Trigger Buttons Function - E-Mu MP-7 command station Owner's Manual

Trigger Buttons
Function
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See "Trigger Mode Quick
Select" on page 140 for another
way to select trigger modes.
• Stop/RTZ
• Punch I/O
• Tap Tempo
• Channel +
• Channel -
• Sequence +
• Sequence -
This option selects the function of the front panel "Triggers" button. The
"Triggers" button can be used to Play Beats Parts, to Play Note Events or
to Select Patterns.
• Play Beats Parts
• Play Note Events
• Select Patterns
Pressing the footswitch activates the front panel
Stop button. Pressing the footswitch again invokes
the Return-to-Zero function.
When the sequencer is playing, the footswitch will
activate the Record button in order to punch-in to
record mode. Pressing the footswitch again will
punch-out of record.
When the sequencer is stopped, repeatedly pressing
the footswitch cycles through the three record
modes: realtime, grid & step record.
Pressing the footswitch activates the front panel Tap
button, allowing you to tap in the current tempo
with your foot.
Pressing the footswitch increments the MIDI
channel number.
Pressing the footswitch decrements the MIDI
channel number.
Pressing the footswitch increments the current
pattern or song number. The next pattern will begin
playing when the current pattern ends.
Pressing the footswitch decrements the current
pattern or song number. The next pattern will begin
playing when the current pattern ends.
In this mode and when the Triggers button is
selected, the sixteen command buttons turn Beats
parts on and off.
In this mode and when the Triggers button is
selected, the sixteen command buttons work like
keyboard notes. Each button can be assigned to any
MIDI note, on any MIDI Channel (01-16), with any
velocity (0-127), and can be set to be latched or
momentarily on.
In this mode and when the Triggers button is
selected, pressing one of the Trigger buttons in pat-
tern select mode causes the programmed pattern to
be "armed" to play next. The armed trigger button
LED will flash and the pattern will begin playing at
the next loop. The trigger button LED will be solidly
illuminated while the selected pattern is playing.
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Trigger Buttons Function

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