Alesis Micron Reference Manual page 39

d. Pattern
Turn the control knob clockwise to edit the drum's pattern.
(Remember, this will edit the pattern for just this one drum, not
for all the drums that make up the rhythm setting.) Press the
control knob to edit the pattern. The display will show a grid like
this one:
In the top line, the screen indicates that Drum A is being edited in
Step mode.
The cursor is at bar 1, beat 1, tick 0, shown as 1:1:0.
In the bottom line, each of sixteen steps is shown. Rectangles
appear where notes are present.
Turn the control knob to travel amongst the different notes
in the pattern. For patterns that require more than one
screen, keep turning the knob–the display will track your
position in its upper right position.
a. Adding notes
To add a note, press the white key that corresponds to that
particular drum. For instance, drum A is controlled using the
A above middle C, labeled voice. Your velocity information
will be recorded, as well as the position of the pitch wheel
and sliders.
Note that you can press multiple keys at once in order to
place multiple drums at a step. In fact, you can enter an
entire rhythm at once simply by playing it on the keys, as long
as each step has at least one drum note.
If you play a key that does not correspond to any drum, the
cursor will advance, but the rhythm will not be changed.
When entering a rhythm, sometimes it's helpful to
continuously tap on the highest note of the keyboard, to
control the rate at which the cursor advances.
After pressing the key, the cursor will automatically advance
one step.
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Rhythms
Time display
The Micron displays time as
"bar:beat:tick". There are
four beats in a bar, and 120
ticks in a beat.
Three-step beats land on
0, 40, and 80.
Four-step beats land on
0, 30, 60, and 90.
Five-step beats land on
0, 24, 48, 72, and 96.
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