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Style Play
Effects: A/B FX Configuration
How to use the Quarter Tone function with a
footswitch
You can assign the “Quarter Tone” function to a footswitch, to
program a custom scale in realtime, for example to allow for
those sudden scale changes typical of the Arabic music. These
changes are not saved anywhere, so the scale is easily “wiped-
out” when selecting a different Performance or STS, or when
pressing the Quarter Tone pedal again.
Note: While in Style Play mode, you can create a custom scale, to
be assigned to a Performance or STS, simply by selecting and edit-
ing a User scale, and saving any change to a Performance or STS.
See “How to create a custom scale by fine-tuning each note of the
User scale” above.
While in Global mode, you can create a custom scale and save it to
one of the four SC Presets, and recall it by touching one of the SC
Preset buttons in the display. Then, you can start your scale editing
from the selected preset. See “How to use the Quarter Tone func-
tion with the SC Presets” above.
1. Program the footswitch to be the Quarter Tone switch.
Simply go to the Global mode, and reach the “Controllers:
Foot Controllers” page. There, you will find the “Pedal/
Footswitch” parameter, to which you can assign the Quar-
ter Tone function.
2. Lower some note pitches.
Keep the Quarter Tone pedal pressed. The keyboard will
not play at this time. Press the notes you want to lower a
quarter tone. Release the pedal.
3. Play with your new scale.
Notes you pressed on step 2 are now lowered of a quarter
tone.
4. Reset the original scale.
Press and release the Quarter Tone pedal again, without
playing any note. All pitches will be reset, and the scale
selected by the Performance or STS will be recalled.
Effects: A/B FX Configuration
This page allows you to select the A (Style and Pads) and B (Key-
board) groups of effects. Please use the “FX A” and “FX B” side
tabs to switch from one group to the other one.
FX Groups (FX A, FX B)
Pa300 includes two groups of effects (FX A and FX B). There are
two master FXs for group. In Style Play mode, the A group is
reserved to the Style and Pad tracks, the B group to the Keyboard
tracks.
Master FX 1, 2
Effects assigned to the corresponding effect processors. Usually,
FX1 are reverbs, while FX2 are modulating effects (chorus,
flanger, delay…). For a list of the available effects, see in the
Appendix.
Effects assigned to both FX groups can be saved to a Perfor-
mance. Effect assigned to the FX A group (Style and Pad tracks)
can be saved to the Style Settings. Effects assigned to the FX B
group (Keyboard tracks) can be saved to an STS.
W/D
Use this parameter to set the amount of the effect (Wet) against
the non-effected (Dry) signal coming from the track.
MFX2 to MFX1
Amount of the MFX2 effect going back to the input of the MFX1
effect.
M.T. (Modulating Track)
Source track for modulating MIDI messages. You can modulate
an effect parameter (for example, distortion’s low-cut filter fre-
quency) with a MIDI message generated by an internal physical
controller (for example, pushing the Joystick forward).
FX
group
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