Arturia KEYSTEP PRO User Manual page 105

6.4.1.2. Mastering Chains
Mastering chains is the essential skill you need to make good arrangments.
When creating a song or a more large scale composition you'll probably arrive a moment
where you have several sequences in each track. You don't want all of them to play
simultaneously but may want to start with a sequence in track 1, repeat it 2 times after
which a sequence of Track 2 will join in and play 2 times.
Something like this:
Track 1
first sequence
first sequence
second sequence
second sequence
How do you create a song structure like that?
The trick is to use an empty dummy pattern to create silence in the chain. Just leave pattern
1 of each track empty for that purpose. Fill patterns 2 and 3 with sequences.
Creating the chain for Track 1 is easy. Hold chain and press pattern 2, which holds the first
sequence twice, press pattern 3 twice, press pattern 1 three times to fill the remaining part
of the chain with dummy tracks.
When creating the chain for Track 2 we start with the dummy track:
Select track 2
Hold chain and press pattern 1 twice to enter two empty dummy tracks.
Fill remainder of the chain with the patterns and one dummy: 2, 3, 2, 3, dummy 1.
Track 3 starts with four dummies, second sequence, 3 and another dummy, Track four with
five dummies and its patterns 2 and 3.
It will now look like this:
Track 1
first sequence
first sequence
second sequence
second sequence
dummy (1)
dummy (16)
dummy (16)
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Track 2
first sequence
first sequence
second sequence
second sequence
Track 2
dummy (1)
dummy (1)
first sequence
second sequence
first sequence
second sequence
dummy (16)
Track3
first sequence
second sequence
Track3
dummy (1)
dummy (1)
dummy (1)
dummy (1)
first sequence
second sequence
dummy (16)
Track4
first sequence
second sequence
Track4
dummy (1)
dummy (1)
dummy (1)
dummy (1)
dummy (1)
first sequence
second sequence
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