Kurzweil PCR-1 User manual

Kurzweil PCR-1
Orchestral Expansion Board for the PC2
User’s Guide
March 1, 2002
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There are five sections in this User’s Guide:
• PC2 Version 3 Operating System Features . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
• Loading Program/Setup Files Into RAM . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
• PCR-1 Orchestral Program Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
• PCR-1 Orchestral Setup Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
• PCR-1 GM Program Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
PC2Version 3 Operating System Features
Many of the new features in the Version 3 operating system
support the programs and setups in the PCR-1 option. There
are several other new features as well, however. This section
describes all of the new features, which fall into the following
categories:
• GM Control Parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
• New Parameters for Displaying Software Versions. . . . . 8
• New Demo Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
• Using Sound Categories (PC2R only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
GM Control Parameters
PC2s with the Version 3 operating system and the PCR-1
option support General MIDI 1 (GM). You can turn on GM
mode and play any GM file using the PC2.
Note : For GM files to play correctly, the GM program set
must be present in the PC2—it can be in either ROM (Bank 2,
Exp1) or in RAM (Bank 1, User), but it has to be present.

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The parameters that control the PC2’s GM functions are in
the Global menu. There are three of them: General MIDI, GM
Bank, and GM FX Scale.
General MIDI
Use this parameter to turn GM mode on and off. Set the value
to On to activate GM mode; set the value to Off to return to
normal operation. When you turn your PC2 off, it remembers
whether GM mode was on, and starts up in the same state
the next time you turn the PC2 on.
You can also activate/deactivate GM mode with a System
Exclusive (SysEx) message to the PC2. To turn GM mode on
via SysEx, send this message:
F0 7E <
device ID > 09 01 F7
The value you use for < device ID > must match the value of
the Device ID parameter in the Global menu. By default it’s 0 ,
so unless you’ve changed it, your SysEx message should
include 00 for < device ID >. You can also use 7F as the Device
ID to broadcast to all receiving instruments.
To turn GM mode off via SysEx, send this message:
F0 7E < device ID > 09 02 F7
What HappensWhenYouTurn GM Mode On
When General MIDI is On , the PC2 sets all MIDI channels
(except Channel 10, the Drum channel) to play programs in
the bank where the GM programs are stored (Bank 2, Exp1 if
you installed the GM programs into ROM, or Bank 1, User if
you loaded them into RAM; see GM Bank below for more
information). Channel 10 plays programs in Bank 7; these are
drum programs, with program change numbers reconfigured
to match the GM specification.
To ensure the proper dynamic response to GM files, the PC2
adjusts the receive velocities using a specialized touch map.
If you have a PC2R, you’ll see this value if you select the
Touch parameter in the Global menu (it doesn’t show up on
keyboard models).

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Because GM handles effects levels differently, the PC2 scales
down the levels of FX Aand FX B. You can adjust the amount
of scaling manually, using the GM FX Scale parameter
(described on page 8).
What HappensWhenYouTurn GM Mode Off
When General MIDI is Off , all MIDI channels are reassigned
to play Bank 0 (Int), Program 000 . The programs in Bank 7
return to their normal configuration; the value of the Touch
parameter returns to its former value (which the PC2
remembers if you turn the power off); the effect levels return
to their former state.
GM Bank
The GM Bank parameter lets you manually specify the bank
where your GM programs are stored. The default value is
Auto , which means that when you turn GM mode on, the
PC2 checks for the GM programs and automatically sets all
MIDI channels (except 10) to play programs in the bank
where it finds the GM programs. The display shows you
which bank is found (Exp1) in the example below, so the
display looks like this:
||Global|Settings
|
GM|Bank|(Exp1):|Auto
|
You’ll almost never need to change the default value of Auto
for GM Bank. In fact, there’s only one such case: when
you’ve loaded your GM programs into RAM instead of
installing them into ROM, and you’ve deleted Program
127 Gunshot (which is the program the PC2 looks for when it
checks to see which bank contains the GM programs). In this
case, when you turn GM mode on, the PC2 is unable to select
the right bank automatically (and the GM Bank parameter
shows
None
in parentheses). Set the value of GM Bank to
User , forcing the PC2 to play the programs in the User bank,
The display still shows
(None)
for GM Bank, but you have
access to the GM programs.

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GM FX Scale
With this parameter you can control how much the effect
levels are reduced when you’re in GM mode (which is done
to make the effect levels consistent with GM instruments). By
default, the value is 25% , which means that the values of
Controllers 93 FXAWet and 91 FXBWet are multiplied by .25,
and the effects are 75% drier. Increase the value of
GM FX Scale to make the effects wetter; reduce it to make
them drier.
New Parameters for Displaying SoftwareVersions
The Global menu contains three new parameters:
Int Sound Ver, Exp1 Ver, and Exp2 Ver. These parameters
can’t be edited; they’re there to show the versions of the
soundware files installed in your PC2.
Int Sound Ver shows the version of the basic (Internal Voices)
soundware objects.
Exp1 Ver shows the version of the PCR-1 soundware file
(assuming it’s installed in ROM and not loaded in RAM); the
value of Exp1 Ver includes either
Orch
or
GM
to indicate
which program set is installed in ROM.
Exp2 Ver shows the version of the PCR-2 soundware file (the
PCR-2 option is not released as of this printing).
New Demo Features
We’ve added a few features to the PC2’s Demo mode. It’s
now easier to find and play the demo songs. You can also
load the songs into RAM, save (dump) them to an external
device (a computer sequencer application, for example), and
delete them from RAM.
Playing the Demos
1. Go into Demo mode. On keyboard models, press
Sound Select 14 and Sound Select 16 at the same time;
on rack-mount models, press the MIDI Receive and
Global buttons at the same time. The top line of the
display shows
DEMO:
followed by the ID and name of
the currently selected demo song.

