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Basics
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Control knob and arrow buttons
BACK, STORE, arrow buttons and the control knob
Use the control knob to scroll through presets
and to move through various settings in the Edit,
System or other menus.
The arrow buttons act similarly, allowing you
to move through presets, effect/setup pages,
styles, Genres etc.
Quick Tip: You can press and hold the arrow
buttons to “jump” to the first or last page in a
menu. For example, in the Vocal FX menu, you
can move from Harmony (page 1) to Transducer
(page 7) directly by pressing and holding the >
button.
BACK button
Press the BACK button to exit the current screen
or mode.
STORE button
What are presets?
To use Play Electric effectively, you need to un-
derstand the concept of Presets.
Essentially, a Preset is a record of all the settings
for a group of effects that you can recall quickly
and easily.
The Preset concept is extremely flexible. A Pre-
set can be general purpose – like a simple Re-
verb or Harmony sound. But a Preset can also
represent a specific song or portion of a song via
multiple effects and settings.
A good modern analogy for a Preset is a user ac-
count on a computer. Even though each user has
access to the same hardware (CPU, RAM etc.)
each user can change their desktop wallpaper,
icons on the desktop, program behaviors and
much more. When each user logs in, the com-
puter recalls all of their custom settings.
Depending on how you like you to work with ef-
fects, you may find that you like to use a few gen-
eral purpose Presets. Or you might be the kind
of guy or girl who likes to spend a bit more time
in advance of the performance to create Presets
for all sorts of things.
Once you have fine-tuned all settings in the Vo-
cal FX and Guitar FX sections, you should store
them as a Preset, so you can later recall them.
Storing presets
When you have made a change to a preset, sim-
ply press the STORE button.
Pressing the STORE button once will bring up
the name/location display, allowing you to re-
name and/or relocate the preset.
Pressing the STORE button again will save the
preset, along with its new name or location.