Roland Musical Instrument manual == == == var var var var ==, 5-4-3-2-7

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To give an example, the second menu choice --><--means that when bars 3 and 4 of the four-bar Block repeat the seed Phrase, a contrasting pitch order direction is imposed and layered over any pre-existing edits. This function is notably different from the "reversing" direction option found in Basic Loops, in which the original step sequence is simply read backwards. Here, the pitch order reverses but the original pattern of note durations and rests is preserved for a melodically more useful result.

The menu for chordal tone variation offers these choices:

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When you choose the second menu item, for example, which reads

==var, the symbol == tells you that the Phrase's chordal tones remain as originally entered in the first half of the Block, bars 1 and 2. In Block View you will see that bars 3 and 4 have changed, and now Scale note positions…

1-2-3-4-5-6-7…are inverted to

1-6-5-4-3-2-7

…in the second expression of the Phrase This creates a pleasing and harmonically compatible alternate figure as thirds and fifths swap along with their passing tones, while the root, fourths and any seventh steps remain the same. Another notable difference here is that this type of tonal inversion around a mid-point does not result in any chordal alteration, as does the function invert on alt. Loops

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