Kurzweil Flash Play PC4, Musician'S Manual

Page 1: ... It s the sound Part Number 910587 002 Rev B ...

Page 2: ... the product should be unplugged from the outlet when left unused for a long period of time When unplugging the power supply cord do not pull on the cord but grasp it by the plug 11 Care should be taken so that objects do not fall and liquids are not spilled into the enclosure through openings 12 The product should be serviced by qualified service personnel when A The power supply cord or the plug...

Page 3: ... to qualified service personnel Servicing is required when the apparatus has been damaged in any way such as power supply cord or plug is damaged liquid has been spilled or objects have fallen into the apparatus the apparatus has been exposed to rain or moisture does not operate normally or has been dropped Warning To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock do not expose this apparatus to rain o...

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Page 5: ...ton Presses 1 16 Program Mode 2 1 Selecting Programs 2 1 Program Demo 2 2 The Display 2 3 Controllers 2 4 The Split and Layer Soft Buttons 2 5 Changing the MIDI Channel 2 8 Panic 2 8 Save User Programs 2 9 Program Edit Mode 3 1 Program Types 3 1 Editing VAST Programs 3 2 Navigation 3 4 The PARAMS Page 3 6 The FX Page 3 13 The Layer FX LYR FX Page 3 16 The COMMON Page 3 17 The Arpeggiator ARP Page ...

Page 6: ...73 Editing FM Layers 3 81 FM MAIN Page 3 81 FM Operator Page 3 84 FM Layer Page 3 90 FM Amp Output Page 3 95 FM Alt Input Page 3 98 Editing KB3 Programs 3 105 KB3 Editor Navigation 3 107 KB3 Editor The Parameters PARAMS Page 3 107 KB3 Editor The Program FX FX Page 3 107 KB3 Editor The COMMON Page 3 107 KB3 Editor The Drawbars DRAWBAR Page 3 109 KB3 Editor The Tone Wheels TONEWL Page 3 110 KB3 Edit...

Page 7: ...ap 5 8 Editing Samples 5 10 Multi Mode 6 1 Selecting Multis 6 1 The Display 6 2 Controllers 6 3 The Split and Layer Soft Buttons 6 6 Save User Multis 6 9 Recording A Multi To Song Mode 6 11 Multi Edit Mode 7 1 Navigation 7 1 OVERVIEW Page 7 3 MAIN Page 7 5 CONTROLS Page 7 13 FX Page 7 27 ARP Page 7 29 CC Sequencer CC SEQ Page 7 30 RIFF Page 7 31 COMMON Page 7 40 Audio In FX AUDIO IN Page 7 41 The ...

Page 8: ...ge 8 22 The TRACK Page 8 23 The EVENT Page 8 36 Global Mode 9 1 About Global Mode 9 1 MAIN1 Page 9 1 MAIN2 Page 9 8 FX Master FX Page 9 15 FILE Storage Page 9 16 MIDI Page 9 22 OBJECTS Page 9 26 SAMPLES 9 27 MIXER 9 28 TEMPO 9 29 INFO 9 29 TOOLS Page 9 30 RESET Page 9 32 Troubleshooting 10 1 Maintenance 10 1 Common Problems 10 1 MIDI Problems 10 5 Pedal Problems 10 6 Other Problems 10 6 ...

Page 9: ... ix MIDI Implementation A 1 Specifications B 1 Index I 1 ...

Page 10: ...le memory for loading samples from WAV AIF P3K and K series files KB3 ToneReal organ simulations with 9 sliders as drawbars KSR Kurzweil String Resonance piano string resonance simulation FM Classic 6 operator FM synthesis Half Damper pedal support for piano half pedaling sustain techniques Kurzweil s highly acclaimed VAST Synthesis and FX engine More than 1000 Factory Programs divided into 13 Cat...

Page 11: ... Two switch pedal jacks are typically used to control two state i e on off parameters such as sustain sostenuto and soft pedal A Half Damper pedal also known as a continuous switch pedal can be used to allow for half pedaling sustain techniques when playing PC4 piano programs Each jack also supports dual switch pedals allowing up to 4 switch pedals to be used Two continuous control or CC pedal jac...

Page 12: ... 7 If you have a MIDI CC pedal also known as a MIDI expression or volume pedal plug it into the CC1 VOLUME jack for volume control 8 If you are using speakers turn the master volume all the way down on your amplifier or mixer Using standard 1 4 inch audio cables first plug into the input jacks of your amplifier or mixer then plug the other end of the cables into the PC4 AUDIO OUT A jacks Connectin...

Page 13: ... See PC4 Sounds on page 1 12 for more details on selecting Programs or Multis 1 To hear a Program Demo song for the current Program press the 0 MISC and ENTER buttons simultaneously 2 To hear the capabilities of the PC4 you can play the multi channel demo songs Press the USER and 0 MISC buttons simultaneously to listen to a multi channel demo song 3 To switch between auditioning Programs or Multis...

Page 14: ... Soft Buttons Pitch Wheel and Modulation Wheel VOLUME Slider SAVE Button and EDIT Button EXIT Button PREVIOUS NEXT Buttons ARPEGGIATOR TEMPO TRANSPORT Sections VOLUME Slider The VOLUME Slider controls the volume level of the AUDIO OUT and HEADPHONE jacks Display The display is the main user interface for the PC4 Use the display to view Program and Multi names controller assignments and editing fun...

Page 15: ...ter clockwise or clockwise to select the previous or next value Turn the Alpha Wheel slowly to change the value by one increment or turn it quickly to jump several increments PREVIOUS and NEXT Buttons In Program and Multi Mode use the PREVIOUS and NEXT buttons to navigate through the Program or Multi list In any mode use the PREVIOUS and NEXT buttons to navigate through the list of values for the ...

Page 16: ...ION button will typically modify the sound by adding an orchestral string section or synth pad layer or enabling an effect For KB3 Organ Programs the VARIATION button controls the Rotary Speaker speed changing between fast and slow The display shows KB3 when a KB3 Program is selected CONTROL Section The CONTROL section is used to control various Program and Multi parameters In Program Mode The kno...

Page 17: ... editing Programs Multis or other User objects In Program Mode press the SAVE button to save a User Program with the current controller settings EXIT Button Press the EXIT button to exit the current editor Press the EXIT button repeatedly to return to Program Mode CHANNEL LAYER ZONE TRACK Buttons Use the CHANNEL LAYER ZONE TRACK buttons to change the current MIDI Channel in Program Mode the curren...

Page 18: ... sequence multi channel songs on the PC4 Backup and restore User objects with a USB hard drive Update the software and sounds of the PC4 with a USB hard drive SW1 SUSTAIN and SW2 Jacks Use the SW1 SUSTAIN and SW2 jacks to connect switch pedals One switch pedal is included with the PC4 In Program Mode SW1 SUSTAIN defaults to controlling Sustain and SW2 defaults to controlling Sostenuto For KB3 Orga...

Page 19: ...dals Half Damper that use a 1 4 inch tip ring sleeve plug such as the Kurzweil KP 1H When connected to the SW1 SUSTAIN jack a Half Damper pedal enables finer control of Sustain than a standard switch pedal Half Damper control is enabled for Programs in the Piano category Programs outside of the Piano category will respond to a Half Damper pedal as if it is a standard switch pedal CC1 VOLUME and CC...

Page 20: ...signed for connection to the Kurzweil Ribbon Controller option only Don t plug any other modular plugs into the Ribbon jack AUDIO IN LINE LEFT RIGHT Jacks Use the AUDIO IN jacks to mix external audio sources with the sounds of the PC4 This is useful for playing along with backing tracks from a portable music player computer or other electronic instrument The LINE jack accepts a stereo 1 8 plug at ...

Page 21: ...ram The selected CATEGORY button will turn on Use the Alpha Wheel or PREVIOUS and NEXT buttons to select Programs from the selected category Select a Previously Saved User Program Press and turn on the USER button then use the Alpha Wheel or PREVIOUS and NEXT buttons to browse only User Programs To return to browsing Factory and User Programs press and turn off the USER button Select a Program by ...

Page 22: ... although some controls may have different assignments per Program or Multi When a controller is moved the name of the current assignment is shown in the display Controller assignments can be adjusted in Program and Multi Edit Mode Splits and Layers The Split and Layer function can be used to Split or Layer the current Program or Multi Different keyboard regions can play different Programs or mult...

Page 23: ...s and adjust many other Program parameters Multi Mode Multi Mode allows you to play Multis which are arrangements of up to 16 Programs split and or layered in Zones across selected ranges of the keyboard By default the volume of the Program in the first 4 Zones can be easily adjusted while playing by using the sliders 1 4 and each Zone can be turned on or off by using the buttons below these slide...

Page 24: ...ing system and sound object versions Use this page to check if your PC4 is up to date with the most recent software and sounds posted at www kurzweil com Reset You can return the PC4 to the Factory default state by doing a Reset Caution Reset will delete all User objects so it is important to back up your User objects before doing a Reset Factory objects are not deleted Saving to External Storage ...

Page 25: ...aneously deactivates all sounding notes by sending an all notes off message on all 16 MIDI channels Select Channel Layer Zone Track 1 In Program Mode pressing both of the CHANNEL LAYER ZONE TRACK buttons simultaneously will select MIDI channel 1 In Program Edit Mode pressing both of the CHANNEL LAYER ZONE TRACK buttons simultaneously will select Layer 1 In Multi Edit Mode pressing both of the CHAN...

Page 26: ... page finds and selects the first instance of the term in the list if it exists in the list To find and select the next or previous instance of the term in the list hold the ENTER button and press one of the NEXT or PREVIOUS button to search for the next higher numbered or previous lower numbered object that contains the search term Note Each combination of the ENTER button and a numeric button 1 ...

Page 27: ...Mode The PC4 powers on with Program 1 selected or the Program that was selected the last time Global Mode was exited Selecting Programs In Program Mode use any of the methods below to select a Program Browse All Programs Make sure the USER button is off then use the ALPHA WHEEL or PREVIOUS and NEXT buttons to select a Program from all of the available Programs Select a Program by Category Make sur...

Page 28: ...lect Programs or Multis by ID number Type an ID number followed by pressing the ENTER button to select the associated Program Select a Category Default Program Each category has a Category Default Program the Program which is selected when each CATEGORY button is pressed By default the Category Default Program is set to the first Program of each category To set a different Category Default Program...

Page 29: ...e of the name VIEW Soft Button Press the VIEW soft button to switch between the default Large view List view and Quick Access view MIDI In Out Activity Indicators MIDI In Out activity indicators are displayed at the top of the screen shown as 2 MIDI port symbols with I for in and O for out These indicators briefly light up when MIDI has been recently sent to or received by the PC4 s MIDI USB ports...

Page 30: ...am When a controller is moved the name of the current assignment is shown in the display Controller assignments can be adjusted in Program Edit Mode KB3 Program Controller Assignments In each of the Factory KB3 Organ Programs each control will usually perform the assignment labeled on the front panel below the Sliders The display shows KB3 when a KB3 Program is selected When a controller is moved ...

Page 31: ...grams and volumes After creating and saving a Split or Layer Multi you can edit additional Multi parameters in Multi Edit mode The Split Function When you create a Split in Program Mode you are creating a Multi with two Zones set to On The Program you were using in Program Mode is used in the right hand of the Split as the Zone 1 Program You can choose a Program that will be used in the left hand ...

Page 32: ...er Program selected for the layered Zone 2 Program Use the ALPHA WHEEL or CATEGORY buttons to select a different Program for the layered Zone 2 Program 4 If desired you may wish to adjust additional Layer parameters described in Split and Layer Parameters on page 2 6 5 Press the SAVE button to save your Layer as a Multi See below for details on saving After saving your Layer Multi you can edit add...

Page 33: ...l the Previous Next buttons or use the keypad function of the Category buttons to type a key number 0 127 followed by the Enter button With Key Range low or Key Range high selected the value can also be changed by holding the Enter button then pressing the desired key Pan To change the panning of a Zone left right stereo placement use the cursor buttons to select the Pan parameter for one of the Z...

Page 34: ...he display Press the CHANNEL LAYER ZONE TRACK Up or Down buttons to change the MIDI channel Pressing both of the CHANNEL LAYER ZONE TRACK buttons simultaneously will select MIDI channel 1 A different Program can be selected for each MIDI Channel All channels can be triggered simultaneously from an external MIDI sequencer or computer Note The Aux FX Chains of the Program on the currently selected M...

Page 35: ...91 If you are saving a Program that has not been previously edited the next available unused ID number will be selected If you are saving a previously edited User Program the ID number that the Program was last saved with will be selected Press the Previous and Next buttons simultaneously to toggle between selecting the ID number that the Program was last saved with and the next available unused I...

Page 36: ...will move one space to the right Use the Delete button to delete the current character all the characters to the right will move one space to the left Saving a User Program Press the Save button or Save soft button to complete the saving process or press the Cancel soft button to exit without saving After successfully saving the Program will be selected in Program Mode To find the Program again la...

Page 37: ...ress the EDIT button Program Types The PC4 contains VAST and KB3 Programs VAST Programs can use layers of samples and synthesis suitable for generating a wide variety of traditional instrument sounds as well as synthesizer sounds For details on editing VAST programs see Editing VAST Programs on page 3 2 KB3 Programs contain a set of oscillators designed to emulate the tone wheels in a classic tone...

Page 38: ...s of a program into the DSP ALG of any other layer Dynamic VAST Combine different DSP functions in any order you like including parallel and serial configurations FM Layers FM layers contain a set of oscillators designed to emulate classic 6 operator FM synthesizers VAST Program Structure The diagram below depicts the hierarchy of a VAST program from individual samples all the way up to Multis whi...

Page 39: ... and editing in Program mode up to 32 layers per program A keymap processed through an algorithm modulated by control sources Up to 128 sample roots assigned to play at programmable key and velocity ranges Individual digital sound recordings stored in ROM stereo samples use two voices of polyphony 16 keyboard zones each with independent program MIDI channel and control assignments Selected for per...

Page 40: ...or details on each of the Program Edit Mode pages See The Soft Button Functions on page 3 70 for details on soft button functions in Program Edit Mode pages Layers Use the CHANNEL LAYER ZONE TRACK buttons to change the current Layer Most parameters apply only to the currently selected Layer which will be shown in the top right corner of the display Parameters on the PARAMS Page FX Page COMMON Page...

