Alesis QS8.1, QS7.1 manual Recap, DOUBLE-BUTTON Press Trick

Basic Operation: Part 4

PART 4

BASIC OPERATION

RECAP

At this point you’ve pretty much learned everything there is to know about how to play your QS7.1/QS8.1:

∙You’ve got it hooked up and amplified.

∙You know about Banks, and how to switch among them.

∙You know about Programs and Mixes, and how to call them up.

∙You know how to use the real-time performance controllers.

∙You know about the various types of PCMCIA expansion cards, and how to plug them in as sources for additional Banks of Programs and Mixes.

That’s quite a lot, actually. Add in a few more basics and some MIDI info (see Part

5:MIDI) and those of you who aren’t interested in editing anything in your instrument will be set.

Ready? In this section of the manual we’ll give you those remaining non-MIDI basics. They include copying Programs and Mixes to new locations in the User Bank (or a Card Bank), renaming copied Programs and Mixes, changing the Programs assigned to a Mix, playing Sequences from memory cards, and everything you need to know about your QS’s Global settings.

But before we get started, there’s something we think you ought to know:

THE DOUBLE-BUTTON PRESS TRICK

There’s a pretty nifty hidden trick in the QS’s operating system. It’s called the “Double-button press”, and what it does is reset certain parameters or functions back to a certain value without you having to actually push those same buttons a bunch of times to get there. It works with the [VALUE] buttons, the [PAGE] buttons, and the [BANK] buttons.

Here are the areas where this trick is useful:

•If you press both [VALUE] buttons at the same time while you’re in one of the Edit Modes (Program, Mix, Effects or Global), the value which is currently displayed will change to the factory default for that parameter. This works in Store Mode, too!

•If you press both [PAGE] buttons at the same time while you’re in one of the Edit Modes, the Page which is currently displayed will change to the first page in whatever Function you’re working with. This one also works in Store Mode.

•If you press both [PAGE] buttons at the same time while you’re in Mix Program Select mode or Program Play mode, the QS will jump to MIDI channel 1.

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