Playing Your PC2R
Saving the Internal Setup
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The AutoSplit Feature
Muting and soloing are slightly different depending on whether the AutoSplit feature is on.
When it’s on, a soloed zone expands to cover the entire MIDI note range—it doesn’t matter what
the settings are for the AutoSplit key or for the zones low and high notes (key range). Similarly,
if you mute both of the zones above the AutoSplit key, the zones below the AutoSplit key
expand to cover the entire MIDI note range. And vice versa. This is great for performance
situations, because you can use the full range of your MIDI source no matter which zone(s)
you’re using.
When AutoSplit is off, soloed zones remain within the limits defined by the setup. Likewise,
unmuted zones stay within their limits if you mute both of the zones on the other side of the
split point. This silences part of the MIDI note range.
By default, AutoSplit is on in the internal setup, enabling you to make quick layers and splits at
any time when you’re in Internal Voices mode (we recommend that you leave it this way). All of
the factory setups have AutoSplit turned
off
, and when you save a quick layer or split, the
resulting setup also has AutoSplit turned off. You can turn it back on for any setup, however, as
described on page 4-31.
There’s one more thing to remember about AutoSplit. When you make a quick layer or split,
you’re in a kind of transition between Internal Voices mode and MIDI Setups mode. You start off
in Internal Voices mode, but as soon as you press one of the zone buttons, the MIDI Setups
button lights up and the Internal Voices button becomes unlit. As long as you stay in this quick-
layer-and-split semi-mode, you can mute and unmute each zone with a single button press; you
don’t have to make the zone current first. It’s a nice performance feature.
Once you save your quick layer or split, it becomes a regular setup, with AutoSplit turned off.
Even if you turn it back on (to make soloed and unmuted zones expand across the entire MIDI
note range), you’re no longer in the special quick-layer-and-split mode when you’re playing the
setup—you’re in regular MIDI Setups mode. Consequently, you have to make a zone current
before you can mute or unmute it.
Saving the Internal Setup
It’s quite common to start out in Internal Voices mode then make a change that switches you to
MIDI Setups mode—for example, when you make a quick layer or split, then change the
AutoSplit point. At this point you have three options:
•
Select another setup or move to another performance mode, without preserving your
changes
•
Store the changes in a new setup (or replace an existing one)
•
Save the changes to the internal setup
