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4.2.14. SHIFT Functions
Many of the KeyStep Pro's most interesting functions can be accessed with the SHIFT button.
It's the leftmost button on the front panel and it's black. The blue SHIFT text reveals its crafty
secret: it is linked to all KeyStep Pro functions that are printed in blue on the front panel.
Take a good look and you'll find many of them: in the Transport section, to the left of the
keyboard, above the keys of the keyboard (except the highest C), below the 16 step buttons,
and in the Sequence Extend section. That's 63 SHIFT functions in total!
4.2.14.1. Keyboard Shift Functions
In itself, the SHIFT button has a very helpful feature: if you hold it down, the currently active
keyboard SHIFT functions will be displayed by lit-up LEDS. From left to right above the
keyboard these are:
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Seq Pattern mode
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Seq/Drum mode (Mono or Poly)
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Arp Pattern and Arp Octave
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Time Division
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Scale
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CV routing
The HOLD/Clear Button
The HOLD/Clear button enables you to hold arpeggios, so that they continue to play until you
release it. You can hold arpeggios on several tracks simultaneously. SHIFT + HOLD/Clear will
release all currently held arpeggios.
The Trans/Clear Button
By holding down the Trans (Transpose) button and pressing a key on the keyboard you
can transpose the running sequence to another key signature. The Transpose button is a
toggle button. Once you have applied a transposition to a sequence, the transpose button
will 'remember' that transpose action. If you press it once more you return to the original
untransposed sequence. Thus you always have an untransposed and a transposed version
of the sequence at hand, and you can toggle between them!
Transposition is linked to the currently selected track. In a live situation you can, for example,
transpose Track 1, then select Track 2 and apply a transposition there as well. Holding down
SHIFT and pressing Trans/Clear will clear all active transpositions simultaneously.
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