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How to use the Hold Pedal
The Hold Pedal can be used to play an additional, third sound of
your MIDI instrument. In this case the current split becomes
temporarily ineffective and you can use another sound. All notes
which sound while releasing the pedal will sound until the next
pressure on the Hold Pedal. Play a chord by depressed Hold
Pedal. Without muting the chord, you release the Hold Pedal
now and the Hold sound will be locked. You can play again with
the current preset to your chord accompaniment. After pressing
once more you can play a new chord, the old one will be
replaced by a new one. Or you simply turn off the chord while
pressing once the Hold Pedal shortly without playing at that
time.
Additionally, the pick control function can be used as well for
the Hold sound.
You can also send a pre-programmed MIDI controller to the
MIDI instrument by pressing the Hold Pedal. This could be the
controller No. 64 (Sustain), the controller No. 65 (Portamento)
or even the controller No. 93 (Chorus).
After pressing the Hold Pedal you are moreover able to freeze
the already played tones in order to play only on your guitar.
Then all other MIDI sounds are suppressed. You can also realize
a bypass function in order to hear temporarily your guitar sound
alone.
How to use the Chain Pedal
If you connect a footswitch to the chain socket, you can call up
successive presets. Pressing once the footswitch activates the
next preset, hitting the footswitch quickly twice triggers the
previous preset.
How to use the Mono Input
All instruments with pickups can be directly connected by a jack
cable to the MONO input of your AXON. At the front of the
AXON is the potentiometer which helps you to set the
sensitivity of the MONO input. Please consider that not all
features of the AXON are available when using the MONO
input. The extremely fast pitch recognition is inactive. In this
case you work with a pitch recognition which is a little bit
slower. But it is comparable to devices which were already
offered by competitors. String Split, Pick Split and the Pick
Control function are no longer available.