Alesis QSR 64 manual Selecting Program Banks, Selecting the Midi Channel in Program Mode

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➀Press the [PROG] button to select Program Play Mode.

The [PROG] button and the PROG indicator in the display will light. You can now play the QSR from an external MIDI keyboard; the Program will be whatever was selected when last in Program mode (Program number 00 –127).

➁Select a Program using the [VALUE] knob.

The large number in the upper-left section of the display will indicate the currently selected Program number. When you scroll past 127, the counter will “roll-over” to Program 00 of the following Bank. Likewise, if you scroll back before 00, it will roll back to Program 127 of the preceeding Bank.

SELECTING PROGRAM BANKS

The QSR provides five internal Banks containing 128 Programs in each (and 100 Mixes each, but we’ll get to Mixes in a moment). The currently selected Bank will be shown in the upper line of the display, just above the currently selected Program’s name.

•Use the BANK SELECT [DOWN] and [UP] buttons to select a Bank (User, Preset 1

– 3, GenMIDI or any Card Banks, if present).

User and Preset Banks are described in detail in Chapter 4.

SELECTING THE MIDI CHANNEL IN PROGRAM MODE

While in Program Play Mode (press [PROG]), the QSR can receive information on any single MIDI channel of the 16 available channels. The currently selected channel appears in the bottom-right section of the display (take a look at the first display example on the previous page).

➀ Use the [ ▲ MIDI CH The display will change to

▲] buttons to select a MIDI channel from 1 – 16. indicate the currently selected MIDI channel.

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