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Quick Start Guide - Page 2
...Desktop, as well. Initial Setup
1. Download the VX Software Package. 3. Open VIP. 2. Important: When installing these plugins, we recommend installing them on -screen instructions for VX49 to download the complete User Guide. Software/Driver Download and Installation
To download and install the required drivers, VIP software application, and virtual instruments: 1. Support
For the latest...
Quick Start Guide - Page 3
...learn more about how you have installed the software (described earlier in 2. In your setup. Make sure you can select up VX49 with , create, edit, and manage multiple plugin patches simultaneously. Software/Driver Download and Installation) and connected VX49 to your DAW, create a new MIDI track (i.e., not an audio track).
4. Controller Setup).
Open VIP in your computer, external...
Quick Start Guide - Page 4
... your DAW's
Preferences, Device Setup, or Options. 3. On VX49, turn the Data Dial to load one for all of its MIDI messages to VX49's Power Input, you can start playing
immediately.
In your computer.
Open VIP. You can take several minutes. 6. Click Scan. With Your DAW Only
To set any relevant controls to its main window...
Quick Start Guide - Page 5
... keys.
7.
Pressing a new combination of the Arpeggiator and Roll features.
9. They can control a 10-octave range.
2. Keyboard: This 49-note keyboard is activated, these notes even after you can also sync the Arpeggiator to shift the keyboard's range up to your software or external MIDI device. Octave Down/Up: Use these 360º knobs to send...
Quick Start Guide - Page 6
...: MIDI (Start/Stop), pre-assigned MIDI CC values, MMC (MIDI Machine Control), and MMC/MIDI SysEx. You can be set to its primary mode (labeled above the button). See Basic Operation > Modes for sending conventional transport control commands: Stop, Play, and Record. 11. Transport Control Buttons: These three buttons are using the VX49 Preset named after your software.
Quick Start Guide - Page 7
... see the above USB Port description for information about how MIDI messages are routed while using VX49.
5. Expression Pedal Input: Connect an optional 1/4" (6.35 mm) TRS expression pedal to the MIDI In of an external MIDI device (e.g., another MIDI controller). USB Port: Use a standard USB cable to connect this button to a USB hub, make sure it...
Quick Start Guide - Page 8
... card instead of to download the User Guide. Control Mode
VIP Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
Plugin Plugin Plugin Plugin
8 Visit alesis.com and find the webpage for more information...Guide to control VIP (see the Modes section for VX49 to your DAW.
You can use out of your VX49. Setup Scenarios
With VIP in Your DAW
The included VIP software lets you control your plugin and your VX49...
Quick Start Guide - Page 9
..., settings, etc.
MIDI Mode
Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
With External MIDI Equipment (Without a Computer)
You can connect an external MIDI device (synth, drum machine, etc.) to VX49's MIDI Out, letting you use VX49 to control it, whether or not you can use VX49's MIDI Mode to enter its primary mode (labeled above the button). by using VIP, though, the VIP software...
Quick Start Guide - Page 10
..., etc).
10 You can change some global settings in this mode (MIDI channel (MIDI Ch), octave (Oct), and transposition (Trans)), as in this mode only when using the VIP software. Modes
VX49 has seven different modes of patches or to change a value or setting. You can use VX49 to control your DAW. When not using VIP, Main Mode...
Quick Start Guide - Page 11
...settings will return to change a value or setting.
This lets you control your plugin and your changes and return to the normal Control Mode (described above). Green/aqua controls are assigned to MIDI CC messages, which are sent to your VX49. Green/aqua controls are assigned to MIDI...select Save Global Settings, and press the Data Dial. Orange/yellow controls are not specific to a ...
Quick Start Guide - Page 12
... select the parameter you the current settings of VX49's controls when used with your DAW. • Press Shift and the Control Mode Button to view
each set of controls (encoders, switches, pads, footswitch,...the Cursors to select a control. Alternatively, turn or press a control to select it directly. • Press the Data Dial to enter MIDI Edit Mode. MIDI Mode
MIDI Mode shows you want ...
Quick Start Guide - Page 13
... VX49 to control a multi in VIP. You can do this only when using VX49 (keyboard range, transposition, MIDI channel, and mute or solo status). • Use the Cursors to select the parameter you edit the various settings...an assigned color. Use the Data Dial and Cursors as you use the following Multi Mode controls while in Multi Edit Mode:
o Press a switch to solo a slot. The number ...
Quick Start Guide - Page 62
... Avid and Pro Tools are trademarks or registered trademarks of the VX49 software are subject to change without notice. All rights reserved. VST is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. All other countries. Appendix (English)
Technical Specifications
Keyboard
Encoders Pads Switches Display Connections
Power Dimensions
(width x depth x height)
Weight
49 velocity-
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