The Sequencer
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What is being saved in a pattern?
The Song and its Steps:
Recording and Editing Motifs:
You might already have noticed that the Sirius contains a total number of 242 pattern storage spaces.
142 ROM (factory) patterns are permanently installed and can not be deleted by mistake. You can,
however, copy a single or several motifs into a freely editable User-pattern-storage space. User-
Pattern-storage spaces can be deleted and edited.
In each of the 100 User-Pattern-storage spaces of the Sirius the motif allocations of the seven tracks
are filed with their respective Sound number. You also store the so-called mix settings with the pat-
tern. Apart from the volume settings of the 7 motifs the mix-settings contain the motif«s pan (left, cen-
tre or right) and the effects-send settings of the two effects processors FX-1 and FX-2 for each of the
tracks. The internal vocoder routing is also stored with the pattern. This is very important for a prob-
lem-free live performance of the vocoder as you can freely assign the ANALYSE- and CARRIER-parts.
It goes without saying that you have the option to compose complete songs and store up to 16 of
them in Sirius' memory block. One song can be made up from up to 100 'steps', called Song-steps.
For every Song-step you define which pattern is to be heard in the step and how long it is to last (a
max. of 64 bars per step is possible). The overall length of the song must not consist of more than
600 bars which would equal 20 minutes per song at a speed of 120 BPM. In a Song-step you can
also determine which tracks are to be muted.
You can also dictate the transposing (varying of the pitch in fixed increments: +/- 12 half tones) of
the three Synth motifs. The following settings of the complete song with its steps are stored:
the settings of the effects-processor, the tempo settings, the vocoder settings except for the internal
vocoder routing. Also stored are the allocations for the 16 pads available in a song: your 8 favourite
patterns on the pads 1-8, the 4 breaks patterns and 4 special loop-motifs on pads 9-16.
Before you start recording a motif you should closely look at an already existing pattern with its mo-
tifs.
Press the EDIT-Key then the right-hand PAGE/BANK-Key. Now select the Edit-pattern main menu by
pressing the F1-Key under the display. The display shows the following contents:
Editing the motifs in the pattern:
Select Pattern
[Rom] [User]
The contents of one Pattern-Storage-Space
Pattern-Parameter
Mix-Parameter
Vocoder-Routing
Motif
Motif
Motif
Motif
Motif
Motif
Motif
Track 1
Track 2
Track 3
Track 4
Track 5
Track 6
Track 7
Sound N°
Sound N°
Sound N°
Sound N°
Sound N°
Sound N°
Sound N°
Level
Level
Level
Level
Level
Level
Level
Panorama
Panorama
Panorama
Panorama
Panorama
Panorama
Panorama
FX1-Send
FX1-Send
FX1-Send
FX1-Send
FX1-Send
FX1-Send
FX1-Send
FX2-Send
FX2-Send
FX2-Send
FX2-Send
FX2-Send
FX2-Send
FX2-Send
Analyse On/Off
Analyse On/Off
Analyse On/Off
Analyse On/Off
Analyse On/Off
Analyse On/Off
Analyse On/Off
Carrier On/Off
Carrier On/Off
Carrier On/Off
Carrier On/Off
Carrier On/Off
Carrier On/Off
Carrier On/Off
Groove
Factor