Alesis Comprehensive Guide to Editing Global Parameters on QS7

Part 4: Basic Operation

EDITING GLOBAL PARAMETERS

To enter Global Edit Mode:

1)Press [EDIT SELECT].

2)Press the [BANK] button (that’s the one that has GLOBAL written beneath it). The display will look like this:

Now look in the upper right corner of the display. There you will see an indicator that says P1. This stands for Page One, and it tells you where you are among the 19 possible Global parameters. (Naturally enough, since there are 19 parameters there are also 19 separate pages.)

∙To move around inside Global Edit Mode, you’ll use the [PAGE] and [PAGE] buttons. These cycle you through all the available pages and their associated parameters. (Try it and you’ll see that the page indicator changes as you go.)

∙To change the settings you see in the Global Edit pages, use either the [D] slider (the one with EDIT VALUE written under it) or the two [VALUE] buttons.

∙To leave Global Edit Mode, press either [MIX] (to return to Mix Mode) or [PROGRAM] (to return to Program Mode).

You can also shift directly from setting Global parameters to editing either Programs or Mixes by pressing one of the 23 [SELECTION] buttons. But that’s for later in this manual. Right now, we want to stick to Global changes only.

PAGE 1 — MASTER PITCH

As you can probably guess from its name, this setting controls the Master Pitch of your QS. Adjust this parameter when you wish to globally transpose all sounds played by the QS, whether from the keyboard or by incoming MIDI information.

This parameter does not change the pitch of drum sounds (but see note below). It also has no effect on the Range settings in Mixes and Programs, or on what note data gets sent from the QS’s MIDI Out when you play the keyboard.

The range for this setting is –12 to 12, which is equivalent to down or up by one octave (in semitones).

Note: Changing MASTER PITCH can alter QS drumkits in unpredictable ways, because it shifts the key assignments of multi-sampled drumkits in Keyboard Mode but doesn’t shift Drum Mode sounds. Most Preset drumkits are constructed using a combination of the two. (For an explanation of Drum Mode, see Part 8: EDITING PROGRAMS.) This goes for incoming MIDI notes as well as notes played on the keyboard, so your drum parts will play back differently than you laid them down if you alter Master Pitch after recording. If you want to explore these changes, go ahead — you can always return things to normal by setting MASTER PITCH back to 00.

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