Programming Your PC2
Working With an External Sequencer
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Preventing Program Changes on Slaves
This is the opposite of the previous tutorial. What if you have an external module or keyboard
that you want to play from the PC2, but you donÕt want to send program changes to it? (Maybe
you want to leave that module always on the same sound, or you want the ability to choose the
sounds directly from the front panel of that external module or keyboard).
1. Create a two-zone setup. Set Zone 1 to
Local
and Zone 2 to
MIDI
.
2. Make sure the display is on Zone 2. Press the
Program
button. Press the
>
button.
3. Set the Entry Transmit parameter to a value of
Off
.
4. Name and save this setup. Now when you call up the setup, it wonÕt send any program
changes to your slave, but the note and controller info will still be sent.
Working With an External Sequencer
To state the obvious, you need to have MIDI cables going from the Out of the PC2 to the In of the
sequencer or MIDI interface, and the In of the PC2 hooked to the Out of the sequencer.
Turn Local Control Off!
This is the Þrst thing you need to do when using
any
keyboard hooked to
any
external sequencer.
This is to avoid causing a MIDI loop problem. If the Patch Thru function of the sequencer
(sometimes referred to as Soft Thru or Echo) is turned on, the sequencer takes all information
coming into the MIDI In port and sends it back out the MIDI Out port on whatever MIDI
channel is assigned to the currently recording track.
If you donÕt turn local control off, the note gets played twiceÑonce by the PC2 playing itself and
once by the note going out to the sequencer and coming back. By turning local control off, the
keyboard sends data out the MIDI Out port only, and not to itself. So the signal just goes to the
sequencer and is sent back, and does not get played twice.
Some software sequencers (Cakewalk is one example) will send the Local Control Off message
automatically when you boot up the program. If your program doesnÕt do this, youÕll need to do
it yourself. there are two ways to do it: the global method, and the setup method.
Global Method
1. Press the
Global
button
2. Set the Local Control parameter to
Off
.
This shuts off every connection between the PC2Õs sound engine and its keyboard and
controllers. In other words, the PC2 no longer sends any MIDI information to itself. This method
is quick, but you may Þnd the setup method more useful in the long run.
Setup Method
Start from Setup
128 Default Setup
. Press the
MIDI Xmit
button and select a MIDI Channel (it
really doesnÕt matter which one, but Channel 1 is a logical choice). Press the
>
button. Set the
Destination to
MIDI
.
