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Chapter 14 Pattern Recording
15 Set the knobs as shown.
Set knobs [1] and [5] to around 2:00. (The display value should be around 90 - 100.)
Set knobs [2], [3], [4], [6], [7], and [8] to around 11:00. (The display value should be around 40 - 50.)
Or, make your own settings. After all, you’ve mastered the process now. Plus, since you can hear what
you’re doing — AS you’re doing it — you can come up with some amazing ideas of your own.
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We’ve covered this function before (in Tip 29), but let’s check it out again. It’s a handy editing tool that helps
you create great sounding tracks.
16 Is the Pattern still going? If not press the Start/Stop button again.17 Press some of the Step buttons to mute cer tain Steps. Try out the exam-ples below, then experiment with your own settings.
Press buttons [5], [7], [11], and [13]. Listen to the sound of the Pattern as these Steps drop out.
Now, turn them all back on and mute these: [6], [7], [12], [14], and [16].
You’ve got your basic Synth track — now, continue crafting and adding to the Pattern by working on the
Rhythm tracks below.
• Fine tuning
Here’s a smart and easy way to work! Use the “Step” knobs (above
each Step button) to select the Step and make a rough, ‘round about’
setting, then use the DATA knob to tweak and fine-tune the setting.
• Swing
Don’t forget to use Swing. It might not be right for all of your Patterns,
but it doesn’t hurt to try it out. A little Swing may be just what the doc-
tor ordered... Remember, the Swing setting affects all tracks equally.
(See page 37.)
• Other tools
Feel like hearing a different Voice? Call up the Copy Voice function
(page 65), and dial in a new Voice for your Pattern. Pattern Move (page
65) and Pattern Pitch (page 66) are also useful tools you can apply to
your tracks.
• Copy Pattern
If you’ve crafted a really hip Pattern, and you’d like to make a few more
variations — use the Copy Sequence operation (page 67). Once you
have some copies of the Pattern, you can tweak them and change them
around, until you’ve got a whole palette of similar beats and riffs to
work with — for live performance (page 95), or for Song recording
(page 82).
• Mix your methods
Real-time and Step recording are two separate methods — but they can
also be used together. Not at the same time, of course, but in tandem.
For example, you could record a basic beat to Rhythm Track 1 with
Step, then use Real-time to improvise a bass line on the Synth Track.
Or you could combine both methods on a single track — recording a
basic part with Real-time, then using Step to edit it. Which method you
use and how you use it depends partly on the type of music you wish to
create and partly on your own personal preference.