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Selecting Effect Processor Algorithms
Use this screen to quickly select a processor’s algorithm and
select its output level and destination. You can also set the
amount of an active MFX processor’s output to be sent to the
chorus and/or reverb, as well as the amount of signal to be
sent from the chorus to the reverb.
About the only thing you won’t do on this screen is edit your current
algorithm’s parameters. We’ll explain how to do this in “Customizing
Effects” later on.
To select a different algorithm for a processor, cursor to the box
in the processor’s upper-right-hand corner and turn VALUE.
Setting Processor Output Destinations and Levels
To the right of each processor are two output parameters,
circled here in red.
These parameters, reading from left to right, set:
• the processor’s volume, from 0 to 127.
• the output pair to which the processor’s output is
connected. You can select Output Pair A or B.
Each MFX processor has two additional parameters, shown
above circled in blue. They are, reading from left to right:
• the processor’s send level into the chorus
• the processor’s send level into the reverb
The chorus has one more output parameter that can be set
to:
• MAIN—so its signal goes only to the selected output pair.
• REV—so that its signal goes only into the reverb.
• M+R—so that its signal goes to both the selected output
pair and to the reverb.
Understanding the Routing Diagram
The Effect Routing screen shows graphically how your sounds
are flowing into the Fantom-X effects, and how the effects
flow into each other and on to the Fantom-X’s physical
outputs. It’s really quite simple—in spite of all the crisscrossing
lines—and provides instant visual feedback and confirmation
of your effect settings as you adjust them. In fact, once you
understand how to read the diagram, it’ll be obvious to you
which parameter is which.
As with MFX structures, the sound flows from the left edge of
the screen to the right, where you can see the Fantom-X’s four
physical outputs, or two output pairs, as labeled underneath
onscreen. To trace a signal from the left edge to the right—in
and out of processors—just trace its route, using your finger if
you need to as you become familiar with the screen.
The first illustration on the next page is an example in which a
tone’s signal flows into MFX 1 (in red), while the output of MFX
1 goes to Output Pair A (in blue), to the chorus (in purple), and
to the reverb (in yellow).