as they seem. In fact, they
have quite a bit in common. For example, consider that familiar controller the Pitch Wheel. Push
it up and you bend notes up; pull it down and you bend notes down. This works in both
performance modes.
The Pitch Wheel does what it does because the PC1 is programmed that way― but you could
program it for other functions if you wanted. In a setup, the Pitch Wheel can do something
different in each zone― and that's true for all the assignable physical controllers: Mod Wheel,
knobs, pedals, and more.
In a program (Program mode), things are different. From the viewpoint of you the musician,
programs don't have zones, so each physical controller can do only one thing, but it's up to you to
decide what each physical controller does. That information gets stored in the internal setup,
which has only one zone, but is otherwise exactly like a setup in Setup mode.
Every program in Program mode uses the internal setup to determine the assignments of the
physical controllers--and many other characteristics.
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