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Mutate
Mutate is an interesting feature that shufes the notes making up a Pattern or a Pattern Chain
(if one is currently dened). The effect of Mutate is to reassign the notes in a Pattern to different
Steps, while retaining the Pattern Length, Sync Rate and other Pattern parameters. The same
notes are played, but because the reassignment is a shufe action, they will be in a different
order and with different timing, though the overall Pattern tempo is maintained.
Mutate causes a one-off rearrangement, and is actioned by pressing the Shift and Pattern
Settings buttons together. The notes are assigned to different Steps and the Pattern will
continue to loop around the dened Pattern Length using the new assignment. If a Pattern
Chain is in use, each Pattern making up the chain will be individually mutated, but the Patterns
will continue to be played in the normal sequence.
Pressing Shift + Pattern Settings again performs another Mutate action: you can do this as
many times as you wish.
Mutate is a destructive function – you can’t cancel it to get back to your
original Pattern or Pattern Chain. Therefore it’s a good idea to make a copy of
the Pattern(s) rst using the Duplicate function before using Mutate.