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The Tie/Rest/Chord button
Holding down SHIFT and pressing the Tie/Rest/Chord button puts the KeyStep Pro into Chord
mode. It will wait for you to play a block or legato chord. As soon as you lift your fingers
off the keyboard, the chord (actually its stacked intervals) is stored in memory. If you now
press a key on the keyboard, that key will become the root of the stored chord. In other
words, Chord mode will use the stored stack of intervals to build the chord on this new root
note. Please refer to
Chapter 5 [p.51]
for details.
Seq (Sequence) Pattern
To activate this shift function, hold down the SHIFT button and press the appropriate key (C,
C# or D in the lower octave).
This shift function enables you to change the way the notes stored in the step buttons will
play. Fwd (Forward) is the default mode. Rand (Random) plays the steps in random order.
In Walk mode, the sequencer digitally 'throws a dice' to decide whether to go forward or
backward at the end of each step: there's a 50% chance it will play the next step, a 25%
chance it will play the current step and a 25% chance it will play the previous step. Please
refer to
Chapter 5 [p.51]
for details.
Seq/Drum Mode
To activate this shift function, hold down the SHIFT button and press the appropriate key (D#
or E in the lower octave).
In Sequencer mode, each step can store a maximum of 16 notes. The mode you select here,
Mono (monophonic) or Poly (polyphonic), will determine whether all notes stored in the step
will play or just one: the lowest note of the stored chord.
In Drum mode, switching between Mono and Poly has a different effect. In Poly mode, each
of the 24 drum tracks can have a different length. In Mono mode, they share the same
length. Please refer to
Chapter 5 [p.51]
for details.
Arp (Arpeggio) Pattern
To activate this shift function, hold down the SHIFT button and press the appropriate key (F,
F#, G, G#, A, Bb or B in the lower octave).
The KeyStep Pro can transform any chord you are holding down on the keyboard into
an arpeggio. It can arpeggiate your chord in seven ways: up, down, exclusive pendulum,
inclusive pendulum, random, in the order you played them or polyphonically.
There's a lot to be learned about this function, so we have devoted a
whole chapter
[p.51]
to the wondrous secrets of arpeggiation and specifically to the KeyStep Pro's unique
arpeggiation features.
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