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EPS-16 PLUS Musician's Manual Section 8 — Sequencer Basics

Song Mode

The EPS-16 PLUS' Song mode allows you to chain individual sequences

together to form a song. Since each sequence has a fixed length, tempo, and time

signature, you can use the Song mode to create works with tempo and time

signature changes. However, Song mode on the EPS-16 PLUS lets you do

much more than just play sequences in order.

First, for each step of the song you can selectively mute or transpose any of the

tracks in the sequence. And second...

You can record in song mode. An EPS-16 PLUS song offers you another set of

tracks, called song tracks, which let you record over the entire length of the song.

The information recorded in these song tracks is separate from information in the

tracks of the individual sequences which comprise the song. However, each

song track does "share" an instrument with the same-numbered sequence track.

You will find more details about song tracks later. First, here are a few things to

know about EPS-16 PLUS song mode:

• There is only one song in the EPS-16 PLUS at a time. Whenever the song is

selected, (as opposed to one of the sequences) the SONG indicator lights on the

display:

The SONG indicator remains lit as long as the song is selected, no matter what

mode the EPS-16 PLUS is in or page it is on. Whenever the SONG indicator is

not lit, an individual sequence is selected.

• You select the song in the same way that you select sequences, on the

EDIT/Seq•Song page (press Edit, then double-click on Seq•Song).

• Songs are composed of steps. For each step of the song, you define:

> Which sequence will play during that step;

> The number of repetitions - how many times the sequence will play during

the step;

> The status (Play, Mute, or Transpose) of each track of the sequence during

the step; and

> The transpose amount, which determines how far any transposed tracks

in that step will be shifted up or down in pitch.

• A song can contain as many as 99 steps, with up to 63 repetitions of each step.

Song Mode

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