User's Manual

3.1.5. Selecting Strum type............................................................................................................................................................................................... 29
3.1.6. Sequences & arpeggios ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 30
3.2. Transpose / Kbd Play in Seq mode ....................................................................................................................... 31
3.3. Skip selections: Seq / Arp............................................................................................................................................. 32
3.4. Skip selections: Time Division.................................................................................................................................... 32
3.5. Restart Seq / Arp from beginning .......................................................................................................................... 33
3.6. Keyboard Shift Functions............................................................................................................................................. 33
3.6.1. Keyboard MIDI channel ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 33
3.6.2. Gate................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 34
3.6.3. Swing ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 34
3.6.4. Sequence....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 35
3.6.5. Scales............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 36
3.6.6. Shift function chart................................................................................................................................................................................................. 40
4. Creating Sequences ................................................................................................................................................. 41
4.1. What is a step sequencer?........................................................................................................................................... 41
4.2. Creating a sequence ....................................................................................................................................................... 42
4.2.1. Step recording ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 42
4.2.2. Real-time record/replace..................................................................................................................................................................................... 47
4.2.3. Adjusting the sequence length........................................................................................................................................................................ 49
4.2.4. What does it record?............................................................................................................................................................................................. 49
4.2.5. What is not recorded?......................................................................................................................................................................................... 50
4.3. Modifying a sequence................................................................................................................................................... 50
4.3.1. Append ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 50
4.3.2. Clear Last ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 51
4.4. Saving sequences .............................................................................................................................................................. 51
5. The Arpeggiator.......................................................................................................................................................... 52
5.1. What's an arpeggiator? ................................................................................................................................................. 52
5.2. Arpeggiator features....................................................................................................................................................... 53
5.3. Arpeggiator modes .......................................................................................................................................................... 54
5.3.1. Start the arpeggiator............................................................................................................................................................................................... 54
5.3.2. Arp mode: Up.............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 54
5.3.3. Arp mode: Down....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 54
5.3.4. Arp mode: Inclusive................................................................................................................................................................................................ 55
5.3.5. Arp Mode: Exclusive................................................................................................................................................................................................ 55
5.3.6. Arp Mode: Random ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 55
5.3.7. Arp Mode: Walk.......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 55
5.3.8. Arp Mode: Pattern .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 56
5.3.9. Arp Mode: Order........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 56
5.4. Adding Notes in other octave ranges................................................................................................................... 57
5.5. Building a multi-octave arpeggio............................................................................................................................ 58
5.6. Pausing an arpeggio....................................................................................................................................................... 59
5.7. Arpeggio Tricks................................................................................................................................................................... 60
5.7.1. Ratcheting...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 60
5.7.2. Spicing up your Arpeggios................................................................................................................................................................................ 60
6. Synchronization .......................................................................................................................................................... 61
6.1. As Master .................................................................................................................................................................................. 61
6.2. As Slave.................................................................................................................................................................................... 62
6.2.1. Sync In/Out types..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 62
6.2.2. Clock connectors ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 63
7. MOD/GATE/PITCH functions .............................................................................................................................. 64
7.1. Pitch and Gate signals..................................................................................................................................................... 64
7.1.1. How do Pitch and Gate work?........................................................................................................................................................................... 64
7.1.2. Can my DAW send CV/Gate signals?.......................................................................................................................................................... 64
7.1.3. Modulation (Mod) output....................................................................................................................................................................................... 65
7.2. Routing the signals ........................................................................................................................................................... 65
7.3. MOD/GATE/PITCH specifications............................................................................................................................ 65
8. Controlling external synths................................................................................................................................. 66
8.1. Control Mode.......................................................................................................................................................................... 66
8.1.1. What are CC# messages?................................................................................................................................................................................... 66
8.1.2. CC messages and MIDI......................................................................................................................................................................................... 67
8.1.3. Monitoring CC#'s and their values .................................................................................................................................................................. 67
8.2. The four CC Banks............................................................................................................................................................ 68