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5.3.3.2. Step Edit Button OFF (Quick Edit Mode)
When the Step Edit button is OFF, you can simply turn steps on or off by pressing their
step buttons. That might seem trivial, but it can make a big difference to the feel of your
sequence.
When your sequence is running, the KeyStep Pro will light up the buttons of the steps that
are ON in your sequence. You can do several things now:
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Hold down the Trans (Transpose) button and press a key on the keyboard to
transpose you sequence up or down.
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Press SHIFT + Invert (step button 5) to create a mirror image of your sequence,
and press SHIFT + Invert once more to restore the natural order of things (;-)
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Nudge the looping sequence as a whole to the left or right (backward or forward
in time). To nudge to the left, hold down SHIFT and press < Nudge (step button
3); to nudge to the right, hold down SHIFT and press Nudge > (step button 4). The
note or notes in the first step of the loop will move to the second step; the note or
notes in the last step will wrap around to the first step.
There are a few other interesting options we haven't explored. By holding down a step
button, you can edit three parameters – Gate, Velocity and Randomness – of the note
or notes stored in that step by turning the appropriate encoders. You can even do this
selectively by activating
the gate time of only two notes of a four-note chord, select them by pressing the appropriate
keys and turn the Gate encoder to the right. How cool is that?
5.3.3.3. Step Edit Button ON
When Step Edit is ON, selecting a step will make its button blink: three of that step's
parameters – Gate, Velocity and Randomness – can now be edited by turning the
appropriate encoders.
When the sequencer is stopped and Step Edit is ON, pressing a step button selects that step.
You can now do the same things as in Quick Edit mode, but there's no need to hold down a
step button:
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Play a note or a chord (a stack of notes) to store in that step, or if the step already
contains a note or a chord, change it using the keyboard. The note or chord you
press will replace the existing note(s).
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Edit that step's parameters with the Gate, Velocity and Randomness encoders.
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with Overdub. For example, to lengthen
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