User Guide

CHAPTER 7
Performance
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... and afterwards click on the „Basic Steps“ pull-down „2“ and select the Section „Conga2“.
If you now play C#3 on your keyboard/MIDI controller multiple times successively you will see and
hear that each time you play C#3, the Sections get played back alternatively.
That‘s it - you now have the basic knowledge about the functionality of Alternates.
NOTE: This is a very simple example for the Alternate Mode that explains just the basics for a
better understanding of the following details.
If you perform instruments of the Independence Core Library you will see that this
feature is used very often and also very extensively.
If you load the Layer patch „Alto Sax Jazz Vibrato mf“ from the Independence Core
Library, switch to the Performance Page and play the saxophone on your keyboard, you
will see that the numbers of the „Basic Steps“ are changing their color and position
permanently and at random. This shows that an Alternate is currently in use.