Boss VE-500 - Default Chapter; Table of Contents

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Getting Ready . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Connecting the Equipment . . . . . . . . . . 3
Connecting the Equipment . . . . . . . . . . 4
Top Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Screen Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Operation of the [1]–[3] Knobs . . . . . . . 7
Switching Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Turning On/O the Power . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Tuning (Tuner) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Playing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Mic Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Adjusting the Mic Sensitivity . . . 9
Phantom Power Settings . . . . . . . 9
Patch Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Switching Between Memory and
Manual Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Switching Patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Adding a Harmony Eect . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
About the Play Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Editing a Patch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Basic Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Changing the Eect Connections 12
Changing the CTL & ASSIGN
Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Matching the Harmony to the
Key of the Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Saving a Patch (Write) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Exchanging Patches . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Initializing a Patch . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
System Settings (MENU) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Basic Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Adjusting the Display Contrast . . . . . . . 17
Enabling/Disabling the Auto-O
Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Returning to the Factory Settings
(Factory Reset) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Synchronizing with a DAW or
External MIDI Device
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installing the USB Driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Installing the Dedicated Software . . . . 18
Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Attaching the Rubber Feet . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Main Specications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
USING THE UNIT SAFELY . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
IMPORTANT NOTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
* To prevent malfunction and equipment failure, always turn down the volume, and turn o all the units before
making any connections.
* The power to this unit will be turned o automatically after a predetermined amount of time has passed since it
was last used for playing music, or its buttons or controls were operated (Auto O function).If you do not want
the power to be turned o automatically, disengage the Auto O function (“Enabling/Disabling the Auto-O
Function” (p. 17)).
5 Any settings that you are in the process of editing will be lost when the power is turned o. If you have any
settings that you want to keep, you should save them beforehand.
5 To restore power, turn the power on again (p. 8).
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