Alesis QuadraVerb Early Archives
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 89 10:46:33 PST
From: page (Bob Page)
Subject: welcome to qv-interest
Well, the initial flood of requests have subsided, so I guess we're
open for business.
The list is an e-mail reflector -- no human involved. This might
eventually mean you get a "can't deliver to ..." message from some
mailer when you post. If you get one, please send it to me and I'll try
to take care of it. Eventually (as work permits) I'll get some
mechanisms in place to prevent this kind of message from reaching you.
There are 29 names on the list ... apparently all Quadvraverb owners, or
soon to be. Most are in the US, but there are a number of "foreign
correspondents" as well. The distribution between educational and
commercial sites seems to be about even.
As my note only went out to rec.music.synth, I suspect many people
who would benefit from this list did not see the announcement. Feel
free to pass the info along.
[contact info deleted ..bob]
..bob
PS Got any good patches??!!
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 89 08:03:19 PST
From: pdx.MENTOR.COM!ddonahue -at- tektronix.TEK.COM (Daniel Donahue)
Subject: re: test
> For this initial test posting, I'm curious to find out the readership of
> this qv-interest group. How many of you/us are there?
>
> Rex
Greetings. I am also curious about the number of readers for this group.
Perhaps you could post a summary. A directory of all of us could prove to be
very useful.
Some basic biographical information about the readers might be worth
knowing as well; mainly concerning their involvement with music and what
kind of use they get out of the quadraverb. So, to get the ball rolling,
I'll give a brief bio.
I work as a customer service support engineer for Mentor Graphics full-
time and play keyboards on the weekends. So far my use of the quadraverb
has been limited to the factory patches. The equipment I use consists of:
(*) Ensoniq ESQ1
(*) Yamaha TX81Z
(*) Alesis Quadraverb
(*) Alesis HR16
I'll stop my rambling for now. Thanks for the email and hope to hear
from you again soon.
P.S. Rex, I am replying to the interest group and also to you directly
because I am curious if your mail path will work for me or not. If you
receive this directly from me, and have an extra minute, please let me
know it reached you. Thanks
Dan Donahue
Mentor Graphics Corporation
ddonahue -at- pdx.MENTOR.COM
...{sequent, tessi, attunix, apollo}!mntgfx!ddonahue
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 89 14:41:21 EST
From: kjones%talos -at- uunet.UU.NET (Kyle Jones)
Subject: mix levels
A trick I use to get cleaner sound from the QV is to boost the mix
levels to their maximum values, while keeping the relative volume
between the effects constant. This means I can get a really wet mix
without cranking the effects sends on the mixer to the point where the
hiss in my gear is noticeable. What I wonder is why Alesis didn't do
this to all the patches in the first place. I'm converting them
as I use them.
kyle jones ...!uunet!talos!kjones
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 89 15:21:58 EST
From: kjones%talos -at- uunet.UU.NET (Kyle Jones)
Subject: Got any good patches??!!
Bob Page writes:
> PS Got any good patches??!!
Well, it depends on what you have in mind. A good reverb patch for
"Warm Pad Fade" on my D-10 will probably stink to high heaven if you use
it for acoustic guitar.
So, are there a lot of guitarists in here? I know there's at least
one (Hi, Dave!). Or are most of you qv-interest readers trying to
breathe new life into those cheesy horn patches you never had the heart
to throw away? I'm a keyboard and drum man myself. Unfortunately,
acoustic drums are out of the question in my apartment building.
kyle jones ...!uunet!talos!kjones
[ D-10 owners: You knows those patches with the big sounding names and
wimpy sound? "Ensemble Series", "Symphonic ORCH", etc? Play them
through patch 64 ("CHORUSTRINGS 2") on the QV. You WILL squeal with
delight. ]
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 89 12:36:08 -0800
From: pete%WLBR -at- WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM (Pete Lyall)
Well - at least one more guitarist (me)..
I bought the QV after owning an SPX90, and then trying out most
of the stuff that's currently popular (digitech, Yamaha, ART, and
Roland). The QV seems to be a great bread and butter unit for guitarists.
Sure, it doesn't have _real_ pitch shift (gawd.. the ART SGE had GREAT
pitch shifting), but the pitch programs (flange, chorus, phase, detune) are
among the nicest I have heard.
For subtle guitar effecting, I think the QV is near impossible to beat,
especially in the price range. I usually use a light delay with some EQ
or reverb. On those configurations that don't allow reverb, I use an
outboard MIDIverb II (which I also love to death).
As soon as we figure out how to do QV patch postings (SYSEX (yay)? ASCII (boo!)),
I'll post a few of my guitar patches...
Pete
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 89 13:53:42 MST
From: Kevin Rosenberg
Subject: QV SYSEX
In reference to Pete Lyall's wish to trade QV patches in SYSEX form
rather than ASCII, I have a program called YLib that is a patch librarian
for the QV, and read/saves data in the SYSEX format. BTW, it also works
with the DX7II, TX81Z, K1, P3, D-110, and GR-50. It's for the Mac.
If anyone wants to use it for their QV, I'll send them a shareware copy.
Kevin Rosenber
Date: Thu, 2-Nov-89 23:19:56 PST
From: portal!cup.portal.com!CRAIG_F_OCHIKUBO
Subject: IBM version sysex program
I have a pc version of a sysex program that works with just about
any synth, effect unit etc. very reliable and it has some nice features
if any of you are interested, its a shareware program
it runs on a 100% compatible PC with an 100% compatible MPU-401
type interface
Craig Ochikubo
N-Focus -at- cup.portal.com
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 89 23:40:49 PST
From: page (Bob Page)
Subject: qv uses
Dan says:
> basic bio ... mainly concerning their involvement with music and what
> kind of use they get out of the quadraverb.
I write network management software during the day (and many nights &
weekends, sigh). Like Dan, I also have TX81Z/QV/HR16, but I use an old
Korg Poly-800 when I need a keyboard (I'm a drummer at heart). I use an
Amiga as a sampler, synthesizer, sequencer and patch editor/librarian.
The Amiga L,R outputs are hooked into my mixer, and I use the Amiga
samples via the musical keyboard or under sequencer control.
Most of my use of the QV has been for enhancing the HR16 sounds. I
haven't created any new patches, just tweaked the ones from the factory.
Some time ago I decompiled the QV MIDI SysEx information - both command
and dump formats. It was posted to rec.music.synth, almost a year ago.
If for some reason you didn't get a copy, you can get it via anonymous
FTP from ucsd.edu in ~ftp/midi/doc/quadraverb-sysex.Z (I think, this is
from memory) or let me know and I'll email it to you. For those of you
who have seen it, it hasn't changed since posted except to update my
email address and phone number.
..bob
Date: 8 Nov 89 21:47:59 GMT
From: pete -at- wlbr.IMSD.CONTEL.COM (Pete Lyall)
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,rec.music.makers
Organization: Contel FSD, Westlake Village, CA
Subject: Re: Alesis Quadraverb problem
In article <36262@apple.Apple.COM> jef -at- Apple.COM (Jonathan Flamm) writes:
>I recently bought an Alesis Quadraverb and am having a couple of problems.
> 1. The thing is noisy! It generates quite a bit of hiss.
> 2. I hear a high pitch whine which sounds suspiciously like aliasing -
> which is surprising. I am using an Ensoniq EPS with it BTW.
>Could anyone with experience with the Quadraverb give me some suggestions
>or confirm the problems.
Whoa there! First things first - there's a freebie engineering change
that Alesis will put into the unit. I also noticed a horrible whine
when an EPS was plugged into the mixer. Contact your dealer. Again -
it should be a no-charge update.
Secondly - the only time I've ever heard of a noisy QV was when
someone tried to use a microphone or guitar directly into the unit,
instead of using a line-level feed (like a mixer effects loop).
I have had LOTS of rack effects pass through the gates here, and the
QV is among the quietest. Have the mdification done and see how that
affects things.
Pete Lyall
--
Pete Lyall Contel Corporation
Compuserve: 76703,4230 OS9_Net: (805) 375-1401 (24hr 300/1200/2400)
Internet: pete -at- wlbr.imsd.contel.com UUCP: {hacgate,jplgodo,voder}!wlbr!pete
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 89 18:40:21 PST
From: page (Bob Page)
Subject: QV patch: Big Snare
>From the Fall '89 issue of _The First Reflection_, the Alesis magazine.
"Here's a QuadraVerb patch given to us by Francis Buckley, who, in
addition to being Chief Engineer for MCA music, is also a well-known
independent engineer who has worked with Paula Abdul, the Pointer
Sisters, Kenny Loggins and others. He's currently using the QuadraVerb
on the new Wilson/Phillips album that you'll be hearing about real soon."
Configuration: 3bandEQ->Reverb
Reverb type: Plate2
Reverb input: Post-EQ
Reverb Predelay: 006
Predelay Mix: <99
Reverb Decay: 44
Rvb. Diffusion: 9
Rvb. Density: 9
Low Freq Decay: -20
Hi Freq Decay: -21
Rvb Gate: OFF
Mid EQ Freq: 2130
Mid EQ Bandw: 1.00
Mid EQ Ampl: -01.85
Hi EQ Freq: 7046
Hi EQ Bandw: 1.00
Hi EQ Ampl: -00.03
Rvb. Chorus: ON
LFO Shape: Triangle
LFO Speed: 20
LFO Depth: 50
Direct Sig Lvl: 00 (when used with console sends and returns)
Master Level: 99
Reverb Level: 80
..bob
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 89 14:26:31 EST
From: kjones%talos -at- uunet.UU.NET (Kyle Jones)
Subject: QV patch: Big Snare
Thanks for the patch, Bob. However, there was a minor problem.
> Configuration: 3bandEQ->Reverb
> [...]
> Hi EQ Freq: 7046
> Hi EQ Bandw: 1.00
> Hi EQ Ampl: -00.03
There is no Hi EQ Bandw under the 3bandEQ->Reverb configuration. There
is under the 5bandEQ->Pitch->Delay, but then the reverb is gone. I
ignored the bandwidth setting here.
I just noticed the name of the patch today. "Big Snare". Humph. I was
trying to play piano through it last night... :-( :-) It was a bit dull
but I liked the big sound.
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 89 02:51:38 PST
From: page (Bob Page)
Subject: QV patch: Big Snare
>There is no Hi EQ Bandw under the 3bandEQ->Reverb configuration.
