CREATING & STORING SOUNDS: USING THE CHANNEL PROGRAM MEMORIES
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MIDI buttons will exit the Save mode (Save mode will also be canceled if you don’t press
any buttons for 5 seconds after having pressed Save).
Swapping POD Channels With Friends
OK, so you go over to a friend’s house who also had the good taste and intelligence
to buy a POD. They’ve created this awesome sound that’s stored in the Bank 1,
Channel A location. You’ve got to have this sound so you can write the song that’s
going to make you rich, but your friend forgot to make a copy of the Sound
Programmer’s Sheet on the back of the POD manual and write down his settings.
(Perhaps we can learn a valuable lesson from this: always back up your work!) Do
you have to give up your dreams of rock and roll success and spend the rest of your
life cleaning bird cages to pay the bills? Luckily, we thought this one through in
advance. We provided you with a way to get those settings. Just press and keep
holding the Save button on your friend’s POD and turn any one of the POD’s knobs
(except the Output Level knob – that one’s not saved into programs). Don’t worry,
holding down the Save button won’t cause your settings to be altered or cause Save
mode to be entered. Instead, you’ll notice one of the little arrows below the Tuner
button will light up. The arrow is telling you which way to turn the knob so that it
will match the stored memory’s setting for that control. When the knob position
exactly matches the stored setting, the arrows will both light up. After you’ve
done this for every knob and noted the Tap Tempo speed, you can write down the
settings on the Programmer’s sheet, take it home, enter it in your own POD, and
write the anthem for a future (or past) generation. And be sure to thank us in the
album’s liner notes. To check that you’ve got everything just right, once the knobs
are set, you can also switch to Manual mode and see if the sound changes (it
shouldn’t, unless the Tap Tempo speed is different).
If that sounds too complicated, and you have a MIDI cable handy, flip ahead to
Chapter 8: “Deep Editing & MIDI Control” to find out how to swap sounds
between two PODs with MIDI. It’s also possible to swap POD sounds on computer,
using the Emagic SoundDiver software – for both Macintosh and Windows
computers – that’s included on the POD Tools CD.
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