User Manual

RPG-8 ARPEGGIATOR
(RECORD+REASON)
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1. Set up the buttons as you want them from the start of the song, e.g. all buttons “on”.
This will be your “static value” which is active from the start.
2. Right-click the buttons and select “Edit Automation” from the context menu.
A Pattern automation lane is created and the Pattern buttons will have a green rectangle around them to indicate
that they are automated.
3. Start the sequencer in play mode, and set up the buttons as you want them (except one - see below) for the
new pattern combination.
Note that the Automation override indicator on the transport will light up, but this is as it should be.
To record the button’s status, you need to press at least one button after entering record mode. Thus, you need to
save one “last” button to press during record to automate the Pattern editor to an exact combination of the 16 but-
ton’s on/off status.
4. Enter record mode and press the “last” step button where you want the automation to happen. Continue re-
cording for as long as you wish the pattern to play, then click stop.
A clip has been added on the Pattern automation lane.
5. If you open the clip by double-clicking on it in the Arrange view you can see that the clip has one automation
point.
Note that it is the clip that governs the start and duration of the automation, not the point itself.
D If the snapshot automation is not in the right time position, you can simply reposition the clip so that it starts
where you want the change to occur using the usual methods.
When the clip you recorded ends, the buttons will revert to the static value you set up in step 1.
6. By using this general method you can continue to add further clips to the Pattern lane, each containing a
“snapshot” of the Pattern editor buttons.