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5.4.3. Creating Drum Patterns
For this section, you need to have your KeyStep Pro in Drum mode. To do that, press the
Drum button on Track 1.
5.4.3.1. Drum Quick Edit Mode
Quick Edit is the fastest way to create and experiment with rhythmic patterns.
Here's how it works:
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Select Track 1 and put it into Drum mode.
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Press a key on the keyboard that corresponds to the drum sound you want to
use for this track, then press the step buttons for the steps you want to trigger
this sound.
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Repeat this procedure with other keys/sounds.
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Press play to hear your Drum Pattern.
If you watch carefully, you'll see the LEDs above the keys (Drum tracks) you have
programmed light up. While the Pattern is playing, whenever a trigger occurs on a Drum
track the corresponding LED will flash momentarily.
If a key (Drum track) is selected for editing, its LED will be permanently lit to indicate that,
if you press step buttons, steps will be added to the current track. Any new steps you add
will use the current settings of the encoders: Gate, Velocity, Time Shift and Randomness. You
can use this feature to create accents:
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Set Velocity to medium (12 o'clock position) and press step buttons 1 and 8.
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Set Velocity to maximum and press step buttons 4 and 12.
Now press Play and hear how steps 4 and 12 are accented.
To change the parameters of a step, hold down the corresponding step button and change
the encoder settings.
♪: When Drum mode is selected, the Drum sequencer is in Mono mode by default.
5.4.3.2. Realtime Recording of a Pattern
To record a Pattern, press the Record button then press the Play button to start the Pattern. If
the Pattern is already playing, just press the Record button. When the KeyStep Pro is running
with both Play and Record lit up, it is in Record mode. If it isn't running, check the sync
settings in the Utility menu by pressing SHIFT + Project, scrolling down to Sync, pressing the
selection encoder and checking the Input parameter. It's best to set this to 'auto'.
Now play one or more keys. Whatever you play will be captured and added to the current
Pattern. You can toggle individual events ON/OFF with the step buttons.
You can also record the input from an external MIDI/USB source, but the only steps that
will be recorded are those that correspond to the current Drum note mapping. For more
information, see the Drum Map section of the
The active quantization setting will have a direct effect on your recording. When recording
with active quantization in a low time-division (1/4 or 1/8) the beats will be 'forced' together.
Turn quantization OFF by pressing SHIFT + Record/Quantize to preserve the irregular feel of
your playing style or the external input.
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