ALESIS QS8.1 - Manual (Page 84)

Part 6: Editing Effects
78 QS7.1/QS8.1 Reference Manual
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Effect Send levels are not set in Edit Effect mode. Instead, they are set in Program
Edit mode (for Programs) and Mix Edit mode (for Mixes). For details, see Part 7:
Editing Mixes and Part 8: Editing Programs.
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If the input to the Effect becomes overloaded while you are playing, then a “ !”
symbol will temporarily appear in the display. (You won’t see this while in any of the
Edit modes; just from the Program or Mix Play mode screens.) You want to avoid
this situation, of course, because clipping creates unnecessary noise and distortion.
(And not the nifty kind you’d get from a fuzzbox or overdrive!) In extreme cases,
overloading the Effects can even cause the signal to drop out for a second.
There are three possible fixes:
• Go into Effect Edit mode and reduce the Input levels for each effect function in
the current configuration.
• If that isn’t enough, or changes the Effect unacceptably, then reduce the Effect
level settings in the Program or Mix that is giving you the problem.
• Play softer. (This suggestion is half-joking and half-serious. But with a full-
blown, mega-MIDI channel sequence going on, a slight reduction in velocity
values on some of the more densely active channels will clear this up.)
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Each Configuration uses Sends in a different way, so which of these buttons will do
anything (and when) depends entirely on (a) what Configuration is selected, and
(b) what Effect function you are currently in.
This can be a little confusing, at first. “Hey, wait a minute! I pressed that [10] button
last time and it worked. How come it isn’t doing anything now?”
It really all does make sense, though, and as you get more experience working with
Effects you’ll become pretty comfortable. Early on, however, we recommend that you
keep this one tip in mind: always start from the function, not the Send. Once you are in
the function and Page you want, you can jump around to see what’s happening on
the other Sends by pressing [00] - [30], and change settings as you wish within the
limits of the Configuration.
Now that we’re about to cover the various parameters in Effects
Edit mode, don’t forget the “Double-button push” trick! This is
where you push both of the [VALUE] buttons or both of the
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