ALESIS Spitfire 60 - Manual (Page 24)

6 Storing & Copying Programs
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To Store a Program
1. In PLAY or EDIT mode, press the VALUE knob.
The display will flash the current program number.
2. Use the Program Up and Down buttons, VALUE
knob or the optional footswitches to select the
program number where the current program will
be stored. If you want to save it in the same
program number, you can skip this step.
3. Press the VALUE knob again to store the
program in the selected place. The Spitfire then
returns to the mode it was in before you began the
store operation, and the destination program
becomes the current program.
To Copy a Program
To make a copy of an unedited program, select that
program and then follow the steps outlined above to
store it to a new location.
The store operation
times out if you do
nothing for more than
five seconds. You also
can abort the operation
by turning the EFFECT
knob to a different
position.
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Storing & Copying Programs
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Arranging Programs for Performance
You can use the copy function to arrange programs
logically for easy recall during a performance. Take a
typical song structure for example (intro, verse, refrain,
etc.). For each part of the song, you may want to use a
different effect program. To ensure uninterrupted
performance, you can copy the programs used in the
song into an order similar to the following example:
Program Number Song Section
A0 Introduction
A1 Verse
A2 Refrain
A3 Verse
A4 Bridge
A5 Refrain
With an arrangement like this, you can just press the
Program Up button or footswitch once to progress to
each section of your song. Using the 80 available
program locations, you can even arrange the programs
conveniently for multiple songs in a set. For example,
you can use programs A0-A5 for the first song,
programs A6-B0 for the second song, and so on.
Another convenient way to switch programs during a
performance is to enter deferred program-change mode,
which is explained in chapter 8.