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Chapter 17
Real World Tips
This chapter is a grab bag full of various practical tips that solidify your pro-
gramming chops and put you on the way to truly mastering the instrument.
You’ve seen all these features before. Now, try them out in these real-world
examples — and explore some new, uncharted sound-shaping paths on your
own.
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Adjusting the Gate Time with the [DATA] knob
Gate Time is a simple, yet effective way to change both the sound and feel of a Pattern. Try this tip in real
time, as the Pattern is playing — for dramatic, dynamic shifts.
1 Select and play a Pattern.
2 Call up Gate Time.
Hold [SHIFT] and press [GATE TIME] ([REVERSE]).
3 Tweak the [DATA] knob slowly to the left.
Very gradually, start turning Gate Time down — from 100, down to 40, 20, then even 10 or 1.
Hear what this does to all the tracks? Hear how everything — including the drums — is clipped, creating
a tight, muted sound and producing a drop in dynamics.
4 Now, as quickly as you can, bring Gate Time back up to 60, 80 or 100 — or
more.
Hold [SHIFT] while you turn the [DATA] knob — that lets you jump through the values, and instanta-
neously bring the dynamics back up. Try to do it right before the first beat of a measure — and kick
everything back in on the “one.”
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Adjusting the pitch with the [DATA] knob
Let’s do some more work with the [DATA] knob. This time we’ll play around with the pitch — using the
Transpose function.
1 Select and play a Pattern.
2 Call up Transpose.
Hold [SHIFT] and press [TRANSPOSE] ([KEYBOARD]).
3 While the Pattern is playing, use the [DATA] knob to
bring the pitch up and down.
For wild pitch changes, hold down [SHIFT] while you work the knob. Try alternating on beat between two
widely different values (for example, “
-20
” and “
30
”). Try also whipping the pitch way up in 60s
range, then bringing down to the 40s. Try random pitch changes, too, as the Pattern cycles. Lots of fun
stuff here!
