User Manual

SPECTRALIS 2

3.10 The song-chain mode

The pattern you have created can be chained to complete songs. The song chain

mode of the spectralis provides you great freedom.During a live session you

can always directly jump from song-chain to pattern-mode and back. If you

realize, a songstep is not working for the audience, just skip the songstep on

the fly. When reaching a pattern, which drives your audience crazy - just loop

this pattern and start jamming with the mute and solo buttons. After the jam

session is over, jump back to the song chain and let the song run until your end-

marker. The Spectralis so far can memorize up to 32 songs with 32 patterns

each and up to 499 songsteps. That should be enough for your next rave event,

electronic mega festival or even your little brothers birthday party.

Songs inside the Spectralis memory are stored into the flash memory. When

browsing the flash rom with your computer, you will notice songfolders. They

all have the same naming conventions - The folders are named "SONGXX",

where XX is the corresponding memory location on your spectralis. Inside the

folders are the patterns of the selected song. By hitting the [Song]-button in the

num-button assignment section, you set the Spectralis into the song-chain mode.

The songs now can be selected by hitting the num-buttons [1]-[16] with and

without holding down the [Shift]-button. All patterns must be placed into these

songfolders. If you want to use a pattern from another song, just copy this

pattern from the other song to the computers harddisk, rename the file in order

to specify the memory-location for this pattern and copy it to the desired song-

folder. If you want to backup the songs to your computer, simply copy the

folders to the harddisk.

3.10.1 Playing a song

The Spectralis 2 comes with preprogrammed songs. Just select one of these

songs with the num-buttons and press start. If you don't interrupt the songchain

by the commands below, the selected song will be played back from the

beginning until the end of the song.

[Page-Up] and [Page-Down]

The [Page]-buttons will jump to the next or the former songstep. The

pattern change will be done after the current bar is completed. If you

push the [Page-Up]-button multiple times before the bar end is reached,

the Spectralis will jump multiple songsteps. The next songstep can also

be checked at the upper right corner of the display message:

S03:EMbient PA08:Speckie Pa:15 S 10

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The first line of the display shows the following informations. S03 is the selected

songnumber followed by the songname. PA08:Speckie is the current pattern

that plays at the selected songstep followed by the pattern name. Pa:15 is the

currently selected partnumber assigned to the knobs and the masterkeyboard

and S 10 is the current songstep-number.

The song-chain mode