Using The Arpeggiator With A Sequencer Or External Controller - Kurzweil PC88 A Step By Step Manual

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18. Using the Arpeggiator with a Sequencer or External
Controller
If you are sequencing and create a Setup that uses the Arpeggiator, then the PC88 will
send the actual notes that were generated by the arpeggiator to the sequencer. When you
play back the sequence, it simply sends back those notes and does not actually play the
arpeggiator itself. (For more on using the PC88 with a sequencer, see tutorial #23.)
But if, for some reason, you need to have the sequencer or other external controller send
notes to the arpeggiator itself, you must use the Remap function in the PC88. To do this,
press the Global button, the press >> 7 times to get to the MIDI In parameter. If you set
this to Remap, then ALL incoming MIDI note messages will be treated as if you played
those notes on the keyboard of the PC88 itself.
The MIDI channel info on the incoming data is ignored - it simply takes the note numbers
and sends them to each zone based on the note range settings for that zone - again, it is
the same as playing that note on the keyboard itself. So you probably wouldnÕt want to
send more than one channel of MIDI information from an external controller, since the
note messages will get mixed together.
Another thing to be aware of is that all controller messages will be sent to all zones. So,
for example, if you have a Setup with zones assigned to channels 1, 2, 3, & 4, then a
sustain message coming in would be sent to all four MIDI channels.