Alesis Performance Pad, Справочное руководство

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5.2 REAL TIME SONG CREATION
To create a Song in real time (this assumes an empty song):
1. (Optional) In Pattern mode, select the Pattern you want for the first Song step.
2. Select Song mode and the desired Song number.
3. Select Compose mode. The display will show STEP 01 and the contents of the step,
which is currently END (if the first step says END , that indicates that the Song is empty
since it contains no data. If the first step shows a PATT ern number, then the Song is
not empty).
4. If you did not perform step (1) above, enter the desired Pattern for step 1 (Preset or
User, A or B, A Fill or B Fill).
5. Press PLAY. If you performed step (1) above, the Pattern you selected will begin
playing. Otherwise, the Pattern specified in step (4) above will start playing.
6. If you enter a new Pattern number (Preset or User, A or B) while the first Pattern is
playing, the new Pattern will begin playing after the first Pattern has finished and be
stored as another Song step in the Song. If you let the original Pattern keep playing, it
will add a new Song step with its Pattern number every time it repeats.
7. In addition to selecting different Patterns, you can press FILL at any time. The
Performance Pad will remember where you pressed FILL.
As in Pattern mode, pressing FILL will automatically transition to the B Pattern if the A
Pattern is currently playing (and vice versa), or will continue playing the same Pattern
if the FILL button is held past the end of the Fill.
A Fill can transition into any Pattern number, A or B, by specifying the Pattern before
the end of the Fill and releasing FILL before the Fill has finished playing. If you hold
FILL past the end of the Fill, the associated Main Pattern will continue playing and any
Pattern you may have previously specified for the next Step will be forgotten.
When recording a Song in Compose mode, the Count/A/B/Fill footswitch duplicates
the FILL button function.
5.2A Real Time Song Editing
If you have already recorded material in a Song, pressing PLAY while in Compose
mode will not allow recording until after the last Song step (as indicated by the display
switching from
PLAYING to RECORDING ). However, you can overdub Fills at any
time, and these will be recorded in the Song where played. Under these conditions,
holding FILL past the downbeat doesn't make any difference; the Patterns used in
Song steps are not altered.