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switch them in an automated way, and you have to determine when to switch to another pattern,
even if the tracks have different lengths and end at different times. Guide Track will allow you to
determine which track (G1T1–G4T4) triggers the change to the next song position (or to the next loop
within the same song position).
By default, Guide Track is on, and set to G1T1. If the Guide Track function is active (i.e. has some
other value than “- - -”), it will make pattern change dependent on the track set as the guide track.
The track selected as the guiding track will allow pattern change only when it reaches its end. Shorter
tracks will loop back to their beginning and keep playing over and over until the guiding track reaches
is end, and if that happens before the other tracks have finished, they will be terminated mid-way.
Tracks longer than the guide track will be terminated mid-way as well.
So, the selected guide track will run to its end, and when it reaches the end, the sequencer switches
to the next song position, regardless of where the other, non-guide tracks are at. All the tracks of the
next pattern to be played are started from the beginning.
The Guide Track function overrides any sync to measure settings (made on the DIVIDER page for each
track), and will also override the SONG page song position counter (right LCD, top row). Instead of
following Measure (UTILITY Opt., Option #1), the counter will follow the length of the track selected
as guide track.
For easily predictable results, the track set as Guide Track should have its divider value set to “16
(normal)” (the default setting) on the track's DIVIDER page. Smaller divider values (i.e. faster tracks)
will result in repeating the guiding track wholly or in part, and bigger divider values (i.e. slower tracks)
will result in a truncated guiding track.
If the Guide Track function is disabled (i.e. set to “—”), the sequencer will fall back to measure.
However, as no tracks are sync'd to measure by default, disabling Guide Track will result in behaviour
that is unlikely to be as useful as the more predictable ways that are available ('Guide Track' in song
mode, 'Sync to Measure' in phrase mode). Try at your own risk!
5.6. Track selection, Solo and Mute
Track selection is possible by two means. First, you can select several tracks within the same group
by pressing the track selection buttons (on the upper left of the frontpanel). If you press & hold one
track selection button, you can select and unselect other tracks within the selected group as long as
you keep pressing & holding one button (it doesn't have to be the first you pressed). It is not possible
to select tracks in several groups with the group and track selection buttons.
If you need to select tracks in several groups, you have to use the Track Selection page. The page is
available only as a customised F1–F4 button (see Appendix 1) or as a saved bookmark (see Appendix
2). On the track selection page you can press & hold a GP button, and while you keep pressing it, you
can select or unselect any combination of tracks. The selected tracks are indicated with > < angle
brackets.
The solo mode is activated by pressing the SOLO button. When solo mode is active, only the selected
track(s) will be played, and all the others muted. It is possible to select one or more tracks either with