Page 41: ...cated by showing the Assign symbol in the top right corner of the display when selected Select an Assigned Parameter When the PARAMS Page Parameter column is selected hold the ENTER button and move a controller to select the assigned parameter if a parameter is assigned to that controller This is an easy way to check if a controller is unused or is already being used by a parameter Assign a Physic...

Page 42: ...an FX Chain is selected which contains controller assignments these parameters are automatically added to the Parameters page Parameter Column The Parameter column shows all Program and FX parameters for the current program that have been assigned to be controlled by the PC4 s physical controllers or by MIDI CCs from an external MIDI device Effect Chain parameters are named with prefixes based on ...

Page 43: ...ER button or use the Alpha Wheel or the Previous Next buttons The PC4 s physical controllers each use one of the available MIDI CC numbers so you must choose one of the other available CC numbers when using an external MIDI control source or else the parameter will also be controlled by a PC4 physical controller MIDI CC numbers associated with the PC4 s physical controllers are shown in the list b...

Page 44: ...at uses a value of None for the same parameter These values remain set even if you don t save the program This can be useful for example when using an expression pedal to control program volume By default all factory programs have their Expression parameter set to a value of None and Expression program volume by default can be controlled by an expression pedal plugged into the CC 1 Pedal jack With...

Page 45: ...meter is created and can not be changed A PARAMS page Parameter will control any Program Edit or FX Edit parameter which has it s source field set to the same destination number For details see PARAMS Page Parameter Destination on page 3 12 Entry Value and Control These parameters are equivalent to the PARAMS page Value column and Control column Text To change the Parameter s name use the Navigati...

Page 46: ...page 3 16 Aux1 Mod Aux2 Mod The KEYMAP Page on page 3 39 Alt Control The LAYER Page on page 3 44 Enable The DSP Modulation DSP MOD Page on page 3 55 Source 1 Source 2 Depth Ctl The OUTPUT Page on page 3 57 Mod Envelope Control on page 3 62 Source The LFO Page on page 3 66 RateCt Trigger Input a Input b FM Operator Page on page 3 84 Level Source 1 Level Source 2 Freq Source 1 Freq Source 2 FM Amp O...

Page 47: ...ing the source field for the parameter holding the ENTER button and sending a CC value from the external MIDI controller Note The PC4 s physical controllers each use one of the available MIDI CC numbers so you must choose one of the other available CC numbers when using an external MIDI control source or else the parameter will also be controlled by a PC4 physical controller See the PC4 Physical C...

Page 48: ...on field A parameter s Destination is automatically set when the Parameter is created and can not be changed A PARAMS page Parameter will control any Program Edit or FX Edit parameter which has it s source field set to the same destination number When an assigned Program Edit source field is selected you can jump to selecting the controlling PARAMS page parameter by pressing the EDIT button PARAMS...

Page 49: ...s delay flanger phaser tremolo panner rotary distortion EQ compression filter envelope following filter frequency stimulator ring modulator frequency offset pitch LFO and stereoizer The selected Chain can be edited by pressing the EDIT button See Ch 4 The Effects Chain Editor for details DSP Resources and DSP Units A Program can have up to 8 Insert Chains any combination of common and layer specif...

Page 50: ...is useful when you want to use the same type of effect for multiple channels typically used for Reverb or Delay You apply an aux effect to the program on a MIDI channel by sending the audio from that channel to an aux bus Every channel is connected to the aux buses but the aux buses don t receive the signal until you turn up the aux send level for that channel which controls a channel s input leve...

Page 51: ... the program s unprocessed dry signal Setting Type to dB is useful for setting a precise send value The level of signal sent to the Chain is set in dB the higher the value the more processed signal you will hear When Type is set to the Aux send level is set in and works as a dry wet mix As you turn up the Aux send the Aux Chain s processed wet signal is turned up and begins to replace the program ...

Page 52: ...layer A Program can have up to 8 Insert Chains any combination of common and layer specific inserts The Layer specific parameters are the same as on the FX page except they apply only to the current layer and some of the Aux parameters are not available the settings from the FX page are used for the Aux 1 and Aux 2 Chain and Output parameters See The FX Page above for more information on these par...

Page 53: ...es can cause samples to bend to their maximum upward pitch before the Pitch Wheel is fully up or down This will not happen when bending the pitch down Output Gain Use the Output Gain parameter to cut or boost the final gain stage of the post FX program signal This is useful for adjusting the overall volume of a program Category This parameter sets the category that the program will be grouped into...

Page 54: ... Intonation Maps on page 9 12 for more details on intonation keys Monophonic When the Monophonic parameter is set to Off the current edited program is polyphonic it can play multiple notes at a time When the Monophonic parameter is set to On the program will play only one note at a time and the Legato parameter and the four Portamento parameters will appear on the Program Common page The Monophoni...

Page 55: ...determines how many seconds a note takes to glide one semitone half step toward the pitch of the next played note For example at a setting of 12 keys second the pitch would glide an octave every second Select a higher value for a faster pitch glide or a lower value for a slower pitch glide The list of values is nonlinear that is the increments get larger as you scroll to higher values Portamento A...

Page 56: ...ote in every layer of the current program they re not specific to any one layer When these control sources are global they begin operating as soon as the program is selected When Globals are on LFO2 ASR2 and FUNs 2 and 4 will appear on the LFO page preceded by the letter G to indicate that they re global Local control sources are useful for affecting parameters independently for each note in a lay...

Page 57: ...h the internal programs and external MIDI instruments The Arpeggiator processes notes by playing them repeatedly and or transposing them up and down the keyboard You have control over note output velocity order duration transposition and more In Multi Mode you can assign controllers to control several arpeggiator parameters in real time see Multi Controller destinations 150 160 and 170 178 in The ...

Page 58: ...tor or to find a preset similar to what you want and continue to edit it from there You can save your current settings as an Arp Preset by pressing the SAVE ARP soft button If you select a different Arp Preset before saving your current Arpeggiator settings the current Arpeggiator settings will be replaced by the settings from the preset without showing a warning Be sure to save your settings as a...

Page 59: ...e the TEMPO section of the front panel Press the TAP button a few times at the desired rate or use the TEMPO knob For details on system tempo see TEMPO on page 9 29 In Multi Edit Mode the arp Tempo parameter is not shown and the arpeggiator tempo is determined by the Tempo parameter on the Common page Latch The Latch parameter allows you to control how and when notes played on the keyboard or via ...

Page 60: ...ke in Auto mode if you stop holding at least one arpeggiated note on the arpeggiation continues playing although you can t latch any more notes In this case if you strike another key within the arpeggiation range you start a new arpeggiation sequence Autohold is useful for arpeggiating chords when you play a chord it gets latched and continues arpeggiating after you release the chord When you play...

Page 61: ...ycle of latched notes transposing the entire cycle by the interval it just calculated then shifting each subsequent cycle by the value of Shift Amount until it reaches the shift limit again Here s a very simple example Suppose that the only note in the Arpeggiator cycle is C4 Shift Amount is 4 a third and Shift Limit is 7 so notes won t get shifted above G4 The Arpeggiator plays C4 then E4 The nex...

Page 62: ...t Shift Amount parameter is set to a value other than 0 Shift Limit determines how far up or down the Arpeggiator can shift the arpeggiated notes Try setting Shift Limit to 12 or 24 to create an arpeggio that repeats the same pattern of notes in different octaves This works well when Shift Shift Amount is set to 12 or when a Shift Pattern is selected Shift Amount When the Shift Mode is set to Alg ...

Page 63: ...ttons to enter the note shift amount for each step You can set a step to a value of none by entering 127 and then scrolling down one more step A step with the value none causes the arpeggiator to play nothing for that step allowing you to create rhythmic patterns by using none to leave spaces Use the CHANNEL LAYER ZONE TRACK buttons to change the direction in which pattern steps are played indicat...

Page 64: ... the G4 The second note will be either B4 the next note chronologically or F5 the previous note chronologically that is the last arpeggiated note If the second note is B4 the third note will be either D5 or G4 If the second note is F5 the third note will be either G4 or D5 Simultaneous makes the Arpeggiator repeat each note simultaneously If you play a C and hold it while you play an E and a G the...

Page 65: ...s the Chimp settings randomly change played note velocity within a range but the Chimp settings have larger randomization ranges The Chimp settings use the velocity received from the first note played as the center of the randomization range Each note of the arpeggiator will randomly choose a velocity within the given range See the table below for velocity randomization ranges Note For Human and C...

Page 66: ...ameters other than Keys though a newly triggered pattern will always start at step 1 When triggering velocity patterns from more than one key at a time each consecutive step of the pattern shifts the velocity from a different inputted key the order of which is decided by the Play Order parameter on the ARP page Editing Velocity Patterns You can edit the highlighted pattern by pressing the EDIT but...

Page 67: ...he Duration Pattern parameter will appear allowing you to select a preset or user defined duration pattern See the Duration Pattern section below for details Duration Duration determines how long each arpeggiated note plays based on the current arpeggiator Beats value 100 means that a note sustains until the next one sounds very legato 50 means that the note fills half the space between itself and...

Page 68: ...the last step in the list pressing STEP inserts a new note step at the end of the list the pattern editor remembers the values of removed steps until you save or exit Use the navigation buttons to move between pattern steps use the Alpha Wheel alphanumeric pad or Previous Next buttons to enter the duration amount for each step To save an edited pattern press the front panel Save button to view the...

Page 69: ...e number Height Velocity level Width Duration The line under each oval changes length depending on the Beats value for the current step Number Steps Use the Number Steps parameter to set the number of steps in the current sequence Step The Step parameter shows the number of each step in the sequence and can be used to navigate between the steps Note Note values create the shift pattern for the Ste...

Page 70: ...ence Beats is set in fractions of a 4 beat measure whose rate is set by the Tempo parameter A step with Beats set to 1 4 will play a quarter note based on the current Tempo setting To find a Beats value multiply the notes you want per beat by 4 For example 4 notes per beat 16th notes would be 4 4 16 a Beats value of 1 16 Three notes per beat 8th note triplets would be 3 4 12 a Beats value of 1 12 ...

Page 71: ...with the Program or Multi when the Program or Multi is saved Changing any of the CC Sequencer parameters will change the Preset to 0 Edited CC Seq to indicate that the previous preset settings are no longer being used State Use the State parameter to turn the CC Sequencer On or Off Number Steps Use the Number Steps parameter to set the number of steps in the sequence Sync When the State parameter ...

Page 72: ...for the CC messages generated by the CC Sequencer You can send CC messages to a PC4 Program to the MIDI Out ports to the USB port or to any combination of these destinations By default CC messages are sent to all possible destinations When using the PC4 to control or layer with external MIDI instruments you may wish to send CC messages only to certain destinations In Program Mode when the MIDI Des...

Page 73: ...ence send a smaller range of CC values When Scale is set to 50 the sequence is limited to sending CC values 0 63 Scale values 101 200 multiply each sequencer step CC value to send higher CC values For example when Scale is set to 200 a CC sequencer value of 62 will be sent as 126 Scale Mod Use the Scale Mod parameter to change the range of CC values sent by the sequence using a physical controller...

Page 74: ...an approximation of the step value that will be sent after the Scale and Add parameters have been applied The other Mode parameter settings each display a preset 16 step sequence Each step of the sequence has a red dot representing a CC value from 0 to 127 Patterns with Random or Rand in the name will produce random values for each step The possible range of random values for each step is shown by...

Page 75: ...me adjustment value of each sample in the keymap to each note played by the oscillator within those sample keyranges To prevent this select Keymap 999 Silence When a DSP oscillator is being used as a layer sound source on the ALG page and a layer s Amp Envelope Mode is set to Natural the natural envelope of each sample in the layer s current keymap will be applied to each note played by the oscill...

Page 76: ...ch keyboard key The default value of 100 cents gives you the normal semitone half step interval between each note a cent is a hundredth of a semitone Higher values increase the interval lower values decrease it Negative values will cause the pitch to decrease as you play higher notes The Key Tracking parameter on the KEYMAP page works in conjunction with Pitch KeyTrk parameter on the DSP CTL page ...

Page 77: ...rol source This can be useful for emulating legato playing of acoustic instrument sounds by skipping the initial attack section of samples for legato notes Use the Alt Control parameter to select a control source that will adjust the sample start point Emulating Legato Play If you place the Alt point after the initial attack transients of a sample you can use the Alt Switch to emulate legato playi...

Page 78: ...mped strings of the held down C key will audibly ring providing a highly tuned echo commonly known as sympathetic string resonance The String Resonance parameter works in conjunction with the FX preset 600 String Resonance to emulate the sound of strings resonating in an acoustic piano When combined these two components create KSR Kurzweil String Resonance Factory programs in the Piano category ar...

Page 79: ... key very lightly so that a note is not played but the key s strings will still become undamped and will resonate when other keys are played KSR can simulate this behavior To do so select the layer in the program which has the lowest velocity range and which has the String Resonance parameter set to On On the Layer page set the Enable parameter to GAttVel and set the Enable Min parameter to 2 This...

Page 80: ...rent layer The Low Velocity and High Velocity parameters set the lowest and highest active velocities for the current layer Velocity values are set in 8 standard musical dynamics markings ppp fff The 8 available dynamic levels each account for a range of 14 16 velocities out of velocities 1 127 This allows for velocity switching between up to eight layers For finer control of velocities levels or ...

Page 81: ...se notes are triggered when a key is released and a MIDI note off message is received by the layer velocity is determined by the release velocity of the released key When the Trigger parameter is set to Pedal Down or Pedal Up notes are triggered when the sustain pedal is pressed down or released typically used for triggering piano pedal noise samples The sustain pedal will trigger MIDI note 60 wit...

Page 82: ...is range When the Enable Sense parameter is set to Reverse the layer will become active when the control source is out of the range set by Enable High and Enable Low The layer will be deactivated when it is in this range Opaque An opaque layer blocks all higher numbered layers in its key and velocity range allowing only the opaque layer to play This is an easy way to change a small range of notes ...

Page 83: ...ustained When the Sustain Pedal parameter is set to On3 any note that is played or is already playing when the pedal is pressed and held will be sustained for as long as the pedal is held The On3 setting also enables the use of half damper pedal techniques when using a compatible continuous switch pedal such as the Kurzweil KP 1H On3 emulates the behavior of an acoustic piano s sustain pedal by in...

