User Guide

Chase
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Automatic chase selection
You can tell the controller to automatically run through all the chases you have
programmed, either in sequence or selecting them at random. You might want to do
this if you don’t have anyone to operate the controller, and you don’t want it to sit
there running the same chase all night. See Chase Setup mode, option 4 (see next
section).
Manual chase mode
Using the Chase Setup option, you can select manual chase mode for chase A or B (or
both). This allows you to manually step through the chase by triggering the Control
input (such as by pressing a footswitch or other switch connected to this socket). The
crossfade speed will be set by the Value slider as usual.
Note: You need to have set up the Control input to trigger chase steps for this
to work. See System Setup option 2 (page 48).
If you select both Chase A and B to be manually triggered, they will both step
together, unless you are using the MIDI step command.
The MIDI chase step commands allow you to step each chase independently, and
work in both Manual and Automatic chase modes. The crossfade of the step is set by
the MIDI key velocity (if you have not disabled this feature). This means that you can
run a slow fading chase as a ‘background’, but still trigger fast steps when you want
them.