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MIDIbox SEQ V4 Beginner's Guide
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on the SONG page, the LED above the SONG button will flicker if you're in Phrase mode, and it will be
solid when you're in Song mode.
5.2.1. PATTERN page
Patterns can be selected on the PATTERN page, e.g. for editing and playing in phrase mode. On the
page you can see the four groups, each of which has one active pattern in it, and a small velocity bar
for each track. The pattern categories and labels will also be displayed on this page, whether you've
explicitly named them or not (in which case you'll see “NoCat” and “Unnamed”). The first thing to pay
attention to is what has already been mentioned several times: don't change patterns unless you
have saved the active one in the group where you're about to switch to another pattern, unless you
don't mind that the changes in the active pattern since the last save are lost!
If you want to change the pattern bank, in all cases you have to use the GP knobs 3, 7, 11, and 15 to
do it. For selecting individual patterns in the banks, there are two ways. Either you can use the GP
knobs 4, 8, 12, and 16 to select a pattern within the selected bank, or you can use the GP buttons 1–8
to choose the pattern section A–H and the GP buttons 9–16 to choose the actual pattern 1–8 within
the sections A–H.
Also, on the PATTERN page the group and track selection buttons (on the upper left of the frontpanel)
have a special function: you can use them to select the group where you want to change a pattern.
Group/track selection button 1 selects the first group, button 2 the second group etc. For a fully
equipped frontpanel, this is probably not necessary though, because you can just turn a GP knob to
select a pattern within any group, without need to use the group/track selection buttons to select a
group for switching first.
5.2.2. Chaining patterns into a song
Patterns can be chained into songs on the SONG page. One session can have a maximum of 256
patterns (64 patterns per bank), which can be combined into a maximum of 64 songs. Four patterns
are playing in parallel. If you don't want to play anything in one or more groups, have them play an
empty pattern (like H8 or other “far-away” pattern), or use a song operation to mute them.
Patterns are organised into a song by means of song positions. There is a maximum of 128 song
positions (A1-P8) per song. They can be selected with either just GPK2, or, if your song is very long
and/or has many song operations, you can quick-select the letter A-P with the GP buttons and only the
number with GPK2.
Each song position is either a command to play a pattern or perform an operation. A very simple song
could be:
