2 SEQ

Every track has up to 16 patterns. Each pattern has its own length, 1–256 steps (16 to start with), and the GRID shows it one page of 16 steps at a time. Each step holds up to 8 notes (a chord), each note with its own length, velocity and a small timing offset (6 microsteps per step). SEQ has three pages:

Page	For
ROLL / STEP note page	writing, editing and recording notes, in two views: ROLL piano roll (default) and STEP step recording; on a drum track it is the DRUMS drum machine
PATTERN	choosing, creating and queueing the track's patterns
TRACK	the track's sequencer switch, the current pattern's length, global swing and BPM

The note page's two views

↵OK is this page's record key: tap it to switch between the two views, hold it for the RECORD panel. With steps selected a tap on ↵OK picks what you edit instead (see Selecting and editing).

01

ROLL piano roll (default): time × pitch, notes drawn as bars.

02↵OK

Tap ↵OK: STEP recording, a 4×4 of steps with note names.

03↵OK

Tap again: back to ROLL. The OK strip on screen is in ROLL, in STEP.

Both views edit the same pattern, and the 16 GRID keys are the 16 steps of the page on screen in both (row 1 is steps 1–4, row 2 steps 5–8…).

	ROLL	STEP
Screen	time × pitch, notes as bars	a 4×4 of steps with note names or chords
GRID tap	goes to that step (tap it again to let go); with SELECT MULTI it adds steps	moves the write cursor to the step
Playing PADS	add / remove notes on selected steps; with none selected they just play (and record live with REC on)	write into the cursor step, the cursor moves on when released
↑← / ↓SUB	change the selected steps; with none selected, next / previous pattern	move the cursor one step
FN+↑← / FN+↓SUB	bigger steps on the selection; with none selected, next / previous page of a long pattern	move the cursor a page (4 steps in a one-page pattern)

ROLL piano roll

The screen and the key lights at that moment

1. 1A note: length = duration
2. 2Every C is marked
3. 316 steps = GRID
4. 4ROLL view
5. 5Has notes: half lit
6. 6Empty step: off

ROLL: a few notes on T2. The row of small cells at the bottom is the GRID's 16 steps.

The page's 16 steps run left to right, pitch bottom to top (the range around the notes in use, shown automatically: at least an octave, black-key rows shaded). The more solid a note, the higher its velocity; the green line is the playhead. The small cells at the bottom: dithered where a step holds notes, white where it is selected, green where the playhead is. An empty pattern says HOLD A PAD + TAP STEPS.

Write notes: hold one or more PADS, then tap steps on the GRID.

01HOLDC

Hold a note (C).

02HOLDC+9G1

Keep holding and tap GRID 1: C is written into step 1.

03HOLDC+OG5›KG9

Go on with 5, 9…, then switch to another note and tap a few more steps.

• Go to a step: tap a GRID key to go to that step; its notes light up fully on the pads, so you see at once whether the step has notes. Tap the same step again to let go. See Selecting and editing.
• Record live: turn REC on (FN+▶PLAY or the RECORD panel), start playback, then play the pads, see Play and live recording.
• With the track's sequencer off (TRACK page) the page says SEQUENCE OFF.

STEP recording

Write notes one step at a time, without keeping time:

01↵OK

Tap ↵OK for the STEP view. The red marching frame is the write cursor.

020G2›D

Tap GRID 2 to put the cursor there, then press a PAD: D is written into step 2. Press several together for a chord.

03E

When you let go the cursor moves on: E goes into step 3, and the cursor waits on step 4 (the "+1" in its corner).

04↑←

↑← skips a step (a rest), ↓SUB goes back.

05HOLDC+/G16

Hold PADS and tap a GRID key: they are written straight into that step.

The screen and the key lights at that moment

1. 1Write cursor: blinking
2. 2How far it moves each time
3. 3A written step
4. 4STEP view
5. 5Cursor: blinking
6. 6Has notes: half lit

The STEP view: one cell per step, with note names; the red frame is the cursor.

• A press replaces the notes the cursor step had.
• How far the cursor moves each time is STEP in the RECORD panel (1 / 2 / 4).
• Written notes use the velocity of SETUP KEYS (VELO) and are one step long. Switch back to ROLL later to fine-tune them.
• In a long pattern the cursor takes the GRID along to the page it moves to; FN+↑← / FN+↓SUB move it a whole page.
• While playing, the step the playhead enters flashes green once and keeps a green outline until the next step; the steps behind it leave no trail.
• VIEW in the FN menu switches the view too, from every SEQ page.

Selecting and editing

In the ROLL view a GRID tap goes to a step: only that step is selected, tapping another step moves there, and tapping the same step again lets go (the pads play again). The notes of the step you are on light up fully on the pads; on a step without notes the pads stay a dim keyboard. To select several steps at once, set SELECT to MULTI on the KEYS page of 0 SETUP (see KEYS).

