Boss GT-6 GT-6 Specifications

Please take the time to read this manual before contacting us for help! 1 INTRODUCTION Congratulations on purchasing the Partheus Software GT Manag

6 PATCH FILES This section tells you how to manage your patch files. The patch editor is explained in the next section. ABOUT THE PATCH FILE WIND

Info button Click on this to show further information about the patch. This includes the name of the person who created it and who last saved it, and

HOW DO I SELECT A PATCH? To select a patch that is in the patch file, left-click it once. The summary panel on the right of the window will be updat

Drag & drop works the in a similar way as it does in Explorer: Same file Different file Normal Move Copy Ctrl Copy Copy Shift Move

See also the patch pop-up menu item below. CAN I RE-SIZE THE WINDOW? Yes. Click and drag the border of the window. You cannot make the window small

CAN I HIGHLIGHT SPECIFIC PATCH CATEGORIES? For the GT-10, click on the Filter button on the toolbar, or select Show category… from the View menu.

7 PATCH EDITOR The picture here shows the preamp for the GT-8 - HOW DO I OPEN THE EDITOR? First select the patch by left-clicking on it. Then dou

and then click on the Assign button. The “light” in the Assign button will be on if any of the individual assigns are on. The assign select panel u

to go to the previous control, and CTL 2 to go to the next control (a long press on either pedal reverses the direction). The EXP pedal is used to mo

WHY ARE SOME KNOB VALUES “OFF”? For some effects, not all the controls are relevant. For example, in the Harmonist, if you select 1-voice, then the c

CONTENTS The document contains the following sections: 1 Introduction 2 Installing and Registering the Software 3 Setting up the Hardware 4 Getting S

8 DATA TRANSFERS HOW DO I TRANSFER TO THE PC? From the File and Windows menu, select Load (bulk dump) . On your effects pedal, go to MIDI Bulk

You can put the GT- in Bulk Receive either before or after you select Load One from the Edit menu. HOW DO I TRANSFER TO THE GT-? If you only

9 PRESET FILES HOW DO I ACCESS THE PRESETS? The GT- include patches beyond the user-programmable locations that are fixed. You can open a patch f

10 TEXT AND ZIP FILES TEXT FILES You can open and save text files from the File Open and File Save or File Save As… menus. You can’t c

11 SETTINGS - CONNECTIONS This section describes the various parts of the MIDI connections display… Click on Tools and Settings and then click o

If you select a MIDI output that is a synthesiser on your soundcard, then no data is sent to the GT-. You will not hear anything either, as the MIDI

MIDI IN CHANNEL This needs to match the MIDI Tx channel set in the GT-. If you get it wrong, then the GT Edit function won’t work. You can set GT Ma

12 OTHER SETTINGS This section describes the other Settings. There are three parts – “User info”, “Folder & File” and “Colour scheme”. USER I

FOLDER & FILE SETTINGS Click on Tools and Settings and then click on Folder & File . DEFAULT FILE LOCATION You will probably want to keep

COLOUR SCHEME SETTINGS Click on Tools and Settings and then click on Colour scheme . PANEL SHADING This allows you to set your own colour preferen

2 INSTALLING AND REGISTERING THE SOFTWARE INSTALLATION Save the file you downloaded on your PC’s hard disk. You need to have administrator privile

TASK PANEL STYLE You can change the visual appearance of all the control panel (the panel with the buttons for File and Windows , Tools and Settings

13 SYSTEM SETTINGS This section describes the System Settings. There are three parts – “Presets”, “System Data” and “System Configuration”. “Prese

14 THE MENUS – CONTROL PANEL This section lists all the menu commands in the main control panel, with a brief description of what each one does. FI

TOOLS AND SETTINGS : TOOLS Check for updates Retrieves information about the latest software versions from our website, and lists what is available.

