6. If PATTERN 1A already exists, press and hold the PATTERN 1 switch and then press CLEAR. If you now press
START/STOP, you should not hear a pattern. (Remember to press START/STOP once more to get out of play mode.)
7. Enter the number of steps in your pattern, by holding down FUNCTION and pressing the STEP switch by the number
of steps required. For example, you can press it 8 times. If you skip this step, then the pattern will be 16 steps.
8. Press PITCH MODE and its LED will turn on. Now you can enter the notes required for your pattern by pressing any of
the 13 notes in the keyboard.
9. To change the octave for a note, press and hold either of the TRANSPOSE up or down switches and then press the
required note.
Checking and editing notes
10. To listen to the pattern of notes, press PITCH MODE to return to the start of the pattern, and press WRITE/NEXT to
play the notes one at a time. (Press PITCH MODE at any time to return to the start.)
11. To change a note that has just played, press BACK to go back to that step. Then press the new note (or to change
octave, press and hold either of the TRANSPOSE up or down switches and then press the desired note).
12. Continue to press WRITE/NEXT until all notes have been played, or press PITCH MODE to return to the start, or
FUNCTION to exit PITCH MODE.
13. To redo the whole pattern, repeat step 3 onwards.
Writing the timing in TIME MODE
After all notes have been entered, you need to enter the timing of each note in TIME MODE. Note: While in TIME
MODE, no sounds will be heard.
14. Press the TIME MODE switch and its LED will turn on.
15. In TIME MODE, you can play the NOTE as it is, or add a TIE, or a REST using three switches as shown above.
For example, for 16 notes, you could press these three switches as follows: Note, Rest, Rest, Note, Tie, Note, Note,
Tie, Note, Note, Tie, Note, Note, Note, Tie, Note. Whenever you reach the required number of notes (which you set in
procedure 7 above), it will automatically exit TIME MODE.
Note: To play all the notes just as they are, repeatedly press the NOTE switch until you exit TIME MODE. This will
create a simple Arpeggio.
Checking and editing timing
16. To check the timing is OK, press TIME MODE, and press WRITE/NEXT to cycle through the pattern steps, one at a
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