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Song Mode

Getting Started with the Sequencer

You can change the length of the countoff by changing the value of the Countoff parameter on the MISC page.

Since we are recording four measures of silence, press the Stop soft button as soon as Locat reads 5:1.

NOTE: The sequencer will truncate to the nearest downbeat, so as long as you press Stop before Locat reads 5:2 (but after it reads 4:4) you’ll be OK. Don’t worry about this too much, though, since in the next step we’ll show you how to check (and change, if necessary) the endpoint.

When you press Stop, you’ll be asked to if you want to save this song. Even though you’ve just recorded four measures of silence, go ahead and save it; this makes it an official song object. By the way, it’s pretty easy to rename the song at this stage. Just press the Rename soft button during the Save Song dialog

For the purposes of this example, we’ll assume that you pressed Stop a few beats too late. You’ll see how easy it is to correct this sort of thing in the Event Editor.

3.On the Song-mode MAIN page, make sure that the cursor is highlighting any parameter other than the Program parameter, then press the Edit button. The COMMON page appears. (If the Program parameter had been highlighted when you pressed Edit, you would have entered the Program Editor, which is not what you want to do right now.)

EditSong:COMMON<>Track:1

Tempo:120StartStep:1

TimeSig:4/4TempoControl:Song

EffectChan:1TriggerChan:1

ChainTo:0NoneTriggerCtl:ON

TrackDest:----------------GM:Off

DrumTrack:----------------

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4.Now press the EVENT soft button to bring up the Event Editor, which looks something like this:

EditSong:EVENT(Ch1)<>Track:1

1:11:1.000CTRLBANK0

1:11:1.000PCHG54

1:11:1.000CTRLVOL127

1:11:1.000CTRLPAN64

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The Event Editor gives you access to an editable list of all note events, controller events, and other MIDI events that Song mode uses to describe your sequence. While you’re looking at the Event Editor, notice the data that the sequencer records, even when no notes are played.

5. Use the Alpha Wheel to scroll to the bottom of the event display.

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