That's what I get for typing it in straight from the paper. I admit
I hadn't tried it yet (although I suppose that's obvious now).
..bob
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 89 21:27:08 PDT
From: "Michael R. Kesti" <mrk -at- gvgspd.gvg.tek.com>
Subject: A noise problem
I recently altered my system, and in the process have gained a buzz noise
when using my guitar with any patch that uses the PITCH DETUNE section of
my QV. I think I might be a candidate for the QV input filter mod. Here's
why I think so:
Hese are some ways I can reduce or eliminate the buzz:
1) Turn guitar volume all the way down.
2) Touch any metal part of the guitar.
3) Reduce the PITCH DETUNE AMOUNT to zero.
4) Reduce the PITCH MIX to zero.
[]
My system used to look like this: ||
||
_||_
( FS )
+-----+ +-----+ ) (
| D10 | | P3 | +------------(____)
+-----+ +-----+ | +--------------------------------------+
| | | | |
+-----------------------+ |
| 1 2 3 7 | |
| 1|------> To Amplifier |
| 2|-----------------+ |
| MB 3|--------------+ | |
| 4|-----------+ | | |
| 5|--------+ | | | |
| 6|-----+ | | | | |
+-----------------------+ | | | | | |
+-----------------+ |
| 1 2 3 4 5 | +-------+ |
| |---| QV |--+
| EPP | +-------+
+-----------------+
Where:
D10 = Roland D-10 Keyboard Synthesizer
P3 = Korg P3 Piano Module
FS = Fender Stratocaster Guitar
MB = Akai MB-76 Programmable Mix Bay
EPP = Ibanez EPP-400 Effects Patching Programmer
QV = Alesis QuadraVerb
Now it looks like this:
[]
||
||
+-----+ +-----+ _||_
| D10 | | P3 | ( FS )
+-----+ +-----+ ) ( +---------------------+
L| |R 1| |2 (____) | +-----------------+ |
| | | | | | | | |
+-----------------------------+ | |
Inputs | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | | |
| 1|---> Mono 1 | |
| 2|---> Mono 2 | |
| 3|---> Left | |
| MB 4|---> Right | |
| | +------+ | |
| 5|---|L L|---|-+
| | | QV | |
| 6|---|R R|---+
+-----------------------------+ +------+
Outputs
Notice that the EPP-400 is no longer in the system. This was made possible
by the purchase of an MX-8 Midi Patchbay/Processor. Here's my theory:
I think the guitar's pickups are responding to the high RF level in the
room (there are at least 10 CPU's within 15 feet!), so turning the guitar's
volume down eliminates the ultimate noise source, and touching metal makes
the guitar a less efficient antenna. This RF energy didn't used to get to
the QV because the EPP-400 blocked it, but now, without the EPP, enough gets
through the MB-76 that when using PITCH DETUNE, an aliasing condition results
in the buzz.
If the above is correct, then I feel that the input filter mod for the QV is
in order. What do you think? Does one have to send the unit to Alesis for
the mod? Note that I am handy with a soldering iron, and if it's just a RC
or two, I could deal with it (if I knew what the mod was!).
Thanks for any help you can provide.
============================================================================
Michael Kesti Grass Valley Group, Inc. | "Like one and one don't make two,
mrk -at- gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM | one and one make one."
!tektronix!gvgpsa!gvgspd!mrk | - The Who, Bargain
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 89 08:52:09 -0800
From: pete%WLBR -at- WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM (Pete Lyall)
Here's a collection of a few of my (original) favorite patches for the
Alesis Quadraverb for use with guitar. They are in an ARC file that
includes a 'readme' for suggested applications, and 6 or 7 individual
SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE patch dumps. These may be loaded back into the
quadraverb with any old SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE utility. They load directly
into the EDIT BUFFER, and thus will not clobber any existing patches
unless you store them. Enjoy them, and let's see more of them!
Merry Christmas...
Pete Lyall
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 89 10:32:21 PST
From: acad!earth!eric -at- uunet.UU.NET (Eric Lyons)
Subject: Quadraverb MIDI hangups
I spent a couple of bloody hours last night trying to make my M1, QV, JLC PPS-1
and PC work together in peace and (subjectively) harmony. Learned a few inter-
esting things that may save some people some time.
I have these 4 MIDI gadgets (including the PC with MPU-401 interface), and had
them wired up more or less serially: (in my notation, -> is out, --> is
THRU) PC->M1->QV-->(THRU on)PC. Life was moderately cool. However, the M1
seemed to filter out all SYSEX info, so I couldn't load patches to the QV.
What's more, the QV seemed also to filter SYSEX, so I couldn't dump from the
M1. Plus, to the the tape sync box (the PPS-1) into the loop, I had to do yet
more plugging and unplugging.
So, I bought a couple of Pocket Merge's and a Pocket Thru. Now, the Thru box
is connected to the OUT of the PC, and provides 3 feeds: to the M1, the QV and
the PPS-1. Great. Then I merged the M1 OUT and the QV OUT together back into
the PC. Great. WAIT!! What's that noise! Why is the M1 locked up!!
Forgot to turn off THRU on the QV (in the MIDI section). MIDI loop. Big
disaster.
Okay, that's cleared up. Now let's see if the tape sync box still works.
Nope. Lock light goes crazy, noise everywhere. I have its output merged now
with the M1. M1 is locking up and going crazy again. Read manual. Manual
sez "PPS-1 OUT's are merged with its IN". Disconnect the PPS-1 IN (coming from
the Pocket Thru). Everything seems to work.
One of the strange effects of the MIDI loop created by having the QV's THRU
setting ON was that the QV was really freaking out when I tried to change the
program. It would change one or two programs in either direction from where
it was, but then would start erratically flipping among the previous two or so.
Of course, now it all makes sense: pushing the "value" button in "program" mode
sends out a "change program" midi instruction, which gets looped right back into
its input. Yikes. All in all, the thing seems pretty fault tolerant.
Eric.
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 89 17:00:42 -0800
From: pete%WLBR -at- WLV.IMSD.CONTEL.COM (Pete Lyall)
When I opened the box to my recently acquired Alesis MIDIverb III, I
noted the absence of the familiar 'rep' card which shows the program
name assigned to each patch number. I called Alesis technical support
and they indicated that it was not ready at release time, and that
they elected not to hold up shipments for a simple plastic card. The
rationale was that they would send them out as warantee cards arrived.
I asked if they could FAX me a copy, and they happily complied. Here's
a listing of the 100 factory preset patches
in the MIDIverbIII. I hope you find them useful!
Pete Lyall
P.S. The chart is set up to fit on a conventional page (62 lines)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 90 16:14:59 CDT
From: james -at- astro.as.utexas.edu (James McCartney)
Subject: Re: Quadraverb
I had my Qverb modified at the factory. One note is it does seem to have
altered the high end more than I would have liked. I'm not sure how much of
what I'm hearing is roll off or phase shift, but it is not as crystalline
as it was. As it was though my EPS was unusable with it, so it was a trade
off.
--- James McCartney
Date: 24 Apr 90 18:02:06 GMT
From: abrams -at- cs.columbia.edu (Steven Abrams)
Subject: Re: Quadraverb
Lots of people have been pseudo-flaming Alesis for leaving the Master
effects volumes on the Quadraverb at around 50 instead of 100. They
indicate in the manual, (RTFM, remember?) that if one is using a mixer
and piping the effects through the 'verb on the effects bus, and
mixing it in with a dry signal on the board, crank it up. If,
however, you send your only keyboard, or a mike, or whatever right
into and out of the 'verb, keep the level around 50, or you'll loose
too much of your dry signal.
Just thought I'd clarify.
~~~Steve
Date: 26 Apr 90 15:15:51 GMT
From: abrams -at- cs.columbia.edu (Steven Abrams)
Subject: Re: Quadraverb
> Eh? You mean it DOESN'T have a direct signal on/off control?????
Oops. That should have read, "Keep the Master Effects level *and* the
Direct Signal level at around 50 each." If you use it just for an
outboard effects processor, then push the Master effects level up to
100. Hmm. I forgot how the EQ signal gets handled, but if you are
only using EQ, I think you set the DIRECT SIGNAL to be PRE-EQ, set it
to 0, and boost MASTER EFFECTS level all the way up. Either that, or
you set DIRECT to be POST-EQ, crank MASTER EFFECTS to 0, and DIRECT
SIGNAL LEVEL to 100.
I think both ways will work -- I'll have to check it out!
~~~Steve
Date: Tue, 15 May 90 14:05:22 EDT
From: David Grant <grant -at- cs.odu.edu>
Subject: How to do sysex dumps
I'm about to post a couple of drum patches I have and just thought I'd
share the procedure with you folks so you don't have to look it up in the
manual (like I did).
First, copy your patch to the edit buffer. I do this by just modifying
a parameter and then changing it back to it's previous value.
2. Press the Midi button
3. Hit page up until you get to the Midi Thru display
4. Change Midi Thru to ON
5. Hit page up and change Sysex Enable to ON
6. Hit page up and then hit value up until you get SEND EDIT TO EDIT
7. Hit the STORE button and your patch will be sent.
For any Amiga owners out there I used Bill Bartons midi.library to send
and recieve the system exclusive messages. The distribution has two
programs called tsx and rsx which transmit and recieve system exclusive
messages.
Date: Tue, 15 May 90 14:16:38 EDT
From: David Grant <grant -at- cs.odu.edu>
Subject: 2 Drum Patches
Here's two general purpose (you can use them on a whole set, not just
a snare or a bass) drum patches in sysex format. Both of these
patches will load into the edit buffer, so don't worry about any of
your patches getting overwritten.
Run the following through uudecode and then unzoo the resulting
file.
Enjoy!
--
David Grant grant -at- cs.odu.edu (804) 422-4638
1854 English Court, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23454
Date: Tue, 15 May 90 15:11:35 EDT
From: David Grant <grant -at- cs.odu.edu>
Subject: QV patch editor for Amiga
Anybody got a public domain QV patch editor for the Amiga? I'd prefer
one that uses the midi.library, but anything would be appreciated.
