Alesis QS7.1, QS8.1 manual Editing Effects, Basic Info

Part 6: Editing Effects

PART 6

EDITING EFFECTS

The QS7.1/QS8.1 has an extensive and versatile built-in effects processor. Your own ears will have told you this by now, of course, since lots of the presets in a QS use the effects to some degree.

What we’d like to discuss here is a first step in how you can go further than just appreciating and playing the Programs and Mixes that came already loaded into your instrument. Why not tweak their effects to suit your individual need and tastes, or come up with cool new sonic treatments all your own?

Why not, indeed? This section shows you how.

Assigning different Sounds, Programs, or Mixes to a specific Effect Configuration is done in either Program Edit Mode or Mix Edit Mode. Accordingly, that procedure is described in Part 7: Editing Mixes and Part 8: Editing Programs. Here our main focus will be on giving you what you need to make changes in the Effects settings themselves.

BASIC INFO

Things you should know:

∙There is an Effect Configuration stored with every Program. Even when it isn’t set to be doing anything, it’s still there.

∙The Effects are only available to the Main Outputs, not the Auxiliary Outputs. But you can run a signal to the Aux Outs and send its effected signal to the Mains by leaving that Sound’s FX Level parameter set to a value above 00.

∙The QS can only run one Effect Configuration at a time. This goes for when you play Mixes, too. (An example: Three different Programs can have three entirely separate Effects. But if you combine those same three Programs in a Mix, you will have to choose one Effect Configuration to process everything, and lose the other two.)

∙There are five basic Effects Configurations to choose from. This may not seem like a lot, but because of all the parameters that are available there is actually quite a lot of flexibility.

∙The different Effects Configurations have different sets of parameters (including the number of inputs, which are referred to as Effects Sends).

∙Effect Configuration settings are easy to copy from one Program or Mix to another. This is a great feature. If some existing Program or Mix has an Effect that you like, you don’t have to laboriously write down and re-enter parameter settings in order to apply it elsewhere. Just grab and copy!

∙Each Sound within a Program can be assigned to its own separate Effects Send (within the limits of the chosen Effect Configuration).

∙You can enter Effects Edit Mode from either Program Mode or Mix Mode.

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