Utility Button - Alesis 4 Reference Manual

Chapter 5 – Description of Controls
character of the Program's name. The [C/<] and [D/>] buttons move the cursor left
and right, respectively, through the eight character fields of the Program's name. To
move the cursor back to the Program location number, press [B/ESC].

UTILity Button

When the [UTIL] button is pressed, it will light and the display will be showing the
last selected page. There are a total of 6 Utility pages, as indicated by the numbers 1
through 6 appearing in the lower-left corner of the display. You can advance through
each page by pressing the [EDIT/PAGE] button. The currently selected page number
will have a box around it. The Utility pages provide various functions which are not
stored with the Effects Programs. These include:
Page 1: Footswitch and Dry Defeat. The Footswitch parameter selects the rear-panel
[FOOTSWITCH] jack's mode. This can be set to one of three functions: to advance the
Program number, to toggle Bypass mode on and off, or to control the delay time of a
Delay effect using a technique called "tap tempo ". Press the [B] button select the
Footswitch parameter, and turn the [VALUE] knob to choose between Adv (Advance
mode), bYP (Bypass mode) or ctL (Control mode). When set to Control mode, the
footswitch can be used with tap tempo in two ways: 1) you can repeatedly press the
footswitch down using a tempo you wish the delay time to match; or 2) you can hold
down the footswitch and use the audio connected to the MidiVerb 4's input(s) to tri-
gger the tap tempo function. Also, when Control mode is selected and the Lezlie effect
is used, the footswitch toggles the Speed parameter between slow and fast. For more
about tap tempo, see Chapter 3. For more about using a footswitch, see Chapter 2.
The Dry Defeat function, when enabled, removes the direct (dry) signal globally
from all Programs simultaneously, so that only effected (wet) signal is routed to the
outputs. Use the [D] button to toggle the Dry Defeat function on and off.
Foostwitch Dry Defeat
Page 2: Cascade Mode. This applies only to Programs with Dual Configurations. Use
[D] to toggle Cascade mode on and off. When Cascade mode is turned on, the output
of channel 1's effect is routed internally to the input of channel 2's effect.
Dual Programs: Cascade
Page 3: MIDI. Three functions are available in Utility page 3, all dealing with MIDI.
The first is MIDI Channel (Chan), which can be selected by pressing [B] and using the
[VALUE] knob to select a channel from 1 to 16, or to 00 for Omni mode (all 16
channels simultaneously). The next function, MIDI-Thru (Thru), can be toggled on
and off by pressing [C]. When turned on, the MidiVerb 4 allows the MIDI data
received at the [MIDI IN] port to be passed through to the [MIDI OUT/THRU] port.
The third functionis Program Change Enable (PChg). This can be set by pressing [D]
and using the [VALUE] knob to either Off, On or Table. When set to off, the MidiVerb
4 ignores program change messages. When set to on, incoming MIDI program
change messages received on the same channel the MidiVerb 4 is set to will recall the
same numbered User Program. When set to table, the MidiVerb 4 will use the
Program Change Table (see below) to remap incoming program change messages.
MIDI: Chan Thru PChg
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