Specifications

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EFFECTING THINGS
"The effect on your affect of the H8000FW’s effects will positively affect your popularity."
-Anonymous
"Panic" Muting
In a moment you’ll be loading and playing with
programs, but before you do let it be said that
the H8000FW can produce LOUD sounds with
very little warning in some of the programs in
some situations. It would be nice to have a "panic" key to press in such a situation. Let’s
arrange things so that pressing the BYPASS key mutes all of the H8000FW’s outputs. Go
to the
bypass menu in the LEVELS area (you may have to press the LEVELS key a few
times to see it). Change the value of the system parameter to mute as shown above
(with the KNOB or the INC/DEC keys). Now, press the BYPASS key. The A and B LEDs
begin to blink - you’ve muted the H8000FW. To un-mute, press the BYPASS key again.
 For more information see Bypassing and Muting on page 90.
Loading Programs
Assuming you’ve loaded an appropriate routing
configuration, the H8000FW should be ready to
process! All that remains is to load a monolithic
program or to load a program into each DSP.
To load a program, enter the PROGRAM area. The two "normal" menu pages you
immediately find here, list and Criteria, work together to give you access to the
H8000FW’s hundreds of programs in a way that suits your needs. In this section, we’ll
only focus on two parameters on the
Criteria menu page, Sort By and Search By. Of
the two, Search By is the most important parameter to understand.
 The remaining parameters are discussed in Loading Programs on page 37.
You will see that each program has a three- or
four-digit number and a name. The program
number has two parts - the last two digits are a
number between 0 and 99, the remaining digits
are the bank number. The bank is a loose grouping of related programs, whose name
appears briefly at the top right of the screen when a program is selected by moving onto
it. The screen on the right shows that the selected program is part of a bank of
"Distortion Tools."