User Guide
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Pattern direction
The default Pattern direction is “forwards”, indicated by Pad 13 being brightly illuminated. The
selected Pattern will always start at Step 1, proceed to the last Step dened in Pattern Length
(the default being Step 16) and then repeat.
Three other options are available:
• Backwards (Pad 14) – the Pattern will start at the last dened Step, and play backwards
to Step 1 before repeating.
• Ping-Pong (Pad 15) – the Pattern will rst play forwards to the last dened Step and then
backwards to Step 1. This means that the Pattern length is doubled, and also that the last
and rst Steps in the Pattern are played twice as the play direction reverses.
• Random (Pad 16) – all Steps in the Pattern (within its dened Length) are played in
random order. Note that this includes Steps with no notes.
Pattern length
The default length for a Pattern is 16 Steps: the last Step is indicated in Pattern Settings View
by one of the sequencer pads being illuminated in a “sand” colour, either dimly if no note is
assigned to it, or brightly if one is. In the example View above, Step 16 is the last Step in the
Pattern and has no note assigned.
Press a different pad in the two lower rows of Pattern Settings View (17-32) to shift the end point
to an earlier Step, which will dene a shorter Pattern length. For example, pressing Pad 28
will set the Pattern length to 12 steps, removing the last four steps from the Pattern as played.
As noted above, the last Step to be played is indicated by a different colour of illumination: the
pads “after” this Step will be unlit, unless any of them have a note assigned, in which case
they will glow dim red. The remaining pads in the Pattern grid will either be dim blue (no notes
assigned) or bright blue (notes assigned).
In the example below, the Pattern length is 12 Steps. Notes are assigned to Steps 1, 4, 5, 9 and
11 and also 16, which is now beyond the Pattern length and thus will not be heard. However,
notes assigned to Steps now outside the Pattern length are stored and will be reinstated if the
Pattern length is increased to include their Steps.
This pad indicates the last step
of the Pattern - Step 12
A note is assigned to
Step 16 but it will not be
played as it is “beyond”
the Pattern length
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32