GT-8 Presets GT-10 Presets Opens up the chosen presets window listing all the patches that are not user-modifiable. You can only have one of th

15 THE MENUS – PATCH FILES FILE Save Ctrl-S Saves the current file. Save As… Saves the current file, asking you for a new filename first. Re

Un-delete… Shift-Del Shows a list of patches deleted from the file so you can choose which ones to put back again. Rename… Crtl-R This allows yo

TOOLS <add-in list> This is a list of the available add-ins that work on patch data. GT Manager is supplied with the “EQ Adjust” add-in as sta

16 THE MENUS – TEXT FILES FILE Save Ctrl-S Saves the current file. Save As… Saves the current file, asking you for a new filename first. Pri

17 THE MENUS – ZIP FILES FILE Close Closes the current file. VIEW Theme Sets the visual theme for the menu and toolbar for text file windows. Too

to have administrator privileges to be able to enter the registration data (unless you are running Windows 98). Finally, exit and then re-start GT Man

18 EQ ADJUST ADD-IN The EQ Adjust add-in allows you to adjust the EQ effect settings, and also the Sub-EQ settings in the MOD/FX2 effect, provided

ADJUSTING THE SETTINGS Adjust the sliders by dragging in the appropriate direction. You can also left-click or right-click on the sliders value text

PRECISE MEASUREMENTS If you click on the graph, EQ Adjust shows you the actual cut/boost values for EQ, SEQ and EQ+SEQ at the frequency you clicked a

19 SYSTEM EDITOR The System Editor allows you to edit the global system data from your GT-. First of all, make sure you have transferred this dat

MIDI

SYSTEM PREAMP These are the settings for the “system preamp” which overrides all the patch preamp settings if the GT-8 or GT-10 is set to system prea

HARMONIST For the Harmonist, there are 29 user-defined scales. You can display scales 1 to 16 or 14 to 29 by clicking on the checkboxes. To modify a

AUTO-RIFF Each Auto-Riff phrase is displayed separately. To change any output note, right-click on the note, and select the one you want from the pop

CUSTOM OD/DS This allows you to modify the Custom OD/DS settings. This is not available on the GT-3 or GT-10.

CUSTOM PREAMP This allows you to modify the Custom Preamp settings. For the GT-6, GT-8 and GT-10, Preamps 1 to 3 are selectable from the checkboxes.

3 SETTING UP THE HARDWARE MIDI CONNECTIONS Unless you are using the GT-10 USB connection, first make sure you have a soundcard with MIDI output or

CUSTOM WAH This allows you to modify the Custom WAH settings. This is not available on the GT-3, GT-5 or GT-10.

INPUT This allows you to modify the input levels and global EQ. This is only available on the GT-10.

OUTPUT This allows you to modify the output levels and phrase loop settings. This is only available on the GT-10.

EXP This allows you to modify the EXP pedal settings. This is only available on the GT-10.

CTL This allows you to modify the CTL pedal settings. Click on the Edit CTL 3-4 box to show the settings for the external CTL pedals (3 and 4). This

A “IT DOESN’T WORK” Problems, and some answers. (Other parts of this document also cover a number of possible questions, so please also look throug

B UN-INSTALL DETAILS This section is for information only. WHAT FILES ARE REMOVED? The uninstall program will remove the GT Manager program itself

C ADD-IN INTERFACE This section is for developers only. The capabilities of GT Manager can be added to using add-in modules. GT Manager currently

For the GT-6, GT-8 and GT-10, use the SPDIF socket (phono) to connect to the PC’s SPDIF input (usually phono). Although you can buy “special” SPDIF

4 GETTING STARTED BASIC PROGRAM SETTINGS So you’ve installed the software and connected your effects pedal, now we can start. In GT Manager, under

So where did the system data go? All the system data is kept in a separate file, and stored in either the same folder on your PC that GT Manager is i

5 GENERAL FEATURES This section tells you about some of the useful features that GT Manager has that are not covered in other sections of this guid