User's Manual

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2 Terminology
2.1 MIDI - WTF Is That???
MIDI stands for “Music Instrument Digital Interface”. MIDI is the global standard for transmitting notes and control
commands to and from all kinds of electronic instruments and sound-processing equipment.
You can connect your WAHryTone and use the basic functions directly, without having to deal with MIDI. If you like
to control it via a MIDI expression pedal, all you have to do is to configure your expression pedal so that it sends CC
number 7. You can find more information about this in the users manual of your foot controller. And, of course,
you’ve got to connect the WAHryTone to the foot controller with a MIDI cable (see chapter 3.2).
If you own a Prostage XDS | XLS | XTMpro, you can program the WAHryTone very easily using the System Manager
software. No MIDI knowledge is required to do this. But you can also program the WAHryTone using MIDI
commands without the XDS | XLS | XTMpro. Then, you need a MIDI interface and a sequencer software that can
send Sysex data. For this, MIDI knowledge is necessary. Detailed information about MIDI can be found on www.
midi.org and many other sites on the internet.
2.2 Expression Pedal
An expression pedal is a kind of volume pedal that is connected to the WAHryTone, to a MIDI foot controller, or
which is part of the MIDI foot controller. However, the expression pedal does not control the guitar signal, but
generates a control signal, with which for example the volume, the WahWah effect or other adjustable values of
the WAHryTone can be controlled.
2.3 Instant Access = On/Off Switches (Stompbox Mode)
Instant Access are “hardwired” on/off switches. These work like an analog footswitch connected directly to your
amplifier, e.g. to switch channels. At the foot controller you can, for example, define a button which switches the
effect on and off.
2.4 Preset | Program Change
Presets are stored settings in the effects unit. You can recall presets using the switches on the foot controller. For
this purpose, a program number is selected on the foot controller. This is known as a Program Change.
A preset contains all the settings of the WAHryTone belonging to one sound. For example, the following presets
are stored:
•Preset 2 => Standard CryBaby Sound
•Preset 3 => XY Signature Wah
•....
•Preset 4 => Volume Control
If you now press button 1 on the foot controller, the adjustable values - so-called parameters - are set within the
WAHryTone so that the sound corresponds to the CryBaby.
If you press button 2, the parameters are changed as they have been stored for the Extended Wah.
In Preset 13 the WAHryTone switches its operating mode and works as a volume pedal.
2.5 Control Change | CC = > Real-time Control With an Expression Pedal (e.g. Volume)
The abbreviation CC stands for MIDI "Control Change". Control Changes are commands, with which parameters
(e.g. volume) are controlled in real time. To this end, an expression pedal sends - as long as it is moved - so called
Continuous Controller and tells the effects device its position. Control Changes can also switch functions at the
receiver device on and off.
2.6 Hard-Bypass | Buffered-Bypass
Bypass means that the signal is passed from the input jack of an effect device directly to its output. The effect is
thus bypassed, I.e. it is off. With a hard-bypass, this is done with a relay. That is as whether the jacks are soldered
directly to each other. With a Buffered Bypass, the signal still flows through a few electronic components, which
"refresh" the signal, but not through the effect.