User Guide

English

If you want to delete a drum hit, just press its pad again: you can do this while the sequence is

playing or stopped. The brightly lit pads tell you where the hits are.

Now you can add synth notes. Press Synth 1 to open Synth 1 View. The top two rows 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 24), the grid display looks like this:

PLAY

Synth keyboard

Pattern display

The “keyboard” is two octaves, with the mauve 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 in either of

the Synth Views (Synth 1 or Synth 2) will become part of the pattern.

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 is ‘middle C’ on a standard piano

keyboard.

For a conventional piano keyboard, press and hold Scales

and then press

Pad 32 (the bottom right one), which will turn bright pink. This gives the

keyboard Chromatic scaling, and the layout differs from that in the other

scales:

C# D# F# G# A#

EFGA

PLAY

Synth keyboard

Pattern display

Chromatic scaling offers all twelve notes in the octave; to accommodate

them, the keyboard “size” is reduced to one octave.