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The Tap Tempo/Metronome button lets you set the tempo by tapping on this button in time
with the beat you want or are hearing.
To enable or disable KeyStep Pro's built-in Metronome, hold down SHIFT while pressing the
Tap Tempo/Metronome button.
Turning the Swing/Offset knob lets you adjust the amount of swing or 'shuffle' feel in your
sequences. It affects either the entire project (all four tracks at once) or only the selected
sequencer/arpeggiator, leaving the others unchanged. Holding down the SHIFT button while
turning the Swing/Offset knob lets you adjust the timing offset for a track
♪: If the KeyStep Pro is externally synchronized, the master tempo will be determined by an external
clock source and the Tempo/Fine knob and the Tap Tempo button will be ignored.
Swing introduces a shuffle feel to the active sequence or arpeggio. If you've listened to a
variety of musical genres (it's unlikely that you haven't) you have heard swing. It's when
musicians play just before or just after the beat. This is very often heard in jazz and Latin
American music. It evokes a feeling of freedom, of not being forced into a fixed, grid-like
rhythm. It is particularly effective when you mix 'straight' notes with 'swung' notes.
25 different settings are available, ranging from fully counter-clockwise (no swing, or 50%)
through increasing amounts of swing (51-74%) to fully clockwise (maximum swing, or 75%).
What the Swing setting does is shift the timing of the notes in a sequence, making the first
note of a pair longer and the second note shorter. Assuming the time division is set to 1/8,
here's what will happen: with Swing set to 50%, each note gets equal time, resulting in a
'straight 1/ 8th note' feel.
As the Swing value is increased above 50% the first 1/8th note is held longer and the
second is played later and shorter. You'll notice that the sequence starts to 'shuffle' a bit and
hopefully sounds less mechanical to your ear.
The maximum Swing setting is 75%, at which point the 1/8th notes sound more like a 1/16th-
note figure than 'shuffled' 1/8th notes.
♪: Each sequence can have its own Swing setting.
The Swing/Offset knob has a secondary function: to set a track offset. Holding down SHIFT
and tweaking Swing/Offset will apply an offset to the selected track.
Turning or pressing the Swing/Offset knob will display the global and current track offset
values.
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