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EXPERIMENTING WITH PATTERNS
The Analog Keys is shipped with several preset patterns, kits and Sounds. To immediately start experimenting, just
follow the instructions below.
1
Switch on the Analog Keys.
2
Press
[PLAY]
to listen to pattern A01.
3
Select pattern A02, which is the second demo pattern, by first making sure bank group A-D is selected. The
<BANK
GROUP>
indicates the selected bank group. If A-D is not selected, press the
[BANK GROUP]
key.
4
Pressing
[BANK A/E]
+
[TRIG]
key 2 will make pattern A02 play once the currently playing pattern finishes. Pattern
A03 is selected by pressing
[BANK A/E]
+
[TRIG]
key 3 and so on.
5
Mute tracks by pressing
[FUNCTION]
+ the
[TRACK]
key of the track you want to mute. Unmute by repeating the procedure.
6
Press
[STOP]
to stop playback.
PERFORMANCE MODE
The
PERFORMANCE
mode makes it possible for the
DATA ENTRY
knobs to control several
PARAMETER
page parameters
at once. These parameter mappings are called a parameter macro.
1
Make sure a pattern is playing.
2
Press the
[PERFORMANCE]
key to access
PERFORMANCE
mode.
3
Turn the
DATA ENTRY
knobs and listen how the sound of pattern changes.
ADJUSTING PARAMETERS
Each track contains six
PARAMETER
pages. Parameters affecting the sound of the track are found here.
1
Make sure a pattern is playing.
2
Press the
[TRACK]
key of one of the four synth tracks..
3
To change the cutoff of the ladder filter, press the
[FILTERS]
key. The
FILTERS
page will open. The parameter labelled
FRQ changes the cutoff of the ladder filter. Turn
DATA ENTRY
knob A to change the parameter value.
4
Try out the rest of the
PARAMETER
page parameters to experiment with the sound shaping possibilities.
5
To reload the Sound to its original state, press
[NO/RELOAD]
+
[SOUND].
6
To reload the whole kit to its original state, press
[NO/RELOAD]
+
[KIT]
.
OVERVIEW OF THE ANALOG KEYS DATA STRUCTURE
+DRIVE
The +Drive is the non-volatile memory of the Analog Keys. It keeps up to 128 projects (thousands of patterns, kits and
songs) stored internally. The +Drive also gives access to the +Drive Sound library, capable of storing 4096 Sounds. Every
project has access to these Sounds.
128 PROJECTS
+DRIVE SOUND LIBRARY
4096 SOUNDS
4 GLOBALS
16 SONGS
128 PATTERNS
128 KITS
4 SOUNDS
FX
CV
SOUND POOL
128 SOUNDS
Summary of Contents for Analog Keys
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