User Manual

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Creating an original pattern
Pattern mode
This method lets you use the MC-808’s keyboard pads to enter notes
in a way similar to programming a rhythm machine.
To enter or remove notes, press the relevant keyboard pads so they
are lighted or extinguished. This provides visual and audible
confirmation of the location of each note, letting you assemble a
pattern easily.
* This method cannot record data other than note messages. In other
words, you can’t use the motorized faders to record control change
messages, etc.
1. As described in “Selecting a recording method” (p. 65),
select TR-Rec.
fig.03-082
2. Press [ENTER].
Enter TR-REC standby mode.
3. Set the recording parameters before you begin recording.
Use [CURSOR ] to select a parameter, and turn the
VALUE dial or use [INC] [DEC] to set the value.
4. Select the part that you want to record (p. 65).
5. Press [PLAY] to start recording.
Now you’ll be able to record.
At the same time, you’ll be able to hear a loop playback of the
data you’re entering.
6. Specify the note message you want to enter.
Use [CURSOR ] to move the cursor, and use the VALUE
dial or [INC] [DEC] to specify the value.
fig.03-083.e
You can also select the pitch of the input note by holding down
[SHIFT] and pressing a pad.
By holding down [SHIFT] and pressing [TOP] [BWD] or [FWD],
you can move the playback location within the pattern in the
same way as during playback.
7. Use [BWD] [FWD] to move the input location for the note
message.
The input location will follow the setting of the Timing Scale (p.
68).
If you press [TOP], the pattern playback location will return to
the beginning of the input region shown in the screen.
8. To enter data, press the pad that corresponds to the timing
at which you want to enter a note message, making the pad
light.
To remove a note you entered, press a lit pad and turn off its
illumination.
If you want to change the note type, gate time, or velocity of a
note message you’ve already entered, you’ll have to delete that
note and re-enter it with the desired settings.
9. Press [STOP] to stop recording.
Using the keyboard pads to
record (TR-REC)
Recording procedure
Parameter
Range Description
Rec Beat
2/4–7/4,
5/8–7/8,
9/8, 12/8,
9/16, 11/16,
13/16,
15/16,
17/16,
19/16
Pattern time signature
* Can be specified only for an
empty pattern.
Rec Measure
Length
1–998
Pattern length
* An already-recorded pat-
tern can be made longer, but
not shorter. To shorten it,
use the pattern edit Delete
Measure (p. 72) to delete
one or more measures.
Rec Velocity
1–127
Volume (velocity) of the
notes that you input from
the keyboard pads.
Parameter
Range Description
Note Number
C- –G9 Choose the pitch of the note
to be input.
Note Type 1/32–1/1 Choose the note value to be
input.
Gate Time 5–200 % Specify the gate time (the du-
ration that the note will be
held) for the note data to be
input, as a proportion of the
value you chose for Note
Type.
Velocity 1–127 Specify the velocity (volume)
of the note data to be input.
Location of the note you
will enter using pad 1
Note Type
Note Number Velocity
Gate Time
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