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PC88 Made Easy

1.

 Press the MIDI Transmit Button. The display shows that you are on the MIDI Channel

parameter.

2.

 Press the >> button. You are now on the Destination parameter, which by default is

set to Local+MIDI.

3.

 Press the Ò-Ó button under the alpha wheel. The value changes to MIDI. Rotate the

wheel clockwise. It changes back to Local+MIDI.

Notice that there is an underscore below the letter L in the display. This shows that the
parameter is highlighted. Usually there is only one parameter in the display at a time,
but sometimes there are two.

4.

 Press the KeyRange button. There are two parameters in the display - Low Note and

High Note. Notice the underscore under the C. Press the >> button and you will see the
underscore move under the G.

Zone Select -

The four zone select buttons have two functions. When playing a Setup, they allow you
to mute and unmute zones. When you are editing a Setup, they allow you to switch
between zones for editing. Since the display has only two lines, there is only enough
room to show the value of 1 zone at a time.

1.

 Press the MIDI Setups button, then press 1 on the numeric keypad, then press Enter.

You have called up Setup 001 A Piano Trio. On the bottom line of the display, after
A01, it should say 1:Stage Piano 440. If it doesnÕt, press the Zone 1 button once and you
will see this info. This shows you the Program that is on zone 1.

2.

 Notice that the Zone 1 and Zone 2 buttons are green. This tells you the Setup has 2

zones. If you play the keyboard, you will hear Piano on the right side and Bass+Ride
Cymbal on the left.

3.

 Press the Zone 1 button. It now turns orange. This means that zone is muted. If you

play the keyboard, the right side makes no sound. Press Zone 1 and the button turns
green again and you will hear the piano.

4.

 Press the Zone 2 button. The bottom line of the display now says A01 2:Leg Bass

&Ride, showing you the Program in zone 2.

An important point that can lead to confusion: If a specific zone is NOT currently in the
display, pressing that Zone Select button will bring up that zone in the display. But if
the Zone is already in the display, then pressing the same numbered Zone Select button
will mute it.

5.

 Press the MIDI Transmit button. The top line now shows Zone 2   0:061. When you

are editing any parameter the top line always shows you the current zone, as well as the
bank and program number of the program assigned to that zone (in this case, it is the
Internal Voices bank 0, Program 61 - Legato Bass & Ride. The bottom line says MIDI
Channel:02. showing you zone 2 is assigned to channel 2.

Содержание PC88

Страница 1: ...THE PC88 MADE EASY A Step by Step Guide Includes 27 Different Tutorials Designed For Specific Applications Plus Programming Tips Tricks and Shortcuts by David Fox...

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Страница 3: ...Another With a Pedal 21 10 Switching from One Program to Another with a Pedal 22 11 Switching Banks Programs with a Pedal 23 12 Customizing the Effects Settings 24 13 Transposing a Zone with a Button...

Страница 4: ...SysEx to Store Your Setups 47 27 Trouble Shooting 49 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 50 A Note About the Physical Controllers 50 Some info on the Global Parameters 50 Using the Copy Function 51 Special charact...

Страница 5: ...ons which you can select using the Next Group and Previous Group buttons You can also select a Program by typing its number on the numeric keypad and then pressing Enter Appendix A in the manual lists...

Страница 6: ...numbers 1 16 By using these buttons along with the Previous Group and Next Group buttons you have access to 16 different Setups at a time with only one button press The 16 buttons can then be used to...

Страница 7: ...us Group button until the top line of the display says 1 Internal Voice A01 3 Press the Sound Select 2 Button Press the Previous or Next Group Button until the display says 1 Internal Voice B02 4 Pres...

Страница 8: ...he bottom line of the display after A01 it should say 1 Stage Piano 440 If it doesn t press the Zone 1 button once and you will see this info This shows you the Program that is on zone 1 2 Notice that...

Страница 9: ...since no reverb is selected The third button lets you choose Chorus or Delay You can have both Reverb and Chorus Delay or either one alone In Internal Voices mode each program can have its own effects...

Страница 10: ...C88 will jump to the first parameter for that controller For example hold Controllers and move Slider A The display jumps to Slider A Ctrl Num Pressing the and buttons simultaneously will jump to the...

