Extending A Pattern - Social Entropy Engine User Manual

PATTERNS

EXTENDING A PATTERN

Sometimes you may wish to increase the length of a pattern during live performance. If
you just set the length, there could be empty sections played until new notes are entered
into the pattern, which would disrupt the flow of the performance. In order to avoid this
situation, use the PATTERN EXTEND function.
PATTERN EXTEND will copy the notes from the previous section into subsequent sections
automatically, this allows the pattern to play uninterrupted while continuing to edit the
longer pattern. Extend also works well when creating variations on an existing pattern,
because you don't have to manually re-enter all of the note events to make a small
change.
To extend a pattern, while in TIME mode, press and hold the RECORD button while
clicking the SECTION button. For example, to extend a pattern from 16 to 32 steps,
starting with section one selected, press and hold RECORD, then click the section button
to copy section one to section two. The last step of the pattern will also be changed
automatically from step 16 to step 32.
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