User Guide
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Grid controls:
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32-pad playing grid – a 4 x 8 matrix of rubber pads; internally illuminated with RGB LEDs.
Many Views ‘split’ the grid horizontally into two 2 x 8 matrixes, but some divide it into logical
areas with different functions.
Most of the remaining buttons switch the 32-pad grid into a specic View. Each View provides
information about and control of a particular aspect of the Track, Pattern, timing, etc.
Most buttons have both a momentary (long press) and a latching (short press) mode. A long
press will temporarily display that button’s View, but only while the button is held down. When
released the View will revert to whatever it was before the button was pressed. A short press on
a button will switch the View to that programmed into the button.
Additionally, many of the buttons have a second “Shift” function: in all cases, the name of the
shifted function is silkscreened on the top panel immediately above the button.
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Track buttons: Osc 1/Osc 2/Mod Seq – three buttons selecting which of the three Tracks
will have their attributes displayed. Osc 1 and Osc 2 may be pressed simultaneously to enter
Dual View, which allows the notes for both oscillators to be played from the same View.
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STEP buttons: Note, Velocity & Gate – these switch the grid to Note, Velocity and Gate
View respectively, and allow the parameters of each step of the pattern to be individually
entered, deleted or modied.
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Pattern Settings
: selects a View that allows adjustment of pattern length and sync rate,
play direction and start and end points.
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Scales – this button allows the selection of one of sixteen different music scales for the
synth keyboard, and also lets you transpose the synth keyboard to a higher or lower key.
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Patterns – opens a View where you can store multiple Patterns for each Track: sixteen for
Oscillator 1 and eight each for Oscillator 2 and the Modulation Sequence. You can then join
them together to make a Pattern Chain.
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Patches – this View is where you store your Synth Patches. There are 64 Patch memories,
all of which come pre-loaded with factory sounds. Use the Oct J and Oct K buttons to select
two pages (each of 32 Patches).
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Play and Record– these two buttons start and stop the sequence (Play) and enter
Record mode (Record). In Play mode anything you play on the grid will be heard; in Record
mode, anything you play will be heard and also added to the sequence.
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Oct J and Oct K – these let you shift the playing pads’ pitch up by one to ve octaves
or down by one to six octaves. The pitch range of each of the two oscillators is adjustable
independently. Press both buttons together to restore the pads’ pitch to normal (i.e., based on
middle C).