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Keyboard and Slice Note Views
Pads 31 ( Keyboard ) and 32 ( Slice ) let you switch between these two modes; the mode changes the
appearance of
Note View
(see page 25 ). Keyboard is the default for each track (Pad 31 is lit bright
red and Pad 32 dim red).
Note Mode
Note View
allows you to play samples either chromatically or sliced, allowing you to create bass lines,
melodies, or chopped up beats with Circuit Rhythm
Keyboard Note View
By default, each track’s
Note View
will be in Keyboard mode. In this mode, the lower two rows of
Note View
– selected with the Note button
6
– are laid out to represent one octave of a chromatic
keyboard. (
Expanded Note View
, with two octaves of keyboard, is also available.)
Playing the keyboard will trigger playback of the track’s active sample in semitone increments.
Higher and lower pitches may be achieved by pressing the up and down arrows
15
to scroll through
octaves. The maximum amount a sample may be pitched up or down is three octaves. Note that this
is affected by the tuning parameter, such that if
Tune is set to its maximum positive value (+1 octave),
notes played on the keyboard which are higher than two octaves above middle C will play at a fixed
maximum pitch. To reset the keyboard to its default position (with middle C on the bottom left pad),
press both arrow buttons together.
Sample playback in
Keyboard Note View
may be live-recorded into patterns when sequencer playback
is active by enabling Record mode. Alternatively, notes may be entered manually by tapping steps.
Steps will be assigned with the currently selected note value, which is lit brightly on the keyboard.
Unlike the active sample in
Sample View
, steps will always play the note selected at the time of
assignment. To change the note assigned to a step while maintaining other step parameters (Velocity,
automation, etc.), hold a note pad and press a step, or vice versa.
Slice Note View
Using
Slice Note View
, you may chop up samples and play back slices, allowing you to make loops your
own.
To enable Slice Mode, enter
Sample Mode View
, then press the bottom right pad labelled Slice . Three
pads will now be lit white on the row above, which may be used to select the number of slices that the
sample will automatically be sliced into.