Playing

The PADS always play the current track. Keyboard layout, scale, root, octave, velocity and scale lock are shared by all four tracks and set on the KEYS page of 0 SETUP (see KEYS). Chords and the arpeggiator (ARP) belong to each track: every melodic track has its own CHORD and ARP pages in 1 INSTR. All of them are saved with the project; NEW starts from PIANO, C MAJOR, no chords and every ARP off.

1. 1PADS

PADS: the 4×8 in the middle, always playing the current track

Keyboard layouts

Melodic tracks have three layouts (LAYOUT on the KEYS page); the key lights show which keys can sound:

The screen and the key lights at that moment

1. 1Black keys, one octave up
2. 2White keys C D E F G A B C, one octave up
3. 3Black keys
4. 4White keys C D E F G A B C, C3 at the bottom left
5. 5Gaps: off

The PIANO layout (default): two whole octaves, a pair of rows each, black keys above white keys; the gaps are off and silent.

Layout	Arrangement	Lights
PIANO (default)	two whole octaves: the lower two rows from C3 at the bottom left, the upper two an octave up; in each pair the white keys C D E F G A B C below and the black keys above. The gaps (before C#, between E and F, after A#) are silent	gaps
SCALE	only the notes of the scale, from the root left to right up the scale, each row one octave up. No wrong notes	all
CHROMA	one semitone per key from the root, left to right and bottom to top	all

019G1

SETUP KEYS: tap LAYOUT to switch. SCALE: every key is in the scale.

029G1

Tap again: CHROMA, one semitone per key.

039G1

Tap again: back to PIANO.

Light	On the pads it means
half lit	can sound
fully lit	held keys, the other tones of a chord, the note the ARP is playing, notes the sequencer plays on this track
off	cannot sound

Scale and root

SCALE and ROOT on the KEYS page choose the scale and its root note (C–B). The scale decides which notes the SCALE layout holds, how TRIAD and 7TH chords stack and which keys LOCK acts on.

The screen and the key lights at that moment

1. 1LAYOUT
2. 2SCALE
3. 3ROOT note
4. 4OCTAVE
5. 5VELO (velocity)
6. 6LOCK (scale lock)
7. 7SELECT (ROLL: one step / several)
8. 8The current scale on the keyboard

The KEYS page of SETUP.

There are 14 scales:

Scales	MAJOR · MINOR · DORIAN · MIXOLYD · MIN PENT · MAJ PENT · BLUES · HARM MIN · PHRYGIAN · LYDIAN · LOCRIAN · MEL MIN · WHOLE · IN SEN
Chords	OFF · TRIAD · 7TH · MAJ · MIN · SUS4 · MAJ7 · MIN7 · DOM7 · POWER · OCTAVE
Voicings	ROOT · INV1 · INV2 · SPREAD
Keyboard layouts	PIANO · SCALE · CHROMA
Scale lock	OFF · MUTE · SNAP
Arp modes	OFF · UP · DOWN · UP-DN · RANDOM · ORDER
Arp rates	1/4 · 1/8 · 1/8T · 1/16 · 1/16T · 1/32

Octave

OCTAVE on the KEYS page (−3 to +3) moves the whole keyboard up or down. The quickest way:

01HOLDFN+8

Hold FN and press 8 for an octave up, I for an octave down (held, it repeats). The new value pops up at the bottom of the screen.

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Or on SETUP KEYS: tap OCTAVE (GRID 4) and change it with ↑← / ↓SUB.

Velocity

The pads are not velocity sensitive; every key of a melodic track plays at the same velocity: VELO on the KEYS page (1–127, default 110). Notes recorded into the sequencer get it too, and you can change it step by step on the note page later (VEL, see Selecting and editing). On a drum track the row sets how hard instead (see Drums).

