Slypou Posted January 6, 2018 Share Posted January 6, 2018 Is it possible to apply any effect to my bass connected to Inst in? I can hear it but I don't know if it's possible to apply effect (exemple, compressor)? I've tried many things but I don't know if I'm doing the right thing. Sly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlenK Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 You asked earlier about the microphone input. Did you manage to get that one to work? The same rules apply to the instrument input (but NOT to the stereo audio input) except this time you apparently WANT to add effects, which you certainly can. Note that the mic and instrument inputs are in parallel; the same settings (aside from the gain knob of the mic input) apply to both. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slypou Posted January 7, 2018 Author Share Posted January 7, 2018 Yes both Mic and instrument works, I can hear them directly but I don't understand what to do to add effect. To do it, there is no specific steps described in the manual neither in the companion document. Maybe there is something related to the Oscillator or the DSP for which I'm not sure how they work. Any steps I may have missed somewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlenK Posted January 7, 2018 Share Posted January 7, 2018 You can add reverb by increasing the reverb send level for the external part in the mixer. You can similarly add a chorus effect if the Cho/DSP parameter in the Effects menu is set to Cho. If that parameter is set to DSP instead then you can select a DSP effect from the Effects menu. Note that the "DSP" parameter of the external part has to be On for the external part in order for the DSP effect to have any effect on it. Also, if you are playing the solo-synth tone then the DSP effect in the solo-synth tone overrides whatever you have selected in the Effects menu. (So if the solo-synth tone has no DSP effect you will not hear a DSP effect.) The rules of the XW-P1's effects system are pretty complicated but I did my best to break them down in The XW-P1 Companion. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slypou Posted January 7, 2018 Author Share Posted January 7, 2018 Not easy but I finally figured it out. Effect are working, that's very nice, I think I'm gonna spend a lot of time exploring that. Thanks a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slypou Posted January 7, 2018 Author Share Posted January 7, 2018 Another question, is it possible to make new effect from the XW-P1? I can make user setting from the existing effect by playing with the adjustment knob but I'd like to know if I can make completly new from another process? For exemple, the ring modulator give a complete different tone, this is the kind of sound I want to create. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlenK Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 You can make a custom effect based on any of the primary algorithms listed on page E-67 in the User's Guide. The parameters are described on pages E-88 to E-91. Just select a preset in the Effects menu, press Edit, choose the algorithm, adjust the parameters then save to a user effect memory. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slypou Posted April 19, 2018 Author Share Posted April 19, 2018 Any way I can apply a filter for the background noise that appears when I play with the effect ON? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlenK Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Not while you can hear the sound (presumably from your external source). But you can apply a noise gate that will kill background noise from an external source in the absence of a signal; see page E-68 of the XW-P1 User Guide. It's the N.Thresh (Noise Threshold) parameter. You might have to play with N.Release as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slypou Posted April 20, 2018 Author Share Posted April 20, 2018 The noise appears only when I play. Any way I can eliminate that? The auto level is at OFF. Changing it will only make it worst. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlenK Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 If you are saying that you hear noise added to your external signal after you pass it through an effect, there isn't too much you can do. AFAIK the XW-P1's analog-to-digital converter for the INST IN and MIC inputs is only 10 bits, so just the act of digitizing the signal is going to add some noise. Perhaps the effect you have selected makes that noise worse. For example, the Distortion effect would tend to do that (naturally). The other thing is, are you connecting your bass guitar directly to either of the MIC or INST IN inputs? If so, you're actually lucky to hear anything at all because the impedance of the guitar's output is too high for those inputs. You could instead try connecting the guitar to a direct box and from that to the XW-P1. https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/di-boxes/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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