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CHAPTER 17. INSTRUMENT, DRUM AND EFFECT RACKS 240
is not attenuated, allowing the chain's effects (like long reverb tails or delays) to fade out
according to their own settings.
Let's consider how we can make use of chain select zones in a performance situation:
Making Preset Banks Using Chain Select
Using Chain Select
Zones to Create Effects
Presets.
Unlike the other zone types, the default length of a chain select zone is 1, and the default
value is 0. From this setup, we can quickly create preset banks using the Chain Select
Editor.
Again, we will use a Rack with four chains as our starting point. Each of the four chains
contain different effects that we would like to be able to switch between. To make this
a hands-on experience, we have MIDI-mapped the Chain selector to an encoder on an
external control surface.
Let's move the chain select zones of the second and third chains so that each of our zones is
occupying its own adjacent value: The rst chain's zone has a value of 0, the second chain's
zone has a value of 1, the third has a value of 2, and the fourth has a value of 3.
Since each of our chain select zones has a unique value, with no two zones overlapping,
we now have a situation where only one chain at a time can ever be equal to the Chain
selector value (shown at the top of the editor). Therefore, by moving the Chain selector, we
determine which chain can process signals. With our MIDI encoder at hand, we can now
ip effortlessly between instrument or effect setups.