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Programming Your PC2
Using the PC2 to Control External Slaves
Another example: If the Roland required you send Controller 0 with a value of
81
and Controller
32 with a value of 2, then you would have 81 x 128 + 2 = 10,370. Again, entering
10370
for the
Bank parameter will show both 81/2 and 10370.
Sending Program Changes Only
Imagine that youÕre playing the PC2 and another keyboard at the same time. You want to be able
to change programs on the second keyboard when you change setups on the PC2, so you need
to send MIDI to the second keyboard. You donÕt want to send note information, however, since
youÕre actually playing the second keyboard (and not slaving it from the PC2). You can easily
create a setup that sends program change information, but doesnÕt play notes on the receiving
instrument.
1. Press the
MIDI Setups
button, then
127
, then
Enter
. You have called up
Clear Setup
. Press
Copy
, then
Enter
. You have now copied a zone from this setup into the edit buffer.
2. Press
MIDI Setups
, then
128
, then
Enter
. You have called up
Default Setup
. Press
Copy
,
Press the
>
button. The display should now say
Paste|into|zone|1?
Press the
Zone 2
button, then
Enter
. (The display will say
Zone|pasted
, then revert back to
Paste|into|Zone|2?
)You have now pasted all the parameter values from Zone 1 of
Setup
128
into Zone 2 of Setup
127
.
3. Press the
MIDI Xmit
button. Set the MIDI channels that you want for zones 1 and 2. Press
the
>
button. Set zone 1 to
Local
and zone 2 to
MIDI
.
4. Press the
Program
button and choose the programs that you want for zones 1 and 2.
5. Make sure that the display is on zone 2. Press the
Key Range
button. Press the
>
button
twice to get to the Note Map parameter. Press
0
, then
Enter
to set it to
Off
.
6. Name and save your setup.
Now when you call up the setup, it will send a program change to your second keyboard, but
since the note map for that zone (and therefore MIDI channel) is turned off, no note information
is sent to the external keyboard when you play the PC2.
This procedure is also an example of the Copy and Paste feature. You pasted all the settings and
assignments from the Clear Setup (which has all of its controllers disabled) into the setup you
were editing. This is a quick way to make sure that you donÕt accidentally send controller
information to the second keyboard; if you had copied a zone with controller assignments, those
assignments would affect the second keyboard as well.
You can use this technique to send program changes to any device, like an effects processor or
sequencer. You can also use the same technique for zones assigned to the PC2 itself! LetÕs say
you have two keyboards. On the PC2 keyboard, you want to play an internal program or
programs (up to three). On your external keyboard, you want to play its own sounds and also
play a program from the PC2. But your external keyboard doesnÕt have the abilities the PC2 has
for calling up different programs. So you create a zone in the PC2 setup to call up the internal
sound you want, but set the Note Map for that zone to Off. So when you call up the setup, it
chooses the sound you want to be played from the external keyboard, but the PC2 wonÕt play
that zone.
