User Manual

STEP RECORD
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Wrong notes will be recorded automatically. If you
hit a wrong note, you must use the Backstep button
to erase it and re-enter the note or chord. This
differs from manual step mode in which you can
replay the notes as many times as you like before
you click on the Step button, and only those notes
being played at the moment you click on the button
are recorded.
Stepping manually
At times, you may wish to choose when to proceed
to the next step, such as when you are holding a
note or chord through several steps. To do so:
1 Hold down one or more notes on your MIDI
input keyboard.
2 Click on the Step button.
3 Release the notes.
This will cause one step to be recorded containing
the notes you played. Clicking on the Step button
will record those notes which are being held down
on the controller keyboard. The step will not be
completed until you press the Step button. If you
continue to hold the same notes down and press
the Step button again, the notes will be recorded as
“held” since they were not released in the previous
step.
If you play a wrong note, simply play the correct
one before pressing the Step button.
Entering rests
Rests are entered by pressing the step, beat, or
measure buttons with no notes held down. This
records a step with no notes for the chosen
duration.
Hearing a click after each step
When the Click with Each Step mini-menu item is
enabled, it causes a click to sound every time a step
is entered. This is highly recommended when using
Auto Step, as it is a useful indicator of step
completions.
Figure 29-5: The “Click with Each Step” mini-menu item produces a
click every time a step is entered.
Listening to what you have recorded
When you are finished step recording, and you’d
like to hear what you have done, press Rewind, or
cue to the desired start measure. Then press Play.
Disconnecting the counter from step record
Notice that when you rewind and play back, or do
just about anything else besides step-recording, the
Lock to Transport button in the lower left corner
unchecks. (You can also uncheck it by clicking it.)
This indicates that the main Counter in the Control
Panel is no longer locked to the current step
location in the Step Record window.
Figure 29-6: The Lock to Transport button is important: it engages
(and disengages) step recording from Digital Performer’s main trans-
port controls. If you don’t want the rest of the sequence to play as you
are step-recording, uncheck this button.
In this mode, the Step Record window acts entirely
independently of Digital Performer’s main
transports (play, stop, rewind, etc.), as well as the
main Counter. Thus, you can play, rewind, fast
forward, stop, and otherwise cue around in the
sequence completely independently of where you
are step recording.