Using The Controls - Alesis DG8 Reference Manual

9. Using the Cursor and the
When interacting with the display, the sound that is underlined by the
cursor is the one that will be affected by the
keep track of where the cursor is because during normal operation, the last
sound that you select has the cursor. But if necessary, you can move the
cursor to another active segment of the display by pressing the
Repeated pressing of the
fields in the display. Just keep in mind that you can't move the cursor to a
blank field. For example, in a Layer, the cursor will only move between the
PRIMARY
the
PRIMARY
among all three
Tip: You can perform a quick reset when certain parameters are being displayed.
Pressing the
SET SPLIT
TRANSPOSE
TUNE
MIDI
When the display is in its normal mode of displaying selected Sound Programs,
pressing the
programs to "
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SING THE
10. Level Controls
Raise or lower the
listening volume. The
Primary sounds, Layers, Splits and Effects. But you can also use the
sliders to make further adjustments to the sound balance:
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and
PLAY
and the sounds. In a Split, the cursor will only move between
LAYER
and the sounds. In a Split-with-Layer, the cursor will move
SPLIT
,
PRIMARY SPLIT
and arrows together will reset the following parameters:
Keyboard Scaling
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and arrows together will reset Keyboard Bank and Bass Bank
A
". Card Bank programs reset to
C
ONTROLS
slider to adjust the output level to a comfortable
VOLUME
VOLUME
Adjusting the slider changes the output of the Layer sound
LAYER
relative to the Primary sound. The output level of the Primary Sound
stays constant when playing a Layer.
Adjusting the slider changes the output of the Bass Program or the
SPLIT
Card Program assigned to the lower keyboard range relative to the
Primary. The output level of the Primary Sound stays constant when
playing a Split.
Reverb and Chorus have been pre-programmed in nearly all of the
sounds. You can raise or lower the amount of effects with the
and sliders.
CHORUS
The exception to this is the
rotating speaker effect instead of chorus. The
a speed control for the rotating speaker.
Remember also that the DG8's built-in speakers can be turned off by
using the
SPEAKER ON/OFF
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Arrows
and arrows. You can always
button moves the cursor among the active
and sounds.
LAYER
split point resets to C2
transpose value resets to Middle C
Master Tune resets to
50
resets to
000
.
slider adjusts the overall level for everything:
Bank which substitutes a
ELECTRIC ORGAN
CHORUS LEVEL
switch on the back panel.
button.
PLAY
00
LEVEL
REVERB
slider acts as
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