User Guide

English

Starting from Scratch

Once you’ve experimented with the factory demos for a while, you will probably want to create a

Pattern from scratch.

Select Sessions and select an empty memory slot. Now select Note View and Osc 1. When

you press Play you’ll see the white pad (the play cursor) progressing across the 16 steps of

the Pattern display. Now you can add synth notes. The upper two rows of the grid represent a

music keyboard, the lower two show you where you are in the sequence. When Play is pressed,

you can see the white pad progressing through the steps.

With all scales except Chromatic (see “Scales” on page 30), the grid display looks like this:

PLAY

Synth keyboard

Pattern display

The “keyboard” is two octaves, with the purple pads representing the lowest and highest notes

in each. You can add synth notes in real time by just playing them, or you can add them to

the pattern by pressing Record

. While the Record button is lit, anything you play will

become part of the pattern.The synth sound you’ll hear when you’ve selected an empty Session

will always be Patch 1.

The Oct K and Oct J buttons alter the pitch range of the currently selected synth keyboard, by

one octave each time they are pressed, up to a maximum of ve octaves above or six octaves

below the default octave. The lowest note in the default octave corresponds to ‘middle C’ on a

standard piano keyboard (providing that different root note for the scale has not been dened –

see “Root note” on page 32).