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Programming your PC1
Working With an External Sequencer
Working With an External Sequencer
To state the obvious, you need to have MIDI cables going from the Out of the PC1 to the In of the
sequencer or MIDI interface, and the In of the PC1 hooked to the Out of the sequencer.
Turn Local Control Off!
This is the first thing you need to do when using any keyboard hooked to any external sequencer.
This is to avoid causing a MIDI loop problem. If the Patch Thru function of the sequencer
(sometimes referred to as Soft Thru or Echo) is turned on, the sequencer takes all information
coming into the MIDI In port and sends it back out the MIDI Out port on whatever MIDI channel
is assigned to the currently recording track.
If you don't turn local control off, the note gets played twice - once by the PC1 playing itself and
once by the note going out to the sequencer and coming back. By turning local control off, the
keyboard sends data out the MIDI Out port only, and not to itself. So the signal just goes to the
sequencer and is sent back, and does not get played twice.
Some software sequencers (Cakewalk is one example) will send the Local Control Off message
automatically when you boot up the program. If your program doesn't do this, you'll need to do
it yourself. There are two ways to do it: the global method, and the setup method.
Global Method
1.
Press the Global button
2.
Set the Local Control parameter to Off.
This shuts off every connection between the PC1's sound engine and its keyboard and controllers.
In other words, the PC1 no longer sends any MIDI information to itself. This method is quick, but
you may find the setup method more useful in the long run.
Setup Method
Start from Setup 128 Default Setup. Press Edit, then press Enter to enter the MIDI Xmit menu.
And select a MIDI Channel (it really doesn't matter which one, but Channel 1 is a logical choice).
Press the Right cursor button. Set the Destination to MIDI.
Name and save the setup-you might want to name it something Like Local Off or Seq Control.
Now you have a MIDI-only setup with a single zone-which is equivalent to being in Program
mode with the Local Control parameter turned off.
There are several advantages to the setup method. First of all, the Local Control parameter sets
itself to On each time you power up the PC1. The second reason is that you can edit the MIDI-
only setup to assign controllers to specific values useful for sequencing.
The final reason has to do with selecting programs. A typical way to choose programs for each
recording track is to choose them in your sequencer-by selecting them manually, or by inserting
bank-select and program-change messages in each track.
Many people prefer to make these program changes on the receiving instruments themselves,
which you can do very conveniently on the PC1 using the MIDI Recv menu-but not if you've
used the quick method to turn local control off globally.
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