Kurzweil PC3K Series - Chapter 5 Editing Conventions

Editing Conventions
Introduction to Editing
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Chapter 5
Editing Conventions
Introduction to Editing
Programming(editing)thePC3Kalwaysinvolvesthreebasicoperations:modeselection,
navigation,anddataentry.
First,selectthemodethatrelatestotheobjectyouwanttoedit—aprogram,asetup,etc.Then
selecttheobjectyouwanttoedit,and presstheEditbuttontoentertheeditorwithinthat
mode.
Forprograms,setups,songs,andquickaccessbanks,theseobjectsare“selected”whenyouare
onthemainpageoftheircorrespondingmode.InthesecasesyoucanpresstheEditbuttonwith
anythingselectedontheirmainpagetoaccesstheireditor.Oftentherewillbemoreobjects
inside
ofthese“mainpage”editors,suchasshiftpatternsandvelocitypatterns,andtheycanbe
editedbyselectingtheirparameterwiththecursorandpressingtheEditbutton.Aneditor
containsalltheparametersthatdefinetheobjectyou’reprogramming.
Next,younavigatearoundtheeditor’spage(s)withthesoft
buttons,andselectparameterswith
thecursor(arrow)buttons.Whenyou’veselectedaparameter(itsvalueishig hlightedbythe
cursor),youcanchangeitsvaluewithoneofthedataentrymethods.Whenyouchangeavalue,
you’llnormallyhearitseffectontheobjectyou’reediting.ThePC3K
doesn’tactuallywriteyour
editingchangestomemoryuntilyousavetheobjectyou’reworkingon.Itthenallowsyouto
choosebetweenwritingovertheoriginalobject,orstoringthenewlyeditedversioninanew
memorylocation.
What’s an Object?
Ifyou’vebeenwonderingwhatwemeanbytheterm“object,”it’sanexpressionweusefor
anythingthatcanbenamed,saved,deleted,oredited.Here’salistofallthetypesofobjects:
Programs Factory‐presetoruser‐programmedsoundsstoredinROMorflash
memory.Aprogramisoneor
morelayersofsound,withprogrammable
DSPfunctionsappliedtothekeymapswithineachlayer.
Algorithms Factory‐presetoruser‐programmedV.A .S .T.DSPFunctionsstoredin
ROMorflashmemory.AnAlgorithmcontainstheDSPconfigurationand
settingsthatareusedinaprogram.
Setups Factory‐presetoruser‐programmedMIDIperformance
presetsconsisting
ofupto16zones,eachwithitsownprogram,MIDIchannel,and
controllerassignments,and(optionally)arpeggiationspecifications.
Songs Sequencefilesloadedintomemory,orMIDIdatarecordedinSongmode.
Chains Factory‐presetoruser‐programmedconfigurationsofthePC3K’s
onboarddigitalaudioeffectsprocessor.
QuickAccessbanks Factory‐preset
oruser‐programmedbanksoftenentrieseach,thatstore
programsandsetupsforsingle‐buttonaccessinQuickAccessmode.
Intonationmaps Factory‐presetoruser‐programmedpitchoffsetsforeachnoteinall
octaves.Setfrommastermode,intonationmapsareusedtochangethe
PC3K’sintonationinall
modes.