User Manual

Multitasking:

Several software-driven processes run interleaved to ensure system commands are

executed at high-speed, which is a really complicated way of saying that

multitasking is doing two or more things at once. The reason why this preamp's

engine room is powered by multitasking-enabled processors is because its

sophisticated circuitry is so demanding. It takes considerable system performance

to satisfy the requirements of so many signal control and voicing options.

MSF (Memory Status Feature):

As its name would indicate, this feature is a status indicator built into the

segmental LEDs surrounding the knobs as well as the LEDs that indicate the status

of the sound-shaping buttons. The LEDs indicate the setting of the knob or an

enabled sound-shaping button by lighting up continuously. A flashing LED

indicates the setting of a knob or a sound-shaping button has been edited. When

a knob or button is adjusted on a MIDI or factory preset, the incremental steps on

the LED alway indicate the value of the new setting.

When you want to find out what the initial setting of a knob was, rotate it until

the LED or LEDs light up continuously. The same holds true for the sound-shaping

buttons: their LEDs must either illuminate or remain extinguished, depending on

the initial status of the given function.

For a shadow preset, the MSF indicates that a knob's setting differs from that of

its counterpart in the MIDI preset. The given LED will flash.

MSF doesn't work in Manual mode and no distinction is made between flashing

and continuous illuminated LED for the Master knob simply because the settings

of this knob can't be stored.

OMNI-Mode:

OMNI means "all", that is to say the preamp responds to every program change

command sent over the MIDI IN port, and changes over to the desired preset.

You can only set one bank to OMNI. If you do, you must go into the setup menu

and disable MIDI reception for the other bank (MIDI Channel Select mode: ch

off).

POLY channel:

Banks A and B of the preamp can be set to any of these poly channels, but you

can't set both banks to the same channel at the same time.

Let's look at a typical switching scenario: Say bank A is assigned to MIDI channel 1

and bank B to MIDI channel 3. When program change 110 is sent over channel 1,

this command activates MIDI preset 110, bank A on the preamp. The same

program change sent over channel 3 activates MIDI preset 110, bank B on the

preamp. The preamp will resolutely ignore a program change command sent on

channel 5.

Why use so many different MIDI channels? Because it comes in handy when

you've connected several MIDI devices in a MIDI loop and you want to address

and switch these MIDI devices individually.

Preset Back Skip:

In Manual mode, this feature jumps back to the most recently selected preset.