Page 84: ...elease segment of the amplitude envelope as soon as a key is released When the Hold Through Att parameter is set to On a note will always play the entire first attack segment of the amplitude envelope even if a key is released This is useful for layers which have a long amplitude envelope attack segment or an attack that s delayed with the layer delay parameters Setting this parameter to On will c...

Page 85: ...o select an algorithm by ID number A diagram of the selected algorithm is shown in the center of the page showing the selected DSP functions and audio signal flow wiring In the diagram the audio signal flows through each DSP block from left to right Depending on the algorithm the signal may split into two wires enabling part of the signal to bypass certain portions of the algorithm Split wires may...

Page 86: ...pages For details see The DSP Control DSP CTL Page on page 3 53 and The DSP Modulation DSP MOD Page on page 3 55 PITCH and AMP Each algorithm contains a PITCH block at the input and AMP block at the output When the Alt Input parameter is set to None the Keymap of the current layer is used as the algorithm input signal In this case the left most PITCH block controls the pitch of the samples in the ...

Page 87: ...ions may be available A diagram of the selected algorithm is shown in the center of the page showing the selected DSP functions and audio signal flow wiring In the diagram the audio signal flows through each DSP block from left to right Depending on the algorithm the signal may split into two wires enabling part of the signal to bypass certain portions of the algorithm Split wires may rejoin withi...

Page 88: ... Next buttons you can see every possible wiring configuration for that selected signal path Inputs Use the Inputs parameter to select the number of inputs for the currently selected DSP block Num Blocks Use the Num Blocks parameter to select the number of blocks for the currently selected DSP block Outputs Use the Outputs parameter to select the number of outputs for the currently selected DSP blo...

Page 89: ... fields The function parameters are listed along the left hand side of the DSP CTL page and the DSP MOD page The label of each function parameter depends on its function in the current program s algorithm For example the Pitch function s function parameter is labeled Pitch and the two block Lopass function s function parameters are labeled LP Frq and LP Res Use each function parameter to make coar...

Page 90: ...ddle C For example with a positive KeyTrk value playing middle C causes no change in modulation depth playing each key further above middle C increases the modulation depth by the KeyTrk amount and playing each key further below middle C decreases the modulation depth by the KeyTrk amount Negative KeyTrk values will progressively decrease modulation depth for each note played above middle C and pr...

Page 91: ...page shows each function parameter of the current layer s algorithm You can coarsely adjust the selected function parameter in these left hand fields The function parameters are listed along the left hand side of the DSP MOD page and the DSP CTL page The label of each function parameter depends on its function in the current program s algorithm For example the Pitch function s function parameter i...

Page 92: ... the Depth parameter Source 1 control source values between the minimum and maximum will scale the amount of modulation between no effect and the amount set by the Depth parameter Source 2 Use the Source 2 parameter to modulate the selected function parameter with a physical controller or other control source DptCtl Depth Control Use the DptCtl parameter to modulate the Source 2 modulation depth w...

Page 93: ...rams To control panning for all layers at once use the Out Pan parameter on the Program Edit Common page Pan and Pan2 Use the Pan parameter to adjust the panning of the current layer s pre FX signal Negative values pan the signal to the left channel positive values pan to the right and a value of zero pans to the center When the Keymap page has the Stereo parameter set to On the Pan2 parameter app...

Page 94: ... the left or right of the Pan parameter setting Message values below 64 shift it left while those above 64 shift it right When Pan Mode is set to Auto each note is panned based on its MIDI note number using the position set by the Pan and Pan2 parameters as the center Middle C MIDI note number 60 is equivalent to the position set by the Pan and Pan2 parameters Lower notes shift increasingly left w...

Page 95: ...m program was originally a PC2 program and that it uses the PC2 drum map The Kurz2 map designates that the current drum kit uses a PC4 drum map all factory drum programs use this map The Kurz2 map is similar to that of the PC2 except tom tom sounds have been moved into octave C3 C4 so they are more easily playable with the main kick and snare drum sounds in that octave When editing a drum program ...

Page 96: ...lope contains more detail than a user envelope and allow samples of acoustic instruments to sound more realistic When the Mode parameter is set to User several amplitude envelope parameters appear The User setting allows you to adjust several parameters for amplitude envelope attack decay and release Attack1 Attack2 Attack3 When the Mode parameter is set to User the Attack parameters appear The am...

Page 97: ...e To create a sustaining amplitude envelope simply set the Decay1 level to a nonzero value Level for Decay1 can be set from 0 to 100 Release1 Release2 Release3 When the Mode parameter is set to User the Release parameters appear The amplitude envelope includes 3 release segments Release segments 1 and 2 each have a field for time how long it takes to play the segment and a field for level a percen...

Page 98: ...pe control parameters are cumulative For example if you set attack to be controlled by Keytrk and VelTrk the resulting change on Attack would be affected by the combination of the values produced by KeyTrk and VelTrk The values of each of these parameters multiply the rates of the envelope sections they control Values greater than 1 000x make the envelope sections run faster they increase the rate...

Page 99: ...control source When Keytrk is greater than 1 000x notes above C 4 will make the envelope section run faster while notes below C 4 will make it run slower When Keytrk is less than 1 000x notes above C 4 will make the envelope section run slower and notes below C 4 will make it run faster VelTrk Use the VelTrk parameter to control the envelope rate of the attack amplitude sections based on the MIDI ...

Page 100: ...o the rate of the selected amplitude section When the control source selected for the Source field is at any value above it s minimum value the Adjust amount is applied to the rate of the selected amplitude section and added to the control source s current value multiplied by the Depth parameter Impact Impact can boost or cut note volume by up to 24 dB during the first 20 milliseconds of the attac...

Page 101: ...eter in the layer The envelope 2 and 3 parameters are the same as the amplitude envelope parameters with a few exceptions ENV2 and ENV3 are bipolar envelope values can be set from 100 to 100 The ENV2 and ENV3 attack segments are linear meaning the attack segments increase at the same rate from start to finish AMP ENV uses an exponential attack meaning the amplitude rises much faster at the end of ...

Page 102: ...ssigned to control some parameter before you ll hear the effect LFO1 is always local meaning that it s triggered with each Note On event and runs independently for each note in the layer LFO2 is local by default but can be made global by setting the Common page Globals parameter to On Global LFOs uniformly affect every note in each layer and start running as soon as the program containing them is ...

Page 103: ...although it s often indistinguishable since global LFOs start running as soon as the program containing them is selected even if you don t play any notes One complete cycle of the LFO is 360 degrees and each 90 degree increment in the phase represents a quarter cycle of the LFO For example 0 degrees phase will play the LFO from the start of the waveform 90 degrees phase will play the LFO from a qu...

Page 104: ...n the Mode parameter is set to Repeat the ASR will play the attack section then will immediately play the release section then will loop repeatedly through the attack and release sections until the ASR s trigger switches off The sustain section of the ASR will not be played When the Mode parameter is set to Hold the ASR will play the attack section then will sustain at the highest value until the ...

Page 105: ...unipolar or bipolar depending on their settings Most MIDI controllers are unipolar so their 0 127 range gets scaled to 0 to 1 Some MIDI controllers can be bipolar as well For example the control source list has 2 choices for Mod Wheel Mod Wheel unipolar and Bi Mwl bipolar For a unipolar input a value of OFF equals a constant value of 0 and a value of ON equals a constant value of 1 For a bipolar i...

Page 106: ...e current program has only one layer pressing these buttons will have no effect Use PROG or PROG soft buttons or the alpha wheel to change the program number While you are in this dialog you can listen to the layer you are selecting to import along with all other layers in the current program If you want to hear the layer to be imported by itself you must mute the other layers When you have select...

Page 107: ...program may be stolen by the new program if there are not enough FX resources for both programs You may hear a sudden jump in volume if the output of a program is too quiet or too loud without its FX Chains To fix this usually the output gain in the last box of the Insert Chain should be adjusted until the program volume is the same with and without bypassing the FX Afterwards you may need to adju...

Page 108: ...ues from physical controllers When the IGN EDIT soft button is pressed and colored red moving physical controllers which are assigned to parameters on the Parameters page will not change the Value set on the Parameters page This allows you to edit a program and try different controller settings without losing the values that you had previously set on the Parameters page DELETE Press the DELETE sof...

Page 109: ... to function in the style of a classic analog synth 1 Edit Program Keymap Page Set the Keymap parameter to 999 Silence 2 EDIT Program Amp Envelope Page Set the Envelope mode to User and adjust the amplitude envelope to your liking see The Amplitude Envelope AMP ENV Page on page 3 60 3 EDIT Program Wiring Alg Page Pick an Algorithm and set an Oscillator see Setting KVA Oscillator Type on page 3 74 ...

Page 110: ...ors that exhibit some aliasing digital artifacts in the higher octaves The anti aliased oscillators use up more DSP resources than the ones with aliasing but the improvement in sound quality is quite noticeable We strongly recommend using the anti aliased oscillators for most applications The tables below list KVA oscillators by type and function block size Before setting an oscillator you must ch...

Page 111: ... duplicate the layer creating layer 2 In layer 2 on the ALG page change the function block to SYNC SQUARE slave and set the Alt Input parameter to Layer 1 The final step is to go to Layer 1 s DSP CTL page and turn the Level parameter all the way down to 96dB this ensures that you will only hear the output of the slave oscillator on layer 2 which is the intended function of Sync Square Now the Sync...

Page 112: ...ion Aside from these methods KVA layers can also be altered by using keymaps with natural amplitude envelopes See below for details on each method Examples of Simple DSP Control and Modulation Select the Program 2046 Editor Template and press the EDIT soft button Go to the KEYMAP page and set Keymap to 999 Silence Next go to the AMP ENV page and set the mode to User set Att1 time to 002 and Rel1 t...

Page 113: ...sor down button to select the Depth parameter then use the alpha wheel or alpha numeric pad to turn it all the way up to 10800ct Now the Mod Wheel will affect the LP Frq parameter Moving the Mod Wheel all the way up a value of 127 will cause the filter s cut off frequency to move up 10800 cents from its initial value moving the Mod Wheel all the way down a value of 0 will have no effect on the cut...

Page 114: ...he pitch and amplitude of the sine waveform without affecting the pitch of the input source RES NOISE A noise generator combined with a low pass filter with resonance control Use the Noiz Frq parameter to control the cut off frequency of the filter Use the Noiz Q parameter to control the amplitude of the resonance a boost or cut at the cut off frequency One technique for use of this function is to...

Page 115: ...ave completes a cycle Offsets cause the slave to restart its cycle in the middle of normal sawtooth cycles which causes the slave s waveform shape and sound to be altered SUPER SAW The Super Saw oscillator consists of two saw waves This oscillator s distinctive parameter is Detune which has settings from 0 50 cents allowing you to detune both of the saw waves by up to 50 cents away from the root p...

Page 116: ...PC4 also has the ability to apply natural amplitude envelopes to oscillators With an amplitude envelope set to natural mode each oscillator note takes on the amplitude qualities of each sample in a keymap with each note relative to sample key placement Each sample in a keymap has a natural envelope that was created during it s original development process Natural envelopes have much more detail th...

Page 117: ... in FM layers are common to FM and VAST layers For descriptions of these pages see the relevant VAST sections of this chapter FM Layer Structure Each FM layer contains 6 Operators in 1 of 32 algorithms The 6 Operators are the primary sound source in FM layers Each Operator contains an oscillator with amplitude controlled by an envelope generator FM synthesis allows you to modulate the frequency of...

Page 118: ...erator is used as its own modulation source or as a modulation source for Operators in higher rows Level Use the Level parameter to set the output level of each Operator Mode Use the Mode parameter to set the frequency Mode of each Operator When Mode is set to Ratio the frequency of the Operator is determined by each note played on the keyboard in combination with the Frequency parameter This is u...

Page 119: ...pth R2 L2 When a note is played and the Operator has reached the L1 level the Operator level begins to change to the level set by the L2 parameter The R2 parameter determines the rate at which the Operator output level changes from the L1 level to the level set by L2 The R2 parameter can be set to rate values from 0 99 Smaller rates make changes happen slowly while larger rates make changes happen...

Page 120: ...t to silence or no modulation and 99 is equivalent to the maximum possible Operator volume or modulation depth Note When the L4 parameter is set to values 1 99 Operator level will always eventually change to a level of 0 silence or no modulation as if L4 was set to 0 Larger L4 values make changes happen slowly while smaller L4 values make changes happen more quickly This prevents infinitely sustai...

Page 121: ... for creating a chorus effect by applying different Detune values to Operators which are set to the same frequency KeyVel Sensitivity Use the KeyVel Sensitivity parameter to adjust velocity sensitivity for the selected Operator Velocity sensitivity makes the velocity of each note change the output level of the selected Operator When an Operator is being used as an audio source changes in Operator ...

Page 122: ...rce changes in Operator amplitude are heard as changes in modulation depth AM Sensitivity can be set to values from 0 3 where 0 applies no amplitude modulation 1 applies the least amplitude modulation and 3 applies the most amplitude modulation The AM Sensitivity parameter works in combination with the FM Layer Page Amp Mod Depth parameter To apply amplitude modulation to an Operator the FM Layer ...

Page 123: ...Operator parameter to view its Level modulation parameters Level Source 1 Use the Level Source 1 parameter to modulate the Operator output Level with a physical controller or other control source Level Depth Use the Level Depth parameter to set the maximum modulation depth of Level Source 1 When the Level Source 1 control source is at its minimum value Level Source 1 will have no effect on the Ope...

Page 124: ... Level Source 2 When a Level DepthCtl control source is at its maximum value Level Source 2 will apply the amount of modulation set by the Level MaxDpt parameter Frequency Modulation Parameters The right hand column of the FM Operator page shows Frequency modulation parameters for the selected Operator Select an Operator with the Operator parameter to view its Frequency modulation parameters Freq ...

Page 125: ... Source 2 modulation depth will be set to the value of the Freq MaxDpt parameter Freq DepthCtl control source values between the minimum and maximum will scale the Freq Source 2 modulation depth between the values of the Freq MinDpt and Freq MaxDpt parameters Freq MinDpt Use the Freq MinDpt parameter to set the minimum modulation depth of Freq Source 2 When a Freq DepthCtl control source is at its...

Page 126: ...dback level for the selected FM Algorithm Each algorithm shows a line determining the feedback path in which the output of an Operator is used as its own modulation source or as a modulation source for Operators in higher rows Feedback is useful for creating square waveforms and noise Feedback can be set to values from 0 7 where 0 applies no feedback 1 applies the least feedback and 7 applies the ...

