Alesis Q20 Comparing an Edited Program to its Original Settings, Restoring an Edited Program to its Original Settings

Chapter 2 - Your First Session with the Q20

➇Use the [< BLOCK >] buttons to select other Blocks, and adjust their levels, as described above.

✪Mix parameters affect the Program and are only temporary unless the Program is stored into memory before a another Program is recalled. See later in this Chapter for more about comparing and storing edited Programs.

Comparing an Edited Program to its Original Settings

PROGRAM

EDITED

The left side of the display always indicates the currently selected Program. Once a Program has been edited, the word ÒEDITEDÓ appears in the lower left part of the display, just below the Program Number indicator. If the [PROGRAM] button is pressed (the [PROGRAM] buttonÕs LED will light), the display will also indicate the Program has been altered from its stored version by flashing the Program number and name in the upper section of the display.

By pressing [COMPARE], you can temporarily access the original version of the Program you are editing; that is, the last Program saved to the currently selected location number. This allows you to hear the differences created by changing parameters in the Program.

While you are in Compare mode, the [COMPARE] buttonÕs LED will be lit. Also, you cannot adjust any of the Type, Routing, Parameter, Modulation settings. However, you can move around the various pages and view these original settings and therefore see the actual differences in settings you have changed.

Pressing [COMPARE] a second time exits Compare mode; the [COMPARE] buttonÕs LED will turn off and the edited version of the Program will be accessed. You can go in and out of Compare mode as often as you like, as long as the display indicates ÒEDITEDÓ (i.e., if the Program hasnÕt been edited yet, there is nothing to compare it to).

Restoring an Edited Program to its Original Settings

If you decide to abort the changes you have made to a Program, this can be done in two easy steps.

To restore an edited Program to its previous, unedited version:

➀Press [PROGRAM] to select Program mode.

The [PROGRAM] buttonÕs LED will light, and the display will flash the selected Program number and name.

➁Press the [VALUE/ENTER] button.

This recalls the last stored version of the currently selected Program number, and the word ÒEDITEDÓ disappears from the display. Consequently, any changes you had made to the Program before recalling are lost. unless you stored the edited Program into memory.

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