ALESIS Playmate Vocalist - Manual (Page 8)

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Effect Quick Reference
(To switch between banks, press ON/OFF while holding down SET)
Effect Type Number and Name Description
Bank A: Conventional Effects
Hall Reverb 1. Small Hall Simulates the sound of a small concert hall.
2. Medium Hall Simulates a medium concert hall.
3. Large Hall Simulates a large concert hall.
4. Concert Hall A warmer and even larger hall reverb.
5. Reverse Reverb A reverb that plays in reverse and comes before
instead of after the original sound.
Plate Reverb 6. Classic Plate A recreation of the classic “plate reverb” produced
by vibrating metal plates.
7. Modern Plate Brighter and thinner than Classic Plate.
8. Future Plate Similar to Classic Plate, but larger sounding.
9. Golden Plate Similar to Modern Plate, but larger sounding.
10. Small Room Simulates the acoustics of a small room. Room Reverb
11. Medium Room Simulates the acoustics of a medium-sized room.
12. Large Room The full-sounding reverb of a large room.
Delay 13. Echo 1 Adds an echo to your vocals.
14. Echo 2 An echo that has a longer delay time than Echo 1.
15. Echo 3 An echo that has a shorter delay time than Echo 1.
16. Tape Echo Imitates the classic tape delay created by recording
audio to tape and replaying it as an echo.
Bank B: Radical Effects
Reverbs 17. Triggered Reverb A reverb that doesn’t kick in until a certain volume
threshold is reached.
18. Ducking Reverb A “ducking” reverb. The reverb level decreases
when the input is loud and increases when the
input is quieter.
Echoes 19. Ducking Echo 1 A ducking version of Echo 1. The echo level
decreases when the input is loud and increases
when the input is quieter.
20. Ducking Echo 2 A ducking version of Echo 2.
Pitch 21. Multi Chorus Adds fullness to your vocals by emulating the
sound of several voices at once.
22. Schizo Chorus A frenzied chorus effect.
23. Easy Flange Shifts the pitch of the original signal up and down,
creating a swirling effect.
24. Resonant Flange A flange with wider and quicker shifts in pitch.
25. Stereo Rotary The classic sound of an organ’s rotary speaker.
Distortion 26. Walkie Talkie Distorts your voice so that you sound as if you’re
singing through a walkie talkie.
27. Distort & Phaser A distortion effect combined with a phaser, which
creates a duplicate signal and delays it slightly.
28. Distort & Flange Distortion combined with a flange effect.
Special Effects 29. Robot Vocal The name says it all; this one gives your voice an
electronic, robot-like tone.
30. Robovox & Reverb The Robot Vocal effect with reverb added.
31. Telephone
Receiver Cuts off highs and lows so you sound like you’re
talking on the telephone.
32. Decim8ed Filter A super low-fi, harsh and resonant effect.
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