Playing Your PC2R
Muting and Soloing
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Changing the AutoSplit Key this way is a performance feature only; as soon as you leave your
current performance mode, the change is lost. You
can
save it, however. Read on.
Saving the AutoSplit Key
If you’re in MIDI Setups mode, just save the setup, as described in
Saving Quick Layers and Splits
above. If you want to save the AutoSplit Key to the internal setup, follow the procedure
described in
Saving the Internal Setup
on page 3-23.
Muting and Soloing
Setups can give you a nice thick sound, with a different program in each of the four setup zones
(you can arrange the zones so that they all play in different note ranges, or you can have them all
overlap). You can make your setups even more versatile by muting or soloing zones, changing
the sound by pressing a single button on the PC2R’s front panel.
In MIDI Setups mode, the four zone buttons select, mute, and unmute the zones in a setup. This
differs from turning the zones on and off, which is done with the MIDI Channel parameter in
the MIDI Xmit menu.
The
Solo
button turns on the solo feature, in which case the zone buttons select the
corresponding zone for soloing.
Zones that aren’t playing (either because they’re muted or because another zone is being soloed)
are silent on the PC2R, but they still generate MIDI information.
Muting
You can mute any or all zones in a setup. Muting one zone has no effect on the other zones. To
mute (or unmute) a zone, it must be the current zone (the bottom line of the display shows the
number of the current zone, followed by the name of the program assigned to that zone). When
a zone is current, each press of its zone button toggles between muting and unmuting. If a zone
is not the current zone, press its zone button
twice
to mute or unmute the zone (the first press
makes the zone current, then each subsequent press toggles between muting and unmuting).
Soloing
Not surprisingly, you can solo only one zone at a time, and that’s the only zone you’ll hear,
regardless of the status of the other zones. When you press the
Solo
button, whatever zone was
current at the time becomes the soloed zone (the LED in its zone button turns red). Once the
Solo
button is on, pressing any zone button once solos that zone.