Alesis QS7, QS8 manual Selecting AN Effects Patch in MIX Mode, Setting Effects Send Levels, Clip

Chapter 7: Editing Effects

SELECTING AN EFFECTS PATCH IN MIX MODE

Each Program has its own Effects Patch that is recalled when you select a Program in Program Mode. However, since a Mix can have up to 16 Programs (one on each Channel), you need to select which Channel’s Program you wish to use the Effects Patch from. To select an Effects Patch, you must be in Mix Edit Mode, by pressing the [EDIT SELECT] button once so that the top line of the display reads: “ED:MIX”.

Use the [80] button to select the Effect function, then press [PAGE] to select page

2. The display should look like this:

ED:MIX πß

FX MIDI CHAN: 01

This parameter lets you select which Channel (1–16) of the Mix whose Effects Patch you wish to use. If you set the Effect Channel to 1, the Mix will use the Effects Patch used by the Program on Channel 1. The Effect Channel is also used to determine what MIDI channel the Effects Patch will be set to for receiving MIDI controller information for the Modulators (see the Mod section later in this chapter for more on real-time MIDI control of effect parameters).

Press [ PAGE] to go back to page 1. The lower line of the display will look like this:

FX PRG CHNGE:0N

This parameter turns on and off the FX Program Change function. The FX Program Change parameter determines whether or not a MIDI Program Change message received on the Effects Channel should only recall a new Program (“Off”) or if the Effects of the newly selected Program should be recalled as well (“On”). This can be set on or off. Usually you would want this off, so that the Effects in a Mix do not change even though you may select different Programs for the Effects Channel.

SETTING EFFECTS SEND LEVELS

The effect send levels and effect bus assignments are saved as part of a Program (from Program Edit Mode), or as part of each Channel in a Mix (from Mix Edit Mode). Keep in mind that these are separate from any changes that will be made to the Effects Patch itself. If you are in Mix Mode and change the settings in both Mix Edit and Effects Edit modes, you will have to STORE not only the Program that is on the Effect Channel (thus storing its Effects Patch) but the selected Mix as well, in order to have your changes remembered and heard the same way in the future. The actual arrangement of depth of reverb, delay time, etc., is saved as part of the Effects Patch when a Program is stored. It is possible for different Mixes to share the same Effects Patch. So keep in mind that when you edit an Effects Patch, it may affect the sound of any other Mixes that also use it.

CLIP

If the input to the effects becomes overloaded, the “!” symbol will temporarily appear in the upper display (between the Bank name and the Mix/Program number) when in either Mix Play or Program Play Modes. If this should occur, try reducing the Input Levels for each of the effects devices in the current configuration, and (if necessary) reduce the Effects Levels in the Mix and/or Program.

EDITING EFFECTS

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