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5—Editing, Creating and Saving Presets
5—Editing, Creating and Saving Presets
Compare
Save
As described in Chapter 1, when you play FIZMO, you’re playing a preset. A preset contains four sounds—any of
which can be turned on or off—processed by one of FIZMO’s effects. There are two basic aspects, therefore, to
editing or creating a whole new preset from an old one:
• Setting up the preset’s sounds—the selection and activation of the sounds to be used in the preset, the
setting up of sound-layering, and the mapping of sounds across FIZMO’s keyboard.
• Setting up the preset’s effects—the selection of the type of effect to be used by the preset, and the
choosing of the desired variation for the selected effect.
Note: Each preset also contains its own arpeggiator setup and arpeggiator preset—see Chapter 4.
When you’ve programmed the preset to your satisfaction and would FIZMO to remember it, you must save the
preset to FIZMO’s FLASH memory, as described on Page 20.
The Compare Button and LED
When you make any changes to a preset, FIZMO copies the preset and the changes you’ve made into a
special area of memory called the “Compare buffer.” This buffer holds onto your edited preset so that you
can compare it to the last-saved version of the preset—the Compare button acts as a toggle switch
between the two versions. When you first alter a preset, the LED in the Compare button lights to signify that
the preset has been changed (and that the edited preset has been copied to the Compare buffer).
• Press the Compare button once to hear the last-saved version of the preset—the
button’s LED flashes to indicate that you’re now listening to the un-edited version
of the preset.
• To return to your edits, press the button again: the LED once again lights solidly,
and your edits are heard when you play the keyboard.
Tip: Any additional changes you make while listening to the last-saved version of the preset will cause the
Compare LED to light solidly, indicating that you are once again listening to the edited version of the preset, with
the most recent change added.
Changing, Layering and Mapping a Preset’s Sounds
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Compare
Flashing LED:
saved preset
Solidly lit LED:
edited preset
Sounds, Presets and Memory
Each preset contains four memory slots for its sounds. Since there are 64 presets in FIZMO, there
are 256 sound memory slots altogether—and 256 sounds. Each of FIZMO’s sounds resides in one
of the memory slots associated with a preset.
Each of the four slots in a preset has its own button that you can press to turn its sound on—so that
it’s heard when you play the preset—or off. The LED in each button lets you tell at a glance if its
sound is turned on—if the LED is lit or flashing, the sound will be heard when you play the preset.
How Sounds Work in Presets
You can use sounds in a preset in any of three general ways:
• You can use just one of its sounds.
• You can layer up to four of its sounds on top of each other or in different areas of the keyboard.
• You can split up to four of its sounds into convenient pre-mapped octave ranges.
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