Elektrom digitakt, Quick Manual

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5. EXPERIMENTING WITH PATTERNS
5.1 PLAYING THE FACTORY PRESETS
You can find a number of preset patterns, Sounds, and samples in the Digitakt. Follow the
instructions below to get started exploring your new instrument.
1. Press [BANK] + [TRIG 9] key to select bank A.
2. Press [PTN] + [TRIG 1] key to select the first pattern of bank A.
3. Press
[PLAY]
to listen to pattern A01.
4. Press
[PTN]
+
[TRIG 2]
key to select pattern A02. It will start once pattern A01 has
reached its end. Select pattern A03 by pressing
[PTN]
+
[TRIG 3]
key, and so on.
5. Press
[STOP]
to stop playback.
5.2 USING CHROMATIC MODE
You can use the [TRIG] keys to play any audio track sample chromatically.
1. Select the audio track to play chromatically by pressing [TRK] + one of the [TRIG
1–8] keys.
2. Press [FUNC] + [TRK] to enter CHROMATIC mode. The [TRIG] keys will light up
in a pattern that resembles an octave of a piano keyboard layout. Only lit keys are
playable.
3. Play the [TRIG] keys. The active track Sound will be pitched differently for each
of the playable keys. Press the [ARROW] keys [UP] or [DOWN] , to transpose the
virtual keyboard up or down one octave.
5.3 USING MUTE MODE
You can mute any of the sequencer tracks in this mode. Unlike CHROMATIC mode, it
makes no difference which track is active when this mode is activated. You can access all
tracks simultaneously.
1. Make sure a pattern is playing.