User Manual

RECORDING IN THE SEQUENCER
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Pattern automation recording details
(Record+Reason)
If your song contains pattern based devices such as the Redrum Drum Computer, Matrix Analog Pattern Sequencer
or Dr. Octo Rex, you probably want to use more than a single pattern throughout the song. To facilitate this you can
record pattern changes in the sequencer.
Recording pattern automation (Record+Reason)
1. Before you start recording on the track, make sure the “Record Enable Parameter Automation” button is on
(red).
You can disable the “Record Enable” button for the note lane for now as it won’t be needed.
2. Make sure that the “Enable Pattern”/”Enable Loop Playback” button is activated on the device in the rack.
The “Enable Pattern” buttons on the Redrum (top) and Matrix (bottom) devices
3. Set the desired start pattern on the pattern device.
4. Start recording on the track from the desired position.
When recording starts, the pattern device will automatically start. Although no clip will be created until you change
pattern on the device for the first time, the start pattern is still being recorded.
5. During recording, change patterns with the “Bank” and “Pattern” buttons on the device panel.
As soon as a Pattern or Bank value is changed on the device, a pattern lane is automatically created on the track.
On the lane, a pattern clip is automatically created and the pattern selection is recorded in the clip. Make sure you
change the patterns slightly in advance - the actual pattern change will be recorded (and happen) on the next
downbeat according to the sequencer time signature setting.
6. When you are done, click “Stop” on the Transport Panel to stop recording.
The automated pattern selection buttons on the device in the rack will marked with a green border, indicating that
they have been automated. A pattern automation lane with pattern clips has also been created on the Edit/Ar-
rangement Pane.
Pattern automation clips on the pattern automation lane.
• Pattern automation has no “static value”. Patterns will only be played back where there are pattern clips on
the lane. Where the pattern lane has no clips, the device will stop and no pattern will be played back.