Playing Your PC2R
Effects
3-17
Bypassing Effects
Suppose you’re in the recording studio, and the engineers are using their own external effects
processor, or perhaps a global reverb setting for all channels. You want to silence the PC2R’s
effects and/or reverb temporarily (without making permanent changes to the programs or
setups you’re playing during recording. You can quickly bypass either or both of the effects
blocks globally, using the FXA Bypass and FXB Bypass parameters in the FX Routing menu.
1. In any performance mode, press FX, which takes you to the FX Routing menu.
2. Press
Enter
, which displays the Routing parameter for the current program or current
setup zone.
3. Press the
Right
cursor button to display the FXA Bypass parameter.
4. Change the value to
On
.
5. Repeat Steps 3 and 4, if desired, for the FXB Bypass parameter.
6. Press
Cancel
twice to return to the previous performance mode.
Bypassing FX-A or FX-B in any program or zone bypasses the corresponding effect block in
all
programs or zones. When you no longer need to bypass effects, go to the FXA Bypass or
FXB Bypass parameter in
any
program or zone, and set its value to
Off
. This removes the bypass
in
all
programs and zones.
Wet/Dry Mix
Most of the PC2R’s factory programs and setups route the audio signal into FX-A and not
directly into FX-B. In this case, the PC2R automatically routes the signal from the output of FX-A
into FX-B before it goes to the audio outputs. This means that there are three wet/dry variables;
therefore there are three Wet/Dry parameters:
A
Controls how much of FX-A’s effect gets applied to the dry signal coming from
the sound engine
B
Controls how much of FX-B’s effect gets applied to the dry signal coming from the
sound engine.
Global A>B
Controls how much of the processed signal coming from FX-A goes to FX-B and
gets FX-B’s effect applied to it.
In Internal Voices mode, the settings for these three parameters affect every layer in the
program. In MIDI Setups mode, GlobalA>B affects every zone in the setup (and every MIDI
channel), but the settings for A and B are independent in each zone, and on each MIDI channel.
The specialized double-block KB3 effects use a different processing structure; only FX-A is
available when you use these effects. Consequently, both B and Global A>B are inapplicable.
Note
: You can use the KB3 effects for Internal-Voices programs and setups, not just for KB3
programs. If you use a KB3 effect in one of the zones in a setup (or on one of its MIDI channels),
you might want to route the setup’s other zones (or channels) to FX-B. This bypasses the KB3
effect for those zones or channels, since the send to FX-B is inactive. It depends on whether you
want the KB3 effect applied to all the programs in the setup.