PC88 Made Easy
TUTORIALS
Intro
These tutorials have been designed to start simply and increase in complexity. To avoid
a great deal of duplication, later tutorials will refer to steps from previous tutorials.
Editing from the Default Setup:
All of the tutorials start from the Setup 127, the Default Setup. One thing you want to
be careful of - if you start from an existing Setup and make changes, some of the
parameters from that original Setup may be set to do specific things, which will affect
what you are trying to do. A good example of this is Setup #1. It has the ÒFÓ button
assigned to a GoTo Program function in zone 1. If you edit Setup #1 and change the
program for zone 1 under the Program button, it will appear that your change doesnÕt
work correctly after you save your Setup. What is happening is that the ÒFÓ button
control function overrides the setting of the Program parameter.
For this reason, it is usually easier to start with the Default Setup. If you do start with
one of the preset Setups, please be sure to look in Appendix E of the manual to see the
controller assignments for that Setup.
Another thing to be aware of - whenever you call up a Setup, the PC88 copies all of the
parameter values into an edit buffer. Any changes you make are made in that edit
buffer, and the changes donÕt go into memory until you Store that Setup. If no Setup
exists at a specific location, then nothing is copied into the edit buffer, and so the data
in the edit buffer is whatever was there from the last real Setup.
For example, lets say you start with a PC88 set to factory defaults (no user Setups
saved in memory). Now you call up Setup 1. All the parameters from Setups 1 are
placed in the edit buffer. Next you call up Setup #67. But there is no Setup #67 yet in
the instrument, so the display says ÒNot FoundÓ. Since nothing existed there, the values
from Setup #1 are still in the edit buffer and if you start editing those values will be
there unless you change them. As you can imagine, this can lead to confusion.
So again, the best way to create your own Setup is to either start with Setup 127, or
start with another existing Setup if you know how its parameters are set and want to
make use of those settings.
There are actually two possible Setups you can start with. Setup 127 Default Setup has
some of the controllers set to default settings for all 4 zones. For example, the Switch
Pedal 1 is set to Sustain and the wheels are set to Mod Wheel and Pitch Bend. Other
controllers are unassigned. Setup 128 A Clear Setup has ALL of the controllers
unassigned. Typically it is easier to start with Setup 127, since you will normally want
those basic controllers set to their default values.
The following tutorials assume you have a switch pedal plugged into the Switch Pedal 1
jack (for Sustain). Some of these tutorials also require that you have a second switch
pedal plugged in to the Switch Pedal 2 jack. If you donÕt have a second pedal, you can
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