Alesis QS8.1, QS7.1 manual Playing Mixes, Picking a MIX Bank, Selecting Mixes

Part 3: First Session

PLAYING MIXES

In Program Mode you play Programs, so to play Mixes you can probably guess that you’d have to be in Mix Mode. To enter this mode at any time, just press the [MIX] button on the front panel.

The display should look something like this:

As you can see, there are only two visible differences between this and the Program Mode display:

•The mode indicator in the lower left of the display reads MIX.

•More than one MIDI channel is indicated. The numbers you see here tell you what MIDI channels are being used to send and/or receive in this Mix. (This also gives you a quick way of seeing how many Programs are in a particular Mix, since the nature of Mixes is to have one Program per enabled MIDI channel.)

PICKING A MIX BANK

Mixes come in Banks, just like Programs. In fact, they come in exactly the same Banks — the only difference is that there are 100 Mixes in each Bank, as opposed to 128 Programs.

To cycle through the available Banks, get into Mix Mode and press the [BANK] buttons as described earlier.

SELECTING MIXES

This works as described earlier for Programs; you’re just in a different Mode when you do it. Start by making sure you are in Mix Mode, then use the [VALUE] keys and [SELECTION] buttons to call up the Mix of your choice.

Please note that there are only 100 Mixes (numbered 00 through 99) in each Bank. This is why pressing the [100], [110], and [120] selection buttons while you are in Mix Mode won’t have any effect.

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