Alesis QS7, QS8 manual Enabling General Midi Mode, Using the Pcmcia Expansion Card Slots

Chapter 2: Your First Session

STORING AN EDITED MIX

Once you have made changes to a Mix, you will need to store the Mix into the User Bank; that is, if you want to keep the changes you have made. The User Bank is designed to hold up to 100 (00 – 99) of your custom-made Mixes. Whenever you store an edited Mix, the User Bank is automatically selected. All you have to do is select a Program location (00 – 127) within the User Bank to store the edited Mix into. However, if an SRAM Sound Card is inserted into the Sound Card Slot on the rear panel of the QS, you may select any of the available Banks on the Sound Card to save the edited Mix into.

¿Press [STORE].

This selects Store Mode. The display will look like this:

SaveMix? (STORE)

to USER 12
≠	≠
(Mix Bank)	(Mix Number)

The Mix Number will be the identical to the last Mix number selected.

¡Optional: If a Sound Card is inserted, Use the [s VALUE] button to select a Bank on the Sound Card.

¬Use the [0] – [9] and [00] – [120] buttons to select a Mix location (00 – 99) within the selected Bank.

The selected Bank and Mix number location will appear in the display.

√Press [STORE] to save the Mix into the selected location.

The Mix has now been stored, and the display will revert back to whatever was shown before [STORE] was pressed the first time.

ENABLING GENERAL MIDI MODE

If you are using a General MIDI sequencer, and/or playing a sequence that is programmed to take advantage of General MIDI, turn the “General MIDI” function in the QS on.

¿Press [EDIT SELECT], then press [GLOBAL]. The display will now be in Global Edit Mode.

¡Press [PAGE] 6 times to advance to page 7.

This selects the General MIDI parameter in the display.

¬Press the [s VALUE] button.

This turns on General MIDI mode, and automatically puts you into Mix Play Mode with Mix 00 of Preset Bank 4 selected. This display should look like this:

MIX GenMIDI ºº

GM Multi ´´´´

For more information about General MIDI, refer to the MIDI Supplement in Appendix B.

USING THE PCMCIA EXPANSION CARD SLOTS

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