Page 127: ... Sensitivity parameter must be set to a value greater than 0 on the FM Operator Page Pitch Mod Depth Use the Pitch Mod Depth parameter to make fine adjustments to pitch modulation depth of the FM LFO for all FM Operators in the layer Pitch Mod Depth can be set to values from 0 99 where 0 applies no pitch modulation 1 applies the least pitch modulation and 99 applies the most pitch modulation The P...

Page 128: ... Key Sync is set to Off the FM LFO does not reset its phase each time a note is played In some programs this can be useful for adding variations to each note played Modwheel LFO Pitch The Modwheel LFO Pitch parameter allows you to use the Modwheel or other physical controller to control the pitch modulation depth of the FM LFO for all FM Operators in the layer When the Modwheel is set to its minim...

Page 129: ...f the Pressure LFO Pitch parameter Pressure LFO Pitch can be set to values from 0 99 where 0 applies no pitch modulation 1 applies the least pitch modulation and 99 applies the most pitch modulation The Pressure LFO Pitch parameter works in combination with the Pitch Mod Sensitivity parameter To apply pitch modulation the Pitch Mod Sensitivity parameter and Pressure LFO Pitch parameter must both b...

Page 130: ...tween the value of the Amp Mod Depth parameter and the value of the Amp Mod Depth parameter plus the value of the Pressure LFO Amp parameter Pressure LFO Amp can be set to values from 0 99 where 0 applies no amplitude modulation 1 applies the least amplitude modulation and 99 applies the most amplitude modulation The Pressure LFO Amp parameter works in combination with each Operator s AM Sensitivi...

Page 131: ...hed Level 2 the pitch begins to change to Level 3 The Rate 3 parameter determines the rate at which the pitch changes from Level 2 to Level 3 The pitch remains at Level 3 for as long as a note is held Rate 4 Level 4 When a note is played and released the pitch begins to change to Level 4 The Rate 4 parameter determines the rate at which the pitch changes from its current pitch to Level 3 FM Amp Ou...

Page 132: ...er above middle C increases the amplitude by the Key Track amount and playing each key further below middle C decreases the amplitude by the Key Track amount Negative Key Track values will progressively decrease amplitude for each note played above middle C and progressively increase amplitude for notes played below middle C For example with a negative Key Track value playing middle C causes no ch...

Page 133: ...and maximum will scale the Src2 modulation depth between the values of the MinDpt and MaxDpt parameters MinDpt Use the MinDpt parameter to set the minimum modulation depth of Src2 When a DptCtl control source is at its minimum value Src2 will apply the amount of modulation set by the MinDpt parameter MaxDpt Use the MaxDpt parameter to set the maximum modulation depth of Src2 When a DptCtl control ...

Page 134: ...t layer to be modulated by a Keymap in the current layer or by any type of audio signal from a different FM or VAST layer FM synthesis techniques can be combined with VAST synthesis features to create never before heard sounds Modulating an FM Operator with a Keymap Follow these steps to modulate an FM Operator with a Keymap in the current layer 1 On the FM Operator page use the Operator parameter...

Page 135: ...dulate 2 On the FM Operator page set the Input Source parameter for the selected Operator to Alt 3 On the FM Alt Input page use the Src Layer parameter to select another layer in the Program The current Program must have more than one layer 4 On the FM Alt Input page use the Alt Input Source Level parameters to adjust the Alt Input level The Alt Input level determines the amount of modulation appl...

Page 136: ...Key Track parameter to modulate the amplitude of each note of the Alt Input source layer based on the MIDI note number of each note played Positive Key Track values will progressively increase amplitude for each note played above middle C and progressively decrease amplitude for notes played below middle C For example with a positive Key Track value playing middle C causes no change in amplitude p...

Page 137: ...oller or other control source When a DepthCtl control source is at its minimum value the Source 2 modulation depth will be set to the value of the MinDpth parameter When a DepthCtl control source is at its maximum value the Source 2 modulation depth will be set to the value of the MaxDpth parameter DepthCtl control source values between the minimum and maximum will scale the Source 2 modulation de...

Page 138: ...e amplitude by the Key Track amount Negative Key Track values will progressively decrease amplitude for each note played above middle C and progressively increase amplitude for notes played below middle C For example with a negative Key Track value playing middle C causes no change in amplitude playing each key further above middle C decreases the amplitude by the Key Track amount and playing each...

Page 139: ...alue Source 2 will apply the amount of modulation set by the MinDpth parameter MaxDpth Use the MaxDpth parameter to set the maximum modulation depth of Source 2 When a DepthCtl control source is at its maximum value Source 2 will apply the amount of modulation set by the MaxDpth parameter Keymap Pitch Parameters Adjust Use the Adjust parameter to adjust the pitch of the Keymap in half steps Vel Tr...

Page 140: ...DepthCtl parameter to modulate the Source 2 modulation depth with a physical controller or other control source When a DepthCtl control source is at its minimum value the Source 2 modulation depth will be set to the value of the MinDpth parameter When a DepthCtl control source is at its maximum value the Source 2 modulation depth will be set to the value of the MaxDpth parameter DepthCtl control s...

Page 141: ...f them in a KB3 program the 92nd is reserved to produce key click Because the oscillators start running as soon as you select a KB3 program there are always voices available unlike VAST programs which start stealing notes when you reach the polyphony limit The oscillators we ll call them tone wheels from here on are divided into an upper and lower group The upper tone wheels use the samples in the...

Page 142: ...fault assignments for factory KB3 programs include CC Pedal 1 volume controls preamp volume which emulates the volume control of an organ preamp The PreampResp parameter must be set to On for this to work the default setting See PreampResp on page 3 108 for details Mod Wheel controls Distortion Drive Switch Pedal 1 sustain controls the rotary speaker effect which toggles the Rotary speed between s...

Page 143: ...KB3 Editor is similar to the Parameters page in the VAST Editor See The PARAMS Page on page 3 6 for details In the KB3 Editor the Parameters page contains some parameters which do not appear on any other page Rotary Slow Fast Rotary Brake Chorus Vibrato On Off Chorus Vibrato Select and Chorus Vibrato Depth KB3 Editor The Program FX FX Page This page is the same as the VAST Program editor FX page s...

Page 144: ...ed by a CC pedal plugged into the rear panel input labeled CC Pedal 1 volume With a setting of Foot volume can be controlled by a CC pedal plugged into the rear panel input labeled CC Pedal 2 With a setting of None volume control from both CC pedal inputs is disabled Leakage This parameter controls the level of the simulated crosstalk and signal bleed of adjacent tone wheels in the model This is p...

Page 145: ...on Volume Use the Volume parameter to set the preset volume of each of the nine drawbars The available values will be 0 8 or 0 127 depending on the setting of the Steps parameter Tune This parameter lets you tune each of the nine drawbars up or down in semitone steps The values for the Tune parameter on the Drawbars page shown above represent standard drawbar settings on a real B3 as shown in the ...

Page 146: ...ly Upper Vol Adjust Upper Volume Adjust This parameter lets you adjust the amplitude of the upper tone wheels relative to amplitude of the lower tone wheels NumToneWheels Number of Tone Wheels This parameter lets you specify the number of tone wheels used by a KB3 program The classic tone wheel organs used 91 tone wheels though the lowest 12 were for the pedals only Therefore you may find 79 a goo...

Page 147: ... uneven rolled off response Mellow is somewhere between Bright and Junky You can also apply EQ to control wheel volumes based on the frequencies of each tone wheel See KB3 Editor The EQ Page on page 3 113 Globals The Globals parameter affects LFO2 ASR2 and FUNs 2 and 4 When Globals is set to Off these four control sources are local they affect each pair of tone wheels individually They begin opera...

Page 148: ...eters in VAST programs For a full description of these modulation source and depth parameters see Subpage Parameters on page 3 56 KB3 Editor The AMP Page The AMP page parameters for KB3 programs are similar to the Level parameters for VAST programs on the DSP MOD page In KB3 programs there are no KeyTrk or VelTrk parameters Use the Coarse parameter to adjust the program s pre FX volume level up or...

Page 149: ... are based on sine waves then this acts similarly to a real EQ Each EQ section has Gain G Frequency F and Width W controls Frequency controls the center frequency of the band Width controls the bandwidth Gain controls the amount of boost or cut KB3 Editor The PERC Page Percussion is a characteristic feature of tone wheel organs It s especially useful while soloing since percussion adds an extra pl...

Page 150: ... Switch button 6 labeled Percussion Loud Soft Decay This parameter switches between fast and slow percussion settings Specific fast slow times are set with the DecayTime parameters You can toggle between slow and fast decay by pressing Assignable Switch 7 button labeled Percussion Decay F S Harmonic This parameter switches between high and low harmonic percussion settings Specific high low pitches...

Page 151: ...ou can control the amplitude and decay time of the percussion effect for all combinations of the PERC page Volume and Decay parameter settings You can also adjust the level of the organ relative to the percussion for accurate emulation of classic organs KB3 Editor The KEYCLICK Page The Key Click feature adds a decaying burst of pitched noise to the attack of notes Unlike the percussion feature key...

Page 152: ...oise relative to the highest tone wheel s pitch The pitch is controlled by a steep lowpass filter applied to white noise The filter s cut off frequency is controlled relative to key number higher keys move the cutoff frequency up lower keys move the cutoff frequency down Random This parameter controls the degree to which a random amount of amplitude variation is added to the key click Retrig Thres...

Page 153: ...u can select the desired key by holding the ENTER button and striking a key The selected key will use the key click volume set by the Volume parameter Each key below the selected key will have progressively quieter key click For example with Key Track Amount set to 5 0 key the note 1 key below the selected Key will be have it s keyclick volume lowered by 5 the note 2 keys below the selected Key wi...

Page 154: ... editor the program s Insert and Aux Chains can be edited from the FX and LYR FX pages In Multi Edit Mode Chains selected for Aux overrides can be edited from the FX page A Chain is made up of one or more effect boxes with each box containing a single effect You can have up to 16 effect boxes in a Chain The settings for all of the parameters of each effect box are also stored within the Chain Ther...

Page 155: ...to the selected effect box can be changed by numeric entry with the Alpha Wheel or with the buttons and can be changed with either the effect box or the Effect field at the bottom of the page highlighted The double button press will jump to the next effect category Pressing the INSPRE soft button adds a new effect box to the Chain in the currently selected block slot and pushes the currently selec...

Page 156: ...guring effects mods MOD1 MOD3 All pages are essentially identical in appearance and function See below for an example MOD page Box The Box parameter specifies which effect box in the Chain to which the Mod will be applied Param Use the Param field to select an FX box parameter to modulate ...

Page 157: ...unless that CC number is already used by another FX Mod in which case it will share the existing Parameter using that CC number or physical controller The program Parameters page allows you to set a default value for the FX Mod and also lets you select a different MIDI CC number or PC4 physical controller if desired This is useful for changing the control source of existing FX Mods without editing...

Page 158: ...ch 6 MIDI CC 86 Knob 7 MIDI CC 18 Sw Pedal 2a MIDI CC 66 Switch 7 MIDI CC 87 Ribbon Section 1 MIDI CC 21 Sw Pedal 2b MIDI CC 67 Switch 8 MIDI CC 89 Slider 3 MIDI CC 22 Knob 1 MIDI CC 71 Switch 9 MIDI CC 90 Depth The Depth field determines the range of modulation that the Controller will apply When the Control source has a value of 0 the modulated parameter will be set to the Adjust value When the ...

Page 159: ...et an initial MIDI value for each assignment This allows you to reuse the same Chain in several Programs and each of the Chain FX Mods can have a different controller assignment or initial value in each Program Each MIDI CC number can have one Chain Info entry When setting an FX Mod source field if the selected physical controller or CC number is already used by a different FX Mod in the Chain a n...

Page 160: ...ttons 4 7 The Chain Utility Soft Buttons Some of the soft buttons in the Chain Editor perform a function when pressed as well as some of the Mode buttons INFO On this page you can use the TEXT soft button to access a text editor to change a chain label ...

Page 161: ...s can not be deleted HELP Press the HELP soft button to view the Help page where you can view a description of functions assigned to the Mode buttons Global Mode Button Bypass Box Press the Global Mode button to temporarily bypass the currently selected FX box in the Chain Press the Global Mode button again to re enable the selected box ...

Page 162: ...the output signal is 20 wet processed and 80 dry unprocessed A setting of 50 wet means the dry and processed signals are roughly equal in level In some effects separate Wet Dry parameters are provided for the Left and Right input channels In some cases this parameters can have negative values which indicate that the Wet signal is polarity inverted When an effect with the Wet Dry parameter is used ...

Page 163: ...hanges the configuration of the effect to simulate a wide array of room types and sizes including booths small rooms chambers halls and large spaces Because this parameter changes the structure of the reverb effect you need to be careful when assigning it a MOD changing it in real time while signal is passing through it is likely to cause audible artifacts Room types in different effects with simi...

Page 164: ...ominal and usually optimal for the given Room Type InfinDecay when turned On causes the reverb tail to decay infinitely When it s Off the decay time is determined by the Rvrb Time or LateRvbTim parameters This is a good parameter to control with a footswitch Wet Bal Wet Balance Some reverb effects are actually two stereo reverbs in one with each one receiving a different mono signal This balances ...

Page 165: ...DelayScale or very slow Tempos Some Delay effects will simply go to a maximum value and stay there while in some a calculation is made that automatically cuts the delay times in half thereby maintaining a relationship with tempo Complex Echo This effect has two feedback taps per channel as well as three independent taps and also a feedback diffuser for smearing the delays Feedback line 1 feeds the...

Page 166: ...0 bandpass filters per channel each of whose gain is adjustable from 12 dB to 24 dB Like all graphic equalizers the filter response is not perfectly flat when all gains are set to the same level except at 0 dB but rather has ripple from band to band To minimize this ripple it is best to center the overall settings around 0 dB The Parametric equalizer 5 Band EQ has two bands of shelving filters and...

Page 167: ...ates A wide range of Compression and Expansion effects is available in the PC4 The various effects include different combinations of Compressors with soft knee characteristic the compression action comes in gradually as the signal level approaches the threshold Compressors with hard knee characteristic the compression action comes in abruptly when the signal reaches the threshold Expanders Multiba...