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 90 13:40:52 PDT
From: page (Bob Page)
Subject: QV upgrade coming from Alesis
I just got off the phone with Alesis. RSN ("in a week or two") they
will have an upgrade PROM available for the Quadraverb. The new PROM
will add the following features:
- 1.5 seconds of sampling. Once sampled, the sample can be
re-triggered (via MIDI), can be transposed over a two
octave range, etc. It can't be 'downloaded' to your sampler.
The guy I spoke with stressed that this is just another effect
and not a full-blown sampler.
- Pitch modulators and resonators. The resonators could be used
to achieve a vocoder-like effect.
- Multi-tap delay.
- Stereo panning.
You can install the upgrade yourself. Just unscrew the cover on your
QV, take the old PROM out of its socket and install the new one.
The upgrade will cost US$30, and will *probably* only be available
direct from Alesis. Call Alesis at +1 213 467 8000 and ask for
merchandising. I don't have mail order information.
..bob
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 90 14:11:06 PDT
From: page (Bob Page)
Subject: Re: QV upgrade coming from Alesis
More info.
..bob
------- Start of forwarded message -------
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 90 14:06:00 PDT
From: yerazunis -at- guess.enet.dec.com
Subject: RE: QV upgrade coming from Alesis
> - 1.5 seconds of sampling. Once sampled, the sample can be
> re-triggered (via MIDI), can be transposed over a two
> octave range, etc. It can't be 'downloaded' to your sampler.
> The guy I spoke with stressed that this is just another effect
> and not a full-blown sampler.
The fellow I talked to stressed that this was not a full-function
sampling capability.
> - Pitch modulators and resonators. The resonators could be used
> to achieve a vocoder-like effect.
...and that you can control the resonator center frequencies via
midi...
> - Multi-tap delay.
Likewise, controllable via midi...
>The upgrade will cost US$30, and will *probably* only be available
>direct from Alesis. Call Alesis at +1 213 467 8000 and ask for
>merchandising. I don't have mail order information.
However, they _do_ take American Express; I just placed my order.
I also asked politely if they could send me the manual _now_ instead
of waiting for the chips to be ready; they said they'd try.
Here's hoping...
-Bill
------- End of forwarded message -------
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 90 19:24:31 -0400
From: David Gauthier <david -at- fang.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Subject: Re: QV upgrade coming from Alesis
bob,
thanks for posting the QV EPROM upgrade. I called and was told that
they are not shipping for 2-3 weeks because they are still testing
the new code. Furthermore, Alesis will only ship the EPROMs within
the US. In Canada the upgrades will be available through their Canadian
distributor, TMI in Vancouver. When I called TMI they were not informed
of the upgrade but intend on looking into it.
david
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 90 14:41:31 BST
From: Nick Rothwell <nick -at- lfcs.edinburgh.ac.uk>
Subject: QV upgrade coming from Alesis
>The upgrade will cost US$30, and will *probably* only be available
>direct from Alesis.
...and if they're not shipping outside the US, this means that European
owners of QuadraVerbs are left out.
Fine, fine.
Actually, I hear rumours that one of the UK dealers will have these things
as well, but I don't have details.
At least Alesis don't have to update their documentation of the SysEx
spec., since they refused to release it in the first place. Since the
QV has dedicated buttons for all the effects sections, I wonder how
easy it's going to be to get these new features from the existing front
panel?
Bob, are you going to have a bash at updating your informal top-secret
eyes-only QuadraVerb SysEx document? (who me, officer? what information?)
Nick.
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 90 21:42:36 PDT
From: page (Bob Page)
Subject: QV upgrade coming from Alesis
Nick Rothwell wrote:
> At least Alesis don't have to update their documentation of the SysEx
> spec., since they refused to release it in the first place.
Alesis claims the QV SysEx info is available from IMA (International
MIDI Association) and that the updated QV info will also be available
through the IMA. They have no idea *when* that will happen, however.
> Since the QV has dedicated buttons for all the effects sections, I wonder
> how easy it's going to be to get these new features from the existing front
> panel?
Good question. Probably via chords or some other "creative" method.
I suppose we'll all find out soon. I'm more interested in finding out
how they mess up the SysEx info, and I certainly hope they provide
some way of determining the PROM version number, so patch editors can
present the correct interface to users.
> Bob, are you going to have a bash at updating your informal top-secret
> eyes-only QuadraVerb SysEx document? (who me, officer? what information?)
Certainly. However, this is *not* "top-secret eyes-only" information.
I even thought about sending it to Electronic Musician when I first
created it, or writing an article on disassembling SysEx dumps, but I
got too busy doing other things, like leaving my job and moving to the
other side of the country.
..bob
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 90 8:49:58 PDT
From: "Michael R. Kesti" <mrk -at- gvgspd.gvg.tek.com>
Subject: upgrade and sysex
One reservation I have about the upgrade is whether I'll lose my patches.
Sure, I can (and do!) back them up via sysex dumps, so I'm not concerned
about scrambling the data while installing the new ROM, but it seems likely
that the sysex and internal data format will change and invalidate my
existing data.
Can anyone tell me whether my concern is valid?
Michael
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 90 11:41:24 MDT
From: schabtac -at- spot.Colorado.EDU (SCHABTACH ADAM)
Subject: Re: upgrade and sysex
> but it seems likely
>that the sysex and internal data format will change and invalidate my
>existing data.
>Can anyone tell me whether my concern is valid?
My guess is that they won't change the internal format. More specifically,
the new format should be a superset of the old, so that it will understand
old-version sysex dumps. Why? Three reasons, mostly from common-sense:
1) lots and lots of QV owners would be dismayed if they lost all their
existing data after the upgrade, 2) it would mean more work for Alesis if
they had to reprogram all their old factory patches, 3) when a similar
upgrade for the DigiTech DSP-128 came out, it was reverse-compatible with
the old version, and if DigiTech can do it, Alesis must be able to, too.
At least I HOPE it's gonna work this way. :-)
> Michael
--Adam
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 90 11:57:30 PDT
From: page (Bob Page)
Subject: upgrade and sysex
[ Alesis says they started shipping *today*. ]
The memory locations in the QV already do double duty depending on the
configuration. For example, bytes 0-12 are used for the graphic EQ
when the graphic_EQ->Delay configuration is on, but in the other
modes, those locations are used for the Low/Mid/High bands of the
parametric EQ. As long as they invent new modes ("gee I'm in mode 5,
so interpret the bytes *this* way") they can add lots of new features
and never have a problem.
So not to worry, your old sysex dumps will probably be compatible.
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 90 17:05:14 MDT
From: schabtac -at- spot.Colorado.EDU (SCHABTACH ADAM)
Subject: It's here!
Hey, I got my upgrade chip yesterday, and just put it in.
Has anyone else got theirs yet? If so, have you messed with the MIDI GATED
mode in the resonators? I can't get it to work, and I'd like to know if it's
a problem in my setup (I hope) or a bug (no! not a bug already!). I think
my MIDI setup is okay, because I can trigger the sampler mode with my
keyboard.
--Adam
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 90 19:10:32 EDT
From: patmc -at- apollo.com
Subject: Re: It's here!
It's not there! It's here!
I tried out the resonators, and didn't get much out of it either. I
tried putting a guitar signal in the audio input, MIDI GATING on, and
when I send midi notes some of the time I hear very short, low volume
clicks whose pitch seems to vary slightly with the key I am pressing.
What I am hearing sounds more like an artifact than anything else.
What are the resonators supposed to do exactly ?
Did anyone else get the resonators to work?
In general, anyone got any good patches for the new setups they
would like to share?
Have fun,
Pat McElhatton
P.S. The written description of what the resonators are supposed to do ('The
resonators, unlike other effects, add a pitch of their own to the signal'
sounds like the Martian-Zen descriptions I usually find in Roland user
manuals. Is somebody cloning bad manual writers ?
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 11:11:28 MDT
From: schabtac -at- spot.Colorado.EDU (SCHABTACH ADAM)
Subject: resonators
The low-volume clicking is the same thing I'm getting out of my QV (I guess
it's a QV+ now) with the MIDI GATING on. With the MIDI GATING off, i.e. in
CONTINUOUS gating mode, I get something closer to what I expected.
>P.S. The written description of what the resonators are supposed to do ('The
> resonators, unlike other effects, add a pitch of their own to the signal'
> sounds like the Martian-Zen descriptions I usually find in Roland user
> manuals.
Yeah, that's pretty awful. The effect I think we're supposed to be hearing
is something like five bandpass filters with fairly high resonance, rather
like five bands of parametric EQ, only more resonant. I haven't played much
with the resonator configuration yet; I think I'll have another go this
weekend and call Alesis next week, unless I or someone else gets this
gating business figured out.
> Is somebody cloning bad manual writers ?
Boy, I sure hope not -- there are plenty of them already.
Just out of curiosity, how many of us have computers in our rigs? What
kind? I'm thinking that it would be nice if we had some way of exchanging
patches, other than typing in the numbers by hand. That might actually be
the best way, since it's "human readable" and "machine independent." :-)
--Adam
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 90 14:52:31 bst
From: Nick Rothwell <nick -at- lfcs.edinburgh.ac.uk>
Subject: resonators
>Just out of curiosity, how many of us have computers in our rigs? What
>kind?
I do: Macintosh SE/30. Since I use Performer for all my recording,
it's central to everything. I have my own generic patch
editor/librarian software which currently supports about 5 synths, and
am right at this moment in the middle of (or, maybe, just starting out
on) doing a re-write using the THINK C Class Library. Editing support
for the QuadraVerb is probably going to be rather tricky, since the
SysEx spec. is seriously spaced-out (right Bob?), but librarian
support should be fairly straightforward.
Nick.
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 90 8:41:42 PDT
From: "Michael R. Kesti" <mrk -at- gvgspd.gvg.tek.com>
Subject: Computers and the QV
SCHABTAC ADAM wrote:
>Just out of curiosity, how many of us have computers in our rigs? What kind?
I use my AT&T 6300 (an IBM clone) with a CMS-401 card for the computing side
of my MIDI rig.
Nick Rothwell wrote:
>I have my own generic patch editor/librarian software...
I use a shareware product called GETIT to backup the QV (and some other stuff
as well). I think GETIT is pretty slick, and it sure beats the alternative,
which would be no backup at all!
>Editing support for the QuadraVerb is probably going to be
>rather tricky, since the SysEx spec. is seriously spaced-out (right Bob?),
>but librarian support should be fairly straightforward.
