16—Using Effects
Selecting, Editing and Saving Effect Patches
You'll find the screens on which you select, edit and save effect patches in the EFFECT
menu. To view the EFFECT menu, press the EFFECT button.
The EFFECT VIEW Screen
When you press the EFFECT MENU button, the EFFECT VIEW screen appears. This
screen shows you a menu of your effect processors, and provides basic information
about each, as well as a BYPASS switch.
There's a box on the screen for each of the eight possible internal effects—if you
haven't installed the optional VS8F-2 board required for an effect, you'll see "No
EFFECT Board" in its box, as is the case with Effects 7 and 8 in the illustration above.
Information in the Effect Boxes
Each effect's box on the EFFECT VIEW screen shows:
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About the BYPASS Switch
The BYPASS switch on the EFFECT VIEW screen also appears as F5 (BYPASS) on other
effect screens. It behaves the same way everywhere.
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PROJECT
the name of the effect processor
the name of its currently selected effect patch, along
with a symbol representing the algorithm on which
it's based.
whether the effect is currently available as a loop
effect or is currently in use as an insert effect—if it is,
you can see where's it's inserted, as show below.
This processor is currently
inserted on Track Channel 1.
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Processor
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BYPASS
Patch