Alesis QS7.1, QS8.1 manual Finding OUT What Programs are in the MIX YOU are Playing

First Session: Part 3

FINDING OUT WHAT PROGRAMS ARE IN THE MIX YOU ARE PLAYING

It’s easy to see what Programs are currently assigned to the active MIDI channels in a Mix. Just enter Mix Mode, call up the Mix you want to examine, and then move through its MIDI channels using the [PAGE] buttons. Do that and the display will change to look something like this:

There are five differences between this and the normal Mix Mode display:

•The upper line shows the Program assigned to the current MIDI channel. This name always appears inside quotation marks, so you can tell at a glance that you are not in standard Mix Mode.

•The upper line shows this Program’s number.

•The middle line shows the Bank that the identified Program belongs to, instead of the Bank that the Mix is in. As you will see when you examine enough different Mixes, Programs can come from any Bank at all. You aren’t limited to working just from those within the same Bank as your Mix. This is wonderfully useful, but has some wrinkles you’ll need to be aware of if you ever create Mixes using Programs stored on Expansion cards. (We’ll cover those issues in more detail in Part 4: Basic Operation., Part 7: Editing Mixes, and Part 9: Extras.)

•The mode indicator beneath the Program Number now reads MIXPROG.

•The current MIDI Channel Number will be flashing.

You can also change Program assignments from this display, but don’t try that just yet. We’ll cover that fully in the next section, Part 4: Basic Operation.

Don’t be confused by the fact that you can use the [PAGE] buttons to look at all 16 MIDI channels in a Mix, even if those channels aren’t actually enabled. The only channels that matter are the ones whose numbers are visible across the bottom of the display when you first call up the Mix.

And now, just for fun…

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