Working With Scenes - Fractal VP4 Owner's Manual

VP4 OWNER'S MANUAL

Working With Scenes

SETTING UP SCENES
Whenever you edit a preset, you setting up the current Scene. Setting up
additional scenes is easy. Here are step-by-step instructions:
 Change to Scene Mode and select the desired Scene.
 Change to FX Mode and turn Effects ON or OFF using the footswitches.
 Set the CHANNEL for each block as desired (p. 34).
 Test and save your preset, adding names to your scenes as desired.
See p. 27 for more on saving changes.
Scenes Example:
SCENE 1
OFF OFF
DRV CHO DLY REV
A A A
In this example, the Chorus and
Reverb are on, Drive and Reverb Off.
Imagining the Drive on channel A as a
Clean Boost, you could manually turn
it on or off in FX mode.
Take note that scenes do NOT store individual parameter values. If you
want an effect to have different settings in different scenes, even if
it's just for a single knob, you'll need to switch the effect to a different
channel. The flip side of this is one of the great benefits of using scenes:
any changes made to a channel will conveniently adjust all other scenes
that use the same channel, making it easy to apply consistent updates
across multiple scenes.
SCENE 2
OFF
DRV CHO DLY
A B A A
In this scene, the Chorus turns off
and all the other effects turn on.
The Drive changes to channel B.
Imagine that it is a Screamer Drive,
making this like a "lead" scene.
SCENES & CHANNELS
ADJUST SCENE LEVELS
Scenes can also adjust the overall output level. When boosting a scene,
remember to be on guard against output clipping. If you can't turn up a scene
as loud as you want it without clipping, consider turning the other scenes
down instead.
 Press HOME and then change to Scene Mode first so you can
use the footswitches to check levels as you change Scenes.
 Press Page Right 2x to the Main Levels page.
 Use SELECT and ABCD to adjust Scene Levels.
 Save the Preset.
THE DEFAULT SCENE
When a new preset is loaded, it automatically starts on whichever Scene was
REV
selected when the preset was last saved. To set the default scene for any
preset, select the desired Scene and then save the preset.
B
If you'd rather override this behavior, you can change the Default Scene in
SETUP>Global Settings>Default Scene.
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