Page 168: ...reduction in the compressor It is essentially the same parameter as Out Gain with which it is summed The minimum is 79 0 and the maximum summed gain MakeUpGain Out Gain is 24 0 dB Expansion Effects containing Expanders have these controls Atk or Exp Atk Attack how fast the expander turns off when the input signal rises above the threshold level adjustable from 0 0 to 228 0 ms Rel or Exp Rel Releas...

Page 169: ...rigger determines whether the gate timer will reset itself each time the sidechain signal goes above the threshold If it is On the timer resets itself and therefore the gate stays open as long as the signal is above the threshold or keeps going above the threshold within the interval specified by Gate Time If it is Off the gate closes down after Env Time has elapsed regardless off the sidechain le...

Page 170: ...spectrum generally referred to as a comb filter In the PC4 the flanger is a multi tap delay line all but one of whose taps can have their lengths modulated up and down by a low frequency oscillator LFO The rate of the LFO is expressed in Tempo StatDlyLvl Static Delay Level is the level of the first non moving tap Negative values invert the polarity of the tap The range is 100 to 100 0 turns the ta...

Page 171: ...everb which produces a delayed train of closely spaced reflections or impulses As time passes the spacing between the impulses gets wider which creates a discernible buzzy pitch that gets lower as the spacing increases The signal can be fed back into itself to extend the effect Dly Coarse is the overall delay length which controls the duration or decay time 0 5 sec is a good starting point Range i...

Page 172: ...e levels it moves down The highest possible resonant frequency is 8372 Hz the lowest is 0 Hz This parameter s range is 100 to 100 Resonance is the resonance of the filter adjustable from 0 to 50 dB Atk Rate adjusts the upward slew of the attack portion of the envelope detector Range is 0 to 300 0 dB sec Rel Rate adjusts the downward slew of the release portion Range is 0 to 300 0 dB sec Smooth Rat...

Page 173: ...mpo Min Freq and Max Freq are the low and high limits of the resonant frequency as the filter is swept You can set the Min Freq higher than the Max Freq in which case the filter will sweep upside down relative to the controlling clock The range for both is 16 to 8372 Hz LFO Shape is the waveform type for the LFO Choices are Sine Saw Saw Pulse and Tri LFO PlsWid Pulse Width When the LFO Shape is se...

Page 174: ...low pass prior to the first distortion stage The other low pass controls follow their respective distortion stages Range is 16 to 25088 Hz Rotating Speakers An effect that includes Rotating Speakers breaks the signal into two frequency bands rotates each band separately through a virtual speaker and then combines the outputs with a pair of virtual microphones whose angle relative to the speakers i...

Page 175: ...ary and you can expect the effect of this parameter to be rather subtle The range is 0 to 360 0 degrees Mic Angle is the angle of the virtual microphones in degrees from the front of the rotating speaker For the left microphone the angle increases clockwise when viewed from the top while for the right microphone the angle increases counter clockwise Assigning a MOD to this parameter should be done...

Page 176: ...e LFO The range is 0 to 10 00 Hz or 0 to 12 00 x the tempo Rate Scale multiplies the speed of the LFO rate into the audio range The range is 1 to 25088 x When above 16x the values increment in semitone steps When the LFO Rate is set to 1 00 Hz the value of this parameter is equal to the LFO frequency in Hertz LFO Shape is the waveform type for the LFO Choices are Sine Saw Saw Pulse and Tri LFO Pls...

Page 177: ...ps the left channel s LFO out of phase with the result that the effect turns into an auto balancer Out leaves the left LFO alone Pitcher Pitcher applies a filter to the input signal which has a series of peaks in the frequency response These peaks are normally adjusted so that their frequencies are all multiples of a specific selectable frequency which imposes a strong sense of pitch at the select...

Page 178: ... the width is set to 50 the result is a square wave This parameter has no effect if other waveform types are chosen Range is 0 to 100 Osc1Smooth smooths removes the higher harmonics from the Saw Saw and Pulse waveforms A Sawtooth wave becomes more like a triangle wave and a Pulse wave becomes more like a sine wave Range is 0 to 100 The other four oscillators Sine2 through Sine5 each have Lvl and F...

Page 179: ...ve a higher frequency than the other Range is 16 to 25088 Hz Pan High Mid Low sets the pan position for each band Range is 100 fully left to 100 fully right Delay High Mid Low sets the delay for each band Range is 0 to 1000 ms Stereo Image This effect provides enhancement for a stereo signal It also features a stereo correlation meter It uses some parameters from Mono to Stereo and some from Stere...

Page 180: ...oot within each key range You can mix samples of different timbres within a single keymap and even tune individual keys to any pitch by defining key ranges to single notes and assigning samples to each of those notes Many of the drum kit keymaps in ROM have about 20 key ranges with several different timbres assigned as the sample roots You can create a keymap with a single key range that spans fro...

Page 181: ...n a sample root to the current key range Depending on the nature of the sample root an individual sample or a block of sample roots the sample s name looks a bit different in the display Each sample s name consists of three parts a numeral a name and a note number for example 999 Silence C4 Additionally the name of stereo samples will end with an S To use a stereo sample the Stereo parameter must ...

Page 182: ...o be offset using the Coarse Tune and Fine Tune parameters see below The KeyRange parameter shows you which key range you re currently viewing or editing key ranges are named by their lowest and highest notes Changing the value of the KeyRange parameter selects from the available key ranges and allows you to view or edit the sample assignment and other parameters of the selected key range When the...

Page 183: ...soft button to toggle the top line between displaying VelRange and KeyRange Low Velocity Lo High Velocity Hi Use these parameters to set the velocity range of the current key range If you extend the current velocity range into another the boundaries of the other velocity range will become shortened to accommodate the velocity range you are extending If the velocity range you are extending covers a...

Page 184: ... the top line of the page displays KeyRange then the CHANNEL LAYER ZONE TRACK buttons will scroll between the available key ranges in the key map if the current key map has more than one key range The note range for each key range will also be displayed on the top line If the top line of the page displays VelRange then the CHANNEL LAYER ZONE TRACK buttons will scroll between the available velocity...

Page 185: ...key range the existing key range will be split into two keyranges with the new keyrange between the two At this point you must change at least one parameter of the new keyrange before editing a different keyrange otherwise the new keyrange will be merged with the adjacent keyranges If you set a new keyrange that overlaps part or all of another key range the sample assigned to the lower key range w...

Page 186: ...se you have a sample whose root key is C 4 and you want to assign it to A 0 because you don t expect to play it often If you want it to play back without transposition you ll have to adjust the Coarse Tune parameter Calculating the right value for Coarse Tune can get tedious if you re assigning a large number of samples Fortunately there s a short cut 1 Assign a sample root to a key range either u...

Page 187: ... will change to say Strike High Key Now trigger F 1 MIDI note number 29 The display will return to the Keymap editor page The Key Range parameter will show A 0 F 1 and the Sample parameter will show the sample you selected when you started the range assignment Each sample in a key range is automatically transposed based on each sample s RootKey parameter so that it plays at the correct pitch on th...

Page 188: ...you want to build a keymap that uses the same sample in several adjacent key ranges and you plan to add a bit of detuning to the samples in each range You might think that you could build the keymap first then go into the Sample Editor and tweak the sample settings of each keyrange when the keymap is finished Yes but Suppose you used the technique we described above to assign a vocal sample whose ...

Page 189: ...e one of the available key ranges if there is more than one keyrange You can edit the existing sample of a keyrange or choose a new sample for the keyrange and edit that When the Keymap parameter is selected you can hold the Enter button and trigger notes to select different key ranges If you want to select a different sample use the cursor buttons to select the Sample parameter Use the Alpha Whee...

Page 190: ...eo parameter is set to Off in the Program Editor only the left channel of stereo samples will be heard in mono If the sample is part of a group of sample roots you can also use the CHANNEL LAYER ZONE TRACK buttons to scroll through each sample in the group A representative page is shown below Root Key The root key represents the keyboard key at which the sample will play back without transposition...

Page 191: ...setting for ReleaseRate To create an extended sample loop that will play data after the sample s loop on key up set the Alternative Start sample pointer after the sample end pointer then set a relatively low value for the release rate Loop Switch This parameter activates or deactivates the looping of the currently selected sample When set to On the sample will loop according to the settings on the...

Page 192: ...ese parameters Start The Start point determines the beginning of the current sample You can truncate the beginning of the sample by increasing the value of the Start parameter You might do this to remove silence at the beginning of a sample or to remove some or all of the attack You can t decrease the Start point of samples below zero Alternative Start The Alternative Start parameter lets you set ...

Page 193: ...r ID will be deleted Trimmed portions before the Start or Alternative Start points whichever has a lower value will be lost upon saving to a user ID and whichever parameter had a lower value will have a value of zero the next time it is loaded values for all other sample point parameters will be adjusted relatively Trimmed portions after the Alternative Start or End points whichever has a higher v...

Page 194: ...ti Mode use any of the methods below to select a Multi Browse All Multis Make sure the USER button is off then use the ALPHA WHEEL or PREVIOUS and NEXT buttons to select a Multi from all of the available Multis Select a Multi by ID Number The KEYPAD button allows you to use the numbers labeled on the CATEGORY buttons to select Multis by ID number Use the CATEGORY buttons to type an ID number follo...

Page 195: ...formation for each Zone from the Multi select page set the Global Mode Show Zone Info parameter to On See Show Zone Info on page 9 6 for details MIDI In Out Activity Indicators MIDI In Out activity indicators are displayed at the top of the screen shown as 2 MIDI port symbols with I for in and O for out These indicators briefly light up when MIDI has been recently sent to or received by the PC4 s ...

Page 196: ...s sliders and knobs are typically assigned to various effects and synthesis parameters TRANSPOSE Buttons The TRANSPOSE buttons can be used to change the tuning of notes played on the PC4 keyboard in semitones also known as half steps This is a convenient way to change the key of a song without learning to play it in a different key The current transpose amount is shown in the Display for example t...

Page 197: ...the TEMPO section to set the tempo of the current multi The Multi tempo typically sets the tempo of the Arpeggiator riffs and the rate of tempo synced LFOs and FX such as Delay To set the tempo press the TAP button a few times at the desired rate or use the TEMPO knob SW1 SUSTAIN and SW2 Pedals The SW1 SUSTAIN pedal defaults to controlling sustain which will sustain any note that is played while t...

Page 198: ...l is similar to Program volume except volume can not be turned all the way down to silence The Display shows KB3 when a Multi containing a KB3 Program is selected The CC2 pedal typically controls FX such as wah The CC1 VOLUME and CC2 pedals can be enabled disabled or reassigned for each Zone in Multi Edit Mode Because of this the pedals may function differently for each Zone in each Multi ...

Page 199: ...g a Split or Layer Multi you can edit additional Multi parameters in Multi Edit mode The Split Function When you create a Split in Multi Mode you are activating a new Zone in the current Multi The previously active Zones will keep their previously assigned keyboard ranges After this you can choose a Program that will be used in the left hand as a Split Program for the newly activated Zone Follow t...

Page 200: ...s the SAVE button to save your Layer as a Multi See below for details on saving After saving your Layer Multi you can edit additional Multi parameters in Multi Edit mode Split and Layer Parameters Zone Status Selecting Split or Layer makes a new Zone active You can continue to activate additional Zones with the Stat parameter Program The Program parameter for the first available Zone determines th...

Page 201: ...ted the value can also be changed by holding the Enter button then pressing the desired key Pan To change the panning of a Zone left right stereo placement use the cursor buttons to select the Pan parameter for one of the Zones To set a Pan value use the Alpha Wheel the Previous Next buttons or use the keypad function of the Category buttons to type a pan value 0 127 followed by the Enter button A...

Page 202: ...button again Changing ID Numbers The display shows the first available ID number and the current Multi name User Multis can be saved to ID numbers from 4096 to 8191 If you are saving a Multi that has not been previously edited the next available unused ID number will be selected If you are saving a previously edited User Multi the ID number that the Multi was last saved with will be selected Press...

Page 203: ...ons to move the cursor Press the button to switch between upper and lower case characters Use the Insert button to insert a blank space The selected character and all characters to the right will move one space to the right Use the Delete button to delete the current character all the characters to the right will move one space to the left Saving a User Multi Press the Save button or Save soft but...

Page 204: ...d then recording will begin you can set metronome and other recording settings in Song mode 7 Press the PLAY PAUSE button to stop recording You will see a Save New Recording dialog where you can review save or discard the performance you just recorded To retry your recording press the DISCARD soft button then go back to step 6 8 On the Save New Recording dialog press the SAVE button to begin savin...

Page 205: ... bothers you set the MonoPress parameter to Off on the Song Event Filter Recording page see The FILTER Page on page 8 20 This will prevent Mono Pressure messages from being recorded to any track Alternatively you can erase Mono Pressure messages from specific tracks after recording To do this go to the Song mode Track page see The TRACK Page on page 8 23 On the Track page use the CHANNEL LAYER ZON...

Page 206: ...lets say zones one and two were bending during bar 1 If you want to separately record zone three during bars 1 and 2 you will probably want to delete the existing bend messages from zone three s track You can do this from the Song mode Track page see The TRACK Page on page 8 23 and an example of its use in the Mono Pressure section above Alternatively if there is nothing to preserve on the track f...

Page 207: ...ttons to change each value When certain parameters are selected additional editor pages or functions can be accessed by pressing the EDIT button The EDIT icon appears at the top of the screen when the EDIT button can be used See the following sections for details on navigating selecting parameters and changing values Soft Buttons in the Multi Editor Press the soft buttons at the bottom of the scre...

Page 208: ...d AUDIO IN pages Patterns on the ARP page Shift Velocity and Duration Assign Assign is the secondary function of the Enter button You can use the Assign function to quickly select parameters or set values for parameters by holding the Enter button while moving PC4 controllers Knobs Sliders Buttons Keys Wheels and Pedals Parameters that can use the Assign function are indicated by showing the Assig...

Page 209: ...field is selected hold the Enter button and move a physical controller to assign the moved controller or When an FX Page Mod Override field is selected hold the Enter button and press one of the keyboard keys Each of the 88 keys will select one of the available control sources OVERVIEW Page The Overview Page shows basic parameters for up to 4 Zones at a time Use the CHANNEL LAYER ZONE TRACK button...

Page 210: ...into two areas where the lowest and highest keys now define the region that the Zone does not play on Pan The Pan parameter determines the left right panning of the currently selected Zone You can set this parameter to any pan setting from None 0 full left 64 center to 127 full right None can be entered as 1 on the keypad which will keep the last pan setting used by the Zone s MIDI channel Volume ...

