Zoom B9.1ut Musical Instrument Amplifier User Manual


 
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ZOOM B9.1ut
Contents
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Safety Precautions / Usage Precautions. . . . . 2
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Terms Used in This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Controls and Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Getting Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Power-On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Quick Guide 1 (Manual Mode/Play Mode
Operation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Quick Guide 2 (Edit Mode/Store Mode
Operation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Switching Modules On and Off (Manual Mode)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Panel display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Selecting patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Turning a module on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Adjusting the sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Using the Accelerator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Selecting Patches for Playing (Play Mode) . . 18
Using the Tuner (Bypass/Mute Mode) . . . . . . 20
Using the chromatic tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Using the bass tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Changing the Sound of a Patch
(Edit Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Patch con guration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Basic edit mode steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Changing a patch name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Storing Patches and Banks (Store Mode) . . . 27
Storing/swapping patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Storing/swapping banks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Returning patches to factory default condition
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Using the Expression Pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
About the expression pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Assigning control targets to the expression
pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Adjusting the expression pedal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Using an external expression pedal . . . . . . . . . . 34
Adjusting the expression pedal torque. . . . .35
Using the Foot Switches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Making settings for function foot switches . . . . . 36
Assigning modules to foot switches 1 – 4 . . . . . . 38
Specifying the tempo for a patch . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Using the Effect Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
MIDI Usage Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
What you can do with MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Selecting the MIDI channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Sending and receiving patch switching
information via MIDI (program change). . . . . . . 43
Sending and receiving pedal/switch/key
operation information via MIDI
(control change) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Sending pedal synth playing information via
MIDI (note on/note off). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Sending and receiving B9.1ut patch data
via MIDI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Other Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Using the ARRM function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Using the sound-on-sound function . . . . . . . . . . 54
Using the pedal synth function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Using the B9.1ut as audio interface for
a computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
Muting the direct output when using
a USB connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Changing the default reference pitch of
the tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Use as a direct box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Checking the B9.1ut version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Editor/librarian software for the B9.1ut . . . . . . . . 60
Linking Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Using the Pickup Select function . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Changing the insert position of the
pre-amp section and WAH/EFX1 module . . . 62
Effect Types and Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
How to read the parameter table . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
COMP (Compressor) module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
WAH/EFX1 (Wah/Effects 1) module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
EXT LOOP (External Loop) module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
ZNR (Zoom Noise Reduction) module. . . . . . . . . . . . .68
PRE-AMP (Preampli er) module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
EQ (Equalizer) module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
CABINET module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
MOD/EFX2 (Modulation/Effects 2) module. . . . . . . . . 71
DELAY module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
REVERB module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
TOTAL module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
B9.1ut Speci cations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
MIDI implementation chart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
B9.1ut patch/bank number +
program number assignment table . . . . . .83