Alesis qs6.1 Guia De Referência

Part 6: Editing Effects

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This choice is made at the Mix Edit level, not the Effects Edit level, because you arenÕt
actually editing the Effects Ñ just turning them on and off within the Mix itself.
·  Start in Mix Mode. If you arenÕt there, or arenÕt sure you are there, press 

[MIX]

once to make certain.

·  Press [EDIT SELECT] a single time.
·  Press [80]. As you can see if you glance at the MIX row of captions printed above

the [SELECTION] buttons, this takes you to the MixÕs EFFECT parameters.

·  Go to Page Two of this parameter by pressing

 [PAGE ]

 a single time. The

display will look something like this:

 

 

 

·  Now use the [DATA] slider or the [VALUE] buttons to select a new MIDI

channel. The range is 01-16.

Back in the section of Part 4: Basic Operation  called Changing The Programs In A Mix,
we showed you that each MIDI channel in a Mix has some Program or other
assigned to it (even if those Programs arenÕt turned on and sounding). When you
change the MIDI channel selection here in Page Two of the Mix Effect parameters,
you are telling your QS6.1 to do two important things:
·  Process the Mix using the Effect settings of the Program associated with this

, even if that Program is not currently sounding.

·  Accept MIDI controller data for the EffectÕs Modulators only over this channel,

. (Never fear: Modulators will be explained clearly a little later in

this section.)

Now that youÕve chosen an Effect (by choosing a MIDI channel), thereÕs one more
useful tweak to be aware of. ItÕs back on Page 1 of this setting, so press [  PAGE] to
get there. The display will look like this:

This parameter determines how your QS6.1Õs Effect will respond to MIDI Program
Change commands.
·  When it is set to ON, any Program Change coming in over the MIDI channel

selected for Effects will select a new Program  and its associated Effect.

·  When it is set to OFF, then such Program Changes will select new Programs but

not change  the current Effect setting.

Both are quite useful, depending on just what you want to do. The default is OFF,
because that way the Effect for a Mix does not change even though you may select
different Programs for the Effects Channel.