Alesis Playmate Playmate Vocalist CD Player Quick Start Owner's Manual page 7

(To switch between banks, press ON/OFF while holding down SET)
Effect Type Number and Name
Hall Reverb 1. Small Hall
2. Medium Hall
3. Large Hall
4. Concert Hall
5. Reverse Reverb
Plate Reverb 6. Classic Plate
7. Modern Plate
8. Future Plate
9. Golden Plate
Room Reverb 10. Small Room
11. Medium Room
12. Large Room
Delay 13. Echo 1
14. Echo 2
15. Echo 3
16. Tape Echo
Reverbs 17. Triggered Reverb
18. Ducking Reverb
Echoes 19. Ducking Echo 1
20. Ducking Echo 2
Pitch 21. Multi Chorus
22. Schizo Chorus
23. Easy Flange
24. Resonant Flange
25. Stereo Rotary
Distortion 26. Walkie Talkie
27. Distort & Phaser
28. Distort & Flange
Special Effects 29. Robot Vocal
30. Robovox & Reverb
31. Telephone
Receiver
32. Decim8ed Filter
Effect Quick Reference
Bank A: Conventional Effects
Simulates the sound of a small concert hall.
Simulates a medium concert hall.
Simulates a large concert hall.
A warmer and even larger hall reverb.
A reverb that plays in reverse and comes before
instead of after the original sound.
A recreation of the classic "plate reverb" produced
by vibrating metal plates.
Brighter and thinner than Classic Plate.
Similar to Classic Plate, but larger sounding.
Similar to Modern Plate, but larger sounding.
Simulates the acoustics of a small room.
Simulates the acoustics of a medium-sized room.
The full-sounding reverb of a large room.
Adds an echo to your vocals.
An echo that has a longer delay time than Echo 1.
An echo that has a shorter delay time than Echo 1.
Imitates the classic tape delay created by recording
audio to tape and replaying it as an echo.
Bank B: Radical Effects
A reverb that doesn't kick in until a certain volume
threshold is reached.
A "ducking" reverb. The reverb level decreases
when the input is loud and increases when the
input is quieter.
A ducking version of Echo 1. The echo level
decreases when the input is loud and increases
when the input is quieter.
A ducking version of Echo 2.
Adds fullness to your vocals by emulating the
sound of several voices at once.
A frenzied chorus effect.
Shifts the pitch of the original signal up and down,
creating a swirling effect.
A flange with wider and quicker shifts in pitch.
The classic sound of an organ's rotary speaker.
Distorts your voice so that you sound as if you're
singing through a walkie talkie.
A distortion effect combined with a phaser, which
creates a duplicate signal and delays it slightly.
Distortion combined with a flange effect.
The name says it all; this one gives your voice an
electronic, robot-like tone.
The Robot Vocal effect with reverb added.
Cuts off highs and lows so you sound like you're
talking on the telephone.
A super low-fi, harsh and resonant effect.
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