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3.1.6. Octave - / Octave +
Pushing one of the Octave select buttons will transpose the keyboard pitch by as much as
two octaves up or down. To reset the keyboard octave shift back to zero, press both buttons
simultaneously.
3.2. Record and Play a Sequence
The KeyStep Pro features four (!) sequencers; one on each track. Let's record something on
Track 1:
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Press the Track 1 button; it will light up in green
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Select 'Seq' on this track if it isn't selected already
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Now hold the 'Record' button and press the 'Play' button; the step buttons' LEDs
now become active and cycle from Step 1 to Step 16 continuously. We are about
to create our first sequence pattern. Each track can hold 16 of these patterns.
The sequencer is in loop mode, so press a few keys and they will be added to the loop. The
KeyStep Pro sequencers are polyphonic, so pressing a chord instead of a single note will
enter it into the loop. Notice that all notes are recorded with the velocity at which you play
them.
At this point, you can start to 'play around' with your sequence. When you look carefully,
you'll see sequence modifiers printed in blue under the step buttons. - Hold the SHIFT key
(the leftmost button on the KeyStep Pro) and press 'Semi Up' or 'Semi Down' and hear how
your sequence is transposed up or down in semitones (half steps) on the fly.
There are a few other things to try here: SHIFT + Invert will create a mirror image of your
sequence. The last notes will become the first and vice versa. Press SHIFT + Invert once
more to restore the natural order of things (:-)).
It does not stop here: you can shift the looping sequence as a whole one step to the left or
right. To shift to the right, hold SHIFT and press Nudge>. A note in the first position of the
loop will move to the second position; a note in the last position will wrap around to the first
position.
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Arturia - User Manual Keystep Pro - Basic Operations
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