Page 211: ...emitones Note Map Note Map allows you to arrange the notes of a Zone across the keyboard in different configurations See below for details on each of the Note Map settings Off With Note Map set to Off keys in the Zone will not play notes This can be useful when controlling external MIDI equipment you may wish to send controller values without notes Linear With Note Map set to Linear all keys produ...

Page 212: ...one alternating note maps work the same way but cause each zone to play only on every third and every fourth key respectively Destination The Destination parameter determines whether MIDI data generated by the keyboard and physical controllers of the currently selected Zone is sent to a PC4 Program through the MIDI Out USB ports or all three You can set this parameter to any of the eight combinati...

Page 213: ...ber 0 Ctl32 MIDI Bank change messages are sent with controller number 32 Ctl0 32 MIDI Bank change messages are sent with both controller numbers 0 and 32 K2600 MIDI Bank change messages are sent with controller number 32 K2600 Program numbers 0 99 Midi Bank The MIDI Bank parameter determines the MIDI Bank change message that the currently selected Zone sends when the Multi is loaded You can set th...

Page 214: ...nd MIDI Program parameters will automatically change to match the Bank and Program numbers of the Program that you select for Local Program For example if you choose Program 178 then MIDI Bank will change to 1 and MIDI Program will change to 50 EntryProgChng The Entry Program Change parameter determines whether or not the currently selected Zone will send a MIDI Program change message when the Mul...

Page 215: ...her MIDI velocities while lower values make it less sensitive playing harder doesn t change MIDI velocity as much You can also set the scale to a negative number in which case the velocity response is turned upside down playing harder produces a softer sound and vice versa This is useful for creating velocity based crossfades between zones Velocity Offset The Velocity Offset parameter also changes...

Page 216: ...urve that is less steep than the linear curve at keystrike velocities below 64 and steeper than the linear curve at keystrike velocities above 64 In other words when you re playing softly you ll notice velocity differences less than with a linear curve while when you re playing hard you ll notice velocity differences more Compress produces a velocity curve that is the opposite of the expanded curv...

Page 217: ...hat was using that channel in Program Mode or from a previously loaded Multi When the Program of a Multi Zone is played from an external MIDI device Multi MIDI parameters most noticeably key range and transposition will not be applied If you want these parameters applied set the Input Channel parameter to match the channel on which the external MIDI device is transmitting See the Input Channel Set...

Page 218: ...hich channel it is transmitting on Zone Name Use the Zone Name parameter to give the Zone a name that can be viewed when Multi Mode is set to show Zone Info By default the Zone s Program name is used as the Zone name To edit the Zone name select the Zone Name field and press the EDIT button to enter the Zone Name editor Use the Navigation buttons and soft buttons to change the Zone name Press OK t...

Page 219: ...eters from Multi Mode To assign a Multi controller to a Program parameter use the Destination field In the Destination list destinations that are assigned to parameters for the Program of the current Zone will show the Program Parameter name next to the Destination number Select one of these destinations to control an assigned Program parameter You can also select the Destination field hold the EN...

Page 220: ...ter can not be set to Chord Type Use the Type parameter to set a switch controller to Momentary or Toggled This parameter affects the selected switch controller for all Zones When Type is set to Momentary the switch controller sends its On Value when pressed and its Off Value when released When Type is set to Toggled the switch controller alternates between sending its On Value or Off Value each t...

Page 221: ... switch controller for all Zones If Exit State is set to None then when you leave the current Multi by selecting another Multi or Program the switch controller state will not change Key1 Key8 When a switch controller Mode is set to Chord the Key1 Key8 fields appear Use the Key1 Key8 fields to select the notes of a chord to be played To select a note select a Key1 Key8 field hold the Enter button t...

Page 222: ...function or whether the key will only perform a switch function Set the Do parameter to Both to play a note and perform a switch function or set it to OnlySw to only perform a switch function Continuous Controllers This section describes parameters for the following continuous controllers Modulation Wheel Pitch Wheel up and down CONTROL knobs 1 9 CONTROL sliders 1 9 CC pedals 1 and 2 Pressure Ribb...

Page 223: ...eters are set to produce values outside of this range By default each continuous controller sends CC values 0 127 0 at its lowest position and 127 at its highest position These values can be multiplied by the percent value of the Scale parameter in order to change the range of CC values For example When when Scale is set to 100 with Add set to 0 and Curve set to Linear the controller sends CC valu...

Page 224: ...is set to 200 the controller sends CC values 0 127 0 at its lowest position and 127 at its middle position through its highest position With the Add parameter set to 64 the controller sends CC values 64 127 64 at its lowest position and 127 at its middle position through its highest position Curve The Curve parameter lets you apply different curves to the controller values in order to make the con...

Page 225: ...il it is moved past the entry position Exit Value The Exit Value parameter determines the value of a continuous controller when the current Multi is exited You can set this parameter to None or 0 127 This parameter affects the selected continuous controller for all Zones If Exit Value is set to None then when you leave the current Multi by selecting another Multi or Program the continuous controll...

Page 226: ...int should typically match the Entry value as the Ribbon will return to the center point after use when the Spring parameter is set to On When the Spring parameter is set to Off the Center parameter has no effect Center values of 0 64 and 127 will place the center point at the left side center or right side of the ribbon or each third of the ribbon when the Configuration parameter is set to Three ...

Page 227: ...dal Sustains notes that are currently down but not notes played subsequently 67 Soft Lowers the volume by a preset amount and may soften the timbre as well 68 Legato Forces mono playback 69 Freeze Envelopes freeze at current state 70 79 MIDI 70 79 MIDI Controllers 70 79 80 MIDI 80 Default assignment for Switch 1 81 MIDI 81 Default assignment for Switch 2 82 MIDI 82 Default assignment for Switch 3 ...

Page 228: ... Decrement decrements current Multi number 141 SetpGoto Go to Multi selects Multi 145 TransUp Transpose Up ST 146 TransDown Transpose Down ST 147 Arp Values 0 63 turn the arpeggiator Off Values 64 127 turn the arpeggiator On 149 MuteZn Mute Zone Values above 64 will mute the zone that sends values to this destina tion values below or equal to 64 will unmute the zone 150 ArpOrder Arpeggiator PlayOr...

Page 229: ...cks 127 32256 offset ticks 168 TapTempo Assign this to a switch set to Type Toggled to control the tap tempo function then tap the switch in time to set the Multi tempo 170 Arp Shift Sets ARPEGGIATOR values for Shift to negative 0 63 off 64 127 on See Shift Amount on page 3 26 171 ShiftPatt Selects one of the 128 patterns in the current ARPEGGIATOR Shift Pattern Bank See Shift Pattern on page 3 26...

Page 230: ... for the current zone in a Multi enter the Multi editor go to the Arpeggiator page and set Arp Mode to Classic Set Shift Mode to Patt and select a Shift Pattern from the Shift Pattern field If using multiple zones a different pattern can be selected for each The Shift Pattern field is usually used with the arpeggiator but can also be used in combination with the controller destinations Shift Key N...

Page 231: ...appropriate scale You could also create a Multi for a song with multiple zones each with its own pre set key and appropriate shift pattern That way for each chord change you could move a different controller that would create the correct harmony Another way to choose a key is to set Shift Key to Last Note Played mode in which the last note played in the zone will set the key For example you could ...

Page 232: ...nd in turn affect the useful range of the physical controller With a shift pattern of 12 notes the 128 different notes that the PC4 can trigger are evenly spaced over the range of the controller Patterns with less than 12 steps will trigger notes in every octave over a shorter range of the controller For example in a shift pattern with 3 steps by default the controller values 0 to 2 will trigger n...

Page 233: ...t resources for other channels Set each MIDI channel to Y to enable effects or to N to disable effects The PC4 has 32 units of effects resources that can be used to load effects chains Each FX chain requires a certain number of FX units in order to load depending on its complexity The top line of the display shows a fraction with the number of units used by the selected channel over the total numb...

Page 234: ...lly dry 100 fully wet A value of p can be set by entering 1 and then pressing the Enter button or by using the Alpha wheel or buttons to scroll below 0 Note In most factory Programs the send level for Aux 1 is controlled by an Aux mod set to MIDI 28 Slider 9 If a send level override is set it will usually be scaled by the entry value for Slider 9 with values of 0 127 scaling between 0 wet and the ...

Page 235: ...e Mod override controller The Multi Controls page allows you to set entry exit values as well as scaling and offset values for the Mod Override controller When the Mod Override parameter is selected you can quickly select one of the PC4 s physical controllers by holding the Enter button and moving the controller Output This parameter specifies the physical audio output pair for the corresponding A...

Page 236: ... any currently playing arpeggiators before starting Set the Sync Type parameter to Off if you don t want to keep arpeggiators in sync Additional Sync Type settings are available which behave the same as the Riff Sync Types See Trigger SyncType on page 7 35 for details To assign the ARP and LATCH button for the arpeggiator in each Zone go to the Controls page and set the Controller field to ArpOn O...

Page 237: ...ti with many riffs to trigger and stop looped sequences of different instrument parts Alternatively a single riff can play multiple instrument parts and each riff can be used as a different song section of a backing track Follow these steps to use a riff 1 Go to Song mode and find or record the song that you wish to use for your riff Note the song ID as well as the desired track and start stop poi...

Page 238: ...matically by playing the keyboard within the selected trigger range Use the Root Note parameter to select the key that will play the riff at its original pitch Root Note is only applied when the Transpose parameter is set to On For example if Transpose is set to On and you have a riff based around D4 set the Root Note to D4 so that the riff will play in tune with other Zones It is also useful to s...

Page 239: ...Re Channel is set to On and Source Track is set to All all of the tracks of the song will play through the MIDI channel of the current zone Trigger Range Use the Trigger Range parameters to set the keyboard range that will trigger the Riff The left and right Trigger Range parameters set the lowest and highest keys that will trigger the Riff For a key to trigger a riff the key must also be within t...

Page 240: ...ifferent riffs or arpeggiators With Riff Tempo set to External the riff will sync to external MIDI clock You can also manually choose a tempo by selecting a value from 20 to 400 Trigger SyncZone The Trigger SyncZone parameter determines which zone a riff will sync to when triggered This allows you to trigger riffs in sync with other riffs or arpeggios by syncing to the beat of riffs or arpeggios i...

Page 241: ... sync to the current riff will wait for the Down Beat of the next measure before starting so you can trigger the riff to start ahead of time and have it start in sync at the Down Beat of the next measure With Trigger SyncType set to Any Beat if there is already a something playing to sync to the riff will wait only until the next beat Depending on when you trigger the riff it will sync up but it m...

Page 242: ...riff will wait for the playing riff or song to restart its loop if Loop is set to On before starting see Loop on page 7 34 for looping riffs and Loop on page 8 11 for looping songs This way you can trigger the riff to start ahead of time and have it start in sync at the start of the playing riff or song s loop The difference from Loop is that if there is nothing playing to sync to the riff will no...

Page 243: ... song to restart its loop if Loop is set to On before starting see Loop on page 7 34 for looping riffs and Loop on page 8 11 for looping songs This way you can release the riff to stop ahead of time and have it stop in sync at the start of the playing riff or song s loop With Release SyncType set to Stop if there is already something playing to sync to the current riff will wait for what is playin...

Page 244: ...ng Riff 1 for the Release SyncZone parameter Then if you set Down Beat for the Release SyncType parameter when released the riff would always wait until its next Down Beat to stop Duration Duration changes the duration of each MIDI note The original durations of the notes in the sequence are multiplied by the selected percentage 100 will cause no change values smaller than 100 will result in short...

Page 245: ...cription 163 Riff OnOff If Riff is set to On on the RIFF page values 64 127 will trigger the riff values 0 63 will release the riff 165 Riff Duration Controls the Riff Duration parameter The Duration value is calculated by multiplying the received controller value by 1000 and dividing the answer by 128 any decimal points are taken off the final value Here are some example values 7 54 13 101 19 148...

Page 246: ...ress the TAP button a few times at the desired rate or use the TEMPO knob When Clock Source is set to External the Tempo parameter disappears from the display Clock Source When Clock Source is set to Internal the Multi will determine its tempo with the Tempo field When Clock Source is set to External the Multi can be synced to the tempo of an external MIDI device which must send MIDI clock data to...

Page 247: ...ects which means the Multi will use the Audio Input settings set on the Global Mode MAIN1 page for details see MAIN1 Page on page 9 1 Set Mode to Multi Specific Effects to enable Audio input effects for the current Multi When Multi Specific Effects is selected the FX Chain and Control Ch parameters will appear FX Chain When the Audio Input Mode parameter is set to Multi Specific Effects you can us...

Page 248: ...to send these CC numbers must have a MIDI Channel which matches the Audio Input Control Channel see the Control Ch parameter above See Channel on page 7 7 for details on setting the MIDI Channel of each Zone The Soft Button Functions Some of the soft buttons in Multi Edit Mode perform a function when pressed ENTRY EXIT Press the ENTRY EXIT to toggle between showing Pan Volume and ExitPan ExitVol o...

Page 249: ...rt Zone page Use the Import Zone page to select a Multi and Zone to import then press the IMPORT soft button to import the Zone The imported Zone will be placed above the highest existing Zone Delete Zone DEL ZN Press the DEL ZN soft button to delete the currently selected Zone DELETE Press the DELETE soft button to delete the current Multi factory Multis can not be deleted ...

Page 250: ...efore recording to a track or making any kind of edit to the current song you should save the current version of your song if you have made unsaved changes that you wish to keep After doing this if you make changes that you wish to undo you can select a different song select No when asked to save the changes then select your song again This will allow you to return to a previously saved version of...

Page 251: ... is Playing or Recording press the STOP button to stop playback or recording and reset the song s location to the bar and beat previously specified by the Locate parameter If the location previously specified by the Locate is something other than Bar 1 Beat 1 press STOP twice to reset to 1 1 When the song is status is Recording pressing the STOP button will display the Save Changes dialog see belo...

Page 252: ...age must be set to On Note If you are triggering PC4 sounds from an external sequencer that sends MMC messages either turn off outgoing MMC on the external sequencer or make sure the Receive MMC parameter on the Global Mode MIDI page is set to Off If this is not done you will simultaneously trigger the PC4 from the external sequencer and from the currently selected song in Song mode The Save Chang...

