User Guide

English

To reduce the synth pattern length to, say, 12 steps, press pad 12; the LEDs in pads 13 to 16

will go out. In the lower two rows, the last four pads will also change their indication: if any of

Steps 13 to 16 have notes assigned to them, the relevant pads will glow dim red. If there are no

notes assigned to them, the pads will go dark.

Pattern step display

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The five darker pads

have notes

associated with them

The white pads

indicates a synth

pattern of 12 steps

This red step had a note associated

with it before the pattern was

shortened to 12 steps

Steps 13 to 16 are

now disabled

Pattern length display

One step pad blinks

blue/white; this is the

step whose Gate value

is displayed

When this pattern plays it will now only be 12 steps long; any notes that were associated with

Steps 13 to 16 will not be played, and the pattern will restart at Step 1 after Step 12. The drum

tracks will continue to play the 16-step pattern that has been assigned to them, so the effect

will be that step 1 of the synth pattern will occur at a different point relative to the drum track on

three successive drum patterns, as illustrated below:

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128

Drums

Synth

Synth pattern (12 steps) Synth pattern (12 steps)

Drum pattern (16 steps)Drum pattern (16 steps)

Synth pattern (12 steps)

Drum pattern (16 steps)

Synth pattern (12 steps)

Pattern repeats after 48 steps

Thus the pattern will repeat in full every 48 steps, because 3 x 16 = 48 and 4 x 12 = 48; you’ll

hear four repetitions of the 12-step synth pattern for every three repetitions of the 16-step

drum pattern. This is a simple example, and obviously if you enter other lengths – particularly

odd numbers! – you’ll nd patterns that take a long time before they repeat. And it gets more

interesting still when your patterns are part of a chained sequence.