Zoom B9.1ut Contents

ZOOM B9.1ut

Contents

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Safety Precauti ons / Usage Precaut ions. . . . . 2

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Terms Used in This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Controls and Functi ons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Getting Connecte d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Power-On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Quick Guide 1 (Manua l Mode/Play Mode

Operation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Quick Guide 2 (Edit Mod e/Store Mode

Operation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Switching Modules O n and Off (Manua l Mode)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Panel display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Selecting patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Turning a module on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Adjusting the sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Using the Accelerator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Selecting Patches f or Playing (Play Mod e) . . 18

Using the Tuner (Bypass /Mute Mode) . . . . . . 20

Using the chromatic tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Using the bass tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Changing the Sound of a P atch

(Edit Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Patch conﬁ guration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Basic edit mode steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Changing a patch name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Storing Patches and B anks (Store Mode) . . . 27

Storing/swapping patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Storing/swapping banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Returning patches to factory d efault condition

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Using the Express ion Pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

About the expression peda l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Assigning control target s to the expression

pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Adjusting the expression pe dal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Using an external expressi on pedal . . . . . . . . . . 34

Adjusting the expression pe dal torque. . . . .35

Using the Foot Switche s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Making settings for functi on foot switches . . . . . 36

Assigning modules to foot switc hes 1 – 4 . . . . . . 38

Specifying the tempo for a patc h . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Using the Effect Loo p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

MIDI Usage Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

What you can do with MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Selecting the MIDI channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Sending and receiving patch swi tching

information via MIDI (progr am change). . . . . . . 43

Sending and receiving peda l/switch/key

operation information via M IDI

(control change) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Sending pedal synth playing in formation via

MIDI (note on/note off) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Sending and receiving B9.1ut patch data

via MIDI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Other Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Using the ARRM function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

Using the sound-on-soun d function . . . . . . . . . . 54

Using the pedal synth functio n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Using the B9.1ut as audio interface for

a computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Muting the direct output whe n using

a USB connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Changing the default referen ce pitch of

the tuner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Use as a direct box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Checking the B9.1ut version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Editor/librarian softwar e for the B9.1ut . . . . . . . . 60

Linking Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Using the Pickup Select func tion . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Changing the insert posi tion of the

pre-amp section and WAH/E FX1 module . . . 62

Effect Types and Parame ters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

How to read the parameter table . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

COMP (Compressor) modu le. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

WAH/EFX1 (Wah/Effects 1) mo dule. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

EXT LOOP (External Lo op) module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

ZNR (Zoom Noise Reductio n) module. . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

PRE-AMP (Preampliﬁ er) module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

EQ (Equalizer) module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

CABINET module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

MOD/EFX2 (Modulation /Effects 2) modu le. . . . . . . . . 71

DELAY module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76

REVERB module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 7

TOTAL module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79

Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

B9.1ut Speciﬁ cations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

MIDI implementation char t. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

B9.1ut patch/bank number +

program number assignment table . . . . . . 83