4.2.8. The Step Edit Button
The Step Edit button enables you to edit an individual step of a sequence. By pressing the
Step Edit button you active Step Edit mode.
In Step Edit mode you can use the five main encoders to edit the Pitch, Gate, Velocity, Time
Shift and/or Randomness of the note or notes in the active step. There's much to discover
and learn about how this seemingly simple button works. Please refer to Chapter 5 [p.51] for
details.
4.2.9. Step Buttons
These 16 buttons let you activate or deactivate steps in a sequence and program specific
steps. They provide visual feedback (active steps are lit up in the colour of the selected track)
and an indication of the currently playing step (which is lit up in white). This is an intuitive
way of programming steps that will be very familiar to anyone who has worked with an
old-school drum machine.
On the KeyStep Pro, these 16 Step buttons can do many other things that just active or
deactivate steps. For example, holding down the Lst Step (Last Step) button while pressing
one of the Step buttons lets you set the sequence's length. Holding down the SHIFT button
lets you do several different things, including clearing patterns, nudging notes backward or
forward and quantizing sequences. These various SHIFT functions are covered in detail in
Chapter 5 [p.51] of this guide.
One of the most distinctive features of these Step buttons is that they are colour-coded to
match the track that is currently selected. So when Track 1 is active the Step buttons light
up in green; for Track 2 they become orange, and so on. This colour-coding is consistently
followed across the entire front panel and lets you know what track you are currently editing
in the KeyStep Pro.
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