User`s manual

THE PATTERN SEQUENCER
Monomachine SFX-6/60 USER’S MANUAL 51
SUMMARY
All the features and methods in this section can be summed up in the con-
clusions that any pitch programming, Amplitude, Filter and LFO trigging and
parameter locks can be performed free at will at any step of the pattern.
Please refer to the third illustration of figure ”Trig Track illustrations” for an
example of a Monomachine pattern using all the features mentioned in this
section. Only the trig on the first step is equivalent to a normal NOTE_ON.
THE LINK BETWEEN KITS AND PATTERNS
Each pattern with data is associated with a certain kit, which will be recalled
when the pattern is played. This way, you know playing a certain pattern
always gives the same result, and that the parameter locks make sense.
• Be careful to save any changes you have made to your kit that you
want to keep. Changing pattern might change kit and then you will
lose the old kit settings.
• If two patterns use the same kit, the kit will not be reloaded when
changing pattern.
SCALE, PAGES AND TIME SIGNATURES
By default the length of a pattern is 4/4 bars, built from 16 steps. 16 steps
can be reached from the [TRIG] keys at once. We refer to these 16 steps as
one Page. A pattern can be extended to up to 64 steps, which forms a max-
imum of four pages. All tracks share the same scale length, and are always
played in sync.
The default scale length is 16 which gives a time signature is 4/4. Setting the
scale length to 32 gives the double length of the pattern with 4/4 signature. If
you want to use a time signature of 3/4 you need to set the scale length to a
division of 12.
In grid composing The [TRIG SELECT] key is used to cycle between the
active pages, and the <TRIG PAGE> LED’s indicate which one is currently
being edited. When not in grid composing mode the LED’s for the available
pages for the track is lit with a steady light. The LED for the page currently
played is flashing.
SCALE SETUP
Press the [SCALE SETUP] key while holding [FUNCTION] to open the
SCALE SETUP window. From here you can set the scale length and play-
back speed of the pattern currently selected.