Tutorials: Setup Mode
Basics Of Using Riffs
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7. On the RIFF1 page, the Riff field will be selected. Press the + button below the Alpha Wheel to turn
on the riff for the current zone (zone 5.) When the riff has been turned on, you will see the riff
options appear on the riff 1 page. (see below.)
8. Use the cursor buttons to highlight the Song field. Here you can pick one of the songs saved on
your PC3LE to use as a riff for this zone. Use the alphanumeric pad to enter 115, then press the
Enter button. This will select the song 115 Jazz (see below.)
9. At this point, playing any of the keyboard keys will trigger the riff, and the riff doesn’t sound good
because it is playing multiple tracks and triggering multiple zones, not just the horn program on
zone 5. First lets make the riff trigger only zone 5, and later we will make the riff trigger only from
a pad. Use the cursor buttons to select the SrcTrack field, then use the Alpha Wheel or - / + buttons
to select 2 for the source track (see below.) Now playing any key should trigger a horn riff.
Why did we set the source track to track 2? If you were to look at the song 115 Jazz in the
PC3LE’s Song mode, you would see a two track song that has drums on channel 1, and bass on
channel 2. For this tutorial, we are using the MIDI data from track 2 of that song to play the
notes of our horn riff. When adding riffs to your own setups later, you can use any song (factory
or user created) and any track from that song to use as a riff, though usually it works best if the
track in your song originally used the same or similar instrument program as the one you will
use for the riff.
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