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Back on the Track Event page there is finally 'PRESETS', which can be used to save and load content
and settings for tracks. Presets are not session dependent, so this is a way to move tracks and track
settings between sessions. (This is especially useful for drum tracks, if you've changed the default
name and note settings for all 16 drum instruments.) Another way is to prepare and save a “basic”
session with common/standardised settings, and then every time you want to start a new session, you
can open the basic session and save it under a new name.
Presets can be saved in the right LCD by pressing GPB14–15 ('PRESETS'), then GPB11-12 ('SAVE AS
NEW PRESET') and then giving it a descriptive 8-character name.
In the left LCD, you can recall saved presets. Selecting one of them brings up a menu where you can
delimit which track data you want to import. Name and Chn. are self-explainatory, Maps means mixer
maps (see section 6.5.), and Steps means trigger layer and parameter layer data. What Cfg.
(configurations) refers to is too much to go through here in detail, but in brief it means all other track
settings apart from MIDI channel and port, i.e. settings such as track MODE, LENGTH, DIRECTION
settings, FX settings etc. (See Appendix 4 for details.)
2.1.4. Setting parameter layer functions
Finally, the EVENT page allows you to customise your parameter layers. Use GPK9 to select the layer
and GPK10 to select the function for this layer. The default sessions has four parameter layers, and by
default parameter layer A controls note, layer B controls note velocity, layer C controls gate length,
and layer D controls roll. (For parameter layer functions, see section 3.2.) You can set these functions
to any of the available options, if you don't like the defaults.
If you change parameter layer functions, e.g. from Roll to Nth1, you will lose all parameter values in
the Roll layer.
2.2. Track LENGTH
The maximum length of a track is determined when the track is initialised, and cannot be changed
unless you reinitialise the track. However, it is possible to make the track play shorter than the
maximum length. This can be done on the LENGTH page. Turn GPK2–3 to set the length, or
alternatively you can press GPB9-16 to quick-select a common length.
Unless otherwise specified, all 16 tracks in the four active patterns will run independently of each
other, sharing only the tempo. Different track lengths mean thus that eventually the tracks will end
and restart at different times, and the effect is cumulative: a track that is four steps shorter than the
others will restart four steps before the others, and on the next round, 8 steps before the others etc.
For more on this topic, see sections 2.3. (Track DIVIDER and Tempo), 5.2. (Phrase mode and song
mode), and 5.4. (Measure) with its subsections.