Understanding The Display And Soft Keys; The Bottom Line Of The Display - Eventide Eclipse User Manual

A real help for speedy sessions! All of the most important
HOT KEYS
parameters for factory programs are found here, and you
can assign parameters from any other area here for quick
access.
Parameter adjustments for the effects running on each of
PARAMETER
the Eclipse's effect blocks, effect block bypassing, pro-
gram loading, routing, and modulation block (
MOD>
) controls.
Catchall for system level functions such as display
SETUP
brightness, digital rates and sources, MIDI setup, and lots
of other cool stuff.

The Bottom Line of the Display

The display shows two lines of text. The top line is typically dependent
on the bottom line, so let's talk about the bottom line first. As you can
see from the screen to the right, there are (typically) four bracketed phrases along the bottom.
key on your Eclipse until you see the same screen.
LEVELS
that phrase and allows you to adjust the parameter associated with that phrase. From now on, we'll just
treat those phrases as if they were actually the soft keys like so: "press
{IN GAIN}
Pressing results in the screen to the right (try it!).
Notice that the top line contains the parameter associated with
Turning the knob or using the keypad (with the
rameter (try it!). ...but we're getting ahead of ourselves. There are four kinds of brackets around soft keys,
and each denotes something different.
{curly braces}
are for "ganged" parameters. Pressing the soft key more
than once cycles through the gang. First the parameters
are linked, then just one is adjustable, then just the other is adjustable, then both are linked
again, and so on. Try this on
<angled brackets>
indicate that pressing the soft key will perform an action,
such as triggering an LFO. Here, pressing
<FXA: ON>
PARAMETER <FXA:OFF>
sub-menu
indicates that more soft keys "hide" beneath this one.
Pressing a
ferent soft keys are displayed.
(A menu is a list of choices, as in a restaurant, so a sub-menu is a menu one or more levels
down.)
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Understanding the Display and Soft Keys

LEVELS {IN GAIN} i.e., the
bypasses effects block A. Then pressing
"un-bypasses" it.
sub-menu
changes the screen entirely as dif-
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Pressing the soft key below a bracketed phrase highlights
{IN GAIN}
{IN GAIN}
key) alters that pa-
ENT
{IN GAIN}
PARAMETER
."
.
soft key in the
LEVELS
Release 4.0.1
Press the
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area