Effects - Kurzweil PC88 A Step By Step Manual

PC88 Made Easy
6. Press the Zone 1 button. It shows you that zone 1 has program 17 from the Internal
Voices bank and is assigned to channel 1.
7. Press the Zone 1 button again. Notice that the Zone 1 button turns orange - the zone is
muted. The display also shows a Ò-Ó after the zone number in the display. The mute
function works both when playing and editing a Setup. This can be useful when you are
creating your Setups - you can temporarily mute a zone to hear the others. Press the
Zone 1 button again to unmute the zone.
8. Press the Solo button. The Zone 1 button turns red, showing that zone is soloed. If you
play the keyboard you will only hear the piano. Press the Zone 2 button. It switches to
red and the Zone 1 button to green, soloing the bass sound.

Effects -

This section is very simple. You can select an effects setting for each Program by pressing
the appropriate buttons. Pressing a button repeatedly toggles through the values of that
button. Additional effects parameters are available through the Effects menu in the Zone
parameters section. Those will be covered in Tutorial #12.
There are two basic parameters for Reverb - Room Type and Quality. The first button
choose the Room Type and the second button chooses the Quality. If you press the
Room Type button enough times so that you turn it off, the Quality button will also turn
off (since no reverb is selected). The third button lets you choose Chorus or Delay. You
can have both Reverb and Chorus/ Delay or either one alone.
In Internal Voices mode, each program can have its own effects settings. No special
saving procedure is necessary - the PC88 simply remembers the last setting you chose for
that particular program. This applies to all the programs, including the ones on the VGM
board.
1. Press the Internal Voices button, then 1 on the numeric keypad, then Enter, to choose
the Stage Piano program. Assuming you have not changed the default effects settings,
they will be set to Stage Bright Reverb. If not, switch the values so that they are set to
Stage Bright.
2. Press the Quality button so that it switches from Bright to Normal.
3. Press 3 on the numeric keypad and then Enter, to choose the Digital E. Piano
program. The effects switch to Room Bright Reverb plus Chorus 1.
4. Press 1 on the numeric keypad, then Enter. Notice it returns to Stage Normal, instead
of Stage Bright, its original setting.
In MIDI Setups mode, things are slightly more complicated. In order for the effects
settings to be remembered, you must go through the Store process (which will be covered
in the tutorial section).
Even more important, since there is only one effects processor in the basic PC88, plus
one more on the VGM board, you can only have one or two different effects settings in a
setup. No matter how many zones you have, any zones which use a program from the
Internal Voices bank will have the same settings, and any zones which use a program
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