Roland MC-909 Getting Started Manual page 39

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To hear the sampled groove, you've got to play the pattern from the top. If you start playback
in the middle of the pattern, you won't hear the sampled groove until the next time it starts
playing, at Beat 1 or 3.
Tweaking the Mix
Let's adjust the volume balance between our parts to make the mix a bit better-sounding.
1. Press MIXER ASSIGN—the MC-909 presents its built-in mixer.
Though we'll only be adjusting volume here, you can see that you can also set each part's
stereo panning, pitch and reverb from the Part Mixer screen.
The part mixer's eight physical faders can control the settings for eight of the current pattern's
parts at a time. To select the set of eight parts that the faders control, you press the PART
ASSIGN button so it's unlit or lit. When it's:
• unlit—the physical faders control Parts 1-8.
• lit—the physical faders control Parts 9-16.
Onscreen, a box encloses the currently selected parts, as shown in the illustration above.
2. We want to adjust the level of Part 10, our drum part, so press PART ASSIGN so it's lit.
You can see that the onscreen box now surrounds Parts 9-16.
3. Using the second fader—the one above Parts 2 and 10—set Part 10's level to 55.
4. Ah, that's better! Press STOP when you've had enough.
Before moving on, let's re-save our pattern. We'll need it in the next section.
5. Press WRITE, then ENTER. Press F6 (Write) twice and then F6 (Execute).
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