Basic Operation – The Master Section
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Waldorf microQ User´s Manual
The Master Section
Most of the basic operations like managing programs are done in the Master Section. The picture
below shows the controls of the Master Section in detail:
Play
Graphic Display
Multimode
Peek
Shif t
Sound
Edit
Multi
Store
Recall
Compare
Utility
Global
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Picture 4:
Master Section
As you can see, the Master Section consists of several controls:
•
A 2x20 character display that shows program names, parameters and other messages.
•
A red alpha dial on the right of the display. It is used to select sound programs or, when
editing a program, to select a parameter page.
•
Two value dials below the display for adjusting parameters currently shown.
•
Four buttons labelled
Global/Utility
,
Multi/Compare
,
Edit/Recall
and
Sound/Store
. These
buttons are used to call special parameter edit pages and to perform several utility functions.
•
A button labelled
Shift
that is used to activate alternative functions of knobs and buttons,
labelled in blue color.
•
A button labelled
Play/OK
. Pressing this button will bring back the microQ to Play mode,
where sounds can be selected.
•
A button labelled
Multimode
. It is used to activate or deactivate the Multimode.
•
A button labelled
Peek
. Pressing this button allows you to check parameter values without
changing them.