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Side note: Latch will work whether Arp is on or off – essentially, Latch triggers a continuous MIDI note, regardless of
Arp’s on/off state. Latch is thus useful, for example, if sending MIDI to an external arpeggiator, or an external synth
patch with lots of sustain.
Latch will apply to the selected Arp destination Part only.
C. Arp Settings
Pressing the Arp button (while not holding Shift) reveals the following settings on the screens.
• Part
• Type
• Gate
• Sync Rate
• Octaves
• Velocity
• Length
Modifying these settings will signicantly alter the sound of your arpeggios. The following sections explain these set-
tings in depth.
D. Arp Part
Arp can only arpeggiate one Part at once, so by default, this is set to ‘Selected Part’. However, using the above rotary
knob, you can opt to send the arpeggiated pattern to parts 1 through 8 instead. In other words, you can send your
arpeggiated patterns to different Parts to audition them on various elements of your song.
E. Arp Type
You can set Arp to the following pattern ‘Types’:
• Up (default) - Notes held or latched (with the Latch button) will be played in an upwards direction at the Arp
Sync Rate, one after another, then the pattern repeated.
• Down - Notes held or latched will be played in a downwards direction at the Arp Sync Rate, one after another,
then the pattern repeated.
• Up/Down 1 - Notes held or latched will be played in an upwards direction, then downwards direction with no
repeated notes, at the Arp Sync Rate, then the whole pattern repeated.
• Up/Down 2 - Notes held or latched will be played in an upwards direction, then downwards direction with the
highest and lowest notes repeated, at the Arp Sync Rate, then the whole pattern repeated.
• Random - Notes held or latched will play in a random order at the Arp Sync Rate that continues until keys are
released.
• Played - Notes held or latched will be output in the order in which they played, at the Arp Sync Rate, then the
whole pattern repeated.
• Chord - Notes held or latched will be played as a chord on each Arp step, at the Arp Sync Rate, until the notes
are released.
F. Arp Gate
The Arp’s Gate control shortens the length of arpeggiated notes from the maximum length of one arpeggiated step
(100%) down to 1/100th of an arpeggiated step (1%). Gate is set to 100% by default, with an adjustable range of 1 to
100%. Gate takes into account Arp Sync Rate and tempo; therefore, as Sync Rate changes and tempo increases/de-
creases the Arp gate length will remain a consistent percentage of the Arp step length.
G. Arp Sync Rate
This setting changes the musical rate at which the Arp runs relative to the SL MkIII’s clock. It can be set to sync rates
as follows: