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VoiceLive 3 overview
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you may recognize some or all of the advanced
controls.
If you don’t recognize anything, there are two
paths you can take:
1. Don’t touch anything you don’t recognize.
Slowly back away from the advanced menu.
There be dragons in that cave!
2. Turn every parameter as far as it will go in
each direction and see what happens!
Whether you choose #1 or #2: It’s totally fine. We
can’t tell you how fast or far to venture into the
depths of VoiceLive 3. All we can do is recom-
mend that you treat VoiceLive 3 like any other in-
strument or skill you would try to learn and give
things some time.
From our own experience, you know it’s a good
time to venture deeper into the menus and con-
trols when you say to yourself: “Hmm. This
would sound
perfect if only the [X] was a bit
more/less [Y]…”
Once you start thinking like that, you will know
that your skills have moved beyond using Style,
and you will likely find the experience of editing
advanced parameters more thrilling than daunt-
ing.
Remember to go through the Store procedure af-
ter you have made changes to a Preset. Changes
are not stored automatically. If you edit a Preset
and switch to another Preset without storing, all
changes you made will be lost.
Defining and using Global Effects
Each effect in VoiceLive 3 can load and use
Global settings. Global settings make editing ef-
fects much easier and faster, but you need to un-
derstand the concept to use it effectively.
How does it work?
First, you define a “Global Preset” in the Sys-
tem menu. This Preset is the Preset from which
any other Preset can “pull” settings for any ef-
fect. Think of this Global Preset as a template
or master. In the screen shot below, you will see
that Preset 491 has been defined as the Global
Preset. You can change this Preset if you like.
However, we recommend making yourself fa-
miliar with editing the Global Preset and turning
Global ON in other Presets before you reassign
the Global Preset.
Global Preset set to Preset no. 491
If you invest some time into creating effects that
you like in your Global Preset, you can then ac-
cess these effects in any other Preset by simply
setting one parameter.
We have defined a Global Preset for you already
(the factory default is 491), but you can make
your own.
We suggest placing the global Preset in a loca-
tion quite far from your other Presets in the box,
so you don’t accidentally overwrite it. Any Pre-
sets that depend on the information in the Global
Preset will be affected if you delete or change it.
Defining the Global Preset
– Press the Setup button.
– Use < or > to navigate to the System tab.
– Use the Control Knob to highlight “Global Pre-
set”
– Use the Mix Knob below “Global Preset” to
change its value to represent the Preset num-
ber you would like as your Global Preset.
Using an effect from the Global Preset
– Select a Preset that you would like to link to
the Global Preset.
– Press the Vocal or Guitar button (depending
on which effect you would like to edit).
– Navigate to the effect tab for the effect that
you would like to link to the Global Preset –
e.g. Delay.
Delay effect block settings
– Use the Control Knob to scroll down to the
“Global” parameter. It should say “Off”.