User Manual

Hold the SAVE RST button on boot up to toggle between RUN and RESET modes (the setting
is saved across boots). On the SELECT page, you'll see the SAVE RST button light yellow if
RUN mode is enabled.
Controls
[1] MULTIFUNCTION Buttons - These backlit buttons perform different functions depending on
Steppy’s current mode.
Play Mode : In Play Mode, the buttons set and display gate patterns.
Play Mode is indicated when neither the yellow Select Mode nor the red Edit Mode LEDs are
lit. You can also tell you’re in Play Mode because (in general) the majority of lit
MULTIFUNCTION buttons are GREEN . See Play Mode for detailed information.
16 steps are displayed at one time, with steps 1-8 on the top row, and steps 9-16 on the
bottom row. Patterns can be up to 64 steps long (spread across 4 pages); and four entirely
different patterns can exist simultaneously (in Tracks A-D).
A GREEN button indicates that a step is ‘on’ (meaning it will send a gate to the
corresponding output). A flashing GREEN button indicates the last step in a sequence
(sequences can be any length from 1 to 64 steps). A button turns RED when it’s the active
step in a sequence.
Select Mode : In Select mode, the buttons perform the functions indicated by the labels with
the black backgrounds.
Enter Select Mode by pressing the black SELECT button. In Select mode, the top row of
buttons select the current track and page, and the bottom row turns mute on/off for each
track, as well as enabling the Page Follow ( ) function, the performance looping feature (
), pattern clearing and reset.
YELLOW buttons indicate the selected Track and Page (top row), as well as the state of the
Page Follow ( ) and Loopy ( ) features in the bottom row. Buttons in the bottom row
(immediately beneath the four Track buttons) light YELLOW when the corresponding track
is Muted.
Select Mode is indicated when the yellow Select Mode LED is lit. You can also tell you’re in
Select Mode because (in general) most buttons are YELLOW . See Select Mode for detailed
information.
Edit Mode : In Edit Mode, the buttons select and modify various parameters, as indicated by
the labels beneath the bottom row of buttons.
Enter Edit Mode by pressing the red EDIT button. In Edit mode, the bottom row of buttons
select which parameter you wish to edit (GATE, CLK ÷, etc), and the top row of buttons sets
its value. In general, the leftmost button in the top row sets the minimum value for a
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