Setups and Zones
Selecting Parameters
4-2
PC
88
there is any) in the current Zone. Even though we are looking at only one Zone, we are hearing
four instruments simultaneously, and so the sound coming from the PC88 is much thicker than
weÕve heard previously. The Zone buttons 1, 2, 3, and 4 are all lit green, showing they are all
playing.
Selecting Parameters
The Voice, or program, assigned to a Zone is just one of its parameters. LetÕs look at some of the
others. Press
MIDI Transmit
. The upper half of the display shows the Zone number, the bank
number, and the program number Ñ this information is almost always there when you're
editing zone parameters. The lower half of the display shows the MIDI channel that the Zone
will transmit on: 1.
There are other MIDI parameters available on this menu, which are accessed by pressing the
right cursor (
>>>
) button. The Þrst parameter you come across is the ÒdestinationÓ of the notes
played in the Zone: do they play the sounds within the PC88 (ÒLocalÓ), or do they go out the
MIDI jack (ÒMIDIÓ), or both. The next parameters accessed by the cursor button are Pitch Bend
range, coarse and Þne. You can get back to the Þrst parameter by scrolling with the left cursor
(
<<<
) button, or by pressing
MIDI Transmit
again Ñ pressing a Zone Parameter button always
gets you to the Þrst item on its menu.
Another menu of parameters is accessed by pressing the
Program
button under Zone
Parameters. The Þrst parameter you see is the Voice assigned to the Zone, with its name and
number. Press the
left
cursor button (
<<<
) and you can select the bank that the Voice belongs to.
If you have the VGM board installed, you can use any sounds in Banks 1, 2, or 3 in a Zone Ñ
not just the Internal Voices from Bank 0.
You can also access an empty bank (or Voice): doing this means that the Zone will not produce
any sound on the PC88, but it will still send a bank and program number, as well as notes and
controllers, to an external MIDI synthesizer whose receive channel matches this ZoneÕs.
Key Range
accesses three parameters;
Transposition
only a single parameter; and
Velocity
, as
weÕve seen earlier, Þve parameters.
Controllers
accesses many parameters. All of these are
detailed in Chapter 5.
Selecting Zones
When you are looking at a parameter, you can look at the same parameter in another zone by
pressing its button Ñ
Zone 2
,
Zone 3
, or
Zone 4
. When you press a Zone button, that Zone
becomes the Òcurrent ZoneÓ. This will happen even if the selected Zone is off. If a Zone is off, its
button will be unlit.
Go back to an active Zone by pressing its button. Now press it again. When you press the
button of a Zone thatÕs already current, it turns orange, and the sound of the Zone is muted.
The display shows a Ò-Ó next to the zone number, indicating it is silent. Press the same Zone
button again (once), and it un-mutes. To mute a different Zone, press its button
twice
: once to
make it current and once to mute it. You can have any combination of Zones muted or active at
any time.
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Setup ID
number
Setup
name
Current Zone’s number
Setup
group & button
& Program name
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