Programming your PC1
The Setup Editor
4-14
Assigning Entry Values
Suppose you have a setup with an effect whose Wet/Dry mix is controlled by a knob on your PC1.
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.
Hold the
Global
button, and turn Knob
A
. You’ll see the Ctrl Num parameter for Knob
A
.
4.
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
9
5
(about 3/4 of the full range
of
0
–
127
).
5.
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 95 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 PC1 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-string setup 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.
Setting Exit Values
Suppose that you’re using Setup
132
in a performance, and you finish a tune by fading out the
chorus with Knob
A
. Its MIDI Controller value is now 0, and will stay at 0 until you turn the
knob again (or until something else changes the value).
