Patterns; Selecting A Pattern; Managing Patterns - Arturia KEYSTEP PRO User Manual

6.3. Patterns

A pattern contains the note information for a given track. There are 16 patterns per track
within a project.

6.3.1. Selecting a pattern

There are two ways to select a pattern. You can press the [>] buttons in the track to navigate
patterns or you can hold the PATTERN button and press one of the 16 steps to select a pattern
directly.
When a Pattern is selected (as opposed to a Chain), the PATTERN button will be lit.

6.3.2. Managing patterns

When loading a pattern, you load it from internal memory to working memory. All changes
you make such as nudge and randomize will be performed on this copy in working
memory. You can at any moment see which patterns are still in their unaltered state and
to which ones you have made changes. Hold SAVE and the patterns that contain unsaved
changes to will light up in red, unaltered ones will light up in blue.
Why is this important?
The KeyStep Pro is very much an improvisation tool when you load a pattern you have
many tools available to create variations of the current pattern. When making these
changes some of them will turn out ok others will turn out disastrous. In a situation like that,
you want to be able to switch back to the original state of the pattern and undo your failed
experiment. To reload the original version of your pattern hold SHIFT and press SAVE. The
OLED screen will display "pattern reloaded".
To SAVE the patterns held in working memory hold SAVE and hit the steps of the patterns
you wish to save.
This is a great new feature that enables you to save sequences/patterns selectively.
A shortcut to saving unsaved patterns is to press SAVE and hit the Track button to save all
patterns of the active track.
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