Страница 11: ...7 to copy parameters from one zone to another or even from one Setup to another The PC88 makes it easy to do this Details on using the Copy function can be found at the end of this document after all...

Страница 12: ...cific location then nothing is copied into the edit buffer and so the data in the edit buffer is whatever was there from the last real Setup For example lets say you start with a PC88 set to factory d...

Страница 13: ...PC88 Made Easy 9 still follow the example using the E F and G buttons in the Assignable Controllers area to do the same thing...

Страница 14: ...re listed at the beginning of this document OR If you want to scroll through the programs in a bank press the button to get to the Bank parameter Use the alpha wheel to choose the bank you want Then p...

Страница 15: ...he way you want it press Enter 9 The PC88 now jumps back to the Store dialog The display will read Replace Setup 127 You don t want to save over the preset Setup 127 since you will want to have it ava...

Страница 16: ...hat is one note lower than the note you chose for the lowest note in zone 1 Play the keyboard You should hear the two sounds split at the notes you chose 5 Notice that if you press the sustain pedal w...

Страница 17: ...2 Slider B Ctrl Num None Press 7 then Enter to assign Slider B to Volume Play the keyboard and move the two sliders You can control the volume of each zone independently 5 Go through steps 8 and 9 in...

Страница 18: ...el 2 Now you want to use the slider to fade the strings out If you move the slider you wouldn t want it to suddenly jump to the current value since the slider is all the way up set to 127 it would jum...

Страница 19: ...problem you can use Exit values 1 Call up the Setup you created in tutorial 4 2 Hold the Controllers button and move Slider A If the display doesn t show Zone 1 press the zone 1 button Press the butt...

Страница 20: ...rols the volume on both zones 2 and 3 But the strings are still as loud as the electric piano 5 a Press the button twice The display now shows Zone 3 Slider B Ctrl Offset 0 Press the button then 37 th...

Страница 21: ...And if you move the slider to the 1 4 point the Offset method would give you 32 37 5 sent as 0 and the Scale method would give you 32 x 71 22 72 sent as 22 values to the right of the decimal point ar...

Страница 22: ...ove the slider up and down You should hear one sound fading into the other 8 Name and save your Setup OK so what is happening Zone 1 works like normal moving the slider up sends volume values from 0 u...

Страница 23: ...me level as when the slider is all the way up or down Try setting both zones to Linear and hold notes while you move the slider and compare that to using the Sine and Cosine curves You should be able...

Страница 24: ...reach a velocity of 80 then it does not play at all 3 Press the Zone 2 button The maximum velocity is set to 127 Press the button to go back to the Vel Min parameter Set it to 81 Play the keyboard wit...

Страница 25: ...with the alpha wheel or enter specific numbers documented in the manual to go directly to them 4a Press the button to get to the On Value parameter Choose a Setup number that you want to jump to from...

Страница 26: ...Momentary Use the alpha wheel to switch the value to Toggle The difference between Momentary and Toggle is A Momentary switch is On while you press it and Off when you let go like a typical sustain p...

Страница 27: ...bank than the program you previously chose for zone 1 Enter the bank number of the bank your new program is in the bank numbers were documented at the beginning of this document The ON Value is now se...

Страница 28: ...cts processor controls all the sounds from the Internal Voices Bank the VGM Effects processor controls all the sounds from the GM Expansion Voices and 64 Note Poly banks This also means that ALL progr...

Страница 29: ...ton twice The first button press selects the zone and the second one unmutes it The button is green again Now we will want to mute the other two zones so we can hear the Electric Piano clearly But ins...

Страница 30: ...ff Ctrl to Transpose Up 5 Press the button Set the Off value to the same amount you chose for the On Value 6 Name and Save your Setup Now play the keyboard then press the E button and play the same no...

Страница 31: ...center 5 Press the button Set the Entry State parameter to On 6 Press the button Set the Exit State parameter to Off 7 Press the Zone 2 button Now repeat steps 2 6 of this tutorial for zone 2 but in S...

Страница 32: ...the Setup panning is returned to normal This way other Setups which use the same MIDI channels won t be panned Of course you might want to have all of your Setups panned in the same manner But by usi...

