Alesis QS7.1, QS8.1 manual Playing Sequences from a Card

Part 4: Basic Operation

PLAYING SEQUENCES FROM A CARD

[This section assumes that you have some PCMCIA Expansion Cards with sequences on them. If you don’t, you can move on and come back to this section later.]

Several of the Alesis QCards come with their own demonstration sequences. More importantly, you can store your own MIDI sequences to RAMcards (in Standard MIDI File format) using a computer and Alesis’s free Sound Bridge software, and then play them back easily from your QS.

Here’s all you have to do.

1)Insert the RAMcard containing sequence data into either of the two [PCMCIA EXPANSION] slots on the back panel of your QS.

2)Press the [SEQUENCE] button. The display will look like this:

3)Use the [SELECTION] buttons to pick the Card and Sequence Bank that holds the sequence you’d like to play: the [00] through [40] buttons select Sequence Banks 0-4 on Card A, while [50] through [90] select the equivalent Sequence Banks on Card B.

4)Finally, use the [0] through [9] buttons to activate a specific sequence from the selected Sequence Bank (each Bank can hold 10 sequences).

If there is a sequence there, just wait a moment and it will play. (A blinking right arrow will show up in the display during playback.) If there isn’t a sequence there, then the display will tell you so.

To stop a sequence while it’s playing, you can press your choice of the [SEQUENCE], [PROGRAM] or [MIX] buttons. To leave this Mode and return to where you started without triggering a sequence, press [SEQUENCE] again.

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