Alesis DG8 Reference Manual page 35

Chapter 2: Playing the DG8
Press any one of the Keyboard Bank buttons to select a Keyboard Bank. The last
Keyboard Program that was selected from this Bank will be recalled from memory
and displayed under the
Press the arrow to scroll through the other three Keyboard Programs in the Bank.
Use the arrow to scroll backward through the Programs.
You can think of a Layer as "adding another Keyboard Program to be played
simultaneously with the current Primary". The Keyboard Program that creates the
Layer appears in the
Likewise, a Split is created when "a Bass or Card Program is played with a Primary".
The Bass Program appears in the display as the
lower range of keys. (The Layer and Split play modes are described in the following
two topics.)
For Primaries, Layers and Splits, the DG8's memory independently keeps track of
the most recently selected programs for each Bank button. This principle is true
for the Keyboard, Bass and Card Banks.
Layer Mode
Layer mode takes two Keyboard Programs and puts "one on top of the other" so that
notes played on the keyboard – or received MIDI notes – play both sounds at once.
Both sounds are layered across the entire keyboard. A Layer can be comprised of two
Keyboard Programs from different Keyboard Banks, the same Bank, or even the
same Keyboard Program layered with itself.
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PRIMARY SOUND
segment of the display.
LAYER
Tip: Before proceeding, raise the
At this position, the output level of the Layer sound is
approximately equal to the Primary Sound. You can then lower
the level of the Layer sound relative to the Primary Sound if
necessary.
Bear in mind that if the
LAYER
the Layer sound will not be heard when a Layer is created.
heading.
sound and is played from the
SPLIT
slider all the way to the top.
LAYER
slider is all the way off (at the bottom),
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