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Playing Your PC2R
Overview
Overview
We’ll start by explaining how the PC2R is organized. In this overview we’ll discuss modes,
programs and setups (and how they’re organized), objects, banks, and something called the Internal
Setup. (described on page 4-14) We’ll also briefly mention EQ (equalization) and effects.
Modes
The PC2R has six modes. Each mode provides a different set of functions. You’ll choose modes
depending on what you want to do with the PC2R. There are two kinds of modes: performance
modes for playing sounds, and edit modes for programming them.
The three main performance modes are Internal Voices mode, KB3 mode, and MIDI Setups
mode. You’ll use one of these modes whenever you’re playing your PC2R. Each mode organizes
sounds into programs or setups, which we’ll describe below. Select a performance mode by
pressing the corresponding button in the Modes region at the right side of the front panel.
Each of the performance modes has its own editor, where you can make changes to individual
programs and setups.
There are also three special modes for programming effects, making channel-by-channel control
assignments, and configuring the whole PC2R.
Performance Modes
Internal Voices (Programs)
Internal Voices mode lets you play one internal voice (program) at a time. A program consists of
one or more sounds (like piano or strings), and the settings (parameters) that affect those
sounds—for example, the highest and lowest notes for a particular sound. The PC2R starts in
Internal Voices mode the first time you turn it on (after that, it starts in the performance mode
you were in when you turned it off). See Program Structure on page 4-12 for more information
about what’s in a program.
KB3 Mode (KB3 Programs)
In KB3 mode, the PC2R uses a different synthesizer technique (tone wheel emulation) to
reproduce the sound of classic tone-wheel organs (like the Hammond B-3). In most other
respects, KB3 mode is like Internal Voices mode. See KB3 Program Structure on page 4-15 for
details.
MIDI Setups Mode (Setups)
MIDI Setups mode is what makes the PC2R such a flexible MIDI rack unit. In this mode you
play setups instead of programs. Each setup can play up to four different programs, each on its
own MIDI channel. See Setup Structure on page 4-16 for more information.
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