Basic Operation – The Master Section
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Waldorf Q 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:
Instruments
Play / O.K.
Multimode
Peak
Shif t
Utility
Undo
Compare
Recall
Store
Global
Multi
Xphorm
Sound
Matrix
1
5/9/13
2
6/10/14
3
7/11/15
4
8/12/16
Instruments
Picture 5:
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 page 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.
•
Five buttons labelled
Global / Utility
,
Multi / Undo
,
Matrix / Compare
,
Xphorm / 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 light blue color.
•
A button labelled
Play / OK
. Pressing this button will bring back the Q 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. The Peek button also lights up on any incoming MIDI message.
Selecting Programs
The Q offers four types of programs, Multis, Sounds, Drum Maps and Patterns. To switch between
them, you can either use the
Page Dial
햷
or the
Number Buttons
햸
. Which type of program is
changed, depends on if the Q is in Single or Multi Mode.
Single Mode
The Single Mode of the Q consists of four Instruments that can be played one after the other or at
once. This offers a fast way to switch between different sounds in a live situation or to create layered
sounds in a studio session without deeper programming. We will come to that later. For now, you
only need to know: The buttons
Inst. 1
…
Inst. 4
햷
are used to switch between these Instruments.
Each Instrument holds a Sound that can be selected in various ways.