Basic Operation: Selecting a Program
Selecting a Program
There are two methods of selecting a program:
First, you can dial it up from the Program Select knob. Remember that the Program
Select knob is �velocity sensitiveO. The faster you spin it, the further it jumps, so if you
3 Y 4need to get from program 1 to program 99 in a hurry, just twirl it quickly. A slow spin
moves you one program at a time.
If youOre using MIDI with the Echo Pro, send a MIDI Program change message from any
MIDI controller to change the program. And because we were thinking ahead, you can
actually call up the basic models as Programs, giving you a total of 115 available
programs. MIDI Program Changes also control looper functions like record/overdub,
play/stop, reverse, etc. See the MIDI Program Change Chart in the Appendix.
Editing a Program
Just call up a program or select a model with the Model Select knob and start twisting
and tweaking. You can tell that youOve edited a program by the hypnotic, slow flashing
of the Save button (just donOt stare at it for too long, or you may start clucking like a
chicken).
Setting Delay Time/Tempo
When digital delays first hit the market back in the late 70Os, long before Tap Tempo
hit the scene, calculators and stop watches were standard issue in most studios.
Engineers would calculate the correct delay time for the tempo of a song by dividing
60,000 into the tempo. This would give them the 1/4 note delay value, and from there
they could calculate all of the wonderful possible rhythmic divisions like a dotted 8th
or a 1/2 note triplet by using the a multiplier table like the one on the next page: |
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