Page 253: ...same point you last started recording at Pressing YES YES saves the song with the performance you just recorded The Save Dialog will be displayed Use the Save Dialog to save the Song by selecting a User ID to save to and renaming the Song if desired Saving changes to a Song is very similar to saving a user program see Save User Programs on page 2 9 for more details Pressing NO If you decide not to...

Page 254: ... recording is not armed Rec Ready Appears when the Record button is pressed while Song Status is Stopped When Rec Ready is displayed it indicates that Song mode is waiting to start recording Song This shows the ID and name of the song currently selected for recording playback or editing When a song is selected Program Change Volume and Pan information is sent to all MIDI channels assigned to track...

Page 255: ...is turned on see Control Chase on page 8 17 Programs selected in Program Mode are selected as the program on the current Rec Track when you enter Song mode Follow these steps to change the current Rec Track s initial program after recording has taken place on that track While the song is stopped press Record select the program press Stop and save the song This preserves all changes you have made t...

Page 256: ...to change the Song Status to Stopped The initial tempo can also be changed at the top of the event list for the Tempo track on the EVENT page Make sure to save the song after changing the initial tempo Note You can also set the tempo using the TAP button or Tempo knob located in the front panel TEMPO section To change the initial tempo set the Song Status to Rec Ready then press the TAP button a f...

Page 257: ... also be set at the top of each track s event list see The EVENT Page on page 8 36 Setting Initial Values For All Tracks An important last step before saving a finished song is to store initial values of Program Volume and Pan for all tracks This can be done at any time but is best done as a last step if you plan to make a lot of adjustments to these settings To write initial settings for all trac...

Page 258: ...ngs for a track For example an initial Pan setting will reset any Pan adjustments that you make during playback each time the song is stopped and played from the start of bar 1 or if the song is stopped and played from any point if the Control Chase parameter set to On on the Song MISC page see The MISC Page on page 8 17 If you plan to try out different pan positions it is easier if you write an i...

Page 259: ...essages CC 10 received while in Program Mode Locate The Bar and Beat displayed as the Locate value changes to show the current location of the song during playback and recording You can set this to a negative Bar and Beat location to start playback a set length of time before the beginning of the song Whenever you set the Locate point that location will be used as the return point when Stop is pre...

Page 260: ...d Time Out parameters With the Record Mode parameter set to Unloop any existing tracks will be played back as if they were looping from the Time In to the Time Out point but they are actually being re recorded linearly over absolute Bars and Beats until you press Stop UnLoop allows you to record a linear track over a short looping section without first having to copy the section over and over agai...

Page 261: ...tivity Indicators are small squares with a colored circle in the middle During playback and recording the circle will flash when any MIDI events are executed When the Overdub Mode parameter is set to Merge the circle in the square will turn red for any track that has the Track Status Indicator set to record R When the Overdub Mode parameter is set to Erase the circle in the square will turn gray f...

Page 262: ... track since that s the most recent Program Change command received on that channel Drum Track Any of the song s tracks can be defined as a Drum Track so that their Note events do not get transposed if transposition is applied when using the track as a riff in a Multi see RIFF Page on page 7 31 and Transpose Root Note on page 7 32 With tracks designated as drum tracks you can transpose a whole son...

Page 263: ...ck s settings whenever a song is loaded Initial values for each track can be seen at the top of the Event page When recording to an unused track the track s Pan and Vol parameters will have an initial value of none An initial value of none allows you to try different Pan and Volume settings for the track without having the track return to specific initial values Once you have decided on the Pan an...

Page 264: ... after you have recorded to a track make sure the song is stopped press the RECORD button to change the song status to Rec Ready select a different Program then press the RECORD soft button again to change the song status to Stopped Make sure to save the initial Program setting by saving the song before exiting song mode or selecting another song Pan Vol and Prog Automation Pan Vol and Prog settin...

Page 265: ... Button Press the KEEP soft button to view the Keep dialog which allows you to capture the current values for each track s program panning and volume as the initial values After using the Keep dialog remember to save the song if you want these changes to be permanent If you don t use the Keep dialog tracks will not have initial program panning and volume values unless they are manually set for eac...

Page 266: ...ore starting playback This ensures that the volume panning program changes and other controllers for the song are correct regardless of where you start the song With Control Chase set to Off the sequencer behaves as previously described Key Wait With Key Wait set to on a key strike will trigger playback of a sequence if the play pause button is armed or trigger recording of a sequence if the recor...

Page 267: ...ng With Metronome set to CountOff the metronome plays only during count off if the CountOff parameter is set to something other than Off Count Off This parameter determines the number of measures the PC4 will count off before recording With Start Only selected the PC4 will only count off at the beginning of a sequence With Always selected the PC4 will count off from any point in a sequence Program...

Page 268: ...ts When calculating Event Statistics a pair of note on and note off events are considered a single event All other events are stored as single events on the PC4 The Event Statistics fields are Max Events The maximum number of notes events in memory Free Events The number of notes events that are free Song Events The total number of events including notes in the current song Used Events The total n...

Page 269: ...to Off all notes are ignored during recording playback With Notes set to On only the notes within the specified note range with velocities within specified velocity range are recorded played Key Range Low High Key Range Low and High determine the lowest and highest keys that will be recorded played back when Notes is set to On Velocity Range Low High Velocity Range Low and High determine the lowes...

Page 270: ...ch Bend This parameter enables disables pitch bend events to be recorded played back Program Change This parameter enables disables program changes to be recorded played back this includes Controllers 0 and 32 bank change Mono Pressure This parameter enables disables monophonic key pressure events to be recorded played back Poly Pressure This parameter enables disables polyphonic key pressure even...

Page 271: ... Mode does not have an AuxFX Ch parameter Instead in Song Mode the Aux 1 and 2 Chains are determined by the FX Track parameter on the Song Mode MAIN page see FX Track on page 8 12 for details The program in the selected FX Track determines the Aux Chains of the current song unless an override chain is selected See FX Page on page 7 27 for details ...

Page 272: ...e for each function For example Quantize and Transpose apply only to notes while Remap applies only to Controllers The Locate parameter is always positioned on the bottom left of the page Note Before using any of the track functions it is a good idea to save your song if you have previously made any unsaved changes that you would like to keep After applying a track function there is no way to undo...

Page 273: ...lers MonoPress PitchBend ProgChange PolyPress Some event types are available only for certain Functions When Events is set to All all MIDI events on the track s you are editing that occur in the region of time between the From and To settings will be affected by the edit function When Events is set to Notes note number and velocity ranges can be set for Note events Some Functions may not provide v...

Page 274: ...e of To in a similar fashion If you haven t selected either the From or To parameter pressing FROM TO during playback updates From or To or both depending on the current playback location the value of the Locate parameter at the time you press FROM TO If you press it while the Locate value is earlier in the song than the current To value the PC4 updates the From value If you press FROM TO again wi...

Page 275: ...l tracks then the destination track will be All tracks as well Location Bars Beats Ticks Use the Location parameter to specify a bar beat and tick location in the destination track where the copied events will be placed If the length of the copied region extends from the Location point beyond the song s existing End point a new End point is defined Mode Merge Erase Slide The Mode setting determine...

Page 276: ...e recorder Bounce will always put the copied events at the same place in time on the Destination Track that they were on the source track Destination Track 1 to 16 Select a destination track for the bounced events with the Destination Track parameter Bounced events will be placed in the destination track at the events original location Mode Merge Erase The Mode setting determines whether the bounc...

Page 277: ...ce of blank tape to an existing segment of recording tape Location Bars Beats Ticks Use the Location parameter to specify a bar beat and tick location in the destination track where the blank time will be inserted Events that occur on or after this Bar and Beat are offset by the length of the blank time being inserted Amount Bars Beats Ticks Use the Amount parameter to set the number of blank Bars...

Page 278: ...g This function is different from the erase function because not only does it remove the events from the selected time it will delete the entire selected range of time from the song modifying the song s End point appropriately on all tracks This is similar to cutting a section out of a tape and splicing the ends ...

Page 279: ...is setting determines the size of the Quantize grid expressed as a fraction of a Bar with a 4 4 meter Set Grid to 1 1 for whole note grid 1 16 for sixteenth notes All of the standard note durations and every fractional Bar divisions in between are available as the size of the Quantize grid Swing 100 to 125 The Swing percentage is applied to the quantize grid 0 swing is straight time 100 produces a...

Page 280: ...of bars beats and ticks Events can not be shifted before Bar 1 Beat 1 Tick 0 Amount Bars Beats Ticks The Amount parameter specifies the number of bars beats and ticks that the selected MIDI events are moved forward or backward in time Mode Merge Erase The Mode setting determines whether the shifted events merge with or erase existing events ...

Page 281: ...se function to change the MIDI Note numbers of the selected Note events Semitone 128 to 127 semitones An increment of one semitone represents a change of one MIDI Note number You can transpose Note events only within the range of MIDI Note numbers 0 to 127 ...

Page 282: ...selected track is All tracks then the destination track will be All tracks as well No matter what channel the current track source track in the source song is set to when you use the grab function the events will be played on the destination track s channel Location Bars Beats Ticks Use the Location parameter to specify a bar beat and tick location in the destination track where the grabbed events...

Page 283: ...entage Values can be scaled from 0 to 20 000 Offset 128 to 127 Offset can be used alone or in conjunction with Scale to add or subtract a set amount to or from the original or scaled values Values for velocities can not be less than 1 or greater than 127 Values for controllers can not be less than 0 or greater than 127 For example to set all Velocities to a value of 55 you would set Scale to 0 mul...

Page 284: ...nd Offset will be applied You can set Mode to NegRamp to achieve the opposite dynamic effect of PosRamp NegRamp works in the same way but the amount of Scale and Offset applied will decrease from the full amount to little or no change as the song approaches the bar beat and tick defined in the To parameter Remap Use the Remap function to apply values from existing controller events to another cont...

Page 285: ... events you will hear the note played although the duration will be short If you have scrolled through a Sustain CTRL 64 message with a value of 127 then you will hear the note sustain as if the sustain pedal was depressed The note will continue to sustain until you scroll through a Sustain message with a value of 0 You can also jump directly to a specific bar and beat by typing the bar number and...

Page 286: ...The first column represents the Bar and Beat Locations of the different events in a song Scroll through the events on the selected track s with the Alpha Wheel or type a specific Bar and Beat on the alphanumeric button pad to jump to events occurring on that Beat A quick way to jump to the End point in a track is to press 9999 and then Enter on the alphanumeric button pad Bar Beat and Tick Bar Bea...

Page 287: ...a vAt Release Velocity indicated by a vRl and Note Length Len Note Name Number C 1 to G 9 Attack Velocity vAt 0 to 127 Release Velocity vRl 0 to 127 Note Length Len Bar Beats Ticks MIDI Controller Events CTRL Controller events have two editable values Controller Type and Controller Value Defined controllers are referred to by their names Controller Type Control Source List 0 to 127 Controller Valu...

Page 288: ...access the tempo track use the CHANNEL LAYER ZONE TRACK buttons to navigate to track 1 then press the CHANNEL LAYER ZONE TRACK down button The tempo track functions the same as the other tracks except the only event type available is tempo change Beat Subdivisions in Ticks In song mode each quarter note is divided into 960 ticks 0 959 which allows for unquantized performances to keep their origina...

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Page 290: ...is Global Mode also allows you to Store Load and Delete User objects or restore factory defaults by performing a Reset To enter Global Mode from another Mode press and turn on the GLOBAL Mode button MAIN1 Page The MAIN1 page in Global Mode allows you to adjust global tuning effects settings display and navigation settings and other basic global parameters ...

Page 291: ...he Program or Multi name with large text along with the category name and background image Quick Access view shows the names of 10 favorite Programs and or Multis which can be selected by pressing the corresponding numbers on the Keypad To access more than 10 Programs Multis use the CHANNEL LAYER ZONE TRACK buttons to select a different Quick Access Bank The Quick Access view becomes smaller when ...

Page 292: ...tiple tracks channels of Song mode When Song Rechannel is set to Manual the Song mode Rec Track parameter will not be automatically changed when recording from Multi mode In this case you must manually set the Song Mode Rec Track and Track Status parameters This can be useful if you wish to exclude certain Zones Channels of a Multi from being recorded into a Song when recording an overdub or Punch...

Page 293: ...by the PC4 s physical controllers See the About Effects Chain Mods section below for more details In Multi Mode if a Multi is selected which has its Audio Input Mode set to Use Global Mode Effects any Mods assigned within the selected Audio Input Chain can be controlled by controllers assigned in a Zone set to the same MIDI channel as the current setting for the Multi s AuxFX Ch parameter See the ...

Page 294: ...itch 3 MIDI CC 82 Slider 2 MIDI CC 13 Variation Button MIDI CC 29 Switch 4 MIDI CC 83 Knob 5 MIDI CC 14 Sw Pedal 1a MIDI CC 64 Switch 5 MIDI CC 85 Knob 6 MIDI CC 17 Sw Pedal 1b MIDI CC 66 Switch 6 MIDI CC 86 Knob 7 MIDI CC 18 Sw Pedal 2a MIDI CC 66 Switch 7 MIDI CC 87 Ribbon Section 1 MIDI CC 21 Sw Pedal 2b MIDI CC 67 Switch 8 MIDI CC 89 Slider 3 MIDI CC 22 Knob 1 MIDI CC 71 Switch 9 MIDI CC 90 Au...

Page 295: ...i has more than 4 Zones some of this information will not be displayed Zone Solo status The Solo icon turns white for any not soloed Zone The Solo icon turns red for any soloed Zone Zone On status The On icon turns white for any Zone that is not active muted The On icon turns green for any Zone that is active not muted if it has a MIDI destination which includes LOCAL The On icon turns orange for ...

Page 296: ...Pair B Mode The B Audio Outputs can either be used as a second set of stereo auxiliary outputs by setting this parameter to Normal or they can be used to mirror the main A Audio Outputs by setting this parameter to Mirror Primary Outputs By default this parameter is set to Normal Audio Out S M The audio outputs are normally used as a stereo pair however the PC4 can be operated in Mono mode by plug...

Page 297: ...acklighting on Set the LEDs Mode parameter to Partial to turn the LED backlighting off MAIN2 Page The MAIN2 page in Global Mode allows you to velocity and intonation settings as well as other global controller settings Velocity Map The Velocity Map parameter determines the way the PC4 generates MIDI velocity information Different maps generate different MIDI velocity values for the same physical k...

