Kurzweil Music Systems PC2X User's Manual

Kurzweil

Musician’s Guide Supplement

PC2

For Version 3.0 Operating System Software

Series

April 1, 2002

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change without notice.

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Version 3 Software for the PC2

Introduction

Thanks for your interest in Version 3.0 operating system software for your PC2. V ersion 3 works
in all models of the PC2. Before installing your new software, please read this document (or at
least the introduction) carefully.

The main feature of Version 3 software is support for the PCR-1 sound expansion option
(Orchestral and General MIDI 1 programs/setups). In addition, Version 3 fixes a few known
bugs in the operating system and soundware, and introduces new features that make the PC2
easier to use.

What’s In This Document

• Do I Need Version 3? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

• Installing the Version 3 Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

• PC2 Version 3 Operating System Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

• Bug Fixes Since Version 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Do I Need Version 3?

If your PC2 has the PCR-1 option, you already have Version 3 operating system software, and
you don’t need this update. The files you downloaded from our website are the same as those
on the CD-ROM that comes with the PCR-1 option.

If you have Version 1 or Version 2 operating system software in your PC2, and you’ve been
affected by an operating-system bug that you can’t work around, Version 3 may fix it (see Bug

Fixes Since Version 2 on page 11 for a description of bug fixes in Version 3).

If you haven’t been having any problems, you don’t need to install Version 3, but you may want
to install it anyway to keep your instrument up to date. Bear in mind, however, that the General
MIDI features described in this document aren’t relevant unless you’ve installed the PCR-1
option.

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Version 3 Software for the PC2

Installing the Version 3 Operating System

Installing the Version 3 Operating System

We’re assuming that all the files you’ll be installing are already loaded to your sequencer or
computer. If this isn’t the case, make sure that all the files that you downloaded from our
website are unzipped (uncompressed) and accessible.

Updating to Version 3 involves completing six tasks:

• Preparing your sequencer

• Saving objects (optional, but recommended)

• Launching the boot block

• Installing the operating system (OS) file

• Installing the basic soundware objects

• Performing a hard reset

Preparing Y our Sequencer

You’ll need either a standalone sequencer, or a personal computer with a MIDI interface and
sequencing software.

1. Connect a MIDI cable from your sequencer’s or computer’s MIDI Out port to the PC2’s
MIDI In port.

2. Launch the sequencer application.

Saving Objects

Updating the OS requires you to do a hard reset before resuming normal operations. This
deletes all user-defined information from the PC2’s memory. You should dump all user-defined
programs, setups, and effects to an external memory source (like a computer sequencer) before
updating your software. Otherwise, they’ll be lost.

See the programming chapter in your PC2 Musician’s Guide if you need information about
dumping programs and other objects.

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