Re: using presets on the echoplex

[Andre LaFosse <altruist@earthlink.net>]

Hi Terry,

Terry Blankenship wrote:
 
> Kim,

Picture me with a purple ponytail mullett as I answer these:
 
> Some preset questions:
> 
> If you didn't have each function set to start with a
> preset change;
> 
> Would they all be whatever preset came on when you
> turned on the echoplex, which would be the last preset
> you had loaded when you turned it off, with whatever
> changes you had done to it?

When you turn it on, the EDP will remember whatever the parameter
settings were when it was last turned on.  

> If you had one function set to change the program for
> a different preset, would everything else stay in that
> new preset when you used the other functions?

Yes.
 
> If you wanted to change a preset on the fly for the
> whole echoplex, how would you do it?

Send a program change command via MIDI, or use the Preset parameter on
the front panel.

> Could you have
> one patch on your midi pedal set to only change the
> preset, and if you did this would it stay that way
> when you used different funtions?

Yes.

I have a suggestion, Terry: before you get too wrapped up in switching
between different presets with different parameter settings, I would
strongly recommend that you spend some time with one set of parameters,
and experiment with the differences that changing just one parameter can 
make.

I understand that you're trying to do things with sync and a drum
machine that require fairly sophisticated combinations of functions and
parameters.  But some of the questions you're asking lead me to suspect
that you're not entirely clear on how certain parameters would impact
certain types of functions (things like roundmode, for instance, which
doesn't affect sync at all, or switchquant, which would only impact sync
if you're using more than one loop).

You've bought a very deep new instrument, and - just as a highly skilled
Hammond organ player would need time to learn the interface of a new
digital workstation synthesizer - anyone in your position would need to
take time to learn some of the fundamental concepts that the EDP is
based upon.

What I sometimes see happen with people who dive in too quickly into the
EDP is that they learn to do certain things with it as a result of
memorizing specific parameter settings...  but they don't necessarily
understand the basic principles that these functions are based on,
because they've tried to take on more advanced function combinations
without understanding how they're interrelated.

So, I would very highly recommend that you take time to learn the EDP
from the ground up.  Pick one function, see what different parameters
are related to it, and how that function is impacted by other functions
as well.  The more you explore any one aspect of the EDP, the more the
whole thing will come into focus.

It'll take longer to learn, but you'll be building a strong foundation
of knowledge, and you'll start making connections between different
functions and parameters, because you'll understand the basic
architectural principles that these different elements are based on.

Best wishes,

--Andre LaFosse
http://www.altruistmusic.com