Страница 33: ...Zone Enable is On and once more to make sure Latch Mode is set to Keys Try playing a single note Notice that it is repeated Try adding more notes As you press them they are added to the arpeggio Let...

Страница 34: ...ich will be affected by the arpeggiator while others can be played regularly Hold Enter and strike the top note on the PC88 to put the arpeggiator back to playing across the keyboard 6 Press the butto...

Страница 35: ...o Last then all of the arpeggiated notes use the velocity of the last note you strike Try playing a 3 note chord softly then striking a fourth note hard all of the notes will now be loud If you then r...

Страница 36: ...s The key to this is to create programs that have no sample assigned to specific notes That way by including those notes in your arpeggiated pattern you can get the equivalent of rests to create more...

Страница 37: ...moved from the arpeggio but the other notes continue to play 4 Turn the G button Off Change the value of the Latch Mode to Add Hold some notes on the keyboard and turn the button on Let go of the keys...

Страница 38: ...time they are NOT added to the arpeggio With Controller 118 On in Pedals mode the arpeggiator works as if it is Overplay mode Let go of Pedal 2 or button E The arpeggiation stops The reason we call th...

Страница 39: ...move the slider up and down The arpeggiated notes increase and decrease in volume The slider controls the velocities used for the notes created by the arpeggiator You could use this effect to fade ar...

Страница 40: ...ton the press 7 times to get to the MIDI In parameter If you set this to Remap then ALL incoming MIDI note messages will be treated as if you played those notes on the keyboard of the PC88 itself The...

Страница 41: ...sounds with external sounds the simplest way to is to set some zones to MIDI to play the external slave and other zones to Local to play the PC88 It is possible to have a zone set to Local MIDI and i...

Страница 42: ...lues for the banks Many Roland keyboards for example use values of 80 or 81 for controller 0 The PC88 actually has a parameter called Bank Mode within the Program menu This allows you to chose either...

Страница 43: ...eric keypad So to figure out which bank number equivalent you need follow this formula MSB x 128 LSB Using the Roland example if they require you send controller 0 with a value of 80 and no value of c...

Страница 44: ...ress 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 external keyb...

Страница 45: ...xternal keyboard doesn t have the abilities the PC88 has for calling up different programs So you create a zone in the PC88 Setup to call up the internal sound you want but set the Note Map for that z...

Страница 46: ...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 2 zone Setup following tutorial 1 Set zone 1 t...

Страница 47: ...Control parameter to Off 2b The second method of turning Local Control Off actually involves creating a very simple Setup Start from Setup 127 Default Setup Press the MIDI Transmit button and select...

Страница 48: ...the sound doesn t actually change to the new sound So in this situation using the second method is better But since with this second method Local Control is not turned off globally when you go to the...

Страница 49: ...ulti record Typically this involves recording to 2 or more tracks simultaneously with each track set to a different channel There are some sequencers which let you multi record to a single track and t...

Страница 50: ...ave to Internal Voices Press Enter and you are done Since there is only one location for the Internal Voices parameters in memory any changes you make using this method will wipe out the defaults that...

Страница 51: ...up to 64k A dump of the entire PC88 memory is larger than 64k So you can t use this method Instead you must dump individual Setups If you need to dump all 128 Setups you can put half of them in one s...

Страница 52: ...dure to make sure everything worked correctly before making massive changes You wouldn t want to delete several months of work only to find out the sysex dump wasn t correctly recorded A simple way to...

Страница 53: ...You will see exactly what type of message it is along with the value of that message For example a note on message will show you the note number along with the attack velocity A controller message wi...

Страница 54: ...ign a switch controller to a MIDI continuous controller number For example you could assign a Slider to the Arpeggiator On Off function controller 116 in the PC88 If the slider is moved to the halfway...

Страница 55: ...tion in the zone parameters will only affect individual zones in a Setup or if changed in Internal Voices mode would affect any program you play on the keyboard but not any information coming in the M...

Страница 56: ...ate Zone button then press the button to get to the Paste parameter then Enter 3b If you want to copy the data to a different controller hold the Controllers button and move the new controller You can...

Страница 57: ...e Internal effects parameters to one of the VGM effects parameters or vice versa Go to Step 4 3b You can also paste the effects into a different Setup Press the MIDI Setups button Select the Setup tha...

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