So gate the top left gate to a drum or something. Goto NOW to check and select channel 1 for editing. Button 1/1. Ok, now goto PAT to see the edit mode of the channel.
Place notes by pressing buttons. This get you a pattern of 16 in length. So you want a 64?
Go to SEQ and decide which of the 4 groups of 16 you want different (useually the last), and press button 2T/4 to select the last 16 pattern and a desire for it to play the second pattern.
Run the pattern until the last set of 3 light illuminate, as this places you in the last 16. Then select PAT mode and maybe RUN to stop at the right place. Now you can edit any channel of pattern 2 and use any mode (other than PAT) to select one of the three hot select patterns (patterns decided in SEQ mode) as the sequence progresses.
Use MUTE mode to mute channels, and these are global. That introduces you to the main features. You have 16 patterns of 16 channels with 12 of them which can be put on a hot select rythum of 64 in length.
You can select any of the 16 to be any of the stored 12, but SEQ mode will only place the changed one into the active quarter of the full 64.
Want to copy a sequence. Find it and RUN (stop) on it, then press CPY and a reference to it will be made note of. Even changing the pattern will change the copy as it is a reference to one of the 16. Then use SEQ mode and find the pattern of the 16 (by the hot selects or replacing a hot select by being on it and pressing the wanted pattern number). Button PST will paste a copy. There is one exception to this rule, and that is in PAT mode (so for whole patterns don't be in PAT mode on a PST), or only the channel last selected in NOW mode is overwritten by the channel selected when CPY was pressed. The indicators on CPY and PST indicate same pattern and same channel.
Notes: When not in PAT mode the triples are the hot selects (alter the quarter of 64 when they occur). Changing a hot select HAS to be when you are within the quarter of 64 and in SEQ mode, as you otherwise would be changing the pattern for the hot select that is currently in play.
The CPY buffer does NOT save your work as you edit the "copied" pattern. The edits WILL be pasted, as in actuality it is the pattern number that is copied, and used as the source for a paste PST. Right click Save Preset for more digital.
In SEQ mode the pattern will immediately change on pressing a quarter note (assuming different pattern content here), as that will become the new pattern for the hot swap indicated in the active quarter of the 64.
Yes, connect MIDI-CV gate and CV in (green for fill that socket no spark). Now the 4 octaves around C4 should activate all the buttons as the mouse is so slow. The pairs of black notes do the MAIN buttons and so change mode, start and stop etc., left to right. The black note groups of three do the triple buttons, and the white group of four around them do the quarters. The white group of three do the triples too, as that was just a logical convienience.
Look mum, no mouse! Try a channel 10 MIDI selection as that's conventional.
Try the W module and use a few channels for some chromatic CV addition or subtraction. This definately made the operation of Y simpler and more elegant in design.
Notes: The keyboard interface is monophonic so don't expect to hot swap and stutter RUN at the same time.
Sure does but just produces gate outputs on the top 2 rows of jacks. 16 channels of gate outputs. Now the buttons have multicolored lights, you can go into NOW mode and tap the gates manually. See the red light? That's your currently selected channel for edits in SEQ mode. Push the RUN button/light for some motion. TEMPO away.
Try a bit of MUTE mode where red is for muted and gating comes as green. The mutes are global though and are not saved with a pattern change, but remain in place.
No, but yes. Try SEQ mode and the red light on the quarter note buttons indicates the active pattern in each of the four groups of 16. Push the button to the left of the lit red button on the bottom row. Did quarter notes 32 to 47 disappear? Have you just accidentally just put pattern 2 somewhere in the 64 sequence?
Just press the button next to the left most red button in the second to last row (in the group of 3). Looks like you hot switched back to pattern 1. Can you guess how to hot switch back? Can you guess how to set any of the 16 patterns in any of the 12 hot swaps?
The module saves state and keep going. CPY and PST can copy and paste patterns (and just a channel to a channel in SEQ PST). Try the W (red) module. Add a few gates as musical intervals onto a CV?
Yes, and G.LEN sets the relative length of a gate in its time interval. The pico-drum module from the library is quite a nice drum sound set.