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Polyend Seq
MIDI Step Sequencer
User Manual

Made in Poland

polyend.com

Summary of Contents for MIDI Step Sequencer

Page 1: ...Polyend Seq MIDI Step Sequencer User Manual Made in Poland polyend com ...

Page 2: ...ront panel knobs bottom plates and handcrafted oak wooden case make Seq rock solid These materials are of timeless quality and allowed us to avoid the need for any flashy details leaving only elegance and simplicity The buttons are made of silicone with specially matched density and firmness Theirroundedshape size andarrangementwerechosencarefullytoprovidean instant and explicit response It may ta...

Page 3: ...abeled and understandable enough to start the fun right away Pressing a button will turn a step on and off If you ll keep the step button pressed for a while it will show its current parameters and it will allow you to change them All changes can be applied at any time with or without the sequencer cur rently running on Let s Begin Pattern button Store and recall patterns by pressing Pattern butto...

Page 4: ...will be lost Stop Play Rec buttons Both Stop and Play are pretty self explanatory but each press of Play button after the first one will reset the play points of all eight tracks Holding down Stop then Play will commence a 4 beat punch in displayed by step lights on the grid You can achieve the same effect using the foot switch pedal if you want to keep your hands free for some reason You can then...

Page 5: ...1 Note knob When you press down the Note knob together with any of the track step buttons you ll hear what sound note chord it holds Seq s grid isn t really made to be played like a keyboard but this way you can at least playback your chords and steps that already exist in your sequences Track parameters Root Note Allows you to set Track and Scale root note from in between ten octaves from C2toC8 ...

Page 6: ...to speed up or slow down a half this can bring some really cool sound changes in your arrangements Velocity knob The Velocity knob allows you to set up velocity levels for each separate step or the whole track at once You can also opt to have velocity chosen randomly for a track while using Random button You can choose which CC is assigned to which track and also set the modulation level to Random...

Page 7: ...y steps you re working on Use Length to select the Play Mode or to set the Gate length too Track parameters Length Sets the track length from 1 to 32 steps Play mode Can breath a new life into your already funky sequences Choose from Forward Backward Pingpong and Random playback modes Gatemode Setgatetimeforallnotesin the sequence 5 100 Step parameters Length Edits the time span for single edited ...

Page 8: ...e kind of a polyphonic arpeggiator as you can change the root notes for the separate tracks while they re on the run 1 1 Inc Random Meet Poly Initially when we started works on early Seq designing we planned a full set of 8 CV channels of four outputs of gate pitch velocity and modulation located on the back panel At the same time we realized we wanted Seq to have a sturdy hand crafted wooden chas...

Page 9: ...owaytodumpMIDIdatafromyourSequnit but you can always easily record all your sequences into any DAW of your choice Fewotherwords There are few more things worth mentioning about our product For example Seq autosaves every slight change you make to your sequences and patterns Implementing an undo function would have been very complex Since we wanted to keep things simple we ve decided not to add an ...

Page 10: ...y when warranty claim is made Malfunctions resulting from improper power supply voltages backwards or faulty cable connection abuse of the product or any other causes determined by Polyend to be the fault of the user are not covered by this warranty normal services rates will be applied All defective products will be replaced or repaired at the discretion of Polyend Products must be returned direc...

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