Safety Instructions

System Presets and Machine Presets also have User and Card categories,

where you can access user-edited presets. Presets in the User category are

stored on the PCM96 Surround, and presets in the Card category are stored

on a Compact Flash card.

To select a different category

1. From the Preset screen, press the Back button. The Category Selection

screen appears. Note that there are different Category Selection screens

for System Presets and Machine Presets:

Category Selection Screen - System Presets

Preset Category Selection

Default Configurations *

Combined Mono Reverbs

Combined Mono Effects

Category Selection Screen - Machine Presets

Preset Category Selection

Halls (Small) *

Halls (Medium)

Halls (Large)

2. Turn the Select knob to scroll through the available categories. (An aster-

isk appears next to the currently selected category.)

3. Press the Select knob to load the highlighted category. A flashing preset

name appears (if it is not the currently selected preset).

4. Select a preset with the Select knob, and press the Select knob to load it.

SYSTEM PRESETS AND MACHINE PRESETS

The PCM96 Surround features a single powerful processor, which can be

used as up to four virtual machines. For example, you could send the left

input signal through a mono reverb in one virtual machine and send the

right input signal through a mono delay in another virtual machine. You

could then send both signals through a chorus effect on a third virtual

machine. You could then save this configuration as a System Preset. It’s a

preset that includes a system of virtual machines. (Note that System Presets

are not available in the PCM96 Surround plug-in. See page 20 for more

information about the plug-in.)

System Presets can be extremely complex and are generally tailored especially

for the mix you’re working on. Lexicon

has provided a number of these

presets, just to give you an idea about what you might do. Who knows?

You might like them just the way they are. Feel free to make modified ver-

sions of the factory presets, or create your own from scratch. The possibili-

ties are nearly endless, so have fun.

When a preset only includes a single virtual machine, it’s called a Machine

Preset.