Creating Songs (Song Mode)

Creating Songs

(Song Mode)

This section describes how to line up user patterns in a desired order to create an entire song. This mode of operation is called the song mode.

What Is a Song?

A song is a programmed sequence of preset patterns or user patterns that are played automatically. A song consists of multiple slots (called "steps"), each of which contains one pattern. The maximum length of a song is 99 steps. The maximum number of songs that can be stored in the MRT-3 is 99. (The actual number of available steps and songs will depend on the number of distinct sounds in user patterns and the number of steps in other songs.)

U02

 

 

Pattern

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

U01

U02

U03

U01

 

 

 

Song

Note that the number of steps is not equal to the number of measures. The length of each step depends on the pattern that is contained in the step. For example, in the song in the above illustration, if the length of the pattern U01 is 2 measures and the length of patterns U02 and U03 1 measure, the song will look as follows.

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3 Step 4

 

Step 5

U01

U02

U03

 

U01

 

U02

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Besides the pattern number, each song step can contain the following information.

Settings for entire song

Song kit: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Number of kit to be used for entire song

Master tempo:• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Tempo information for entire song

Settings for individual patterns

Tempo change: • • • • • • • • • • • • • Information for changing the tempo within the song

Volume change: • • • • • • • • • • • • Information for changing the volume within the song

NOTE

It is also possible to not specify a song kit and memorize individual kits for each pattern. In this case, the kit will be switched together with the pattern.

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