Polyend Seq MIDI Step Sequencer User Manual Made in Poland polyend.com...
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If for any reason you’re Thank you for purchasing the Polyend Seq. We at Polyend have invested a lot of not feeling confident, let us give you some insight on what you’ll be laying your our attention, time, and hearts in crafting this instrument in order to make the hands on.
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The front panel The buttons One of the best things about the Seq is that anyone with prior experience with a music sequencer will be able to begin using Seq without reading this manual or knowing exactly what most of its functions are for. It was designed to be intuitively labeled and understandable enough to start the fun right away.
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to keep your hands free for some reason. You can then record MIDI data from Quantize button: an external controller. Remember that Seq will always start recording from the The steps entered manually on the Seq grid are quantized by default (unless you top or highest turned on track.
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Tempo knob Note knob The Tempo knob has a global impact and corresponds to each pattern’s settings. When you press down the Note knob together with any of the track/step It can also be used with the track buttons in order to set their advanced MIDI and buttons, you’ll hear what sound/note/chord it holds.
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The predefined chords per step were Velocity knob implemented because when you are recording chords into Seq from an The Velocity knob allows you to set up velocity levels for each separate step or external MIDI controller, they are the whole track at once. You can also opt to have velocity chosen randomly for consuming as many tracks as the chord a track, while using Random button.
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Track parameters: Move knob • Length: Sets the track length from 1 to This knob gives you ability to move your whole existing sequences back and 32 steps. Length forth. You can also do the same for every single note. Just press the track button •...
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Step parameters: Meet Poly • Roll: Sets divider on 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/6, 1/8, 1/12, 1/16. Roll • Velo Curve: Chooses velocity roll type Velo curve from: Flat, Increasing, Decreasing, Increasing-Decreasing, and Decreas- Note curve Random ing-Increasing, Random. • Note Curve: Pick a note pitch roll type from: Flat, Increasing, Decreasing, Increasing-Decreasing, and Decrea- sing-Increasing, Random.
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Naming the patterns from a knob, letter by letter gives firmware updates which you can find and download from the polyend.com us shivers. We think that while working with our instrument you’ll be able to website in the support section.
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But you can achieve it easily by using more than one abuse of the product or any other causes determined by Polyend to be the fault track in Seq for the same controlled instrument. So here again we have...
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Music scales chart Chords chart Name Abbreviation Name Abbreviation Name Abbreviation Name Abbreviation No scale No scale Hungarian Minor Hung Min Dim Triad DimTriad Dom 7 Dom7 Chromatic Chromatic Ukrainian Ukrainian Dim7 Dim7 Major 7 Maj7 Minor Minor Marva Marva HalfDim HalfDim Sus 4...
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