Playing A Chain - Quasimidi CYBER-6 Manual

Playing a chain

Playing a chain actions you can take to interact with the song. You can transpose the song using the keys of the first octave
on the keyboard or mute single tracks using the digit buttons. The currently muted tracks are represented
by a "0" in the first line of the display, active trcks by a "1". These actions only change what is actually
played, but the settings for the single chain steps stay the same. But this isn´t all you can do. As mentioned
above, you can "freeze" single steps by pressing the [ENTER] button once, and the current pattern will be
looped until you press [ENTER] again.
You can use the second footswitch for this as well, simply call page 4 of the main menu and switch the
second footswitch to chain-step. If this footswitch is active in one of your masterkeyboard programs,
it´s function there is disabled. Another way of interfering with the chain is pressing the + / - buttons
to jump to the previous / next step in the chain.
In the first line of the display you can see - apart from the mute-sttings - the current masterkeyboard
program and the selected pattern, for example:
means masterkeyboard program 5 and pattern 5 are active in this step, while
means the masterkeyboard program was not changed, but the pattern was changed to pattern 6.
means the pattern wasn´t changed, but the masterkeyboard program, while
means nothing has changed. This might be useful if you want to change nothing but the settings for muting
and / or transposing.
In the second line you can see - apart from chain number and step number - the bars to be played before the
next step is called. If the current pattern is looped, this value is 0. This means that when you press the
"enter"-button again, the CYBER-6 jumps to the next step.
Working with the chain-mode will show you, why CYBER-6 is called "realtime-enhancer". Never before
you have had such an absolute realtime access to the whole keyboard stuff during a sequencer live-per-
formance like on the CYBER-6.
(MKB: 5 PAT: 5 )
(MKB:=== PAT:6 )
(MKB: 6 PAT:===)
(MKB:=== PAT:===)
Chain: 1 Step: 2 Bars: 4 EDIT
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