Scale lock

In the PIANO and CHROMA layouts, what keys outside the scale do:

LOCK	Keys outside the scale	Light
OFF	sound as usual
MUTE	are silent
SNAP	play the nearest scale note below

Chords

The CHORD page in 1 INSTR turns one key into a chord. Each track has its own chord; it stays when you change the sound or the engine. Drum tracks have no CHORD page.

01HOLDCTRL+0G2

In 1 INSTR hold CTRL and press G2: the track's CHORD page. CHORD is OFF.

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Tap CHORD: TRIAD. The picture shows which notes the key on the root plays (C3 PLAYS C3 E3 G3).

03HOLDC

Press a key: three notes sound together, and the chord tones light up on the screen and on the pads.

• CHORD: OFF / TRIAD / 7TH / MAJ / MIN / SUS4 / MAJ7 / MIN7 / DOM7 / POWER / OCTAVE. TRIAD and 7TH stack thirds in the current scale (keys outside it borrow a major triad / dominant seventh); the others are fixed chords.
• VOICING: ROOT (root position) / INV1 (first inversion: lowest note up an octave) / INV2 (second inversion: the two lowest notes up an octave) / SPREAD (second note up an octave).
• The second line shows the triad on every degree of the key (the font is upper case only: minor is written D-, diminished BDIM).
• Chord tones are recorded into the sequencer like separate notes, and the ARP plays them one by one.

The screen and the key lights at that moment

1. 1CHORD
2. 2VOICING
3. 3Notes the root key plays
4. 4Every degree of the key
5. 5Chord tones (blue)
6. 6Chord tones: fully lit

Holding C: the three chord tones C E G are fully lit.

Arpeggiator

The ARP page in 1 INSTR: hold a few keys and they sound one after another. Every melodic track has its own ARP with its own settings, and several can run at once (a HOLD arpeggio on T2 keeps going while you play T3).

01HOLDCTRL+-G3

In 1 INSTR hold CTRL and press G3: the track's ARP page. ARP OFF dims the picture.

029G1›HOLDC+E+G

Tap ARP: UP. Hold C E G: the notes play in turn from low to high.

The screen and the key lights at that moment

1. 1ARP mode
2. 2RATE
3. 3RANGE
4. 4GATE
5. 5HOLD: keeps going after release
6. 6Playing order of 16 steps
7. 7Held keys

ARP UP: holding C E G, the three notes play in turn from low to high. Each bar is a step at its pitch, as wide as GATE; the white bar is the step sounding now.

Setting	Options
ARP	OFF / UP / DOWN / UP-DN / RANDOM / ORDER (in the order pressed)
RATE	1/4, 1/8, 1/8T, 1/16 (default), 1/16T, 1/32
RANGE	1–4 octaves (upwards)
GATE	10–100 % (how much of each note value sounds, default 50 %)
HOLD	keeps going after you let go; pressing again after releasing all starts a new set. One tap on the cell switches it, no need to select it first

• Held keys (every tone of a chord counts) sound one at a time in order, up to 16 notes. The first note sounds at once.
• Stopped, it runs freely at the BPM; playing, it locks to the beat (1/16 follows swing), and PLAY / stop never breaks its rhythm.
• UP / DOWN / UP-DN continue from the last note played and never repeat at the turns.
• With REC on while playing, the ARP's notes are recorded into its track's pattern with the GATE length.
• Changing track does not stop the other tracks' ARPs. Turning HOLD off stops it at once (only keys still held keep playing). FN+ESC (stop all) and loading a project stop every ARP.

Drums

On a drum track (T1 DRUMS by default) each pad column is one drum and the row is how hard: the top row hits hardest (velocity 127), then 100, 70, and the bottom row softest (40). A hit lights its column from the bottom up to the row it was played on. Drums do not arpeggiate and ignore scale, chords and VELO. Each drum's level is on the INSTR KIT page (see DRUMS).

1. 1Kick
2. 2Snare
3. 3Closed hat
4. 4Open hat
5. 5Clap
6. 6Tom
7. 7Cowbell
8. 8Maracas

Drum track: one drum per column, harder towards the top