User Manual

STEP RECORD
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Keyboard shortcuts in brackets are located on the
numeric keypad.
Controlling duration with a MIDI controller
You can set up Step Recording such that a mod
wheel or other continuous controller controls the
duration of the notes being inserted.
To assign a pitch bend wheel, mod wheel, or data
slider to the duration:
1 Choose Note Durations from the Step Record
window mini-menu.
Figure 29-9: The Note Durations feature lets you adjust on the fly the
durations of the notes you are step-recording with an external MIDI
controller, such as the pitch bend wheel on your controller keyboard.
2 For duration range, enter the lowest and highest
percentage that you would like to use.
100% equals the current step duration, so if you’d
like to be able to enter notes longer than the step
duration, make the top value be above 100%. The
maximum value you can enter is 200%.
3 For the MIDI remote control, enter the
controller type, and enter a range of controller
values that will be mapped to the duration range
you specified above.
For example, if you specify a duration range of 50%
to 150%, and you specify a controller range of 0 to
100, when you move the mod wheel (pitch bend
wheel, or data slider) to 100, the duration will be
set to 150%. Likewise, if you move the controller to
0, the duration value will be set to 50%. You can
enter any of the above values by highlighting the
text box with the Tab key and moving the
controller wheel or slider.
☛ Tip: use your pitch bend wheel so that you can
always “snap” back to each note’s normal duration.
4 To enable the MIDI remote control, click the
MIDI Remote Control check box.
5 If you wish notes to be assigned a random
duration within the duration range you’ve chosen,
click the “Random Duration within range” check
box.
Command Keyboard shortcut
Backstep [0]
Step [Enter]
Beat [+]
Measure [-]
Tuplet on/off [/]
128th note [9]
64th note [8]
32nd note [7]
16th note [6]
8th note [5]
Quarter note [4]
Half note [3]
Whole note [2]
Double whole note [1]
Dot [.]
Double dot [=]
Auto Step on/off [*]
Solo Playback on/off P
Audible Click on/off K
Clear MIDI Events [Clear]