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5.2.4. Arpeggiator features
The KeyStep arpeggiators have many features not found on other arpeggiators. To start
with; there are three of them. Imagine the creative options at your disposal when you
have three arpeggiators in hold playing simultaneously and being able to transpose them
individually with a certain scale, each arpeggio running in a different scale!
When HOLD is active the arpeggio will run indefinately and you can focus on making
changes to the arpeggio.
With the excepion of Pitch, all encoders can be used to edit the arpeggio. These edits are
global you cannot change the indivual parameter of the arpeggio. You can however make
these global edits: change the Gate time, Velocity, Time Shift and Randomness. To hear
the effect of Time Shift you need to have two arpeggios on hold running simultaneously.
Randomness will apply random pitch changes to the arpeggio.
5.2.4.1. Directions
Just above the keyboard, you'll find a series of icons; Up, Down, Exclu, Inclu, Rand, Order
and Poly. These are used to select how the Arpeggiator will arpeggiate the chord you're
playing on the keyboard.
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'Up' will play the notes of your chord from left to right or bottom to top, depending
on your point of view. The order in which you press the keys does not matter.
The arpeggiator will always play the individual notes from left to right.
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'Down' first play the highest note of your arpeggio and picks the remaining notes
from right to left.
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'Exclu' pendulum motion excluding repeat of endnote
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'Inclu' pendulum motion including repeat of endnote
Exclu and Inclu both play your chord in a pendulum motion, from down to up and from up
to down. The difference is what happens at the extreme ends of the arpeggio. Let say you
have a four-note chord. In 'Exclu' mode it will be arpeggiated as 1,2,3,4,3,2,1,2 . etc. In 'Inclu'
your arpeggio will be played as 1,2,3,4,4,3,2,1,1,2 . etc.
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'Random' will play the notes of your chord in random order.
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'Order' will play the notes of your chord in the exact order you played them. You
can use this to good effect by repeatedly playing the same chord but changing
the order in which your fingers touch the keyboard.
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'Poly' will repeat the entire chord instead of arpegiatting the notes inside of the
chord. The octave of the notes repeated will depend on the Arp octave parameter
and will basically transpose the chord, then switch back to the current octave.
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