I'm not Bob, but yes, spaced out is one way to say it! I set out to do a
GLIB version for the QV and gave it up. The way GLIB works one would have
to pretty much rewrite the "synth" specific portions to support the way
Alesis chose to change the meaning of the data depending on the configuration.
Michael
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 90 13:41:57 EDT
From: patmc -at- apollo.com
Subject: Resonators
Adam,
I went back and reset every parameter I could find, including the MIDI
channel on the Qverb and the resonators seem to work now. They act sort
of like high resonance filters, but they seem to be more 'dynamic' in
response to input volume than analog filters I have used. If I play a
piano patch softly, the effects from the resonators is inaudible, but
when I play loudly the resonators pin the clipping meters.
I don't know what I did wrong before, but the MIDI GATED mode seems to
work. If you don't use MIDI GATED mode, the resonators are fixed tuned to
the semi-tone offset (default 0 == middle C) I think. You might try cranking
up the resonator decay time and see if the clicks stretch out. I'll try to
get a SYSEX dump of my resonator patch and post it Monday.
Seeya,
Pat
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 90 14:24:00 MDT
From: schabtac -at- spot.Colorado.EDU (SCHABTACH ADAM)
Subject: Resonators and ROM patches
Well, I got my resonators to work with MIDI GATING. I don't know exactly
what my problem was, but I did discover that the resonators seem to be
velocity sensitive, which I didn't expect (the manual says nothing about
this, and the term "gated" doesn't particularly suggest velocity sensitivity
to me, but hey, we've already bashed this manual before). It's posible I
just wasn't pounding the keys hard enough to get the proper effect. Anyway,
it works, and I like it.
Also, I recalled all the factory programs on the assumption that there might
be some new ones in the new ROM. There are, but only 10; they're at locations
80-89 if you're interested in checking them out (you can just pull up those
programs, instead of dumping your whole memory, like I did). Mostly they
use the multitap delay, but there's one each for the auto-panning, tremolo,
sampling, ring mod, and resonators.
--Adam
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 90 03:09:48 PDT
From: page (Bob Page)
Subject: QV-plus SysEx information
Yeah, I got mine too. Here's a draft of the SysEx info.
Let me know if I got anything wrong, or anything's not clear.
..bob
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 90 13:53:57 PDT
From: page (Bob Page)
>Just out of curiosity, how many of us have computers in our rigs? What kind?
I use an Amiga. It's one of those love/hate relationships. I've had
it for more than 5 years now, so I'm still on an 8mHz 68000 processor.
I'm either going to get an Amiga 3000 (25hMz 68030) or bite the bullet
and get a SPARCstation IPC (with employee discount :-), but I keep
changing my mind about what to get.
Believe it or not, I don't have a QV patch editor for the Amiga -- I
do all my editing via the front panel. It has been on my "to do" list
for a long time, but with the advent of the QV+ and its bizzare memory
architecture (ain't compatibility wonderful?) I think I may put a
patch editor lower on the "to do" list.
Patch editors for my KAT midiK.I.T.I. (drum trigger interface) and
Alesis HR-16 drum machine are also on my ever-lengthening "to do" list.
I use Music-X for sequencing, but I don't do much sequencing lately.
..bob
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 90 13:04:34 EDT
From: David Grant <grant -at- xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Has anyone out there got the sampling function on the QV+ to transpose
and still have the sample sound like the original?
grant -at- xanth.cs.odu.edu
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 90 11:14:38 MDT
From: schabtac -at- spot.Colorado.EDU (SCHABTACH ADAM)
Subject: Re: sampling function
>Has anyone out there got the sampling function on the QV+ to transpose
>and still have the sample sound like the original?
I assume what you mean is that the sample sounds like, well, sh*t compared
to the original? I get the same results. It sounds okay at the same pitch,
but really falls apart when you transpose. I think that's the best it can
do, which is kinda disappointing. My four-year-old Macintosh can
transpose samples better than the QV+.
--Adam
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 91 13:35:25 +0200
From: matti -at- colossus.hut.fi
Subject: QV+ upgrade
>Has anybody outside the US managed to get hold of the QV -> QV+ upgrade? As
Nick,
Here in Finland it takes something like three days to get the
QV updated. I'm taking both my Quads to my dealer as soon as I have
backed up the programs.
Which raises a question, since my DX7IIFD can only take data
dumps up to 20K. The manual of QV does not tell the size of
an individual program nor the whole memory. How big is the data dump
of Quadraverb (program/bank)?
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 91 09:53:38 PST
From: page (Bob Page)
Subject: QV program lengths
> How big is the data dump of Quadraverb (program/bank)?
A single program has 128 bytes of data. When it's encoded and shipped
over MIDI, it's 147 bytes (without SysEx headers).
A full dump is all 100 programs, end to end. The edit buffer is not
dumped on a full dump. No MIDI parameters are ever dumped, and there
is no checksum information.
> my DX7IIFD can only take data dumps up to 20K.
No problem with full dumps; they will be under 15K (unencoded).
This information came from the Quadraverb sysex document, authored by
yours truly. The QV and QV+ do dumps the same way; just that some of
the values in the QV+ dumps are different, and some previously unused
locations are now used.
..bob
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 91 10:02:13 PST
From: page (Bob Page)
Subject: QV+ upgrade
matti -at- colossus.hut.fi wrote:
> I'm taking both my Quads to my dealer as soon as I have backed up
> the programs.
I've had some problems with full dumps; some devices can't handle 15K
of data at MIDI rates without dropping some bits. Since the QV
doesn't send checksum information (and most generic sysex
devices/programs don't honor them anyway), I've had best results by
shutting off all other midi traffic (that includes disabling active
sensing on stuff that uses it), directly hooking the QV MIDI OUT to
the other device's MIDI IN (don't use intermediate devices) and
dumping the bank two or three times.
I agree this shouldn't be necessary, but relying on just one large
dump across an active wire without checksum information is foolish for
data that you really want to keep or can't reproduce easily.
..bob (a networking weenie in real life)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 91 17:34:32 PST
From: page (Bob Page)
Subject: new QV at NAMM
Seen on Usenet.
..bob
From: cbm -at- well.sf.ca.us (Chris Muir)
Date: 23 Jan 91 17:56:11 GMT
Newsgroups: rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: NAMM???
Alesis had an new version of the Quadraverb, the Quadraverb GT. This is a
Quadraverb plus with an analog front end to do that distortion, compression,
etc. that we big-haired guitar wankers demand. They also had the D4, which
is their answer to EMu's Procussion. It only has a half or a quarter of the
jillion sounds that the Procussion has (>400), but it lists for $400. It
also has six inputs for drum pads that it can convert to MIDI triggers.
Similar to the SR-16. They also had a mute, blinking, digital audio recorder
that uses an S-VHS recorder as its medium. Eight tracks for <$4000. Forty
five minutes per cassette. Multiple units can be synced for more tracks.
They expect to ship in 1992.
Date: Mon, 13 May 91 19:35:23 PDT
From: Isaac <salzman -at- bytor.eng.sun.com>
Subject: Quadraverb-GT
Anyone seen or heard anything about this box? It's supposed to be a QV+
with the addition of an analog effects processor (compression/overdrive,
etc.). At the moment I'm using a QV+ and a Roland DEP-5 for my guitar
setup. I'm in desperate need of at least a compressor (the Boogie does a
nice job of overdrive ;-) so I'm thinking of replacing my QV+ with a QV-GT.
My other option is getting rid of a couple of my other effects and getting
the new Digitech box (GSP-21 - I think). I tried it and it was pretty cool.
It has a great foot pedal (comes standard) for switching patches and
turning on/off individual effects in a patch - for about $680. Should I
wait for a QV-GT or go Digitech (I'll keep the QV & use it in my keyboard
setup). Anyone know about QV-GT pricing, and if it comes with a foot pedal?
Any comments about Alesis v.s. Digitech quality? Thanks!
Date: Tue, 14 May 91 08:16:52 +0259
From: matti -at- batman.hut.fi
Subject: Editor/librarian for the QV+ / Tape loops / Infinite delay?
(3rd try!)
I remember reading from the International Musician magazine,
January issue, that Alesis is planning to release an editor/librarian
for the QV(+). Both Mac and Atari versions would be marketed at a
nominal(!) cost.
Does anyone know about this?
Also, is there any special reason why they could't put an
infinite delay on the Qverb? I noticed that you can do tape-loop
effects (sort of) with the multi tap delay. The only problem is that
you have to feed back the signal, so a single "THUNK" (that's me
playing the guitar :-) gets repeated faster and faster (remember that
I'm talking about the multi tap). It doesn't
happen that fast, though, if you set the parameters carefully, but in
the end the original signal has disappeared: the Quadraverb has
transformed it to synthesizer-like hum, which can go on for ages
(actually, it sounds very musical).
If you can feed back 99 (?) per cent of the signal, why can't
you make it a 100?
("Because the LCD only allowes two-digit numbers?!?")
Date: 13 May 91 04:49:35 GMT
From: mrk -at- gvgspd.GVG.TEK.COM (Michael R. Kesti)
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA
Subject: Interesting QuadraVerb behaviour
I wrote a sequence this weekend that relied heavily on a Leslied organ
sound, so my QuadraVerb's Leslie simultator got called into action. Along
the way, I discovered an interesting anomoly in the behaviour of the
QuadraVerb to report, and see if anyone out there knows more about. I
should point out that my QV is an original version, not upgraded to Plus.
To allow the sequencer to have full control of the QV, I assigned the
following controllers under the QV's MOD menu:
controller 12 - Leslie Speed
controller 13 - Leslie Motor
controller 14 - Leslie Hi Level
controller 15 - Effects Mix Level (which is master level for
this configuration)
In the MIX menu, I set the Effects Mix Level to zero, so that the
controller has complete control of the output level.
In the sequence I set initial conditions with the following events:
Trk Ch Time
> 15 15 2:01:014 Patch 39 < select patch
> 15 15 2:01:049 Contrl 12 127 < set high speed
> 15 15 2:01:050 Contrl 13 127 < set motor on
> 15 15 2:01:051 Contrl 14 127 < set full hi level
> 15 15 2:01:052 Contrl 15 75 < set initial volume
Note that each controller event is just one tick later than the previous
controller event. Under these conditions, the QV would OCCASIONALLY seem
to miss the controller 15 message and sit there in the zero gain condition.
