Part 6: Editing Effects
This choice is made at the Mix Edit level, not the Effects Edit level, because you aren’t actually editing the Effects — just turning them on and off within the Mix itself.
∙Start in Mix Mode. If you aren’t there, or aren’t sure you are there, press [MIX] once to make certain.
∙Press [EDIT SELECT] a single time.
∙Press [80]. As you can see if you glance at the MIX row of captions printed above the [SELECTION] buttons, this takes you to the Mix’s EFFECT parameters.
∙Go to Page Two of this parameter by pressing [PAGE
] a single time. The display will look something like this:
∙Now use the [DATA] slider or the [VALUE] buttons to select a new MIDI channel. The range is
Back in the section of Part 4: Basic Operation called Changing The Programs In A Mix, we showed you that each MIDI channel in a Mix has some Program or other assigned to it (even if those Programs aren’t turned on and sounding). When you change the MIDI channel selection here in Page Two of the Mix Effect parameters, you are telling your QS to do two important things:
∙Process the Mix using the Effect settings of the Program associated with this MIDI channel, even if that Program is not currently sounding.
∙Accept MIDI controller data for the Effect’s Modulators only over this channel, and no others. (Never fear: Modulators will be explained clearly a little later in this section.)
THE “FX PROGRAM CHANGE VIA MIDI” FUNCTION
Now that you’ve chosen an Effect (by choosing a MIDI channel), there’s one more useful tweak to be aware of. It’s back on Page 1 of this setting, so press [
PAGE] to get there. The display will look like this:
This parameter determines how your QS’s Effect will respond to MIDI Program Change commands.
∙When it is set to ON, any Program Change coming in over the MIDI channel selected for Effects will select a new Program and its associated Effect.
∙When it is set to OFF, then such Program Changes will select new Programs but not change the current Effect setting.
Both are quite useful, depending on just what you want to do. The default is OFF, because that way the Effect for a Mix does not change even though you may select different Programs for the Effects Channel.
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