Bucket Pops
Manual
Page 11
The Sequence Page
On the
Sequence Page
you can edit the 20 individual rhythm patterns. This is pretty
straight forward – however, there are some peculiarities due to the nature of the
original machine.
Editing Rhythm Patterns
The button on the top left denotes the rhythm pattern to edit. By left-clicking this
button you can select a different rhythm to edit. Right-clicking opens another context
menu where you can copy the pattern from another rhythm or restore the original
pattern.
Note that the rhythm pattern you see on the
Sequence Page
is not necessarily the
rhythm that
Bucket Pops
is playing – the rhythms to play are selected on the
Main
Page
! If the current rhythm is selected for playing and
Bucket Pops
is actually playing,
you will see a green dot at the top row with the step numbers.
Left-clicking inside the
event matrix
activates or deactivates an
event
(“beat”) for the
current instrument and the respective step. Right-clicking opens a context menu
where you can clear all events of the pattern, just the events of the selected row
(instrument), or just the events of the selected column (step). You can also use the
context menu to automatically fill or clear instrument events for various steps (each
quarter or eighth note etc.). A similar context menu opens when you click on the label
of an instrument.
Editing Steps The Mini Pops Way
The original
Mini Pops-7
had 32 steps (16 steps, 2 bars) while
Bucket Pops
doubles
the total number of steps to 64. Each step can be activated or deactivated by clicking
on the top row of the event matrix showing the step numbers – a deactivated step is
denoted by a red column.
