Alesis K2661 specifications 12-9, Record the Remaining Instruments in Your Song

Song Mode

Getting Started with the Sequencer

Remember that by default there is a four-beat count off, during which time the Locat value is preceded by a minus sign (-). No material is recorded during the count off, though anything you play during the countoff gets quantized to the first Beat of the song. As you are recording the bass track, your drum loop will keep playing. Play for as long as you want; the sequencer will lengthen the song as needed.

7.Press the Stop soft button when you are done recording the bass.

You will be given the usual save options. To keep what you’ve just recorded, press the Yes soft button followed by the Replace soft button.

Since you unlooped the drum track when you recorded the bass, you’ve changed the endpoint of the song to be wherever you stopped the bass track. You can check the endpoint (and change it, too, if you want) using the Event Editor, as described earlier.

Record the Remaining Instruments in Your Song

Now that you’ve defined your song with the bass and drum tracks, you can put the organ and lead (or whatever instruments you’ve chosen) into your song.

1.Set the recording track (RecTrk) on the MAIN page to Track 3.

Notice the small squares above the track status indicators for Tracks 1 and 2, reminding you that you’ve now got material on two tracks.

SongMode:MAINEvents:186KSTOPPED

CurSong:200*NewSongTempo:120 RecTrk:3Vol:127Pan:64Mode:Merge Program:22GospelOrganLocat:1:1

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Track:PPR------------- Channel:12345678910111213141516 RecordPlayStopEraseMISCMIXER

2.Press the MISC soft button to bring up the MISC page.

3.Set RecMode to FixLen.

Since you’ve defined the length of your song with the bass track, setting RecMode to FixLen means that the song will play through only once each time you record a new part.

4.Record the organ in the same way that you recorded the bass track in the previous section. Notice that you can do this from the MISC page, without returning to the MAIN page.

5.Continue recording instruments until you have played all the parts of your song.

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