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Basic Operation: Part 4
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At this point you’ve pretty much learned everything there is to know about how to
play your QS7.1/QS8.1:
• You’ve got it hooked up and amplified.
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You know about Banks, and how to switch among them.
• You know about Programs and Mixes, and how to call them up.
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You know how to use the real-time performance controllers.
• You know about the various types of PCMCIA expansion cards, and how to plug
them in as sources for additional Banks of Programs and Mixes.
That’s quite a lot, actually. Add in a few more basics and some MIDI info (see Part
5: MIDI) and those of you who aren’t interested in editing anything in your
instrument will be set.
Ready? In this section of the manual we’ll give you those remaining non-MIDI
basics. They include copying Programs and Mixes to new locations in the User Bank
(or a Card Bank), renaming copied Programs and Mixes, changing the Programs
assigned to a Mix, playing Sequences from memory cards, and everything you need
to know about your QS’s Global settings.
But before we get started, there’s something we think you ought to know:
THE DOUBLE-BUTTON PRESS TRICK
There’s a pretty nifty hidden trick in the QS’s operating system. It’s called the
“Double-button press”, and what it does is reset certain parameters or functions back
to a certain value without you having to actually push those same buttons a bunch
of times to get there. It works with the [VALUE] buttons, the [PAGE] buttons, and
the [BANK] buttons.
Here are the areas where this trick is useful:
• If you press both [VALUE] buttons at the same time while you’re in one of the Edit
Modes (Program, Mix, Effects or Global), the value which is currently displayed
will change to the factory default for that parameter. This works in Store Mode,
too!
• If you press both [PAGE] buttons at the same time while you’re in one of the Edit
Modes, the Page which is currently displayed will change to the first page in
whatever Function you’re working with. This one also works in Store Mode.
• If you press both [PAGE] buttons at the same time while you’re in Mix Program
Select mode or Program Play mode, the QS will jump to MIDI channel 1.