User manual KURZWEIL PC88 MUSICIANS GUIDE REV C

[. . . ] Kurzweil is a product line of Young Chang Co. ; Kurzweil, PC88, and VGM are trademarks of Young Chang Co. All other products and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Product features and specications are subject to change without notice. Part Number: 910243 Rev. C INSTRUCTIONS PERTAINING TO A RISK OF FIRE, ELECTRIC SHOCK, OR INJURY TO PERSONS IMPORTANT SAFETY AND INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS WARNING - When using electronic products, basic precautions should always be followed. [. . . ] PC88 program numbers over 99 are not sent. Program Number Display PNumDisp is useful because different MIDI instruments and sequencers refer to program numbers differently another ambiguity in the MIDI Spec. Still others arrange them in groups of 8, with the rst digit (or a letter) denoting the group, and the second digit denoting the number within the group. This parameter allows you to display the program numbers on the PC88 so that they agree with the way your receiving instruments display them. It changes nothing in the outgoing MIDI data: its merely a convenience to you, so that you arent constantly adding or subtracting 1 or doing base-8 arithmetic to gure out how to get to specic sounds on your other synths. Whenever a program is displayed for this Zone, its number will follow the format you choose here. The choices are: 0-127 for those devices that believe life starts at zero 1-128 for those who start at one 11-88 for instruments that use this scheme (primarily Roland) A1-H8 for other instruments that like this way of doing things When using this last format, dont get confused with the Internal Voice modes Groups: they each contain 16 programs, not 8. Musician's Guide 5-5 Zone Parameters Key Range Program Name Display The nal parameter under Program is PNameDisp, which determines how the program name will be shown in the display when you select the Zone but like PNumDisp has no effect on anything else, either the choice of program or the outgoing MIDI data. If you set this to Internal Voices, the program name will show up as the name of the current PC88 sound from the Internal Voices bank or (if there is one) the VGM board. A program for which there is no internal sound (for example, in an empty bank) will be called External Prog. If Dest (MIDI Transmit Menu) is set to MIDI, then the display will read External Prog. Set it to General MIDI, and the PC88s display will show the General MIDI program list (the VGM board does not have to be installed for this. ) This is helpful if you are driving an external General MIDI synth and would like to see those names displayed. Use this setting if you are using neither the internal sounds nor a General MIDI synth, to avoid possible confusion. Key Range Parameter Low: Hi: Note Map: C-1 to G9 C-1 to G9 Off, Linear, 1 of 2, 2 of 2, 1 of 3, 2 of 3, 3 of 3, 1 of 4, 2 of 4, 3 of 4, 4 of 4, Invrs, Const Values Low, Hi There are three parameters under the Key Range button. The rst two, both of which appear on the initial display, set the lower and upper note limits of the Zone. Intuitive entry is useful here: after youve chosen which limit to set, press and hold Enter and hit the note you want. You can create negative ranges by setting the high limit lower than the low limit. This results in the Zone being active at the top and bottom of the keyboard, but being silent in the range between the two limits. This lets you create a layer with a hole in the middle, which you can then ll with a different sound on another zone (either internal or on an external synth). Note Map Note Map lets you change the way notes are sent from the PC88, which can be useful in a number of situations. Moving decrementally takes you to Off: no notes are sent, but controllers and other non-note data are. Moving back up takes you through the alternating maps, which well skip over for just a second. After them comes Inverse, which turns the keyboard upside-down, with the highest key being A 0 and the lowest C 9. Finally, if you set it to Constant (Const) all of the keys on the keyboard will play the same note. The note defaults to C4, but you can change this with the Transpose parameter. 5-6 PC88 Zone Parameters Transpose Alternating Maps Alternating maps can be used when you are addressing multiple synthesizers that can play the same sound, to increase the apparent polyphony of your system. [. . . ] Puts instrument in Mono mode, in which only one note can play per channel. Puts instrument in Poly mode, in which multiple notes can play per channel (the usual way things are done!) F-6 PC88 PC88 Internal Diagnostics Appendix G PC88 Internal Diagnostics This appendix contains instructions on (1) how to use the PC88s internal diagnostics to test the unit and (2) how to perform a hard reset. Be sure to read all of the following instructions before using the diagnostics. Otherwise, damage to external equipment may occur. Entering Diagnostics To start the PC88 diagnostics, power up the unit while simultaneously holding the 1, 2, and 3 buttons. [. . . ]