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Jon Light (deceased)
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 15 Jul 2007 10:03 am |
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If this thread has legs and turns into an knowledge base thing, great. If not, I'm just here to report a discovery.
There's already stuff here on the forum and there's a Line6 board that's (of course) more comprehensive.
I've spent some hours with my new xt and I've made some progress.
Here's the first problem I've solved by myself. It's either something I missed in the manual or a manual omission that I've figured out.
In order for the Tap tempo button to work as a real time tweak with a modulation effect in a patch you have saved, the speed setting needs to have been saved as a note icon (eighth note, quarter note, etc.). If you have programmed the patch with the speed as a numerical setting (via the tweak knob), Tap will not work.
I've got a trem patch where I wanted to be able to tweak speed and intensity on the fly. Tweak knob is assigned to intensity (mix) but the tap wasn't happening. I stumbled upon this note-icon fact as I tried to figure out my problem. The manual touches on this but not well enough to penetrate my brain. I was not happy at what I thought was a feature shortcoming and I am now totally pleased that I was wrong.
I'm still trying to figure out the relationship between delay tap tempo and mod tap tempo---figure out how (if) to use both at the same time and how the settings relate----I assume that the saved tempo applies identically to delay and mod when assigned to the tap button? I'll figure out my answer soon enough.
So far, I like this thing. |
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Dean Parks
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Sherman Oaks, California, USA
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Posted 15 Jul 2007 2:07 pm
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Jon-
The note value to choose for "one tap equals one cycle" is the quarter note. If yoiu choose "ping pong" delay, then it's twice as fast, for some reason, so you could change it to half note if you still want that tap=cycle relationship.
You can set up a different relationship in the mod section (for tremelo or phaser, chorus, flanger, etc. So maybe you'd want long triplets for a slow phase (whole note triplets), or whatever... your setting can be different in the two effects... "tap" sets the speed, but the note value sets the relationship. If you want one to ignore the tap, set up that effect as an actual time, and the other as a note value to follow the tap.
-dean- |
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Jon Light (deceased)
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 15 Jul 2007 4:06 pm
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| Good stuff, Dean. A whole lot of versatility there. I'll explore that for sure. Cool. |
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