Page 298: ... to play but allows more sensitive control over playing high velocities by not boosting the MIDI velocity for fast strike velocities as much as it does for medium strike velocities GM Receive Mimics the velocity response commonly used by keyboards that use the General MIDI GM sound set The GM Receive map makes medium strike velocities produce higher MIDI velocities compared to the Linear map Key V...

Page 299: ... to produce high MIDI pressure values with Easiest being the easiest Linear The PC4 default map Linear allows MIDI pressure aftertouch to pass unchanged It follows a linear response Hard Harder Hardest Makes it increasingly harder to produce high MIDI pressure values with Hardest requiring most pressure Press S Override In addition to the Pressure Map parameter Press S Override provides fine adjus...

Page 300: ...andard for modern western music 2 Just Tunings are defined based on the ratios of the frequencies between intervals The original tuning of Classical European music 3 Just b7th Similar to Just but with the Dominant 7th flatted an additional 15 cents 4 Harmonic The perfect 4th Tritone and Dominant 7th are heavily flatted 5 JustHarm Approximation of a historical intonation 6 Werkmeister Named for its...

Page 301: ...n to bring up the save dialog which allows you to rename the map and choose an ID to save to Edited user intonation maps can be saved to IDs 32 127 Press the Exit soft button to return to the Global Main 2 page without saving your changes When exiting the editor it will automatically give you the option to save the map if changes have been made Int Key Intonation Key This sets the tonic or base no...

Page 302: ...A pedal see the Rotary Override section below for details The alternative assignments available for the Switch Pedal Overrides include the standard pedal controls of Sustain Sostenuto and Soft as well as Data Inc Data Dec Quick Acc Inc and Quick Acc Dec which can be used to change Programs Multis or Quick Access spots by using a pedal Use the Data Inc and Data Dec assignments data increment decrem...

Page 303: ...ain Sostenuto or Soft the pedal will behave in Multi Mode as if Pedal Type is set to Momentary this will not be shown in Multi Edit Mode When set to Data Inc Data Dec Quick Acc Inc or Quick Acc Dec the pedal will behave in Multi Mode as if Pedal Type is set to Toggle this will not be shown in Multi Edit Mode CC Pedal Overrides In a similar manner to Switch Pedal Overrides the CC Pedal Override par...

Page 304: ...age 9 15 FX Master FX Page Press the FX soft button to view the Master FX page The Master FX page contains master EQ and compressor settings When the master EQ or compressor is enabled all PC4 audio is processed by these effects ...

Page 305: ... cabinet By default all storage devices have at least one root directory To organize files in a USB device you can create additional directories as well as subdirectories within directories Directories appear in the file list with the indicator DIR to the right of the directory name Path When you choose the STORE or LOAD soft buttons on the Storage Page you will have to choose exactly where in the...

Page 306: ... plugged into the PC4 Store All Press the ALL soft button to store all user objects into a single file or press CANCEL to return to the previous page After pressing STORE you must select a directory and file name with the Select Directory dialogue see below for details The PC4 stores files using the file extension PC4 Store Advanced Press the ADVANCED soft button to go to the Storage Advanced page...

Page 307: ... keypad alpha wheel Previous Next buttons Left and Right navigation buttons and soft buttons Press the OK soft button to finish the operation LOAD Use the LOAD page to load compatible files from a storage device To view the load page plug a USB storage device into the PC4 and press the LOAD soft button Use the navigation buttons Previous Next buttons or the Alpha Wheel to browse the files in the s...

Page 308: ...ded 8 or 16 bit with sample rates up to a maximum of 96000 Hz Once samples are loaded to the PC4 s user sample flash memory samples remain in the PC4 even when the power is off until they are manually deleted Also once samples are loaded to the PC4 s user sample flash memory there is no load time for those user samples when turning on the PC4 To load a user audio file select a WAV or AIF file from...

Page 309: ...PLE SPX and SYX files When loading file types other than PC4 the PC4 will attempt a conversion of the objects in those files The PC4 can often exactly match the sound and function of the original objects In some cases object parameters may not be converted and must be adjusted by the user after conversion see below for details Importing Program Objects When importing a Program object from a P3A P3...

Page 310: ... BazZ 4103 VA1 Lead Suppose you were to load a PC4 file containing the following Programs File to be Loaded Program ID Program Name 4097 Synth Horn 4098 NYJazzy 4099 Saxxy 4100 Stabbatha The two tables below show the results if you use FILL from 4096 or OVWRITE with the User Bank PC4 after using FILL PC4 after using OVWRITE Program ID Program Name Program ID Program Name 4096 3rd World Order 4096 ...

Page 311: ...t like filters so if the Multi Mode Destination parameter is set to USB MIDI LOCAL and the Global Mode parameter is set to LOCAL the MIDI data will only be transmitted locally If you want to play the PC4 but not send any MIDI information to other MIDI instruments then select LOCAL If you want to use the PC4 strictly as a MIDI controller for the other modules in your MIDI chain using the MIDI port ...

Page 312: ...when you ve released all currently held notes Choose Immediate to indicate that you want such changes to happen immediately when you select the Multi Bank Select The Bank Mode parameter determines the controller number with which MIDI Bank change messages are received For MIDI Bank change messages various manufacturers have chosen different MIDI controller numbers Most have chosen Ctl 0 Ctl 32 or ...

Page 313: ... Zones of a Multi to be played simultaneously from an external MIDI keyboard transmitting on a single MIDI channel or a single MIDI channel of a sequencer with split and layered Zones laid out across the external MIDI keyboard To do this set Local Kbd Chan to the same MIDI channel that your external MIDI keyboard or sequencer is transmitting If you are not using an external MIDI device to play Mul...

Page 314: ...ode Clock Source With the Clock Source parameter set to Internal PC4 plays using its own Tempo If you wish to sync the PC4 to the tempo of an external device use the External setting Output Clock To send a MIDI clock pulse to the USB and MIDI Out ports set this parameter to On Otherwise set it to Off Receive MMC Receive MIDI Machine Control Use the Receive MMC parameter to enable or disable receiv...

Page 315: ... the list Press the MOVE soft button to move the selected objects to a different ID Press the DELETE soft button to delete the selected objects Press the OPTIONS soft button to view the Options page The Options page allows you select objects by ID range and type as well as adding dependent objects to the currently selected objects On the Options page press the SET soft button to select objects bas...

Page 316: ...les For details see Store All on page 9 17 Hard Reset on page 9 32 and LOAD on page 9 18 PREVIEW Sample Preview Press the PREVIEW button to go to the Sample Preview page The Sample Preview page can be used to automatically make a new keymap and Program using any sample or group of sample roots factory or user samples Programs created with the preview function are saved in Program Mode This allows ...

Page 317: ...el The Prog parameter allows you to view and change the Program number of each Channel The Pan and Vol parameters allow you to view and adjust the left right panning MIDI CC 10 and channel volume MIDI CC 7 of each Channel You can also use sliders 1 8 to view and adjust the channel volume of the 8 currently displayed channels The lock symbol next to each Prog Pan and Vol parameter allows you to loc...

Page 318: ...h Program s arpeggiator as well as the rate of any tempo synced LFOs or Insert or Aux effects that each program may use Most programs will default to using the System Tempo though some programs may be programmed use their own tempo for details see Tempo on page 3 23 All programs can be set to use the System Tempo by setting the Global Mode Program Tempo parameter to System For details see Program ...

Page 319: ...ime The MIDI OUT Scope page allows you to view MIDI messages sent from the PC4 while the MIDI IN Scope page allows you to view MIDI messages received by the PC4 The MIDI OUT Scope page is useful for making sure controls are assigned as you want them checking note velocities and checking controller values or other MIDI messages The MIDI IN Scope page is useful for checking MIDI messages sent to the...

Page 320: ...airs of voices as an S Whatever symbol the page displays when the key of a voice is released that voice s symbol on the Voices Status page turns into a D during the release portion of that voice s envelope When the voice decays to silence it is no longer active and the D disappears The Voice Status page gives you an indication of the current envelope segment of each voice This can give you a valua...

Page 321: ...lobal mode settings to their factory defaults User objects are not deleted Press the SOFT soft button to perform a soft reset Hard Reset A Hard Reset restores all Global mode settings to their factory defaults and deletes all User objects Press the HARD soft button to perform a hard reset Caution Hard Reset will delete all User objects All User objects that you wish to save should be saved to an e...

Page 322: ...which retains information without power Common Problems Below is a list of the most commonly encountered problems and diagnoses for each Power Problems This is the normal power up sequence 1 The display backlight turns on 2 Loading appears on the display for a few seconds 3 The PC4 enters Program Mode with Program 1 selected or the Program that was selected the last time Global mode was exited If ...

Page 323: ...ferent wall outlet power strip or extension cord If there s evidence of the unit receiving power but operation is abnormal check if one of the following might be the issue ISSUE The wall outlet voltage is below 90 volts due to overload REMEDY Try a different outlet on a different circuit Display Brightness ISSUE The Display is blank or difficult to read REMEDY Slowly turn the Display brightness kn...

Page 324: ...DY Slowly turn the volume control up ISSUE The signal source selection on the audio system or mixer is incorrect REMEDY Set the volume of the audio or mixer to the lowest level select the correct signal source and then slowly turn up the volume ISSUE The audio cables are not securely plugged into the PC4 audio system or mixer REMEDY Set the volume of the audio or mixer to the lowest level securely...

Page 325: ...see Panic on page 1 16 Finally slowly turn up the volume level of the audio system or mixer ISSUE The current Multi has another controller assigned to volume and it is turned down REMEDY Select a different Multi Or change the problematic controller setting by editing the Multi in Multi Edit Mode ISSUE The audio system input is set for low impedance instead of high impedance REMEDY Set the volume o...

Page 326: ...hat of the receiving device REMEDY Change the channel on either the PC4 or on the device such that the channels match If there are problems with the internal sound module receiving MIDI from an external device like a computer sequencer check if one of the following might be the issue ISSUE The MIDI transmit channel of the transmitting device does not match that of the receiving Program or Zone on ...

Page 327: ...tup Other Problems If your problem is not covered in this chapter or if none of the suggestions seem to work be sure to check Kurzweil s website for additional PC4 information that may have been published since this manual was written www kurzweil com If you still have problems contact Kurzweil support in your country or at www kurzweil com support You may also find unofficial help at some of the ...

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Page 329: ...ch Keys X O Channels O O Pitch Bender O O Control Change O 0 31 32 63 LSB 64 127 O 0 31 32 63 LSB 64 127 Controller assignments are programmable Program Change 0 to 2 097 151 0 511 Standard and custom formats True 0 127 0 127 System Exclusive O O System Common Song Pos X X Song Sel X X Tune X X System Real Time Clock O O Messages O O Aux Messages Local Control O O All Notes Off O O Active Sense X ...

Page 330: ...l sliders 9 knobs 9 switch buttons assignable zone mutes KB3 control Variation button Tempo Section Tempo Knobs and Tap Tempo button Transport Section Stop Play Pause Record Locate Arpeggiator On Off button 2 switch pedal inputs each supporting single switch pedal or single half damper pedal 2 continuous control pedal inputs 2 Transpose buttons Ribbon Input Analog Outputs Four 1 4 TRS Balanced Out...

Page 331: ...8 Bend Up ST 7 8 Brightness 10 2 Bump 7 10 7 18 Buttons Double Press Panic 2 8 10 4 Program Demo 1 16 C Cascade Mode 3 76 Category 3 17 CATEGORY Buttons 1 6 Category Default See Default Category CC Jack 1 2 CC number 3 11 CC VOLUME Jack 1 10 Chain 4 5 4 6 7 28 Chain Info 4 6 to 4 7 Change Multis Parameter 9 23 Channel 2 8 7 7 7 22 10 5 9 24 A 1 CHANNEL PAGE Buttons 1 8 Channel Parameter 7 7 Chorus...

Page 332: ...le Name 9 18 Files Load Fill 9 18 Loading 7 7 7 8 7 15 9 18 Load Overwrite 9 18 Saving See Store FILL 9 18 9 21 Filters 4 19 Flanger 4 17 Flash Drive See USB Flash Drive Freeze Pedal 3 47 Front Panel 1 5 FX See Effects Mod controller 4 6 FX Mode Parameter 9 2 FX Page 3 13 FX Select A 1 G Gates 4 16 General MIDI Velocity Map 9 9 Global Mode 9 1 9 22 Global Parameters 7 6 Globals 3 20 H Half Damper ...

Page 333: ... 1 10 4 Program 2 1 to 2 10 MODE Buttons 1 6 Mode Parameter 7 14 7 17 MOD Pages 4 3 MODULATION WHEEL 1 7 Mod Wheel 7 20 Momentary 7 14 mono 9 31 Mono A 1 Monopressure 1 2 Mono Pressure 7 22 9 10 A 1 Mono Switch Pedal See SW1 See SW2 Multi Controllers 9 7 Multi Edit Mode 2 8 6 8 7 1 10 4 Multis 6 1 to 6 13 Deleting See Deleting User Multis Parameters List See Zone Parameters Saving 2 7 6 8 6 9 Zone...

Page 334: ... 7 25 Rotating Speakers 4 21 Rvrs Compress 7 10 Rvrs Crossfade 7 10 Rvrs Expand 7 10 Rvrs Linear 7 10 S Samples 5 2 3 40 to 3 65 3 73 3 2 5 4 5 13 Save 2 10 6 8 6 10 See Multis Saving See Program Sav ing See Store SAVE Button 1 8 Saving arpeggiator patterns 3 22 keymap 5 7 samples 5 14 user multi 5 1 Scale Parameter 7 17 7 26 Select Directory Dialogue 9 18 Selecting Modes See Mode Buttons Objects ...

Page 335: ... 1 Type Parameter 7 14 U USB MIDI 9 3 9 22 USB Port 7 6 USB Ports 1 9 User Bank 9 21 User Multis 6 2 V Value 3 8 Variation Button 7 21 VARIATION Button 1 7 VAST Dynamic VAST 3 51 VelCurve Parameter 7 10 VelMode Parameter 7 9 Velocity 7 22 A 1 Tracking 3 40 3 116 Velocity Map 9 8 Velocity Parameter 7 15 VelOffset Parameter 7 9 VelScale Parameter 7 9 Vibrato 4 23 VOICES 9 31 Volume 2 7 7 20 7 21 9 3...