(It was at zero gain because the QV resets all MODs and assumes the MIX
levels upon reciept of a patch change.) I found I could get it to work
reliably by setting initial conditions as follows:
Trk Ch Time
> 15 15 2:01:014 Patch 39 <
> 15 15 2:01:049 Contrl 12 127 <
> 15 15 2:02:000 Contrl 13 127 <
> 15 15 2:03:000 Contrl 14 127 <
> 15 15 2:04:000 Contrl 15 75 <
Note that there is now a greater amount of time between controller events.
This would seem to imply that the QV has a limit to the rate at which it can
receive and process controller events. I experimented with changing the
tempo, so as to alter the time per tick, but could not seem to find a
corelation. I did find that if I enabled Cakewalk's Patch/Controller search
back function, and started the sequence from other than the start, the volume
would come up zero every time. This would seem to indicate that Cakewalk
(v3.0) outputs what it finds as fast as it can, and would therefore provide
the worst case condition for this problem.
Has anyone else observed this, or similar, behaviour?
Date: 13 May 91 14:27:51 GMT
From: dickw -at- IASTATE.EDU (Wallingford Richard)
Organization: Iowa State University
Subject: Re: Interesting QuadraVerb behaviour
> Has anyone else observed this, or similar, behaviour?
It wouldn't surprise me if the quadraverb just has trouble processing
the data fast enough. I have a different problem with mine. I get
stuck notes once in a while if I have a tone generator plugged into
the "thru" midi jack of the quadraverb. Now I just make sure the
quadraverb is the last midi device on the chain of instruments or I
keep it on its own branch out of my controller (i.e. Don't have any
instrument relying on getting its midi data from the 'thru' jack of
the Quadraverb!). I should have it looked at to see if it is out of
spec in some way.
--
dickw -at- iastate.edu
Date: 13 May 91 19:02:08 GMT
From: galanter -at- casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Philip Galanter)
Organization: Northwestern University
Subject: Re: Interesting QuadraVerb behaviour
Yes, the QVerb has a problem keeping up with controller events. One of
the first things I tried with mine was taking a midi continuous controller
pedal and sweeping a filter (i.e. EQ) with it. Not only could the QVerb
not keep up, it actually crashed!
I have not tried this kind of thing since the + upgrade, but I would
be surprised if they fixed it...very few QVerb owners actually use
this kind of thing...I have heard that the lexicon stuff is more robust
to this kind of control, but have no personal experience with them.
Phil
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 08:39:12 PDT
From: ochikubo -at- desperado.etdesg.TRW.COM (Craig F. Ochikubo 103639 x47870 R10/2342d)
Subject: QV control
I have been controlling my QV using my DX7IIFD, using the two control sliders,
velocity, aftertouch, footpedals, mod wheel and pitch bend. This is what
I have noticed:
obnoxious levels of "zipper" noise occur when changing the delay time
settings. and that is only when there is input to the delay, so if i
change it when i am not playing it is not a problem
it is quite easy to set the levels too hot for either the QV internal (the
mix levels, i.e., reverb out, delay out, effects out, etc.) and this causes
ugly distortion. the only cure is to set the range of each modulator so
that you avoid a combination where the mix levels are too hot.
I have not seen the trashed disply syndrome, as it is mounted in a rach and
i never look at the unit during performance. i do send it a fair amount of
information, between aftertouch, mod and volume controls. i will try it at
home next time and see if i can make it mess up its display
hope that helps ... craig
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 91 18:49:26 MDT
From: schabtac -at- stout.atd.ucar.EDU (Adam Schabtach)
Subject: Re: QV control
> obnoxious levels of "zipper" noise occur when changing the delay time
> settings. and that is only when there is input to the delay, so if i
> change it when i am not playing it is not a problem
I don't think the QuadraVerb is the only machine with this problem. If you
think about it a bit, there's really no way to modulate the delay time of
a digital delay without chopping up the delayed signal. Well, you can do
it by changing the sampling rate of the delay, but that causes the pitch
of the delayed signal to change (you can hear this effect on older units,
like the DigiTech RDS series) and gets into other problems, like changing
bandwidth.
--Adam
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 91 20:52:16 PDT
From: page (Bob Page)
Subject: vocal settings
FYI, from rec.music.synth.
..bob
----
Date: 12 Jul 91 11:35:48 GMT
From: bierman -at- davidsys.com
Subject: Re: Quadraverb Vocal Settings
Organization: DAVID Systems Inc, Sunnyvale CA
In article <1991Jul11.192303.13281 -at- milton.u.washington.edu>,
storrs -at- milton.u.washington.edu (Storrs Albertson) writes:
>
> I'm looking for some advice on pleasing settings
> for an Alesis Quadraverb on male vocals. This is
> a Quadraverb + if it makes any difference.
>
> What are the most effective pre-sets for this? What
> things can be tweaked or changed all-together for
> a pleasing effect?
I mix for a country/folk/bluegrass/rock band and use the QV+
exclusively for vocals. It is capable of some very dramatic effects,
but I stick to really subtle stuff for this kind of music...
I think the "MULTI-VOCAL", "PING-PONG DELAY", and several of the
"MEDIUM-ROOM" reverb presets are good for subtle vocal enhancement.
Here are some of my observations from 'experimenting':
1) if you use the QV+ through a mixer, set the dry mix output to zero,
and the wet mix output to 99. (You can mix the components of the
wet mix separately--a great feature)
2) pick delay times that match the room you're playing in. I use
settings between 12 and 100 mS mostly, but a 200-300 mS delay
very low in the mix sounds good once in awhile. A 12 mS delay will
give a vocal alot of presence...and the midrange of the wet signal
might need to be EQed down for a "pleasing" effect.
3) in a small to medium sized club, a stereo delay (e.g. L=42, R=46)
that is fed to a mono mix sounds good. I don't use alot of reverb--
it doesn't sound natural. But if you do, match the pre-reverb delay to
the room-size (~ 1 mS per foot).
4) start out with the EQ flat, and take the delay and reverb inputs
from the "PRE-EQ" feed. Once the sound is in the ballpark, you can
go to "POST-EQ" inputs and tweak the effect.
5) a standard trick is to boost the volume or the delay time of
an effect (e.g. during the chorus) to vary the `punch' of the vocals.
An even better way to do this--use stereo chorus (with 8-15% feedback)
underneath the delay. Keep the chorus real low in the output mix for
the "normal" sound, then sneak up the chorus in the wet mix for effect.
It sounds better than varying the delay time.
Hope this helps...I'm still learning what the QV+ can do, and haven't
had alot of luck with the multi-tap delay or gated-reverb. Any advanced
QV users out there who have mastered these effects?
--andy;
bierman -at- davidsys.com
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 91 15:25:05 PDT
From: joshua -at- tc.fluke.com
Subject: pitch transposition
Is it possible to get the "true" transposition of the pitch when using
the pitch trans'r? I've been trying to get a decent '12-string'
setting, but to no avail...(I'd really like the 5th up).
Thanx,
jb
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 91 12:32:12 HST
From: ressler -at- galileo.IFA.Hawaii.Edu (Mike "IR" Ressler)
Subject: Re: pitch transposition
Unless there's something I'm missing, the "transposition" on the QV is
really a half-step max pitch shift. It doesn't really do transposition
- unfortunately.
Mike Ressler
ressler -at- galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 91 07:47:08 PDT
From: wrs!uunet!tc.fluke.COM!joshua (John B. "JB" LaRue)
Subject: 2 questions
1. I've tried using the pitch transposition for it's name, but the transposer
doesn't really change the pitch by '+12' or '+5'. It does go up +48 and
and more, and that seems to get into a subtly different pitch range. My
question is: Is it possible to get a decent 12-string sound? How does
the pitch transposer really work?
2. Does anyone have a MIDI foot switch? On the Alesis, the 1st setting starts at
00. Most footswitch's don't have 00, but start at 01. I've tried setting
the correlation from 00=00 to 00=01 and so on...Otherwise, I have to re-
member that 00 is really 01 and so on...
Thanx for responding and if you have any other pieces of info, I'd be glad
to accept them from ya'll.
By-the-by, I used to have an ART/SGE and really loved the 12 string sound
(as well as the 5th up) but didn't like the tin sound. The QuadraVerb has
a much better sound for guitar in my opinion. Do you have any info on the
difference between ART and Alesis? I've heard rumors, but so far, they're
just that.
See ya!
jb
*******
joshua -at- tc.fluke.COM
John LaRue
John Fluke Mfg. Co
PO Box C9090 (m/s 116a)
Everett WA 98206 (206) 356-5753
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 92 16:47:46 EST
From: Jam <PET101 -at- UKCC.uky.edu>
Today I was trying to recall an old factory preset (patch 81, "Rough
Pipe!"), and when I did, I got "Touch PanTap+"! I realised that what
happened was I got some new presets when I updated my chip to the
Quad+. This is great, because I get some new stuff to fool with, but
I'd really like to get the original factory presets. After a little
searching, it turns out that patch 80 thru 89 are different between
the quadraverb and the quad+. Is there any one out there who could
send me a copy of the parameters for the original factory presets
80-89?
It could be as simple as sending me a file of sysex, which I could
then dump back onto my quadraverb. I'm using a macintosh, but if the
sysex is sent to me as a text file, I could still use it (binary, also
can be handled).
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!
Jamer
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 17:47:22 PST
From: goldjil -at- mail.ast.cam.ac.uk (Julian Gold)
Subject: Patch editor
Hi - I don't know how relevant this will be to a lot of folks, but
I've written a patch editor of the Quadraverb + that runs on PAL
Amigas. If anyone is interested (or want an NTSC version :-)) then
email me:
goldjil -at- ast-star.cam.ac.uk
and we'll talk shop
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 93 13:46:28 EST
From: "It's a funky thang"
I use the QV along with an ADA MP-1 MIDI preamp and a stereo power
amp, controlled by the ART Ultrafoot controller pedal. Folks, the
Ultrafoot and the QV together are an unbeatable combo. The QV allows
for so much more realtime parameter mods than almost any other box...I
now have far less patches written than before because now I can vary
delay time, reverb mix, etc. on the fly! I rely on the ADA for chorus
and the QV for verb echo and EQ. I used to have a Midiverb II (which
I loved)...I think the QV is superior to all the ART stuff for the
guitar. Alesis didn't load the DSP chip with all that harmonizer
stuff, in order to keep the chorusing and reverbs clean. That's how I
like it.
