ALESIS QS8.1 - Manual (Page 24)

Overview: Part 2
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A WORD ABOUT THE SILKSCREENING
As we mentioned in the last section, if you look above and below the 23
[SELECTION] buttons you’ll see a lot of words silkscreened on the front panel. We’ll
get into what they mean later. All you need to know now is:
• When you’re in Mix Edit mode, find the word “MIX” at the outer edge of the
buttons, and then follow along that level to find the various Mix functions.
• Do the same for Program and Effects Edit modes. The exception here is that
there’s no bottom row of functions for Effects Edit mode. In its place you have “Drum
Sound” , which means you use these buttons to select Drums in Drum Mode. The
“Keyboard Sound” row calls up more Program Edit mode functions.
THE SEQUENCE & TRANSPOSE BUTTONS
At the far right on the front panel are two buttons:
[SEQUENCE]. Pressing this button once puts your QS in Sequence Playback Mode. In
this mode the [00] through [90] buttons select possible PCMCIA card Sequence
Banks, and the [0] through [9] buttons trigger specific Sequences for playback. To
exit without making a selection, just press [SEQUENCE] again.
[TRANSPOSE]. You can transpose the output of your QS by holding this button
down and then pressing any key on the keyboard. The transposition limit is one
octave in either direction. To return to normal operation, just stop pressing on the
[TRANSPOSE] button. Please note that any changes you make here will stay in
place until you deliberately reset them to normal. This is done by holding the
[TRANSPOSE] button and pressing the third C key from the left (also known as
C3). To make it easy to locate, we’ve silkscreened that on the front panel just above
the key.