User Manual

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Saving a Preset
When you see current preset footswitch’s LED flashing approximately once every
two seconds, this tells you that your loaded preset is edited from its last-saved state.
Once you dial in that magical combination of settings, it’s a great idea to save them
to your current preset location. Saving captures the current delay and reverb, all knob
settings, tempo, and any existing expression pedal or external footswitch parameter
assignments. If you’d like to save your current settings, press and hold the currently-lit
A, B, or C footswitch for three to four seconds until you see its green light flash four
times rapidly, then release and your preset is saved, replacing the preset that previously
occupied this slot.
Press and hold the currently lit A, B, or C footswitch to save
Note that by performing the press-and-hold as described above, you’ll always be
saving to the specific preset location for the currently loaded preset. For example, if
switch A is currently lit:
• When your footswitches are controlling the default presets A, B, and C bank
(Global Settings - "Presets ABC" is selected), then press-hold switch A saves
to the preset A location.
• When your footswitches are controlling the presets D, E, and F bank (Global
Settings - "Presets DEF" is selected), then press-hold switch A saves to the
preset D location.
• When you’ve recalled a preset via MIDI Program Change, the presets 1 through
128 are mapped to the A, B, C footswitches sequentially. Therefore, when load-
ing preset 7 (via MIDI Program Change 006), you’ll see switch A lit, for preset
8, you’ll see switch B lit, for preset 10, you’ll see switch A list, etc.
Saved Parameter Value Indicator
When turning any of DL4 MkII’s six knobs to edit your preset’s selected delay model or
parameters (or when holding ALT/LEGACY and turning knobs to edit your reverb model
or parameters), you’ll see the ALT/LEGACY button’s LED temporarily light up bright white
at specific locations on the knob. When you see this white LED, it indicates this as the
parameter’s value that is saved in the current preset. This makes it easy to tell which
delay or reverb model, or to what value each knob is saved for the current preset. Note
that you’ll need to turn the knob fairly slowly to see where the LED lights up—and it will
remain lit white only for a few seconds before returning to its previous state.
Hit the Trails?
One rather important consideration is how to configure the behavior for Trails (the
repeats of your delay and decay of your reverb) when you bypass your preset. This
option can be changed within the Global Settings—see "Bypass Trails" on page 47.
Off - (The factory default setting) Bypassing your active preset abruptly silences the
delay and reverb trails.
On - Your delay and reverb trails decay naturally once the preset is bypassed.
Your delay and reverb trails for the current preset are always silenced once you activate
another preset, regardless of the Trails setting. The type of bypass you choose can be
a sonic factor for your trails as well—see the next section.
What Type of Bypass?
When you bypass a preset, you’re actually bypassing the entire DL4 MkII device, so a
few decisions are in order for exactly how you prefer things to behave. You can choose
one of the following options within the device’s Global Settings > "Bypass Type"
True Bypass - Your input signal is sent directly through DL4 MkII with no A/D/A
(Analog to Digital to Analog) conversion and all DSP is bypassed. This means that
all Trails (if “On”), Looper playback, and the MIC IN are muted when you bypass the
current preset.
NOTE: For the following three options, we’re describing the audible behaviors assuming
you have Bypass Trails set to On (see preceding section). If Trails is Off, you’ll not hear
any trails, regardless of the Bypass Type selected.
Buffered Bypass - (The factory default) Your input signal continues to be sent directly
through DL4 MkII with no A/D/A conversion, its signal to the DSP is muted, and the
DSP’s existing delay and reverb trails are allowed to decay naturally.
DSP Bypass - Your input is sent through the DSP path, along the delay and reverb,
but any further delay processing is bypassed. The DSP’s existing trails decay naturally.
Dry Kill - Your input is completely muted, but any existing DSP’s trails decay naturally.
This behavior is akin to muting a mixer or effects loop send to a rack processor while
the effects return is still active.
TIP: You can still tap in a tempo using your TAP (or other Tap-assigned) switch when DL4
MkII is bypassed. (You couldn’t do that on the original DL4, so there’s something to gloat
about at that next after-gig party.)