Recording the Styles and Pads |231
How Pads are made
The Pads
A Pad is basically a single-track, single Style Element Style. Most of what ap-
plies to Style recording also applies to Pad recording. There are two different
categories of Pads: Hit and Sequence.
Pad type Meaning
Hit While they are mostly used as non-transposing events, they can also
be transposing notes or chords. Basically, they are single-note or
single-chord Sequences (see below).
Sequence Single-track patterns, that can be transposed by playing different
chords on the keyboard – exactly as a Style track.
Each Pad is made up of up to six smaller units, called Chord Variations (CV).
Each Chord Variation is made of a single track (the Pad track).
Exactly as with the Styles, when playing a chord in the chord recognition
area, the corresponding Chord Variation is recalled. Recognized chords are
associated to a Chord Variation by means of the Chord Variation Table. Each
Pad contains a Chord Variation Table.
The Pad structure
The Pad structure is the same of a single-track Style Element, as shown in
the following diagram:
Pad
CV1
CV2
CV3
CV4
CV5
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