20 Nektar Aura Owner‘s Manual www.nektartech.com
Activating Parts for Playback
Any of the 4 Parts can be activated/deactivated to play in realtime by pressing [Shift]+[Part 1-4].
The [Part 1-4] button of the Part currently playing is illuminated in full and Parts activated for playback but not yet playing are dim.
Any Part that’s deactivated for playback is off.
The display also shows this information. The colored squares to the left of the Step
grid indicate when a Part is on and the arrow shows which Part is the currently
selected.
Note that Parts are selected as a Pattern cycles through its active Parts, unless a Part
is specifically selected, as explained on the previous page.
Programming Step Parameters
As with Patterns and Parts, Steps have to be selected to program Step parameters.
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First make sure the correct Pattern and Part is selected.
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Press and hold [Shift] while pressing [S1-16] to select one or more Steps.
You can glide over buttons to select multiple Steps faster.
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The display header updates to show which Steps are selected in the current
Part as illustrated in the right image.
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Changing the parameters listed in Aura’s display now only affects the selected
Steps.
To deselect the Steps, select another Step, Part or Pattern.
Programming Steps
[S1-16] update as the currently selected Part changes. If a Pattern is selected with multiple Parts active for playback, the Step buttons
simply update as Parts are playing. To program Steps in a specific Part, select it by pressing the Part buttons.
Steps can be programmed regardless of whether their parent Part is actively playing or not.
Tying Steps Together
Multiple Steps can be tied together to extend the length of a note. Press and hold the [S1-16] button you want extended and then press
another [S1-16] button. The tied note will span the distance between the two pressed [S1-16] buttons.
Programming Accents
If an accent is programmed on a Step, its velocity will play at its velocity setting plus the Accent Offset value. In the top right display image,
the velocity is set to 90 and the Accent Offset is set to 37 so the velocity value triggered by an accent will therefore be 127.
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To program an accent, press and hold the display button labeled [Accent].
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While holding [Accent], press [S1-16] buttons to program an accent on the Steps pressed.
Accents are an easy and flexible way to program simple dynamics. The Accent Offset value can be changed in realtime, making it easy to
increase the velocity accentuation gradually, change to negative values or neutralize Accents again by setting the value to 0.
Step Sequencer: Parts, Steps and Accents
