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EFFECTS
Page 172 CD3000XL OperatorÕs Manual
NOTE ABOUT EFFECTS SELECTION IN MULTI
The CD3000XL makes no distinction between effects in MULTI or in SINGLE. This means that
an effect created for use with a sound in SINGLE mode can be used on the same sound in
MULTI mode.
This has distinct advantages over other sound modules that have internal effects. Typically, the
effects are tied either to the single program or the multi-file and effects created in one cannot
normally be used in the other. This means that a single sound that uses a particular effect has
to lose them in MULTI mode.
As a practical example of this, on a typical keyboard/sound module, let us say you have a
raunchy heavy metal guitar leadline sound in its SINGLE mode. It uses all the multi-effects
possible including distortion, EQ, chorus, delay and reverb to create this powerful sound. So,
you decide to use it in a song and so you place the sound into the module’s MULTI. However,
as soon as the sound is placed in the MULTI, it loses the effect and is no longer the overdriven
leadline sound it was in SINGLE mode. Disappointment all round!
On the CD3000XL, you do not have this limitation. In this case, let’s imagine the same scenario
- you have a guitar program in SINGLE mode to which you have added an effect that offers
distortion, EQ, chorus, delay and reverb (let’s say it’s effect #10) that you want to use in a
MULTI. Go to MULTI mode and place the guitar program into a part. Now select a suitable
effects channel for that part (for example, FX1) and, in the EFFECTS mode, select effect
preset #10 on FX1. The part containing the guitar sound will be routed to effect #10 and so will
play exactly the same in the MULTI mode as it did in the SINGLE mode.