FloridaWing Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 A few months ago I posed a question on the Facebook page about making rapid zone changes with the sliders - basically I wanted to set up a slider so that in the 'down' position it would access one zone and in the 'up' position it would access 1 or 2 other zones. The example I gave was the Beatles "Martha, My Dear" - the intro. (entire first verse) is piano only and the second verse with vocals is piano and strings. It then transitions into a brass/tuba bridge, an instrumental section, then closes with a final vocal verse with piano and strings. My idea is this: Slider 1 for piano only (zone 1) - normal operation. Slider 2 for strings (zone 2) in the 'up' position and brass/tuba (zones 3 & 4) in the 'down' position. So...CAN it be done and HOW would I set up the sliders? I know I could use a Pedal 2 to step thru different Stage Settings to get these results, but don't really want to occupy 3 SS positions... Any help is appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Saucier Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 Two options. Either use two sliders that when moved together in the same direction performs a crossfade for zones, or use layers within a hex layer tone as zones then a single slider can crossfade two layers of the hex tone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloridaWing Posted January 27, 2018 Author Share Posted January 27, 2018 Thanks - I've not edited any hex layer tones yet, so it will be a learning experience...fingers crossed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Williams Posted January 27, 2018 Share Posted January 27, 2018 I've been thinking about that. Since we get up to 2 hex layer voices per stage setting, and a fader can address up to one layer for each of two zones, The most crossfade you can get out of a single fader is two layers with the same number going up (one per hex tone) and two layers of some other same number (one per hex tone) going down. The slight bummer is you have to program each of the hex layer tones sort of separately but in parallel. And of course we can double that to 4 up and 4 down if we grab two adjacent faders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloridaWing Posted January 27, 2018 Author Share Posted January 27, 2018 Hmmm - maybe I'll just my PX-350 for the piano/string parts and the PX-5S for the others....a lot less work involved! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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