Master Mode
MIDI Receive (RECV)
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All Notes Off
If this parameter’s value is set to Normal, the PC3LE responds to All Notes Off messages
received over MIDI. Ignore causes these messages to be ignored. If you’re using a Roland
product as a MIDI controller for your PC3LE, you’ll want to set the value of this parameter to
Ignore. This is because some older Roland products occasionally send an All Notes Off message
when no keys are held down—even if you’re sustaining notes with a pedal. You might find all
your sustains missing from your sequence, for example, if you’re driving your PC3LE from one
of Roland’s hardware sequencers. Setting this parameter to Ignore takes care of this problem.
Regardless of the setting for this parameter, the PC3LE always responds to its own Panic button
by shutting off all active notes and controllers.
Program Change Mode (PrgChgMode)
This determines how the PC3LE responds to program change commands received via MIDI. See
Program Change Formats on page 9-21 for an explanation of the various values available for this
parameter.
System Exclusive ID (SysExID)
The SysExID parameter differentiates between more than one MIDI device of the same model.
You won’t need to change the default setting of 0 unless you have multiple PC3LEs (or PC3’s,
K2600s, K2500s, or K2000s) receiving SysEx messages from a single source. In that case, make
sure each instrument has a different SysExID. Then you can direct SysEx messages to the
appropriate PC3LE with the SysExID byte that’s included with every SysEx message. A value of
127 specifies “Omni Receive.” That is, at this value, a PC3LE responds to a SysEx message
regardless of the SysEx ID of the message.
Bank Select
BankSelect allows you to choose between having the PC3LE respond to Controller 0 or
Controller 32 or both. The reason for this is that various manufacturers have chosen one method
or the other. The three possible values for this parameter are:
Ctl 0 Responds to controller 0 only.
Ctl 32 Responds to controller 32 only.
Ctl 0/32 Responds to 0 or 32.
Local Keyboard Channel (LocalKbdCh)
Changing the setting of the Local Keyboard Channel parameter is useful only when your PC3LE
is receiving MIDI information from an external source—maybe you have a favorite MIDI
keyboard that you use to control all the gear in your studio, or you use a lot of outboard
sequencing. If you’re using the PC3LE as a standalone music workstation or performance
keyboard, you can ignore this parameter.
The local keyboard channel enables the PC3LE to receive MIDI information on a single channel,
then rechannelize that information so you can play and control all 16 zones of a setup, even if
your MIDI source transmits on only one channel. When you’re in Program mode, the local
keyboard channel remaps incoming information to the PC3LE’s current channel (the one shown
in the top line of the display.) When using the local keyboard channel all the MIDI information
received on the local keyboard channel also gets sent—after being remapped —to the PC3LE’s
MIDI and USB Out ports.
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