User Guide

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as you have seen. Try setting this to different values and listen to the end results.
Complete descriptions of all these values are found in the manual on pages 5-23 & 5-24.
These three parameters allow you to do some pretty wild things with the arpeggiator.
The best thing to do is just experiment with different settings. When you find something
you like, you can save it as a Setup.
14. Press the >> button. If you turn the last parameter, Glissando, to On, then the
arpeggiator will not only play the notes you strike, it will also play all the notes in
between the notes you strike.
In addition to making regular arpeggios with pitched instruments, you can get interesting
effects with by using the arpeggiator with drum and percussion programs. The PC2 itself
has somewhat limited abilities in this area since you canÕt edit the placement of the
drum sounds in the drum programs, but if you use the PC2 to control an external sound
module in which you can edit the sounds, you can create many interesting patterns.
The key to this is to create programs that have no sample assigned to specific notes.
That way, by including those notes in your arpeggiated pattern, you can get the
equivalent of rests, to create more varied rhythmic patterns.
You may want to go through the various parameters we have described to create an
arpeggiator setting you want to work with. Then Name and Save this Setup - we will be
using it as a starting point for the next few tutorials.