User's Manual

Getting Started

Thanks again for purchasing a 12 Step, let’s get started. Now that you’ve got your 12

Step connected properly you can start sending MIDI Notes and investigating the factory

installed presets. (If you haven’t connected your 12 Step and need guidance read the

above chapter called Connecting 12 Step).

Your First Notes

When you first plug in the 12 Step it will open up on the first preset.

Preset 0: CHrO - “Chromatic Scale” - This is our simplest preset. The keys play a

chromatic scale starting with C2 (note number 48) and going up to C3 (note 60).

Stepping on a key sends a note on, releasing sends a note off. The velocity of the note is

dependent on how hard you step on the key.

Changing Presets - The Select Key

To navigate to other presets hold down the Select Key

until all of the red LEDs for each key pad begin to flash.

Now you are in Select Mode. Push any of the numbered

keys (0-9) to change presets. In Select Mode you can

also navigate through decades and select one of the

numbered key pads to go to a preset outside of the

original decade.

Pressing the Enter Key while in select

mode allows you to use the -10 or the

+10 key pads to increment or

decrement through preset decades.

The current decade is displayed on the

alphanumeric display.

Fill in the last digit by pressing one of the numbered key pads. After selecting the last

digit you will automatically be taken out of select mode and be sent to the preset in that

slot.

For Example: To move to preset 26. Press the Enter Key while in select mode and use

the -10 or the +10 key pads to increment or decrement through preset decades until you

see “02_” on the display. Then hit key 6 and you’ll be taken out of select mode and into

preset 26. The next time you go to change a preset you’ll already be in the 20s decade so

if you’re going to another preset in the 20s you can just step on the numbered key for the

last digit.

Changing Octaves

Select mode can also be used to shift octaves. After entering Select mode use the -Oct or

the +Oct keys (another name for the -10 and +10) to shift up or down an octave. After

shifting octaves you will be taken out of select mode automatically.