Real Time Pattern Recording - twisted electrons hapiNES L User Manual

3-4 Real time pattern recording

You can record patterns in real time by activating the record mode.
Hold shift and briefly press run without releasing shift
The piano keys will begin to flash, indicating that record mode is active.
Now you can play the keyboard in real time to add a square wave melody.
press rest to clear what you recorded if you wish to try again.
Press shift to exit record mode.
3-5 Copy/Pasting a pattern
To copy the entire pattern of the selected voice hold slide and press oct-
To paste the copied pattern on top of the current pattern hold slide and press oct+
Example: if you wish to duplicate the baseline of pattern 1 to pattern 2:
-Hold shift and press triangle to select the triangle bass voice
-Go to pattern 1 by holding shift and pressing the < pat > buttons
-Copy the pattern by pressing slide and oct-
-hold shift and press pat > to go to pattern 2.
-Paste the pattern by pressing slide and oct +
3-6 Shortening patterns
You can shorten a pattern by making a step reset it.
Select a step by holding shift and pressing the < step > buttons
Hold shift + run then press rest to make the selected step reset the pattern.
Repeat the procedure on the same step to cancel the reset.