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Switches and operation
The three Play Acoustic footswitches
DOWN and UP footswitches
Form here on, we will refer...
• • to the footswitch with the down-pointing triangle as the DOWN footswitch and
• • to the footswitch with the up-pointing triangle as the UP footswitch.
The DOWN and UP footswitches allow you to navigate through presets.
• • Press a footswitch once to switch to the previous or next preset slot.
• • Press and hold a footswitch to quickly move through presets.
HIT / Hold for TALK footswitch
During normal operation, this footswitch acts as a HIT button. What does this mean?
When you activate HIT by tapping the footswitch, a new effect (or several effects)
will be added to the current sound. This feature is perfect for spicing up a section
of a song with a particular effect, e.g. Harmony.
TALK mode
When you press and hold the HIT / Hold for TALK footswitch, Play Acoustic enters
TALK mode.
In TALK mode, all vocal effects are bypassed, and the microphone input is passed
directly to the output.
TALK/Tuner mode
If you have a guitar plugged into the GUITAR IN, you will enter TALK/Tuner mode,
activating the guitar tuner built into Play Acoustic. The guitar output is muted to
allow tuning, but the dry voice is still passed to the output, allowing you to tune
your instrument and still entertain the crowd with witty banter.
Activating Loop mode
To enter Loop mode, press and hold the DOWN and UP footswitches simultaneously.
For more information on the Looper, see "The Looper".
Loop mode screen
In Loop mode, the DOWN footswitch controls the following functions:
• • PLAY
• • REC (Record)
• • Overdub
Holding the DOWN footswitch will undo your most recently recorded Overdub.
In Loop mode, the UP footswitch controls the following functions:
• • STOP
• • ERA (HOLD to erase)
To exit Loop mode, tap the HIT footswitch.
You may exit Loop mode while a loop is still playing. That means you can
choose a new vocal sound – and then re-enter Loop mode to add a new overdub
to the loop.
Loop Undo/Redo
To undo a loop overdub, press and hold the DOWN footswitch.
To restore the overdub (Redo), press and hold the DOWN footswitch again.
Restoring a loop overdub this way is only possible if you have not recorded
another overdub after using Undo.
Looping with a Switch-3
If you connect a TC-Helicon Switch-3 (optional) to the PEDAL connector of your
Play Acoustic, you can use it to control all Loop features.
The benefit of using a Switch-3 is the addition of the dedicated Undo button.
When a Switch-3 is connected, Play Acoustic's UP and DOWN footswitches are
assigned to Set Key/Scale.
For more information, see "Switch-3 page (6/7)".
Using DOWN and UP for setting key and scale
Activating Loop mode by pressing the DOWN and UP footswitches simultaneously
is the default mode. There is also an alternative mode where pressing the DOWN
and UP footswitches simultaneously will allow you to set key/scale. You can set
this mode on System page 5 under "UP/DN Function".
When you have activated this alternative mode, pressing the UP and DOWN
footswitches simultaneously will allow you to set Key and Scale using these
two footswitches.
If you don't know which Key and Scale a particular song is in, try using the
last chord of the song for the Key and Major 2 for the Scale. It's often correct,
especially in popular music.
To use your newly selected Key and Scale, simply press EXIT.
To save the current preset with your chosen Key and Scale, press STORE twice.
Storing presets is covered in more detail later in this manual.
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Tap tempo
To access Tap Tempo, press and hold the UP and HIT footswitches simultaneously.
Tap tempo screen
Once you see the current tempo displayed on the LCD screen, tap the HIT button in time with your music.
When you are finished, stop tapping, and the screen will "time out" back to the preset screen.
Control knob and arrow buttons
BACK, STORE, arrow buttons and the control knob
Use the control knob to scroll through presets and to move through various
settings in the Edit, System or other menus.
The arrow buttons act similarly, allowing you to move through presets,
effect/setup pages, styles, Genres etc.
Quick Tip: You can press and hold the arrow buttons to "jump" to the first or last
page in a menu. For example, in the Vocal FX menu, you can move from Harmony
(page 1) to Transducer (page 7) directly by pressing and holding the > button.
BACK button
Press the BACK button to exit the current screen or mode.
STORE button
What are presets?
To use Play Acoustic effectively, you need to understand the concept of Presets.
Essentially, a Preset is a record of all the settings for a group of effects that you
can recall quickly and easily.
The Preset concept is extremely flexible. A Preset can be general purpose – like a
simple Reverb or Harmony sound. But a Preset can also represent a specific song
or portion of a song via multiple effects and settings.
A good modern analogy for a Preset is a user account on a computer. Even though
each user has access to the same hardware (CPU, RAM etc.) each user can change
their desktop wallpaper, icons on the desktop, program behaviors and much
more. When each user logs in, the computer recalls all of their custom settings.
Depending on how you like you to work with effects, you may find that you like
to use a few general purpose Presets. Or you might be the kind of guy or girl who
likes to spend a bit more time in advance of the performance to create Presets for
all sorts of things.
Once you have fine-tuned all settings in the Vocal section, you should store them
as a Preset, so you can later recall them.
Keep in mind that you never have to save Guitar effects settings. They are global
and retain their values across all of your vocal presets.
Storing presets
When you have made a change to a preset, simply press the STORE button.
Pressing the STORE button once will bring up the name/location display,
allowing you to rename and/or relocate the preset.
Pressing the STORE button again will save the preset, along with its new name
or location.
Changing preset names
To change the name of a preset, press the STORE button once, then press the
left blue soft button and use the control knob to modify the letters/numbers.
Press the STORE button again to complete the process.
Storing a preset to another location
To save the current preset to a different preset slot (location), press the store button
once, then press the right Blue soft Button and use the control knob to select the
destination number for the preset. Press store again to complete the process.
If you change your mind and don't want to save the changes, simply press BACK.