Alesis MicroVerb4 User's Manual

Preset Programs

# D E S C R I P T I O N T Y P E # D E S C R I P T I O N T Y P E

00 All- purpose concert hall, great for vocals 01 Warm, large hall, try on piano or acoustic guitar 02 Small, bright hall for snares 03 Big, dark, scary castle reverb 04 Live, medium hall 05 Warm hall with 100ms predelay 06 Deep, wide, bright space 07 Parking garage reverb with lots of high damping 08 Small recital hall for acoustic instruments 09 Bright hall with low damping, try on vocals 10 Medium, hardwood studio room 11 Reverb early reflections, for percussion ambience 12 Warm, medium room for instruments 13 Tight room for ambience 14 Gated room for snares and toms 15 Very tiny room 16 Small studio room with high damping 17 Tighter gated room reverb 18 Nonlinear reverb for retro ‘80s percussion 19 Reverse reverb for effects 20 Studio goldfoil plate reverb 21 Smooth snare drum plate 22 Thin, transparent plate 23 Bright, dense vocal plate 24 Large, warm instrument plate 25 Very small plate reverb, tasty on snares 26 Long, smooth vocal plate 27 Wide, diffuse piano ambience 28 Skinny, vintage plate reverb 29 Simulation of plate reverb with lots of damping 30 Wide, true stereo chorus 31 Fast, shallow stereo chorus 32 True stereo chorus with less predelay 33 Deep stereo chorus with feedback 34 Wide chorus with delay for pads and volume swells 35 Slow, deep quad chorus 36 Fluid true stereo chorus 37 Classic stereo chorus 38 Subtle quad chorus 39 True stereo flanger with doubling delay 40 Slow, sweeping flange with heavy feedback 41 Faster, bubbly stereo flange 42 Slow triggered stereo flange 43 Wide true stereo flange with positive feedback 44 Faster, shallow stereo flange 45 True stereo flange with + and - feedback 46 Slow flange for grungy bass 47 Slow auto pan (set Mix 100% wet) 48 Medium tremolo (set Mix 100% wet) 49 Faster tremolo for electric pianos (set Mix 100% wet)

50 True stereo offset delay 51 Ping pong delay with band pass filter 52 Rhythmic multitap delay 53 True stereo 1/4 note and 1/8 note delay 54 Long mono delay 55 Stereo delay with 3 against 2 rhythm 56 255ms Mono delay 57 Stereo bouncing multitap delay 58 255ms Ping pong delay, try with tap tempo 59 Tape echo, repeats get darker as they decay 60 Classic stereo detuner 61 500ms detuned delay program 62 5th and 9th harmony for leads 63 Thicker stereo detune program 64 Faster detuned delay, great on guitar 65 Upward staircasing pitch effect 66 Mono pitch shifter with Semi and Fine controls 67 Stereo detune with feedback 68 Octave pitch shift 69 Detune/delay program for synth pads 70 Fast rock lezlie program (set Mix 100% wet) 71 Slow, warm lezlie for ballads (set Mix 100% wet) 72 Thick stereo chorus into a hall 73 Large room with flange and delay 74 Flanged room, great for drums and guitars 75 Room into a triggered flange, try on percussion 76 Deep stereo chorus into a room 77 Stereo flange into a small room 78 Thick chorus into a bright room 79 Delay into a room, great for lead vocals 80 Slow chorus into a delay and room reverb 81 Like above, but with a shallower chorus 82 Fluid flange/delay/room program for guitar 83 Like above, but with more room and less flange 84 Chorus and delay into a bright room, for rhythm guitar 85 225ms delay into a room 86 Long delay into a room, perfect for leads 87 350ms delay into room, good for mid tempo vocals 88 Chorus/long delay/hall multieffect 89 Room into flange with heavy feedback 90 Hardwood room and a wide, true stereo chorus 91 Bright room and a slow, sweeping flange 92 Large room and a stereo chorus 93 Like above, with a warmer room. Great for ballads 94 Dark room and a deep flange for rock mixes 95 Tight room and a 150ms slapback delay 96 Large room with a long delay for late night mixes 97 Tight room and a slow stereo chorus 98 Bright hall with a 1/4 note delay @ 108bpm 99 Large room and a slow flange with feedback

