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To select a different Pattern for any track, press its pad. If you do this while another Pattern is already
playing, the new Pattern will be “queued” to begin playing at the end of the current one, giving you a
smooth transition between Patterns. In this case, the pad for the next Pattern will flash quickly while it is
being “queued”, until it starts to play. However, if you hold down
Shift while selecting the next Pattern,
it will start playing immediately from the corresponding Pattern step, thereby ensuring that the overall
timing maintains continuity. For example, if the current Pattern had reached Step 11 when you press a
second Pattern’s pad while holding down
Shift , Circuit Rhythm will remember where the cursor is, and the
second Pattern will start playing from Step 12.
Every time you press Play , the currently selected Pattern restarts from Step 1 (or the chosen Start
point – selectable in
Pattern Settings View
). If you want to continue the Pattern from the point at which the
sequencer was last stopped, press Shift and Play together.
Clearing Patterns
Pattern memories may be cleared in
Patterns View
by holding down Clear
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(it lights red) and pressing
the corresponding pad. The selected Pattern pad will light bright red - to confirm deletion - while you
press it. While playback is stopped, if the Pattern that is cleared is not the currently active Pattern
(indicated by the track colour pulsing), and is not part of a Pattern Chain, it will light white. This indicates
that this Pattern will be displayed in all step views for the track. This matches the behaviour of View Lock,
see
page 54 .
Duplicating Patterns
In
Patterns View
, the Duplicate button
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can be used to perform a copy-and-paste function, letting you
copy a Pattern from one memory to another. This is a very useful function, as it lets you use an existing
Pattern as the basis for another, slightly different one: it is often easier to modify an existing Pattern to be
how you want it than create a new one from scratch.
To copy a Pattern from one memory to another, hold down Duplicate (it lights green), press the pad with
the Pattern you want to copy (it lights green while you press it), and then press the pad for the memory
where you want the copy to be stored: it will light red, then, if playback is stopped, it will turn white once
you release
Duplicate , indicating that this Pattern will be displayed when you switch to a step view. You
now have an identical copy of the Pattern. If you want to copy the Pattern data to several memories, you
can continue to hold the
Duplicate button down, and repeat the “paste” part of the operation to the
other memories.
It is possible to duplicate Patterns between tracks, as well as within a single track.