Alesis MMT-8 manual Page

Pressing STOP/CONTINUE will stop playing the song, and the display will return to the select song display. Pressing STOP/CONTINUE again will begin playing the song from the beat at which it was stopped. Pressing PLAY will always start the song from the beginning of the first step. When a song reaches its end, it will stop and the PLAY LED will turn off, unless LOOP is on, which will cause the song to loop back to step one and continue playing.

The << and >> buttons (rewind and fast-forward) can be used to advance or retreat through the beats and steps of a song. If the song is playing, pressing the fast forward button will cause sustaining notes to stop, and the beat display to advance at a gradually increasing rate (up to the maximum possible tempo) until the fast forward button is released, after which the song continues playing from the beginning of the displayed beat. If the end of the current step is reached, the next step is started.

The rewind button works similarly, but in reverse. In either direction, if the end or beginning of a song is reached, the display remains on that step, unless loop is on, which results in the step "wrapping around". When a song is not playing, these buttons can be used for the same function, and by pressing STOP/CONTINUE the song will continue from the last displayed beat. The fast forward and rewind button can be held down simultaneously to "freeze" the display on the current beat.

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