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Parts and Setups
What is a Setup?
A Setup is an arrangement of up to four Parts, which are Programs that
have been split or layered across the keyboard. The combined settings of
all four "zones" of the keyboard are what make up a Setup.
Programs vs. Parts
Parts reside at a slightly higher level of the Ion's hierarchy than do
Programs. A Part consists of the Program plus settings for key range,
MIDI channel and controllers, panning, transposition, etc. You can select
a new Program within the Part without affecting these other settings.
S electing Parts
To switch from one Part to another, use the four [panel active] buttons.
If you want to know which Programs are being used in a Setup, for
example, press the [home] button and then switch between the Parts
using these buttons. You don't have to be at the Home page in order to
do this, though; you can switch between Parts no matter what page you
are editing. In addition to seeing the values of that page change as you
switch between the Parts, you will probably see the front panel LEDs
change to reflect their status in the different Programs.
S electing Programs
To select a new Program within the Part, use the [bank] and [select]
buttons, or simply press the [home] button and turn the data knob.
Note that calling up a new Program doesn't change the split point, for
example, or the transposition amount.
How the Effects are Shared
Each of the four Parts in a Setup has its own Drive effect (compressor,
fuzz, etc.). However, they share a common stereo Effect (phaser, flanger,
vocoder, etc.). So even though the settings for both the Drive effect and
the stereo Effect are stored with each Program, it is the Program in Part
A that determines which stereo Effect the four Parts will share. This is
why you may hear the overall sound change more drastically when
changing the Program in Part A than you do when you change the
Program in one of the other Parts.
A double-press of the [home] button also
shuts off all eight of the Ion's voices and
sends an All Notes Off command over MIDI.
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