Alesis QS8.1, QS7.1 manual Resonator Tuning, Resonator Decay

Part 6: Editing Effects

RESONATOR TUNING

Range of Settings: 00 to 60 Page 2 (Resonator only)

If the Pitch type is Resonator, page 2 of the Pitch function will let you adjust the Resonator tuning. This can be tuned from 00 to 60.

Note: This parameter shows up on Page 1 for Send 3 of Configuration #3, and Page 4 for Send 1 of Configuration #5.

RESONATOR DECAY

Range of Settings: 00 to 99 Page 3 (Resonator only)

If the Pitch type is Resonator, page 3 will let you adjust the Resonator Decay. This can be set 00 to 99, whereby 00 is a very fast decay and 99 is a very slow decay.

Note: This parameter shows up on Page 2 for Send 3 of Configuration #3, and Page 5 for Send 1 of Configuration #5.

INPUT 2

Range of Settings: Sends 1 – 4 Page 2 (Config. 5 only)

This parameter selects the second input to the Resonator in Configuration #5. If you look closely at the Configuration diagram, you’ll see that Input 1 is hardwired to the Overdrive. The balance between the two Inputs is set by the Input Balance parameter (see below).

INPUT BALANCE

Range of Settings: OVR<99… to <0> to …99>IN2 Page 3 (Config. 5 only)

Take a deep breath!

This shows up in the display as “->Pch: OVR <0> IN2”. That seems cryptic, so let’s work through it from left to right. The right-pointing arrow (->) stands for “The Input To...” (we can only cram so many characters in the display, so we had to get creative with this one). “Pch” stands for “the Pitch Effect”, which is what type of effect the Resonator is. Everything to the right of the colon (:) is a value. So the screen thus far would read, “The Input To the Pitch Effect has a value of…”.

The rest is easy: When set to “<99”, only the Overdrive is being routed to the Resonator. When set to “99>”, all that goes through is Input 2 . When set dead- center to “<0>”, an even mix of both signals is passed on.

Now, that wasn’t so bad, was it?

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