Alesis QS8, QS7 manual Choosing Programs in a MIX

Your First Session: Chapter 2

CHOOSING PROGRAMS IN A MIX

In this section, we will choose Programs for the 16 channels in a Mix, for playing back tracks from a MIDI sequencer. There are many other aspects of a Mix we may wish to edit, however. Refer to Chapter 5 for more information about Mix editing.

You do not have to access Mix Edit Mode to select Programs for a Mix (i.e. you don’t have to press the [EDIT SELECT] button). Instead, you simply use a two step process:

A)Use the [ PAGE] and [PAGE] buttons to select one of the 16 channels in the Mix.

B)Use a combination of the [ BANK] and [BANK] buttons, the [00] – [120] buttons and the [0] – [9] buttons to choose a Program for the selected channel.

Here’s the process broken down into simpler steps:

¿Press [MIX] and select Mix 00 from the GenMIDI Bank using one of the methods described on page 16.

MIX GenMIDI ºº

GM Multi ´´´´

¡ Press [PAGE].

The display will look like this:
Channel		Bank	Program Number
	Ø	Ø	Ø

CHå: GenMIDI ºº

GrandPiano ´´´´

≠

Program Name

The [ PAGE] and [PAGE] buttons are used to select one of the 16 channels in the Mix.

The actual channel number (shown in the display at half-size) will be whatever channel was last selected. In the illustration above, channel 1 is shown. If the

channel number in your display is not “å” (1), press both [ PAGE] and [PAGE] buttons simultaneously to select channel 1.

¬Use the [ BANK] and [BANK] buttons to select a Program Bank.

√Use the [00] – [120] buttons to select a Program Group. Example: Press [00] for pianos, [20] for organs, etc.

ƒUse the [0] – [9] buttons to select a Program.

≈Press [PAGE] to select to the next channel up.

If channel 1 had been selected, pressing [PAGE] will select channel 2.

ΔRepeat steps ¬ – ≈ as needed to select Programs for the remaining channels.

J	Changes you make to a Mix are temporary and will be lost if another Mix is selected.
	To make changes permanent, you must store the Mix into the User bank (see next
	page).

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