Assignable Switch Button - Kurzweil PC1 - MUSICIANS GUIDE REV B Manual

Performance Features
Front Panel
press Store; press the Program button at the Save prompt. See page 3-17
Setup mode
Knobs A–D are also programmable in Setup mode, and like the programmable buttons, they can
do different things in each zone of each setup.

Assignable Switch Button

Program mode
Button SW1 (also labeled Octave Shift) is a convenient way to "transpose" the entire PC1 down
one octave in Program mode. Press SW1 once to activate transposition, and the LED will light.
This causes a "note shift" that for most programs lowers the pitch an octave. What's actually
happening is that the programs get shifted so that each key plays a different MIDI note number
(for example, C4 normally plays Note Number 60, but with octave shift on, it plays Note Number
48). We mention this because in most programs, it seems that you're transposing down an octave.
For non-pitched programs like drums and percussion, however, each sound gets moved an
octave upward (so if you play C4 to play a snare with octave shift off, you'll play C5 to get the
same snare when octave shift is on). Press SW1 again to remove the shift
If you've used the AutoSplit feature to make quick layers and splits, the octave shift transposed
the layers in the lower part of the keyboard (corresponding to the Zone 3 and Zone 4 buttons) up
one octave, and transposes the layers in the upper part of the keyboard (corresponding to the
Zone 1 and Zone 2 buttons) down one octave. This keeps the low notes from being too low, and
the high notes from being too high.
Button SW2 activates or deactivates the chorus and vibrato effects built into many of the organ
voices in Program mode. Button SW2 also has uses in some of the non-organ programs. Check
out Program 96 and listen for the changes in the sound as you switch the button on and off.
Although Buttons SW3 and SW4 aren't in the same region as SW1 and SW2, they work in a
similar manner (they're located near the Pitch Wheel and Mod Wheel). By default, SW3 activates
the arpeggiator when it's on, and deactivates it when it's off. The default setting for SW4 is to
send MIDI Controller 29 with a value of 127 when it's on; it sends MIDI Controller 29 with a
value of 0 when it's off.
Note: The functions of SW1~SW4 in Program mode are defined by the internal setup, but they're
programmable. If you want them to do something else, you can edit the internal setup and change the
buttons' assignments. Keep in mind, however, that this will affect all programs in Program mode.
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