Effects; Effect Panel Controls; Fx1 And Fx2 Edit Menus - Waldorf Q Keyboard User Manual

Sound Parameters – Effects

Effects

The Q offers eight separate effect units. They are grouped to two effects working on four different
Instruments. This means that in Single Mode, each Instrument keeps its effect settings, while in Multi
Mode the Instruments 1 to 4 determine the effect settings. The Instruments 5 to 16 each can be routed
to one of these effect busses.
Both effect units feature nearly the same effect types and parameters. The following chapters are
therefore valid for both effect units.
When pressing Shift and the FX1 or FX2 button the selected effect gets initialized. This
function is useful to get a first impression of the corresponding effect.

Effect Panel Controls

The following picture of the Q's front panel shows the Effects section:
As you can see, the Q offers two independent effect units per sound, named FX1 and FX2.
Additional Controls on the Q Keyboard
Mix
The only parameter that is common to all types of effects is the Mix parameter. This parameter
controls the volume ratio between the original signal and the effect output. If set to 0, the dry signal is
sent to the outputs only so that no effects can be heard. Higher values will increase the effect signal.
At maximum setting, the pure effect signal will be heard.

FX1 and FX2 Edit Menus

Most parameters related to the Effects section are located in the display menu. Press the Edit button of
the desired effect unit to access these parameters.
Mix (only Q Rack)
See Additional Controls on the Q Keyboard.
FX1/2 Type Bypass / Chorus / Flanger / Phaser / Delay / Overdrive / Five FX / Vocoder /
Sets the type of effect produced by the selected effect unit. All further parameters depend on the
selected effect type.
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FX1
Picture 35: Effects Section Q Keyboard
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Reverb / Tap Delay /5.1 Delay /5.1 D.Clk
FX2
Edit Edit
Mix
Mix Mix
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