General Midi Features - Kurzweil PC1 - MUSICIANS GUIDE REV B Manual

Midi performance controller

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Performance Feature

General MIDI Features

Once you save your quick layer or split, it becomes a regular setup, with AutoSplit turned off.

Even if you turn it back on (to make soloed and unmuted zones expand across the entire

keyboard), you're no longer in the special quick-layer-and-split mode when you're playing the

setup--you're in regular Setup mode. Consequently, you have to make a zone current before you

can mute or unmute it.

When you have downloaded MIDI files and want the PC1 to play them from an external

sequencer, you may hear different sounds from what you expected. It is likely that those files are

intended for General MIDI instruments. General MIDI is a convention for a standard set of

sounds located at specific program numbers, a standard drum note layout, and a standard

velocity response and effects curve. The PC1 has a special GM bank to support General MIDI,

and the programs in the GM bank are intended for that.

There is a parameter to control the PC1's GM functions. You can find it in the Global menu. If you

set it to On, the PC1 locks all MIDI channels (except Channel 10, the Drum channel) to play

programs in the GM Bank (Bank 4). Channel 10 plays programs in Bank 7; these are the drum

programs. Also the velocity response and FX scales are reconfigured to match the GM

specification.

Note: If General MIDI is On, other banks can't be selected from the front panel or external program change

message. To select programs in other banks, you must turn General MIDI off.

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