Alesis QuadraSynth Plus manual Selecting Effects in Mix Mode, Setting Effects Send Levels

Editing Effects: Chapter 7

adjustments– left and right – for several parameters). Consequently, the more parameters an effect has, additional pages become available for that function. The number of pages the currently selected function has and the current page are always shown in the bottom left of the display.

Each effect has stereo outputs, which may be routed to the Main Left and Right outputs using the Mix function (the Aux Left and Right outputs do not use the internal effects processing).

Selecting Effects in Mix Mode

Each Program has its own effects that are recalled when you select a Program. However, since a Mix can have up to 16 Programs (one on each Channel), you must select which Channel’s Program you wish to use the effects from. To select an Effects Patch, you must be in Mix Edit Mode, by pressing the [SELECT] button until the correct display appears.

Use the FUNCTION [♦] and [∅] buttons to scroll through the functions in the display until the word EFFECT is underlined, then press Quad Button [4]. The display should look like this:

Quad Knob [4] (FX-CHAN) 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).

Quad Knob [2] turns on and off the FX-MIDI function. The FX-MIDI parameter determines whether or not a program change 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”). This can be set on or off. 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 set for 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 settings If you are in Mix Mode and are changing settings in both Mix Edit and Effects Edit modes, you will have to STORE both the Program that is on the Effect Channel (thus storing its Effects Patch), and the selected Mix, in

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