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Arp Octave
To activate this shift function, hold down the SHIFT button and press the appropriate key (C,
C#, D, D# or E in the middle octave).
By default, the arpeggiator will play the notes you are holding down and stay within the
limits of one octave. The Arp Octave -1, 0, +1, +2 and +3 buttons will extend the notes beyond
that range. If you change the octave range, the arpeggiator will also play notes in the
octaves above and below the chord you are playing. Press SHIFT + an Arp Octave key to
change the range.
Time Division
To activate this shift function, hold down the SHIFT button and press the appropriate key (F,
F#, G, G# or A in the middle octave).
Time Division can be applied to both the arpeggiators and the sequencers. Much of the fun
of arpeggios is that they can run at various speeds. If you mix them with sequences and
change speed it will have a great overall effect. The KeyStep Pro features three arpeggiators
that can run simultaneously and at different speeds!
By default, an arpeggiator will run in 1/16th straight-note speed, but there are four straight-
note speeds to choose from: 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 and 1/32. Each of these speeds can also run in
triplet mode, so actually when you consider straight notes and triplets there are eight speed
options. You can have one arpeggiator running in 1/16th straight-note speed and another in
1/8th triplets speed. There are lots of creative options to explore!
The sequencers (including the drum sequencer) can also run at these different speeds. You
could, for example, run copies of the same pattern in different tracks at different speeds.
There's unlimited potential for discoveries here.
Each pattern can have its own time division, which is stored with the pattern. This allows
you to create chains of the same pattern in different time divisions.
♪: When you change to another pattern while in Arp mode, the time division will not change.
Scale
To activate this shift function, hold down the SHIFT button and press the appropriate key (Bb
in the middle octave to G in the upper octave).
This SHIFT function enables you to change the scale of an arpeggio or a sequence on the
fly. You can choose from six different scales (major, minor, dorian, mixolydian, harmonic
minor or blues). When you select a scale by pressing SHIFT + a Scale key, everything in the
currently selected track ‒ the notes you are playing on the KeyStep Pro's keyboard, the active
track's sequence and the active track's arpeggio ‒ will play in that scale. This is a pattern
setting that is stored with the pattern when you save it.
The KeyStep Pro comes with six predefined scales, but you can also create your own
custom scale and store it as User 1 or User 2. Please refer to
Chapter 5
for additional
information.
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