User Programs

# D E S C R I P T I O N T Y P E # D E S C R I P T I O N T Y P E

100 Large, bright hall, perfect for piano 101 Small, bright hall for drums and brass 102 Large, dense cathedral reverb 103 Dreamy, ambient instrument space 104 Medium hall with high damping, great for strings 105 Breathy small hall for vocals 106 Large hall with bass boost, try on drums 107 Large, bright hall with lots of high damping 108 Medium hall, great for snares and rimshots 109 Large, warm hall for acoustic guitars and pianos 110 Splashy stone room 111 Medium studio room with high damping, try on guitar 112 Large, dark room for vocals and winds 113 Tight percussion room with lots of early reflections 114 Large, deep room for almost anything 115 60% of the signal is gated for a unique snare reverb 116 Dense stone room with wide early reflections 117 Small room for background vocals 118 Long gated reverb, interesting on pianos 119 Wide early reflections for ambience 120 Bright instrument plate 121 Thin, transparent vocal plate 122 Subtle tube plate emulation 123 Dark plate, great for adding sustain to acoustic guitar 124 Long plate with 70ms predelay 125 Medium vocal plate with high damping 126 Small, snappy plate for percussion and rhythm guitar 127 Authentic warm plate for guitar, piano 128 Bright instrument plate, slightly chorused 129 Large, ambient plate for ballads, effects 130 Silky, deep quad chorus 131 Fast stereo chorus for active guitar and keyboard parts 132 Big quad chorus with lots of feedback 133 Faster quad chorus for bass 134 Deep wide chorus with feedback 135 Delayed chorus for sounds with a slow attack 136 Shallow quad chorus for rock and country guitar 137 Slow stereo chorus for electric piano 138 Very slow chorus with stereo delay 139 Wide, true stereo chorus with inverse feedback 140 Smooth true stereo flange for vocals, strings 141 Mild, shallow stereo flange 142 Deep sweeping flange for tense rhythm guitar 143 Dry stereo triggered flange 144 Panning stereo flange, R is double the speed of L side 145 Very deep stereo flanger for extremists 146 Vintage stereo flange pedal, turn it up! 147 Totally useless but fun effect 148 Fast triggered pan (set Mix 100% wet) 149 Medium speed surf guitar tremolo (set Mix 100% wet)

150 Stereo widening delay

151 Stereo multitap for remix percussion effects 152 Jazzy shuffle stereo delay 153 Long ping pong delay for guitar

154 Stereo slapback delay for rock vocals 155 Short mono delay for more surfing guitar players 156 Stereo delay panner (listen 100% wet) 157 Thin phase delay for vocal effects

158 Ambient dance echo effect 159 Wide, 500ms stereo delay 160 Stereo pitch shift with slapback delay 161 Stereo detune with 400ms delay 162 Detuned, repeating echo program

163 ”Falling” pitch shifter effect 164 Wide detune/delay program- huge on synth pads 165 Rising whole tone pitch shift effect 166 Pitched harmony: Up a 5th and down a 4th 167 Thick stereo detuner with feedback

168 Rhythmic pitch shift sequence 169 Another falling pitch shifter for vocal effects

170 Fast lezlie for guitar (set Mix 100% wet) 171 Slow lezlie into a hall for ballads (set Mix 100% wet)

172 Authentic lezlie speaker into a small room (100% wet)

173 Stereo chorus into hall program for clean guitars 174 Flange/Delay/Room stack for guitars

175 Large room into a flange, great on bright percussion

176 Deep, resonant flange into a room 177 Pitch shifting room, like the walls are moving...

178 Flange with doubling delay into a small room

179 Slight chorus into a live room, great for piano

180 Fast triggered flange into a room

181 Dreamy reverb for flashbacks in bad movies 182 Chorus/Delay/Room multieffect for uptempo guitar

183 440ms delay with small ambient reverb 184 Huge Chorus multieffect for huge rock guitar 185 Chorus into a room for funky clav or guitar

186 Deep flange into a small hall for grungy guitar

187 Flange into a 244ms delay with warm room reverb

188 Fast delay into a room reverb for vocals, solos 189 Large room into a deep flange- guaranteed to stimulate

190 Warm hall with a stereo chorus 191 Bright hall with a slow flange

192 Small hall and a smooth stereo chorus for ballad mixes 193 Wood room reverb with 250ms delay for vocals 194 Small room with a deep stereo chorus

195 Large hall with a long delay for slower tempos 196 Large room and a slow flange with negative feedback

197 Wooden drum room with medium delay 198 Warm plate with a slow stereo chorus 199 Bright room with a thick stereo flange

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