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HOT KEYS
A real help for speedy sessions! All of the most important
parameters for factory programs are found here, and you
can assign parameters from any
other area here for quick
access.
 see page 33
PARAMETER
Parameter adjustments for the effects running on each of
the Eclipse’s effect blocks, effect block bypassing, pro-
gram loading, routing, and modulation block (
<EDIT
MOD>
) controls.
 see page 33
SETUP
Catchall for system level functions such as display
brightness, digital rates and sources, MIDI setup, and lots
of other cool stuff.
Understanding the Display and Soft Keys
The Bottom Line of the Display
The display shows two lines of text. The top line is typically dependent
on the bottom line, so let’s talk about the bottom line first. As you can
see from the screen to the right, there are (typically) four bracketed phrases along the bottom.
Press the
LEVELS
key on your Eclipse until you see the same screen.
Pressing the soft key below a bracketed phrase highlights
that phrase and allows you to adjust the parameter associated with that phrase. From now on, we’ll just
treat those phrases as if they were actually the soft keys like so: “press
{IN GAIN}
.”
Pressing
{IN GAIN}
results in the screen to the right (try it!).
Notice that the top line contains the parameter associated with
{IN GAIN}
.
Turning the knob or using the keypad (with the
ENT
key) alters that pa-
rameter (try it!). …but we’re getting ahead of ourselves. There are four kinds of brackets around soft keys,
and each denotes something different.
{curly braces}
are for “ganged” parameters. Pressing the soft key more
than once cycles through the gang. First the parameters
are linked, then just one is adjustable, then just the other is adjustable, then both are linked
again, and so on. Try this on
LEVELS
{IN GAIN}
i.e., the
{IN GAIN}
soft key in the
LEVELS
area
.
<angled brackets>
indicate that pressing the soft key will perform an action,
such as triggering an LFO. Here, pressing
PARAMETER
<FXA: ON>
bypasses effects block A. Then pressing
PARAMETER
<FXA:OFF>
“un-bypasses” it.
sub-menu
indicates that more soft keys “hide” beneath this one.
Pressing a
sub-menu
changes the screen entirely as dif-
ferent soft keys are displayed.
(A menu is a list of choices, as in a restaurant, so a sub-menu is a menu one or more levels
down.)