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M3 EasyStart
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The M3 has a TON of tools to help you create music. The 16-track sequencer let’s you record 128 songs, with 210,000 note
capacity (whose job was it to count those notes?), with a resolution of 480 ppq. There are some shortcuts that can help you set
the sequencer up in a hurry, so that you don’t lose that flash of inspiration! Here’s one of the best tools…
Try using the M3’s One-Touch Record function:
1. Find a Program or Combi you like, with or without KARMA or a Drum Track – you’re the boss...
2. Hold down the ENTER switch (next to the numeric keypad) and press the REC/WRITE switch (two switches to the
right).
3. Touch “OK” in the display.
After you do this, the M3 will copy that Program (or Combi) into the sequencer, with all of its mixer setting, effects, and tempo –
everything intact. It will also copy any KARMA or Drum Track settings and you can play and instantly-record exactly the way
you did when you were first inspired!
Note: Each time you use One-Touch Record, the M3 will create a New Song. Don’t worry - your other songs won’t go away!
Now, let’s say you have an idea for a song in a specific style, with a specific arrangement of instruments. You can use a Template
Song to quickly set up the sequencer with useful sounds, mixer/effect settings, and even rhythms that are relevant to the style of
music you want to create…
Work with the Template Song function:
Start by creating a new, empty song:
1. Press the SEQ switch, touch the arrow to the left of “New Song”, and then choose an empty song location.
2. Set the length of the song using the DIAL, VALUE SLIDER, INC/DEC switches, or numeric keypad, and then touch
“OK”.
You can skip this step if you simply want to try this function out – just touch “OK” when prompted.
Now the song is basically a “blank canvas”. Time to load a Template Song:
3. Touch the drop-down menu in the upper-right corner of the display, and then touch “Load Template Song”.
4. Turn the DIAL to select a template that you’d like to use, and then touch “OK”.
5. Touch the box next to “Copy Pattern to Track Too?”, and you’ll be presented with a large collection of preset rhythm
patterns to work with!
6. On the page that follows, touch to choose a pattern, and then use the SEQ START/STOP switch to audition the rhythm
pattern.
7. Touch “OK” to copy the pattern to the track. (You can change the “Measure” field to insert the pattern at a specific
place)
8. Copy multiple patterns by touching “OK” repeatedly, to build the initial song length as desired. When you’re finished,
touch “Exit”. You can change the patterns as you go too, to develop “verse, bridge, chorus-type” drum tracks for your
new song.
Including the pattern(s) that you loaded, the Template Song function loads 8 useful sounds, and there are 8 more empty tracks (in
the “Prog 9-16” tab) waiting for your own flavors.