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2. Use the Alpha Wheel or the Minus or Plus button to
select the demo to play.
3. Press Enter to play the current song, or Cancel to
return to a performance mode.
The IDs of the demo sequences correspond to the banks
where they’re stored:
Loading Demos into RAM
You can load PC2 demo songs into RAM by playing them
with a sequencer that’s connected to the PC2. The demos are
specialized .MID files that contain SysEx data. When you
play these files with your sequencer, the PC2 recognizes the
SysEx data and loads the songs into RAM.
The procedure for loading demos into RAM is similar to that
for loading program/setup files into RAM. For details, see
Loading Program/Setup Files Into RAM below
On the CD, the demo files are in the folder (directory) called
base_demo or pcr1_demo , which is in the folder called ram .
Deleting and Dumping Demos
You can delete demo songs to gain RAM space, and you can
dump them to files via SysEx so that you can load them again
at a later time without having to use the CD.
Note : The PC2 allows you to select ROM demos and execute
the delete function as if you were really deleting the ROM
demos. They don’t truly get deleted, however. You can
actually delete only those demos that you’ve loaded in RAM.
1. Go into Demo mode. On keyboard models, press
Sound Select 14 and Sound Select 16 at the same time;
on rack-mount models, press the MIDI Receive and
1–9 Bank 0 (Internal)
10–19 Bank 1 (User)
20–29 Bank 2(Exp1)
30–39 Bank 3 (Exp2) (for future release)

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Global buttons at the same time. The top line of the
display shows
DEMO:
followed by the ID and name of
the currently selected demo song.
2. Use the Alpha Wheel or the Minus or Plus button to
select the desired demo. If you’re going to dump the
demo, make sure you have a MIDI connection between
the MIDI Out of the PC2 and the MIDI In of the
receiving device.
3. Press Store (on keyboard models) or Edit/Store (on
rack-mount models). The PC2’s display asks you if you
want to delete the current demo.
4. Skip to Step 5 if you want to dump the demo.
Otherwise press
Enter to delete the demo. When it’s
gone, the display shows
Deleted!
If you decide not
to delete the demo, press Cancel instead of Enter ; this
returns you to Demo mode.
5. Press the Right cursor button. The display asks if you
want to dump the current demo.
6. Press Enter to start the dump. On keyboard models,
the LED in the MIDI Xmit button lights to indicate the
data flow. When the dump is finished, the display
shows
Demo|Dumped!
briefly, then returns to the
Dump|Demo?
prompt.
Using Sound Categories (PC2R only)
The PC2R doesn’t have the Sound Select buttons that are
featured on the keyboard models, but you can still make use
of the sound categories.
1. Press the Group/Menu button to display the list of
categories.
2. Use the Alpha Wheel to select a category.
3. Press Enter . This selects the first program in the
category, and returns the display to normal.
The length of the list of categories depends on which set of
programs you’ve installed in ROM/loaded in RAM. When
you install/load the GM set, 16 new categories appear in a
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(which is near the end of the list). When you install/load the
Orchestral set, 16 new categories are inserted at different
points within the list of Internal categories. Unlike the GM
categories, the orchestral categories aren’t just inserted in a
continuous block; they’re organized so that they’re listed
with similar categories (for example, all the non-GM string
categories appear next to each other in the list).
Loading Program/Setup Files Into RAM
The set of programs you’re going to use most—Orchestral or
GM—is the set you should install in ROM. That way the
programs/setups will always be available, even if you do a
hard reset.
Whichever set you decide to install in ROM, you can still
have access to the other set of programs, by loading them
into RAM. This set of programs stays in RAM until you load
something else into RAM or do a hard reset.
Caution : Loading files into RAM replaces some or all of the
objects already stored there. When you load the GM set into
RAM, it replaces all the programs in the User bank. When
you load the Orchestral set, it replaces all the programs in the
User bank, as well as Setups 001 – 032 in the User bank. If you
don’t want to lose these programs and setups, you should
dump (save) them before loading See your instrument’s
User’s Guide for instructions.
1. Connect a MIDI cable from the MIDI Out of your
computer or sequencer to the MIDI In of the PC2.
2. Insert the PC2 CD into the CD-ROM drive of your
computer or sequencer.
3. Launch your sequencer application if necessary.
4. Save (dump) any programs in the User bank that you
want to keep, because they’ll be erased when you load
the MIDI file (this also applies to Setups 001 –032 in the
User bank if you load the Orchestral program set).
5. Open the MIDI file that you want to load in RAM, The
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file’s name is GMRAM.mid. Please note that these are
not the same files as the ROM versions.
6. Play the MIDI file. The file’s contents automatically get
loaded in RAM. The LED in the MIDI Recv button
lights to indicate the data flow.
7. Turn your instrument off, then on again (or do a soft
reset; don’t do a hard reset). Always do this when you
load one of these files into RAM. This enables the
instrument to reinitialize with the proper sound and
program information.
Note: If your instrument has the PCX-1 Polyphony
Expansion Option, the initialization described in Step 7 takes
several seconds. The PC2’s display indicates the progress of
the initialization.