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1993 09:43:10 -0600 (CST)
From: jp -at- unlinfo.unl.edu (jerome pier)
To: dx7 -at- iastate.edu
Cc: qv-interest -at- swap.Eng.Sun.COM
Subject: Controller numbers for sliders, breath controller, etc.
I would like to modulate the multi-tap delay times on my quadraverb+
from my DX7IIFD. The Q-verb will accept pitch and mod wheel, aftertouch
and velocity directly as midi modulators but needs to know the controller
numbers explicitly for the control sliders and breath controllers. I
looked in the manual for the controller numbers but all I found was
gibberish in the appendices. Could a listing of midi controller numbers
for the DX7 mark I and II be placed in the FAQ for reference?
Thanks in advance,
Jerome Pier jp -at- unl.edu
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 93 20:35:27 PST
From: Matt_Ganey -at- notes.pw.com
i have a qv gt and i mostly use it as a double effects processor - i
separate the analog and digital portions, putting my vocals through
the digital and guitar through the analog
i do this and put it through my pa system for playing solo in clubs
the thing i would like to find out if anyone knows what part of the eq
is most effective at cancelling out a plastic back guitar ala an
ovation
i dont know squat about electronics, so i just do what sounds good -
i'm really looking for some tips on eq and mixing from you pros - i
love to compress the hell out of my acoustic and put some sweet
chorus/delay on my voice
basic questions -
how to eq a male voice eg what ranges are typical in a male voice -=
how to boost what usually isnt there and flatten out what you have too
much of in your normal voice and how to tell what you have too much of
in your voice
how to use some of the feedback , modulation, how to match a room's
size to your reverb wants
i would be so grateful if anyone has some tips
by the way, i found out about your board on the grateful dead network,
although i'm a total late 60s early 70s freak- and disco!!!!!!!!!!!!!
last question - anyone know any secrets about jerry garcia's rig and
sound ????????????
take it easy , matt
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 94 20:57:11 EST
From: dgreigh -at- aol.com
Subject: Realtime
I'm using a pair of Roland pedals and an Anatek Pocket Pedal!to send
continuous controller data to my QuadGT during performaoces. I assign
the pedal to DelayMixVolume allowing me to use the Quad for constant
reverb on vocals, and fly in Delay as needed!with the pedal.
I've also found that a very specific repeatiog echo can be created by
setting up a delay with a feedback of about 70%. Set it up at full
volume, and then set the PreampOutput to 0(zero). Assign the pedal (or
other CC device) to Mod the PreampOutput +99. When you send uhe
expected CC data, you will be "turning on the input" to the
delay. This causes only a single word or phrase to be sent to the
Delay. This word or phrase will repeat beautifully without being
covered up or smeared by words before or after it. I can't remember
if there is a way to do this on a straight Quad rather than a QuadGT
(sold my Quad the day the first QuadGT shipped)
Is there anyone else out there exqloiting this particular ability of
the Quad, and what type of psoblems have you encountered?
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 20:43:50 -0800
From: rinehart -at- netcom.com (Ken Rinehart)
Subject: Quadraverb GT noise
Does anybody notice alot of noise in their GT. I use mine alot with a
strat to get supper clean direct sounds with reverb and chorus and I
can't believe all the noise that comes out when I play. It's like a
faint hiss everytime the noise gate opens. And since the parts are
clean I can't record them with all that hiss in there.
Any suggestions?
Ken Rinehart
rinehart -at- netcom.com
San Jose, CA
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 16:13:41 PST
From: ochikubo -at- desperado.etdesg.trw.com (Craig F. Ochikubo)
Subject: noise with the QV
I just have a plain old vanilla QV+, and it is basically a pretty
noisey unit. I use it to process an analog synth that I have with a
little chorus delay and reverb - but the amount of noise that is added
is OK live, but when recording it is unbearable. I have not looked
inside the unit at potential hot-rodding of op-amps to low noise
ones. I think that might help a little bit, but I can't see it making
a really big difference (otherwise someone would have done it by now).
I don't really have much other help to offer other than set the input
level as hot as you can run it without distortion. Nominally mine gets
set at about 3:00 on both the input level and output levels.
Craig
ochikubo -at- desperado.etdesg.trw.com
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 16:41:00 -0800
From: wrs -at- newton.apple.com (Walter Smith)
Subject: Re: noise with the QV
I have a QV, now +, that has always been extremely noisy. My
impression from others' comments over the years is that QV's are just
plain noisy and there's not much to do about it. The noise got much
more obvious when I upgraded to an ADAT, which I find quite ironic!
You'd think a quieter QV would have come out along with the ADAT, to
avoid this embarassment...
BTW, I just got an ALEX (the cheap Lexicon): hardly programmable at
all, but much quieter.
- W
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 01:57:32 -0500
From: kyle -at- uunet.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Subject: noise with the QV
Craig F. Ochikubo writes:
> I don't really have much other help to offer other than set the input level
> as hot as you can run it without distortion.
Do the same for the internal input gains, keeping the ratio between
the gains of the stages constant. This has helped some for me.
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 09:39:05 PST
From: ochikubo -at- desperado.etdesg.trw.com (Craig F. Ochikubo)
Subject: Re: noise with the QV
> The noise got much more obvious when I upgraded to an ADAT, which I
> find quite ironic! You'd think a quieter QV would have come out along
> with the ADAT, to avoid this embarassment...
Funny you should say this, I just went to the NAMM show and Alesis was
showing a QV2, which was fully stereo, and had 8 effects with fully
configurable algorithms. It also featured Digital I/O which were
compatible with those in the ADAT.
Craig
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 09:40:48 PST
From: Andrew Bierman <abierman -at- SynOptics.COM>
Subject: Re: Quadraverb GT noise
I wish I could help...
I seem to be picking up radio transmissions that can faintly
be heard in reverb decay. I think it is present all the time,
but it's masked by the source most of the time.
Have you tried disabling the pre-amp section (distortion & sustain off)?
--andy;
abierman -at- synoptics.com
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 09:45:14 PST
From: Andrew Bierman <abierman -at- SynOptics.COM>
Subject: Re: noise with the QV
Help may be on the way...
Alesis was showing the QV-II at NAMM last week. It has ADAT-compatible
inputs and outputs, plus it can be used as a dual mono effects unit.
It may be the AD/DA converters causing the noise.
--andy;
abierman -at- synoptics.com
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 23:04:11 EST
From: pwilf -at- sas.upenn.edu (Peter D Wilf)
I'm a guitar player and use the QV both live and in my home
studio. I've had a lot of success using the QV in conjunction with the
ART X-15 midi controller and have some fairly wild settings. Best
results are through two fine quality tube amps in stereo with wide
separation . With a Sans Amp and a QV I'm set for anything.
The MIdi controller does very well changing multitap delay lengths,
reverb decay on the wide open reverb sounds, ring modulator settings
including the mix settings, Leslie organ speed and detuning amount.
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 14:10:48 PST
From: bill -at- tpd-pss.hac.com (Bill Wyza)
I, too, am a guitar player. My system includes and ADA preamp, ADA
power amp, Fender 4x12 speaker cabinet (Celestians, of course), a BBE
sonic maximizer, and an Alesis 3630 compressor/limiter. I run the QV
thru the ADA effects loop. I am always amazed and impressed by it's
signal clarity and low-noise effects. I haven't used the sampling
function yet, but I guess that is because my keyboardest has an EMU
EMAX-II sampler (It more than does the job)
I was wondering if any other guitar players out there have a killer
effects patch that can be used for solos. Something that fills out at
the higher frequencies. Maybe some chorusing, etc.
Also, I'm looking for the ulimate reverb. Something that is almost
transparent but still fills out the room.
Another area I am interested in is using the QV as a vocal effects
device for recording. I'd like to use it to enhance vocals in my home
studio. Any advice?
I am thinking about getting two ADATs also. I tried to get a demo at
NAMM last month, but couldn't work it in. Has anyone used them, and
if so, what is your opinion.
Finally, I am an electrical engineer by day, so for any of you
technical types, feel free to talk in dBs and MHz.
I welcome any comments that we may all find useful.
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 94 17:13:46 PST
From: Andrew Bierman <abierman -at- SynOptics.COM>
> Also, I'm looking for the ulimate reverb. Something that is almost
> transparent but still fills out the room.
I like the QV reverb...I have a QV+ and a QV-GT...I've used them together
on a lead-vocal track to get a very smooth, medium room
sound: (I don't have the exact settings here...)
QV+ patch is "medium room"
QV-GT patch is a stereo-delay (~30 ms) with some chorus
If you just have one QV ;-)...
try short stereo-delays with some chorus and EQ on lead vocals
> I am thinking about getting two ADATs also. I tried to get a demo at
> NAMM last month, but couldn't work it in.
I was at NAMM and saw their pitch for the "Alesis Dream Studio". I
must admit I am biased towards Alesis because they pack a lot of
features in for the money...on paper the new X2 mixer looks better
than any under $5000 mixer out there (including the new Mackie 8-bus
mixers). There is a lot of support for the A-DAT format from 3rd
parties--I heard DigiDesign will have an interface soon to their
Pro-Tools (and maybe Studio-8).
A couple of A-DATs, a ProTools HD recording system, a couple QV-2s
(much improved processing with digital ins and outs) and the X2
console--could be a dream home studio...
--andy;
abierman -at- synoptics.com
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 08:07:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Weldon S Godfrey 3 <weldon -at- PCS.CNU.EDU>
I personally do not have a setup but have and will soon again work
with Quadraverbs. I was a Computer Electronics/Electronics Technician
for a Technical Services Department and (hopefully if I am lucky) may
get the Area Manager position of that department soon. We use
quadraverbs in two locations, one for a small theatre that seats about
2000 that plays live musicals, the other is used for a walkin cave
enviroment to enhance sound effects. The Quadraverbs were purchased
before I started with the Company.
The setups for which I can see are not overly elaborate and settings
are not changed often (maybe once or twice in a year) since both
setups do the same thing (even the same musical/effect) time after
time, day after day.
I am interested in learning more about Quadraverbs, to do more
elaborate things with the current setups and to judge if using more
Quadraverbs at other productions is feasable (or overkill).
