G Roups; What Are Groups; Selecting Steps - Orthogonal Devices ER-102 User Manual

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What are groups?

The middle section of the ER-102 is dedicated to groups. Groups are arbitrary selec-
tions of steps that can be the target of transforms and CV/gate modulation. Each
snapshot can contain up to 16 groups. There are 3 independent channels of CV/
gate moduation.

Selecting steps

Select by step (or pattern or track)
The most basic way to add steps to the current focused group, is to press the (DE)SE-
LECT button while the desired step is focused. Pressing the (DE)SELECT button adds
the step if it is not part of the group already, and removes the step if it is already part
of the group. The red selection LED (to the left of the GROUP display) will light up
when the focused step is in the focused group. Furthermore, the navigation focus
of the ER-101 (i.e. STEP vs PATTERN vs TRACK) is used to determine whether a single
step, or an entire pattern, or the entire track should be added (or removed) from the
group.
For example, to add all the steps of pattern #3 to group #1:
1. Navigate to group #1.
2. Navigate to any step in pattern #3 that is NOT a member of group #1.
3. Focus the PATTERN display.
4. Press the DE(SELECT) button.
And to remove all the steps of pattern #3 from group #1 just press the DE(SELECT)
button again. The selection state of the focused step determines whether the
whole pattern will be added or removed from the group. In other words, whatever
happens to the focused step will also happen to all the other steps in the focused
pattern. This same behavior applies to entire tracks when we have the TRACK dis-
play focused.
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