Step Pattern Recording - CAKEWALK PRO AUDIO User Manual

Stop recording and save your
work
Stop recording and discard
your work
Advance to the next step
5. Click OK.
As always, you can use the Undo and Redo commands after you have
finished recording. Note that these commands erase or restore all the
material you recorded while in step record mode.

Step Pattern Recording

The Pattern option lets you deÞne a repeating rhythmic pattern of notes
and rests so that you can use step recording more efÞciently. For
example, suppose your project is in 4/4 time, and one track has a pattern
that is two measures long: quarter notes in the Þrst measure and on the
Þrst two beats of the second measure, followed by a half-note rest on the
last two beats. This pattern has six quarter notes followed by two
quarter-note rests.
When you use step recording with Auto Advance, you can play the six
quarter notes and Pro Audio will automatically advance to the next step.
However, to skip over the rests, you need to click the Advance button two
times.
With pattern recording, you deÞne a pattern that indicates where the
rests appear in the pattern. Pro Audio will then skip over the rests
automatically, so you donÕt need to click the Advance button at all.
Pro Audio displays patterns as a combination of digits (which represent
beats that contain notes) and dots (which represent beats that contain
rests). The pattern described previously looks like this:
1 2 3 4 5 6 . .
Here is another example:
1 2 . 4
This pattern automatically skips over every third beat; Pro Audio
interprets this pattern as Òone, two, rest, four.Ó
Click Keep or press Enter
Click Close or press Esc
With Auto Advance disabled, click
the Advance button
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