The screen and the key lights at that moment

1. 1The step you are on
2. 2Current step: fully lit
3. 3This step's note: fully lit
4. 4Other keys: half lit

On step 5: its column is highlighted and its note lights up fully on the pads.

While playing with no step selected, the notes of the step under the playhead light up on the pads too. Once on a step:

01OG5

Tap GRID 5: step 5 is selected and its column highlighted.

02↵OK›↵OK

↵OK cycles what you edit, NOTE → LEN → VEL → TIME; the bottom line shows the lane and its value.

03↑←

↑← / ↓SUB change it; held they repeat. ESC clears the selection.

Key	Does
PADS	add or remove that note on the selected steps (each tone of a chord separately); while playing they edit without sounding
↵OK	what you edit: NOTE (pitch) → LEN (length) → VEL (velocity) → TIME (small timing offset)
↑← / ↓SUB	change it; held they repeat; with FN in bigger steps
FN+↵OK	switch between editing all notes of the chord (ALL) and just one of them (its name on the bottom line)
ESC	clear the selection (the next ESC changes scene)

While steps are selected, their notes are fully lit on the pads.

DRUMS: the drum machine page

On a drum track (T1 DRUMS by default) the note page is DRUMS, a drum machine, instead of ROLL / STEP.

The screen and the key lights at that moment

1. 1Eight drums × 16 steps
2. 2The chosen drum on the GRID
3. 3DRUMS page
4. 4The chosen drum (CH) hits: fully lit
5. 5Nothing on this step: off

DRUMS on T1: the beat of every drum on the left, the chosen drum's 16 steps on the right.

• PADS choose the drum and how hard: each column is a drum, the rows are how hard (top row hardest). The pad sounds and the GRID now writes that drum at that velocity.
• GRID: a tap on an empty step adds a hit at once (stopped, you hear it); a tap on an existing hit takes it out when you let go.
• Hold a hit: the screen shows its value, ↑← / ↓SUB change its velocity; ↵OK switches to its timing within the step (6 microsteps) and back. An edited or long-held hit stays.

01HOLD9G1

Hold the CH hit on step 1 (keep holding).

02HOLD9G1+↑←

Press ↑←: the hit gets harder and the screen shows CH VELOCITY. Let go and the hit stays.

• GRID lights: the chosen drum's hits fully lit, steps with only other drums half lit, empty steps off.
• There is no ROLL / STEP view on a drum track; record live and the RECORD panel work as on the other tracks.

Play and live recording

01▶PLAY

▶PLAY: play; the green line is the playhead. Press again to stop, and the playhead rewinds to step 1.

02FN+▶PLAY

FN+▶PLAY: record arm (REC). The PLAY light blinks, REC blinks in the status line and, while playing, a red frame goes around the screen.

03C

Play the PADS while it plays: the notes are written into the pattern where you play them (overdub).

• REC can also be turned on in the RECORD panel or with REC in the FN menu. While recording is armed the PLAY strip on screen is red.
• Recording is overdub: existing notes stay, and new ones land on the nearest microstep. With ARP on, the arpeggiator's notes are what gets recorded.
• Live recording works in the ROLL view and on the DRUMS page with no step selected; in the STEP view the pads write into the cursor step instead.
• A wrong note: select its step and clear it with FN+X, or tidy the timing with FN+Q.

The screen and the key lights at that moment

1. 1REC: blinking
2. 2Playhead
3. 3PLAY: blinking
4. 4REC ARMED
5. 5Blinking: recording

Recording while playing: a red frame around the screen, REC blinks in the status line.

The RECORD panel

On the note page hold ↵OK (about half a second) for the RECORD panel, or pick RECORD in the FN menu; ESC closes it.

The screen and the key lights at that moment

1. 1Settings: REC · SNAP · STEP · VIEW
2. 2Last 8 takes, newest first
3. 3The chosen take
4. 4How this bar would land
5. 5±bar · OK new pattern · FN+OK merge
6. 6Settings
7. 7Takes

The RECORD panel: settings on top, takes in the middle, the bar to place below.

GRID	Holds
row 1	REC live recording on / off · SNAP whether takes land on whole steps (STEPS) or keep their timing (FREE) · STEP how far step recording moves (1 / 2 / 4) · VIEW ROLL / STEP
rows 2–3	the last 8 takes (capture), newest first
row 4	the chosen take's bar as it would land in a pattern

• Setting cells: a tap switches them; ↑← / ↓SUB work too.
• Take cells: a tap chooses; ↑← / ↓SUB choose the bar; ↵OK puts it into a new pattern; FN+↵OK merges it into the current pattern.
• GRID lights: settings half lit, REC and SNAP fully lit when on, the focused cell fully lit, takes half lit.

Capture: get back what you just played

No need to turn on REC: every note you play on the pads is kept in the background (capture). When something good came out, put it into the sequencer afterwards:

01C›E›G

Just play. A pause longer than 2.5 s, a track change or 60 seconds starts a new take.

