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The name of the instrument may be different from "BD 1", but
don't worry. Press any of the instrument keys and see how the
name changes. If you press an instrument key more than once,
you will see a dot appear on the display, and the cursor will move
forward one space:
So, when you have selected
an instrument
by pressing the
instrument key once, you may enter a note at the step where the
cursor is flashing and move forward to the next step. To enter a
space (or rest), use the > key. To add other instruments, select the
instrument with the appropriate instrument key, and then start
entering the notes. Notice that although you can input more than
^
voice per beat, the display only shows those notes which
have been set for the current instrument. You can move back-
wards inside the bar by using the 4 key, or jump to the start of the
bar by pressing START. If you try to move to a position before
the beginning, the display will briefly show "> Тор <", and if you
try to move past the end, it will show *» End «". To correct a
mistake (and we all make them!), press the BEAT CLEAR key
along with the appropriate instrument key. The dot will change
back to a line.
Notice that as you scroll backwards and forwards through the bar
using the 4 and > keys, every time you pass a beat, all instruments
which have had notes set for that beat will sound. This gives you
ап idea of how the final pattern will sound.
To listen to your Step-written pattern properly. press STOP/
CONTINUE to exit to the main pattern menu. You can then press
START to hear the pattern. To re-edit your pattern, press STOP/
CONTINUE, then PATTERN
and re-enter Step write (JOB+3
and +1/YES followed by START).
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other useful features
You're not limited to twelve instruments in Step write. Use the
VOICE ASSIGN
and VOICE
EDIT functions to add further
voices.
The ACCENT, PITCH, REVERSE, EFFECT and MULTI keys
work in exactly the same way as in Realtime writing.
If a voice has been set to POLY in the VOICE EDIT mode, two
sounds of the same instrument can be entered at the same beat.
Instead of a dot, the display will show a "1".
You can change quantization rates at any time in the Step write
procedure by pressing JOB+2, changing the rate, and then re-
pressing START.
If an instrument note has been entered at one quantization rate
which cannot be displayed exactly on another (for instance, a
note entered at the sixth note of 1/12 cannot be displayed on a
quantization rate of 1/16), a "*" will be displayed at the nearest
point. The above example would be shown as
in 1/16 quantization.
Clever tricks you can play in Step write
In Step write, it is easy to alter any or all of the following on notes
that have already been entered (in Realtime or Step):
ACCENT
PITCH
PAN
EFFECT
REVERSE
аа
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Now move the сигзог ( 4 and № keys) so that И covers the first
beat of the bar, where we want to insert a heavy accent and then
press the ACCENT key:
.
:
.
e--ie
3e--4ie
e|
BD 1
ACC= 00
|
BD I
ACC-
12!
|
|
|
а
BD
1
ACC=-08
Again, if the total of the VOICE LEVEL set up in the VOICE
EDIT, and the accent value added in this Step write procedure
fall below the minimum (00), an exclamation mark will be added
after the accent level, showing that no further reductions can be
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