Weldon
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 94 21:00 GMT
From: chip -at- lakes.trenton.sc.us
My current guitar rig consists of an ADA MP-1 pre, a Quadraverb. I
currently run them into either a reissue Marshall 100 watt Super Lead/
'69 tweed 4x12, or in stereo with a pair of 50 watt heads ('69,'76 -
unmodified) into a pair of Mesa Boogie 2x12's.
I'm sure there are others on this list that has the ADA/Quad Marshall
setup. I got my MP-1 almost the moment they came out; same with the
Quad. Seemed like the most intelligent cost effective thing to get.
Now, years later, everybody in town (Augusta Ga.) has the same rig!
;-)
I've been wondering about the input meter on my Quadraverb, though. I
noticed in the FAQ a brief mention about some problem with them - mine
freaks out occasionally. Does anyone know if this is just a prob with
older units? Mine seems to function fine, except that the meter will
sporatically peak out at random. I have to set the input knob very
low to avoid this. Does the meter possibly reflect the entire
internal gain structure? I know it reflects extreme eq gain
internally...
Also, I assume unity gain is about 1 o'clock on the input (sounds like
it). Any thoughts about the output knob? I know that the Quad, being
digital, has no real output voltage wise. But I also know I can
almost overdrive the frontend of a Marshall with the knob cranked; so
perhaps somewhere in the travel it meets line level? I speaking in
terms independent of the internal "balance".
I would like to hear from others with a similiar setup (I know with as
many MP-1's out there someone should start a MP-1 list), share
settings etc.....
Chip McDonald
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 10:50:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Rob Rathgeber <rrathgeb -at- ultrix.ramapo.edu>
Hello,
I've owned a quadraverb plus for about one year. Those familiar with
bass gear will have a better understanding of my rig. I have a Hartke
3500 head powering a '74 SVT 8x10 cabinet. In the effects loop of the
Hartke lies a Sabine Rack Tuner and the Quadraverb. Although I haven't
really sat down to reprogram it or alter factory patches, I find the
chorus to be quite pleasing and the "Amazing Bass" patch to be
useful. I will eventually use the EQ's and buy a foot controller for
it. The reverb also sounds good but all factory patches used for bass
need tweaking. I very satisfied with the product on the whole but have
one complaint. One time, I turn it on, it lights up, but no
display. Nada! Uh, OH! After numerous tries and after checking the
power supply, I bring it back to Sam Ash and they send it back to
Alesis. Three weeks later I get it back, free of charge, with no
problems found! Still a mystery and seems to work fine. Who knows!
Enough babbling! Any other bassists using the quadraverb?
Latr,
_ROB_
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 11:30:00 +0200
From: vermeere -at- nlceicl2.serigate.philips.nl
I've heard about this via The Bottom Line. To answer your 'what is
TBL?'-question: '_The Bottom Line_ is a digest dedicated to the art of
playing electric and acoustic bass. It is distributed on a basis that
coincides with the amount of material received, from the University of
Wisconsin - Platteville, USA; Copyright _The Bottom Line_, 1994', end
of quote. TBL is nice and has about 800 subscribers. All sorts of
things are discussed: influences, gear, playing styles, you name it.
I've read the archives yesterday and found out that I'm by no means an
'advanced' QV user. Apart from a drumcomputer, I don't use computers and
synths and stuff for my music, so it was fun reading that someone did still
all his QV editing *by using the front panel knobs*. Don't know anymore who
was this, but you're not the only one !
I'm not 'using' the SYSEX format so most patches are not for me, the only
one that's usable/understandable for me was the 'big snare' patch, because
it was 'in words'.
Are there still other 'low-level' QV users ? I myself am not generating new
patches on a weekly basis (to say the least), but perhaps we could exchange
'patches in words' when we have interesting new ones.
Apart from just the bare data, I think it's interesting to know about
the thoughts behind a new program. For instance, when I use this parameter,
it has that specific effect on the sound. With such comment, I feel I could
learn a lot more of this than just entering the new program data.
Some more introduction: I bought a second hand QV by mail, but at home it
turned out to have the new eprom, so I own a QV+.
I'm a bass player (hello Rob Rathgeber, you're not the only bassist using a
QV), and have used the QV+ with my bass rig for a while, together with an
ADA MC-1 Midi Footcontroller.
During last year, I've become more & more interested in home recording so
I'm using the QV at home, it's more of use there.
A few years back, when using the QV for bass, I used the space programs
(mix of reverb, chorus & delay) for the quiet parts of the songs of the band
I play in, and still use it when we play 'old songs', but our newer stuff
doesn't need any form of FX on bass during live & rehearsals, so another
reason to remove the QV from my bass rack and use it at home. I still use a
BBE maximizer for bass, however, I'd wish I had a few more of these at home...
Nothing special, at home I use the QV+ with the AUX send of a Mackie 1202
mixer (no dry signal coming out of the QV+).
No problems anymore, but when I used the Alesis for bass (dry & wet coming
from it), there were several things I wasn't too pleased with, as for
instance the ridiculous functioning bypass when used dry+wet. (I added a
hardware bypass, 'cos I didn't like the idea of a bypass in the form of
setting the FX output level to zero: unnecessary A/D and D/A on the dry
signal and level hassle...) In this situation, on times I had noise problems
too, and this became even more prominent because of the hi freq horns in
my bass cabs.
Perhaps it's time now for my first question: who could tell me more about
the stereo spread programs ? Are they intended to stereoize mono signals ?
Enough for now,
Peter
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 13:17:18 +0600
From: dougm -at- psoft.postalsoft.com (Doug Mc Kay)
my setup:
qv gt
ada preamp
peavey bandit 65 (I need to replace this, but it works ok)
other studio equip.
I have a qv GT which I initially bought for my guitar setup, but now I
find myself using for any reverb/effects that I might need while
recording. I also have a ART multi-v which we use for live vocals. I
haven't been able to reproduce the clean and spaciousness of the qv
with the ART. I am a beg/intermediate at recording and I will be
doing a lot more after I get my studio setup ( am in the middle of a
basement construction right now).
Doug McKay
dougm -at- postalsoft.com
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 94 11:12:53 GMT
From: Joel Abbott <abbott -at- ms.uky.edu>
i am learning-the-ropes sound guy for a band (called, "candy says" -
college type music genre). i have a few alesis products in the rack,
and i like them alot. i have a qv, qv gt (guitarist does), midiverb
3, and some other alesis units (eq, compressor, etc).
i only have one real question right now... very often i'll be
unloading equipment from our trailer and the stuff will be quite cold
(in the wintertime). i want to be nice to my stuff. how much should
i let the stuff warm up before i crank it up? we've had one incident
on one really cold night (really cold for me is anywhere below 0
fahrenheit) where our guitarist's qv gt refused to work even after
letting it warm up a little closer to ambient temperature.
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 15:04:30 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jon Southwood <jsouthwo -at- keller.clarke.edu>
I own an ADA MP-1, and a Quadraverb (I guess it's a QV+) which I use
for my guitar (an Ibanez RG-550). I also use the quad on my keyboards
( a Yamaha general-midi portable (it's not programmable, but it's
inexpensive and sounds good), a Yamaha FB-01, an old Moog Prodigy, and
soon another Moog) when I record on my Fostex 4-track. I am,
unfortunately, not very good as a sound engineer, so I use mainly the
factory presets (I tweak the ones that need it for my purposes) but I
have programmed a few neat sounds for live performance with guitar
(which are mainly keyboard emulation patches).
I have a couple of questions for those who can help.
First, I've looked into buying an ART X-15 midi footcontroller. Is
this a good unit? Right now, I use the ADA footcontroller, so I don't
have ANY real-time control (except to change patches).
Second, I noticed that there are a few other MP-1 owners on this list.
Any chance of you guys sharing some of your favorite patches with me?
Like I said before, I'm no sound engineer and I need all the help I
can get? If possible please include the settings/configurations for
both the MP-1 and the Quad. Thanks in advance.
The last question (whew!) is about the Quadraverb2. Will there be
some sort of upgrade deal? Just curious.
Thanx for your time,
Jon Southwood
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 07:59:15 +0300
From: Matti J Saavalainen <matti -at- snakemail.hut.fi>
Subject: 2*Quadraverb/QuadraverbII
Greetings from Santa Claus' country,
I recently hooked my two Quadraverb Pluses in series, trying to get a
smoother reverb by running the reverb output from the first to the
reverb input of the second. IT DOES NOT WORK. Apparently the delays
in the Quadraverb reverbs are fairly static (not random), so what you
get is very short delays conflicting with each other. In real world
this means that the combined reverb sounds very metallic, instead of
smoother reverbs I tried to get in the first place.
I tried this with numerous reverb types and the results were always
the same. My advice is, if you want to use two QVs simultaniously for
better reverb, put them in parallel.
Of course, the Quadraverb is not a good choice for reverb in the first
place, either. If anyone is willing to trade a Lexicon 300 or 480L to
my QVs, just let me know... ;-)
Regarding the Quadraverb II: this is a totally new effects box, which
has nothing to do with the previous model. This pretty much means
that there will be no upgrade deal of any kind, since the units only
share a name.
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 13:27:23 +0800
From: page (Bob Page)
It seems to me that any two reverbs (by any manufacturer) will act the
same way. You are essentially pushing the signal through the second
reverb at the same time as the first, except the signal to the second
QV is reverb'ed. The tiny delay through the electronics is what gets
you the "constant flange" (metallic) effect.
Instead, why don't you set up the second QV+ in configuration 1 or 2,
so the delay is in front of the reverb, and play with the delay time
on the second QV? That may give you what you want.
For added effect, ping-pong the second reverb. :-)
..bob
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 94 21:33:43 -0400
From: kyle -at- uunet.uu.net (Kyle Jones)
Subject: 2*Quadraverb/QuadraverbII
Matti J Saavalainen writes:
> I tried this with numerous reverb types and the results were always
> the same. My advice is, if you want to use two QVs simultaniously for
> better reverb, put them in parallel.
I agree. Another advantage of this is you're not amplifying and
reverbing the noise that the first QV introduces. Guitar players
seems to like grunge, so maybe that's why they dig hooking up
long chains of boxes. :-)
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 94 03:54:10 -0500
From: chip -at- lakes.trenton.sc.us (Chip McDonald)
Subject: X-15 and things
In regard to John Soouthwood's post about getting an X-15....
