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Editing Effects: Chapter 7
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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:
PROG EFFECT
PRESET PRESET
EDITING: MIX
P AGE: 1
PITCH RANGE EFFECT NAME
MIDI
CHAN
MIXMIX
PRESET
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 1 12 13 14 15 16
PROGRAM – ASSIGN LEVEL EFFECT–LEVEL
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