21—Using the Phrase Pads

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Understanding the Phrase Pads

What a Phrase Pad Plays

Each phrase pad plays the first phrase that’s on its
corresponding hard disk recorder track. If you want a
phrase pad to play a phrase from somewhere in the
middle of a track, you can:
• Copy the desired phrase to one of the track’s unused
V-Tracks, and then select that V-Track (Page 151) when
you’re using the phrase pads.
• Copy the phrase to its own track.
Each phrase pad has a single voice of polyphony. Every time you press a pad, it restarts
playback of its phrase from the beginning. This allows you to play the pad so that its
phrase stutters as it starts.

Phrase Pad Setup

Each track channel has its own phrase pad parameters. Use the parameters to turn on
the channel’s phrase pad and to set the pad to play in any of three different ways.

Setting Up a Phrase Pad

1. Press the desired TR 1-16 or TR 17-24/FX RTN button.
2. Press the desired track channel’s CH EDIT button—its CH EDIT VIEW
screen appears. On the left side of the screen are its two phrase pad-
related parameters.
3. Turn the PhrPAD (“Phrase Pad”) parameter on—this activates the track
channel’s phrase pad.
4. The PlyMod (“Play Mode”) parameter sets the manner in which the
pad’s phrase plays when you strike the pad. You can select:
•

Gate

—so that the phrase plays for only as long as the PHRASE PAD button’s
held down.
•

Trg (“Trigger”)

—so that each press of the PHRASE PAD button toggles the
phrase’s playback on or off.
•

OneS (“One-Shot”)

—so that the phrase restarts and plays in its entirety each
time the PHRASE PAD button is struck.
5. To turn off the track channel’s phrase pad, set PhrPAD to Off.
When a track channel’s phrase pad is turned on, the corresponding hard disk recorder
track doesn’t play when the Phrase Pad feature is active, and the Home screen’s playlist
shows the corresponding phrase sequencer track in its place. (Once you exit Phrase Pad
or Phrase Sequence mode, the track returns to normal operation.) If you want a track to
play back during phrase sequencing—so that you can play other pads along with it—
make sure its phrase pad isn’t turned on.
When Phrase Pad or Phrase Sequence mode is active, you can return to a track
channel’s CH EDIT VIEW screen to turn off its pad—or make any other desired
change—by holding down SHIFT and pressing its CH EDIT button. Hold down SHIFT
and press CH EDIT again to return to the previous screen.
The pad plays this
phrase.
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