YES!!! DO IT RIGHT NOW!!!!!
They're great. I just bought one two weeks ago from Atlanta Rhythm
City (who tried to rip me off - gave me an opened box; told me they opened
it to make sure there was a manual in there; there wasn't, and then tried
to tell me "oh, yeah, those don't come with manuals - in fact, all of ART's
stuff doesn't come with manuals"- bastards. Made me drive 20 miles to there
other store to get one sealed on a box) for $200.
I bought my MP-1 right when it came out; I don't have the sys-ex
software, so I'm not sure how well that works, but the things you can do with
the mod parameters on the Quadraverb is tremendous. I've been setting up
a few friends rigs in town (who have what I have - MP-1, old Marshall, Quad,
4x12) and most people set their left pedal for delay time, and the right
for the delay mix. Which is pretty boring considering what you can do with
it.
The neat thing about the X-15 is the programmable bypass switch that
will control a neg. to ground switch on a device; but few people realize
it's also continuous cont. 84. I've got mine set for a volume boost on
the Quadraverb, so if I get a wild hair when I'm on one of my rhythm patches,
I can hit it once for a boost and again to turn it off, without moving my
foot - which is great!
What kind of map are you running? To me exchanging patches on
disimiliar rigs is kinda strange, but....
Chip
--
]] Chip McDonald / chip -at- lakes.trenton.sc.us / chip -at- wa4phy.async.com [[
]]]]] "I, too, have been ripped off by Atlanta Rhythm City" [[[[[[[[
"Everything is important and nothing is as important as everything"
Date: Wed, 11 May 94 16:38:24 +0200
From: vermeere -at- nlceicl2.serigate.philips.nl
Subject: QV+ tremolo
Looking for a tremolo for guitar (vibrato/tremolo, whatever, I mean
the fx that is found on a lot of old tube amps: amplitude modulation),
I realized the QV+ has one.
I tried it and apart from the desired effect, I heard (soft)
knacks. Is this common ? The effect itself is usable, but I don't
understand this strange side-effect. Any comment on this anyone ?
Thanks,
Peter
- e-mail: vermeere -at- nlceicl2.serigate.philips.nl -
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Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 13:46:58 +0300 (EET DST)
From: rahkola -at- research.nokia.com (Pasi Rinne-Rahkola)
I'm owner of two QVs ( + & GT ) that I use with other
equipment in my home studio. I mostly do demos of
my own music but I recently recorded a demo for a
afro-music band, too.
I'm actually a bassplayer so the QV GT is often
located in my EBS-system rack ( for those who don't
know EBS: it is a swedish company concentrated to
*very* high quality equipments for the bass ).
The best for bass is of course the 'amazing bass'
patch ;).
I use mostly QV's factory patches with the mix levels
changed to suit the use in the aux loops of the mixer.
One of the reasons for not doing much patches myself
is that I hate to do that tok-tok-tok-tak-tak-tak
when I want to try some changes to the effect. This
same problem is of course with most of the modern synths
and effects. I'm using X-or patch editor in the PC,
but its interface is not that good and it doesn't
support + & GT models well. So if anyone has info of
a qood patch editor/librarian running in the MS-DOS
Windows environment let me know.
In the archives I saw many messages about noise problems.
I also had those with allmost all of my equipment. The
solution was to get the correct level of the signal at
all stages to maximise the S/N ratio. There was a article
in the Electronic Musician a year or two ago about setting
levels in studio that helped me a lot. Actually the biggest
noise maker with my QV initially was the transformer. It
took me some time to realize where that huge hum was coming
from. Nowadays I'll take all my transformers as far from
the audio cables as the power cords allow.
- Pasi -
Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 11:16:47 +0300
From: Matti J Saavalainen <matti -at- snakemail.hut.fi>
Subject: QuadraNoise+ tremolo
Regarding the QV+ tremolo:
The clicking sound in the tremolo can be heard with extreme parameter
settings (read: anything over 50 ;-). Some types of source material
will almost certainly introduce the clicking, regardless of the
tremolo patch you are using.
The problem with Quadraverb is that it does so many different things,
and does none of them very well. At extreme settings of any
parameter, you will most probably hear artifacts.
Things that bother me most are the noise floor, noisy EQ, distortion
in pitch detune, metallic reverbs, and the fact that you can't set the
delay feedback to infinite (100).
I usually use my QV+'es for delay effects, with a moderate reverb setting.
I've actually found the one-shot sampler part in QV+ to be useful, and
I have used it in a few demos, just because the artifacts alter the
original source material beyond distinction...
As for the "Quest for killing the metallic reverb":
Bob Page >...set up the second QV+ in configuration 1 or 2...
Thank you, Bob. One of these days I'm going to try this out. In fact,
as soon as I get the patchcord spagetti sorted out from my rack :-).
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 14:41:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: yswening -at- nermal.santarosa.edu (Yarrow Sweningsen)
Hi everyone! Well I just got my Qverb+ a couple of months ago. So
far I've used it on guitars, vocals, samples and tapes 'n' stuff. I have the
Qverb, a MidiverbII, a Peavey DD1000 dual digital delay, a Digitech Echo+,
an Ensoniq Mirage, a Roland S-220, a Korg DS-8, a mixer, a cassette 4track,
Vision sequencing software, a buncha MIDI shareware, and various tape decks
and turntables.
I can't really catagorize what I do 'cause it's pretty varied. I do
some sequenced music, freeform improv jams with friends, psychotic sound
mixes, spoken word, and I sing harmonies and engineer for a band with a
couple friends called the Poison Oakies (well, we've only recorded one song
but we're planning a 4-song EP).
I'm into DIY sound of all sorts and DIY and guerilla media (zines,
pirate radio, etc).
I'd really like a mac editor for the Qverb, or at least just a
librarian. I'd also appreciate any hints on books on using effects,
especially to build a sonic environment and sound plot (ala radio drama).
I'd like to trade patches with people but I've only programmed a few myself
so far, and they tend to be a little weird. Is there a SysEx utility
everyone here uses to trade patches? Or does it matter?
I'd also like to know how people use the ring modulator and
resonators
Hope to hear from y'all!
Yarrow Sweningsen
yswening -at- nermal.santarosa.edu
P.S. Any DS-8 users out there who wanna trade patches?
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 94 10:41:22 MET DST
From: "jgo::lambregts" -at- jgo.enet.dec.com
You've asked for my setup, so here it is.
Yamaha DS55,
Akai S01,
Roland SoundCanvas,
Alesis D4,
Quadraverb Plus
all linked to an Atari running Cubase.
I use the Qv mainly to clean up my samples,but also you the Qv when mixing.
Since I'm new to the Internet ,I don't know how to send my patches yet,
but I'll soon find out.
I have made a handy Desk Accesory for the Atari, which makes it
possible to edit the Edit Name of the QuadraVerb, simply by typing the
name by the Atari-Keyboard. Is there someone out there who is
interested? If there is, let me know and I'll send you the program.
Final Question :I use Version 2.03 on the Qv. Is this the latest?
(Find out by pressing both Page-Buttons simultaniously in case you
didn't knew)
Bye for now...
Ben.
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 1994 01:59:17 +0800
From: yswening -at- nermal.santarosa.edu (Yarrow Sweningsen)
Are you aware of a patch editor for the mac for the qv+?
Or collections of patches in bulk sysex form?
ys
Date: 07 Jul 94 09:12:34+0200
From: David Haubensack <hbsk -at- h2o.cad.cea.fr>
Hi everybody,
as I'm new on this list, I'll introduced myself and my
setup. I'm a french tenor sax player and I use a MIDI
setup to compose my own music. My setup is the following:
- Roland U20
- QV+
- Casio RZ1 drum machine
- proteus/1
- PC+sequencer+SBPro card
- MIDI patchbay
- electric guitar
- TASCAM 464 4-tracks
- Sony DAT
I use my QV as an auxilary device on the mixer, not directly.
I use it for any instruments, even on the voice. I use very
specific programs and I'm not sure we can really exchange
patches. Anyway here are some patches I found on the net.
Be careful to save your full QV before loading them!!!!
I also found on the net a cheapware to deal with QV dumps
on a PC using a MPU card. Here it is.
David.
-----------------------------------------
David Haubensack, hbsk -at- h2o.cad.cea.fr
CEA/Cadarache, FRANCE
work phone: (33)-42254292
work fax : (33)-42252780
Date: 20 Jul 94 16:18:55 -0600
From: John_Lambrou-CJL008 -at- email.mot.com
Am I correct in assuming the enclosures which are not readable as text
are sysex dumps for the Quad? I have been a long time Quad Plus user
(just didn't know of the existence of this list till now), and I just
recently traded it for a GT. I mostly use it for processing
synthesizer/sampler sounds, dedicating an effects send/return path for
it in my mixer. With the extra capabilities of the GT, I'll
occasionally run my electric guitar through it also. The guitar used
to be permanently run through a Rockman module, but the Quad GT is
quieter and cleaner, useful in certain situations.
I also had two Pluses purchased for work (Motorola) as accurate
programmable audio delay lines for experiments simulating voice delay
in digital cellular systems. The cascaded EQ section was used to
simulate the telephone audio bandwidth with great success.
Enough for a first introduction - talk to you all later.
john
(cjl008 -at- email.mot.com)
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 94 12:05:06 BST
From: Dave Mclean <D.McLean -at- doc.mmu.ac.uk>
I've been using a Quad GT, mostly with an electric twelve
string, a Les Paul & a shitty synth (which it does bring alive a bit).
I tend to have trouble when using the qv's preamp and my combo's
preamp in serial. When you put the combo's preamp into the effects
loop of the qv a loud squeel is audible, though it can be reduced by
setting everything to clean sounds.
Does anybody posses a qv patch editor for an ATARI st? I've
seen a PC version but nothing else.
Cheers for now.............David McLean (England)
Date: 3 Aug 1994 08:31:49 -0800
From: "Jim Ford" <jim_ford -at- cl_63smtp_gw.chinalake.navy.mil>
Subject: Mac Software for QVerb?
I have a Macintosh IIsi, a Kurzweil K1200, and a Quadraverb connected through
MIDI. Is there any Macintosh software to allow programming the Quadraverb,
like a patch editor with graphic sliders? Thanks.
Jim
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