TS-12 Musician’s Manual Section 10 — Understanding the Sequencer
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• Pressing Play while holding down Record will start the sequencer recording on the current
track from the beginning of the sequence or song.
• Pressing Stop/Continue while holding down Record will start the sequencer recording on the
current track from wherever it was last stopped.
• Pressing Record while the sequencer is playing will put the sequencer into “Punch in”
Standby mode. It will wait for you to either start playing or press Record again before going
into Record on the current track.
• Pressing any Foot Switch assigned to either PLAY/STOP or STOP/CONT will initiate
recording while the sequencer is in “Punch in” Standby mode.
When the Autopunch function is on, the sequencer will only enter and exit Record mode at the
points specified by the Edit Times on the Locate page.
Sequencer Status
On most sequencer pages the lower-left-hand corner of the display indicates the Sequencer Status.
The sequencer is always in one of the following states:
• STOP — Sequencer at rest
• PLAY — Playing current sequence (sequence selected)
• SNGS — Song Stop: sequencer at rest with a song selected
• SNGP — Song Play: playing current song
• REC — Recording on current track, first pass
• ODUB — Overdub: re-recording current track
• CNTF — Countoff playing prior to going into Play, Record, or Overdub
• REC (flashing) — Record Standby: waiting for you to play before going into Record (first
track only)
• ODUB (flashing) — “Punch-in” Standby: waiting for you to play before going into Overdub
• MREC (flashing) — MIDI sync Record Standby: same as Record Standby except that the
sequencer is synced to external MIDI clocks (CLOCK-MIDI on the Seq Control page) and is
waiting for MIDI clocks as well as notes before going into Record. If the Stop/Continue
button is pressed while MREC is flashing, the sequencer waits 5 seconds before exiting MIDI
sync Record Standby.
• AUDP — Audition Play. This State is entered automatically from Record when the end of the
sequence is reached (assuming LOOP=ON). After leaving Record and entering Audition Play,
the sequence will continue to play in this state, with the newly recorded track, until you press
the Stop/Continue button. Pressing Stop/Continue from this state will put you on the
PLAY/KEEP Page (see below).
• AUDS — Audition Stop is entered when you stop the sequencer from the Audition Play state.
To exit Audition Stop and return to the normal stop state, you must first instruct the TS-12 to
KEEP either the new or the original track (see Audition Play/Keep Page later in this section).
Sequencer Banks
Pressing the Seqs/Songs button located beneath the display puts the TS-12 into sequencer mode.
The ten Bank buttons (labeled 0-9) will now select Sequencer Banks. Each bank contains six
sequencer locations, any of which can contain a sequence or a song, or may be blank.