User manual KURZWEIL PC88 MUSICIANS GUIDE REV C

[. . . ] PC88 Musician's Guide 1997 All rights reserved. Kurzweil is a product line of Young Chang Co. ; Kurzweil, PC88, and VGM are trademarks of Young Chang Co. All other products and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Product features and specications are subject to change without notice. Part Number: 910243 Rev. [. . . ] Musician's Guide 5-5 Zone Parameters Key Range Program Name Display The nal parameter under Program is PNameDisp, which determines how the program name will be shown in the display when you select the Zone but like PNumDisp has no effect on anything else, either the choice of program or the outgoing MIDI data. If you set this to Internal Voices, the program name will show up as the name of the current PC88 sound from the Internal Voices bank or (if there is one) the VGM board. A program for which there is no internal sound (for example, in an empty bank) will be called External Prog. If Dest (MIDI Transmit Menu) is set to MIDI, then the display will read External Prog. Set it to General MIDI, and the PC88s display will show the General MIDI program list (the VGM board does not have to be installed for this. ) This is helpful if you are driving an external General MIDI synth and would like to see those names displayed. Set it to Off and the display says External Prog for all programs. Use this setting if you are using neither the internal sounds nor a General MIDI synth, to avoid possible confusion. Key Range Parameter Low: Hi: Note Map: C-1 to G9 C-1 to G9 Off, Linear, 1 of 2, 2 of 2, 1 of 3, 2 of 3, 3 of 3, 1 of 4, 2 of 4, 3 of 4, 4 of 4, Invrs, Const Values Low, Hi There are three parameters under the Key Range button. The rst two, both of which appear on the initial display, set the lower and upper note limits of the Zone. Use the cursor buttons to move between the low and high settings. Intuitive entry is useful here: after youve chosen which limit to set, press and hold Enter and hit the note you want. You can create negative ranges by setting the high limit lower than the low limit. This results in the Zone being active at the top and bottom of the keyboard, but being silent in the range between the two limits. This lets you create a layer with a hole in the middle, which you can then ll with a different sound on another zone (either internal or on an external synth). Note Map Note Map lets you change the way notes are sent from the PC88, which can be useful in a number of situations. The default setting is Linear: all notes go out as played. Moving decrementally takes you to Off: no notes are sent, but controllers and other non-note data are. Moving back up takes you through the alternating maps, which well skip over for just a second. After them comes Inverse, which turns the keyboard upside-down, with the highest key being A 0 and the lowest C 9. Finally, if you set it to Constant (Const) all of the keys on the keyboard will play the same note. The note defaults to C4, but you can change this with the Transpose parameter. 5-6 PC88 Zone Parameters Transpose Alternating Maps Alternating maps can be used when you are addressing multiple synthesizers that can play the same sound, to increase the apparent polyphony of your system. An obvious use of alternating note maps is with the 64-Note Poly instruments on the VGM board. The instruments in this Bank are exact duplicates of some of the sounds in the Internal Voices bank. By assigning all of the odd-numbered notes to the Internal Voices, and all of the even-numbered notes to the duplicates on the VGM board (which have the same names, preceded by v), you can achieve 64-voice polyphony within the PC88. [. . . ] When power is re-applied, the non-volatile memory will be reset. Press the >>> button, which will enter diagnostics. Note that some diagnostic tests destroy the RAM; therefore, anything stored in the non-volatile memory will be lost!This is the only way to guarantee that user sounds and setups stored in the non-volatile RAM will be retained. Running the Debug Sequence If you pressed the >>> button in step 2 above, the following will appear in the display: Menu CPU Test Before continuing, set the PC88s volume slider to its minimum setting. [. . . ]