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Sound slots 1 to 4 are selected. If they have different Key values, a MULTI label appears (left). When you drag it (middle), a
transpose value appears (right) that will be applied to all selected Sounds when you will release the mouse button.
This is also true when adjusting the parameter from your controller.
To change the base key of the selected pad(s) / Sound slot(s) on your controller:
1.
Hold the PAD MODE button to enter Pad Mode (or press PAD MODE + Button 1 to pin it).
On the right display, the key indicated for pad 1 (in the bottom left corner) is the current
base key.
2. Press Button 5 ( OCT- ) / 6 ( OCT+ ) to adjust the base key by octaves, or Button 7 ( SEMI- ) /
8 ( SEMI+ ) to adjust the base key by semitones.
The new values are indicated for all pads on the right display.
3. Release PAD MODE (or press it again if you pinned the mode).
5.1.4 Using Choke Groups
When your pads are in Group mode, Choke groups allow you to build sets of “mutually exclu-
sive” pads: A Choke group lets you force each newly triggered Sound to cancel out all other
Sounds still playing — in other terms, these Sounds would never play together, the newer
Sound automatically “killing” the audio of the older one. This is a behavior you can find in vin-
tage drum machines (typically used to “choke” the open hi-hat with the closed one), but also
in monophonic synthesizers that are only capable of playing one note at a time.
Within a Group, each pad can be assigned to one of eight Choke groups. When you assign a
pad to a Choke group, the pad may be set as a Master or Slave in the Choke group:
Playing on the Controller
Adjusting the Pads
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