The Sequencer1 Playing A Sequence Or Song - bit MIDI MASTER KEYBOARD Owner's Manual

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The features we've covered so far make up the keyboard operating
syste~ of the BIT HASTER KEYBOARD - arid pretty i~pressive it's been
too, you might think, Dut we're by no means finished yet: the icing on
the cake, so to speak, is the KASTER KEYBDARO's on-board sequencer!
Pretty tasty
icing it is too: not just a poor excuse far
the word
'sequencer', like the arpeggiators 1asquerading ?s such in some other
(na~eless) ~anufacturers' machines, If we w~ren't so modest {ahem!)
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~e'd say it really qualified as a
'Song
Composer'!
Four
polyphonic
tracks, eight completely separate sequences and a 4000 note me~ory
(not even counting repitetionsl are all awaiting your disposal, The
simple operating procedure Nill help you link musical them2s and
fragments into complete songs, 'in no· time. The advantages for th~
musician - ~ith the band or in Ho~e Recording - are practically
unlimited, as you can all easily imagine, A nice 'encore' from BIT,
doncha think?
THE
SEQUENCER
TABLE1 PLAYIN6 A SEOUENCE OR SONS
Before actually composjng or editing a sequence
1
let's take a quick
look at the
way
the sequencer is built up. You'll find the special
sequencer control buttons at the bottom of the Sequencer Table on the
left of the front panel. You might well have been overpowered by
curiosity before ttiis, and hit the red
"RUNu
button - nothing wrong
with that, providing the red REC LED was~..!..~ at the ti~e! If it is
lit,
it
shows that the HASTER KEYBOARD is in RECORD ~ode
1
and any
notes stored on Track 1 will be erased on pressing the
~nuHn
button.
No need to ~orry though, you alway~ have to activate
yourself (by pressing the grey •TRACK l" button at lea~t
MASTER KEYBOARD
won't
do this
independently
and
~ess
up
sequences!
We'll be getting to that in just a moment.
RECORD r:ode
on eel, the
y our
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or
e n
The yellow LEOs above the TRACK buttons show tthether or not the
sequencer has already stored data in this sequence; the active green
LEDs show Tracks that have alr~ady been laid down, while Tracks with
dark LEDs are presently inactive and~ still be
free.
It is possible
to suppress for inactivate) Tracks that ar~ already laid dawn,
anrl
easy to check whether they are really empty or only disabled:
if
any
(or all) of the gre~n
LEDs
are
dark,
try
pressing the relevant
"TRACKa
button(s) one
ai
a time to activate them. If you çan't activate any of
the four
LEDs,
Sequence 1 is empty.
You can now press the red ~RUN" button to listen to Se~uence 1, The
display will show "EMPTY"
if
Sequence 1 hns not yet been recorded, b·:t
also if all Tracks have been inactivated.
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