Setup, Connections, and Controls
Front Panel Controls
Musician’s Guide
2-5
Once a Zone is selected, its button acts as a mute/unmute toggle. Press it once and it turns
orange, and mutes. Press it again, and it un-mutes, becoming active and turning green.
The
Solo
button to the right of the
Zone
buttons mutes all zones except the current one. The
button of the zone being soloed will glow red.
Zone Parameters
Moving to the top of the panel, we Þnd 12 buttons. The Þrst row of six are for accessing
parameters within each of the four zones of a Setup, while the ones in the bottom row are for
dealing with Setup parameters, global settings, and memory functions. Each of these buttons
opens up a list, or ÒmenuÓ of parameters. Some of the menus are very short Ñ as short as a
single item Ñ while others have several dozen parameters.
Chapters 4 and 5 have complete descriptions of using zones and zone parameters, so for now
weÕll give a brief summary of these menus.
MIDI Transmit
determines the MIDI channel the zone will send on, as well as the
ÒdestinationÓ of the played data: whether it goes to the internal sounds and/or the MIDI Out
jack. Also, the pitchbend range of the ZoneÕs destination channel is set here.
Program
selects what voice, or program, will be used in the zone. It also lets you determine
whether a MIDI program change will be sent when the setup is called up; whether a MIDI Bank
Select message will be sent and what form it takes; and how program numbers and names will
be displayed for the voice assigned to the zone.
Key Range
sets the high and low limits for the zone. It also lets you set up ÒmapsÓ for sending
alternately-played notes to different zones. This is important when you are using the special
Ò64-Note PolyÓ bank on the VGM board. It can also be used when you are driving multiple
similar instruments and want to have them handle the same data, but in such a way that their
polyphonic capabilities complement each other and add up.
Transpose
changes the pitch of the zone up or down, up to 127 semitones.
Velocity
opens a large menu with parameters relating to how the keyboard generates velocity
information. You can adjust velocity scaling from none Ñ the same velocity value is always
sent Ñ to three times normal, to three times normal but upside-down. You can also set the
curve used for the scaling, the offset from normal, and minimum and maximum values.
Controllers
opens the largest menu. These parameters determine how the PC88Õs
physical
controllers Ñ the wheels, sliders, pressure, pedals, and programmable buttonsÑwork. In
addition to specifying which
MIDI
controller (or other performance parameter, like pitchbend)
is sent, this menu also determines for each controller scaling, curves, offsets, and the values that
the controller will send Ñ if any Ñ when you enter or leave the setup.
The
Controllers
button has its own special ÒIntuitive EntryÓ mode, which weÕll explain a little
later in this chapter.
The buttons on the second row are not Zone-speciÞc, but are considered ÒGlobalÓ. Chapters 5
through 9 describe these buttons completely.
Arpeggiator Effects MIDI Receive Global Copy Store
ControllersVelocityTransposeKey RangeProgramMIDI Transmit
ParametersoneZ
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