02HOLD↵OK

Hold ↵OK: the two middle rows are the last 8 takes, with number, track and note count.

03PG6

Tap a take: row 4 shows how its bar would land. ↑← / ↓SUB pick another bar.

04↵OK

↵OK: into a new pattern on this track; not a single existing note is touched.

• The 8 takes share room for 400 notes; when it is full, the oldest take makes way.
• Without a free pattern slot it tells you; use FN+↵OK to merge into the current pattern instead.
• Takes played while the transport ran keep their place against the bar; takes played while stopped start with their first note, timed at the BPM of that moment.
• With SNAP on (default) every note lands on the nearest whole step with a whole-step length; off, your playing's fine timing is kept.

Long patterns and step pages

A pattern can be up to 256 steps long; the GRID and the screen always show one page of 16 steps. The page number sits at the right end of the bottom line (for example 2/4, yellow when you turned the page yourself).

The screen and the key lights at that moment

1. 1PAGE − / PAGE +: page / pages
2. 2LEN − / LEN +: the length

The SEQ menu (hold FN): row 3 turns the pages and sets the length.

• Set the length: STEPS on the TRACK page (↑← / ↓SUB one step, FN+↑← / FN+↓SUB to the next page boundary), or LEN − / LEN + in the FN menu: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 48 … 256.
• Turn the page: FN+↑← / FN+↓SUB on the note page with no step selected, or PAGE − / PAGE + in the FN menu.
• While playing the GRID follows the playhead from page to page; after you turn a page yourself it stays there until the next PLAY. With a step selected it does not turn.
• A new pattern starts with the length of the current one; a duplicated pattern keeps its length. Steps beyond the length are off on the GRID.
• Memory is used only by pages that hold notes. When it runs out the note is not written and the screen says MEMORY FULL.

The screen and the key lights at that moment

1. 1page 2/3
2. 2the page hint

A 48-step pattern on its second page: the GRID now shows steps 17–32.

PATTERN page

The screen and the key lights at that moment

1. 1Existing pattern: half lit
2. 2In use: fully lit
3. 3NEW: create one
4. 4PATTERN page
5. 5Existing
6. 6Current
7. 7NEW: off

The PATTERN page: this track's pattern slots.

• Tap a slot: switch to that pattern. Stopped, it switches at once; playing, it is queued until the track finishes its loop (the cell shows NEXT and a countdown bar, its key light is blinking).
• Tap the "NEW" slot: a new empty pattern (up to 16 per track).
• The pattern in use shows how many of its steps hold notes.
• ↑← / ↓SUB: next / previous (queued while playing); ↵OK goes back to the note page.
• FN+D: duplicate the current pattern into the next free slot. FN+C / FN+V copy and paste a whole pattern, FN+X clears it (after confirming).

TRACK page

The screen and the key lights at that moment

1. 1SEQ on / off
2. 2STEPS
3. 3SWING
4. 4BPM
5. 5Four tracks: engine · pattern · step ruler

The TRACK page: four settings on top, an overview of the four tracks below.

Setting	Range	Meaning
SEQ	on / off	whether this track's sequence plays (a tap or ↵OK switches it)
STEPS	1–256	the length of the current pattern; each pattern has its own (12 against 16 for polyrhythms)
SWING	50–75 %	global swing
BPM	30–300	global tempo; also tap it with FN+T or hold FN and use 6 / Y

Tap a cell to focus it, ↑← / ↓SUB change it (FN for bigger steps). The overview squeezes long patterns into 16 cells.

Copy, paste, clear, quantize

Hold FN with a letter, or pick the item in the FN menu (COPY, PASTE, CLEAR, QUANT, DUP: their second line says STEPS or PATTERN). On the note page they act on the selected steps; with none selected, and on PATTERN and TRACK, on the whole pattern:

1. 1Hold
2. 2Copy
3. 3Paste
4. 4Clear
5. 5Quantize
6. 6Duplicate pattern
7. 7Tap tempo

Edit keys while FN is held

Keys	Does
FN+C / FN+V	copy / paste (PASTE is off until something is copied)
FN+X	clear (asks first for a whole pattern)
FN+Q	quantize to whole steps
FN+D	duplicate the pattern into the next free slot
FN+T	tap tempo

The SEQ menu on the GRID, the same on all three pages:

Row	Items
1	COPY · PASTE · CLEAR · QUANT
2	DUP · VIEW (ROLL / STEP) · RECORD (the RECORD panel) · SCOPE (FN+↵OK, with steps selected)
3	PAGE − · PAGE + (note page, long patterns) · LEN − · LEN +
4	SAVE · TAP · REC · SETUP, as on every screen

More on the menu in The menu on each screen.

warning

There is no undo, so clearing a whole pattern always asks first.