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1.2. Basic concepts
1.2.1. Groups, tracks, patterns and banks
MBSEQv4 is organised into groups, tracks and patterns. Patterns are stored into four banks.
There are four groups of tracks, and each group has four tracks, so all in all there are 16 tracks. Group
1 always holds the tracks 1–4, group 2 always holds the tracks 5–8 and, group 3 the tracks 9–12 and
group 4 the tracks 13–16. In MBSEQv4 shorthand language, groups and tracks are referred to with the
formula GxTx. For example, G1T3 means “Group 1, Track 3” (i.e., track 3 out of 16), and G3T4 means
“Group 3, track 4” (i.e., track 12 out of 16).
Tracks contain the data – gates, accents, notes, note velocities, CCs etc. – that you've programmed in
them and that is sent over to your MIDI equipment. This data is in trigger layers and parameter
layers. (For details, see section 3.)
In addition to the musical data, tracks also contain settings data. Defining the settings for each
individual track is one of the most complicated operations a new user has to face, because of all the
interconnections that are not immediately self-evident. The flipside is that track setup offers a lot of
possibilities. Some settings (like the MIDI Router settings, see Appendix 4) are independent of any
session.
Most of the time one track is selected and visible on the screen. This is the active track, the track
that's ready for editing. You can always tell which track is selected by looking at the group and track
selection LEDs (on the left of the frontpanel); most of the time the active track is also named on the
left edge of the left LCD (“G1T1”, “G2T4” etc.). By selecting several tracks simultaneously (with the
track selection buttons, or on the Track Selection page) you can also edit several tracks
simultaneously, e.g. to set their length. In this case the selected track on the left LCD will be of the
form GxTM, where 'M' stands for 'multiple'.
