Assigning Entry Values; A Few Important Points About Entry Values - Kurzweil PC2R Musician's Manual

Assigning Entry Values

Suppose you have a setup with an effect whose wet/dry mix is controlled by a knob on your
PC2R. You want to make sure it's active when you start playing the setup. Entry values are a
convenient way to specify initial settings for any controller. We'll edit KnobFX, and set an entry
level for Knob A in Zone 1 so that the wet/dry mix of the reverb is at about 75% as soon as we
select the setup.
1. Start with Setup 131 KnobFX. Make Zone 1 active, if it isn't already.
2. Press Edit.
3. Press Shift one or more times, if necessary, to make the Shift LED green.
4. Hold the Global button, and turn Knob A. You'll see the Ctrl Num parameter for
Green Knob A.
5. Press the Right cursor button until you see the Entry Value parameter in the bottom line
of the display. Use the Alpha Wheel to change its value to 85 (about 3/4 of the full range of
0–127).
6. Save the setup as 132 EntryFX.

A Few Important Points About Entry Values

Crossing the Entry Value
Suppose that Knob A happens to be all the way to the right when you select Setup 132. Wet/dry
mix is now at 85 on Channel 1. Now you want to use the Knob A to fade the chorus out. If you
move the knob, you don't want it to suddenly jump to the current value; since the knob is all the
way up (sending a MIDI Controller message with a value of 127), it would jump to 126 the
moment you moved the knob down, and the chorus would suddenly get much wetter.
To avoid this problem, the PC2R is designed so that once you set an entry value for a physical
controller, it won't become active until you pass the point of the entry value. So as you turn
Knob A to the left for Setup 132, nothing happens until you reach 85. At that point, the knob
takes effect, giving you a smooth fade.
Avoiding Extra Controller Motion
Now suppose you want to have a piano-and-strings setups like Setup 132, but you don't want to
hear the chorus at all when you select the setup. Instead, you want to bring it in later. To do this,
you could set the entry value for Knob A in Zone 1 to 0.
Imagine that the knob is all the way to the left when you first call up the setup. Remember that
the knob must go past the entry value before it becomes active. In this example the entry value
is 0 and the current MIDI Controller value sent by the knob is 0 (minimum). When you move the
knob up, the MIDI Controller value goes to 1, and therefore hasn't crossed the entry value, and
therefore nothing happens as you continue to turn the knob. You'd have to turn the knob to the
right slightly, then back to the left so that it goes to MIDI Controller value 0, then the next time
you turn it to the right, the knob will be active. To avoid having to turn the knob right, left, and
right again, set the entry value to a very low number other than 0, such as 5. The value is so low
that you won't hear the reverb, but as you turn the knob to the right the first time, it will go past
value 5 and become active.
Programming Your PC2R
The Setup Editor
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