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Editing Effects: Chapter 7

SELECTING AN EFFECTS PATCH IN MIX MODE

Each Program has its own Effects Patch that is recalled when you select a Program in Program Mode. However, since a Mix can have up to 16 Programs (one on each Channel), you need to select which Channel’s Program you wish to use the Effects Patch from. To select an Effects Patch, you must be in Mix Edit Mode, by pressing the [EDIT] button once so that the display directly below the Mix Number reads either: “MIX EDIT” or “MIX EDITED”.

➀With the cursor in the upper display, use the [VALUE] knob to select the Effect function, then press [CURSOR ▲] to advance the cursor and turn the [VALUE]

knob to select page 2.

The display should look like this:

EFFECT πß

MIDI Chan: 01

➁Press [CURSOR ▲] to advance the cursor; now you can select the Effect Channel by turning the [VALUE] knob.

This parameter lets you select which Channel (1–16) of the Mix whose Effects Patch you wish to use. If you set the Effect Channel to 1, the Mix will use the Effects Patch used by the Program on Channel 1. The Effect Channel is also used to determine what MIDI channel the Effects Patch will be set to for receiving MIDI controller information for the Modulators (see the Mod section later in this chapter for more on real-time MIDI control of effect parameters).

➂Press [ ▲ CURSOR] once and turn the [VALUE] knob counterclockwise.

The display will look like this:

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Prg Change:0N

➃Press [CURSOR ▲] to advance the cursor; now you can turn the Effect Program Change function on and off by turning the [VALUE] knob.

The Effect Program Change parameter determines whether or not a MIDI Program Change message received on the Effects Channel should only recall a new Program (“Off”) or if the Effects of the newly selected Program should be recalled as well (“On”). Usually you would want this off, so that the Effects in a Mix do not change even though you may select different Programs for the Effects Channel.

SETTING EFFECTS SEND LEVELS

The effect send levels and effect bus assignments are saved as part of a Program (from Program Edit Mode), or as part of each Channel in a Mix (from Mix Edit Mode). Keep in mind that these are separate from any changes that will be made to the Effects Patch itself. If you are in Mix Mode and change the settings in both Mix Edit and Effects Edit modes, you will have to STORE not only the Program that is on the Effect Channel (thus storing its Effects Patch) but the selected Mix as well, in order to have your changes remembered and heard the same way in the future. The actual arrangement of depth of reverb, delay time, etc., is saved as part of the Effects Patch when a Program is stored. It is possible for different Mixes to share the same

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