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select another Program within the current Keyboard or Card Bank for the Layer
sound. When the cursor is at the 

 sound, pressing the 

▲ 

and 

▼ 

arrows will select

another Program within the current Bass Bank or Card Bank for the Split sound.

A complete tutorial on using the 

▲ 

and 

▼ 

arrows and cursor to select sound

programs and setting up Layers and Splits is provided in the section 

 on the next page.

▲ 

▼ 

The 

▲ 

and 

▼ 

arrows are also used to select parameters and change numeric values in

the 

 and 

 modes.

Acceleration
Note that when selecting Programs and changing numeric values in the display,
pressing and holding an arrow will accelerate the scrolling. This is most noticeable
(and most handy) when selecting Card Sounds. Because there are 128 sounds on an
Alesis QCard, this feature is another time-saver.

Display Wrap
Also, when selecting Programs (internal or card), pressing an arrow repeatedly (or
holding it down) will wrap the display: pressing or holding the 

▲ 

button when

selecting any internal sound will display all four sounds in that Bank in succession.
When the fourth sound is reached, continued pressing of the 

▲ 

button will wrap the

display to the first sound in the Bank and continue on. By the same token, scrolling
backward with the 

▼

 arrow wraps the display back to the fourth sound after the first

sound is reached.

Wrapping is also especially handy with Card Sounds as it solves the problem of
scrolling through 128 programs just to get to the first (or last) sound on the card.
Wrapping also occurs when selecting MIDI Channels.

Reset
The last feature of the arrows is the Reset function. When selecting numeric values
for Master Tune or Keyboard Scaling, for example, pressing both arrows
simultaneously resets the function to its default value, which is usually 0 or a value
that represents a mid-point in the function’s range. When displayed, pressing the 

▲

and 

▼ 

arrows together will reset the following parameters:

split point resets to C2

transpose value resets to Middle C

Master Tune resets to 

00

 

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Keyboard

 

Scaling

resets to 

50

When the display is in its normal mode of displaying selected Programs, pressing the

▲ 

and 

▼ 

arrows together will reset Keyboard Bank or Bass Bank programs to "

A

".

Card Bank programs reset to 

000

. When resetting a displayed Program, move the

cursor to the sound you want to reset with the 

 button.