5.3.3 Adjusting the Base Key of the Pads on Your Controller
While trying out various bass presets on the pads, you will note that they are playing quite high
notes. This is because your 16 pads play by default the notes from C3 to D#4 — not the most
appropriate notes for playing bass. Hence, we need to lower the notes played by the pads.
1. Press and hold PAD MODE.
2. Press F1 (KEYBD).
3. Press F2 (OCT -) twice.
4. Release PAD MODE.
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Your pads now play two octaves lower.
You can adjust this more precisely by changing the Base Key parameter available on the
same Pad Mode screen of your controller: Press and hold PAD MODE, press Right Arrow
repeatedly until you see 5/6: BASE KEY on the display, then turn the Control encoder to
adjust the Base Key semi-tone by semi-tone.
This setting is only relevant for your controller: Indeed, in the software the vertical key-
board already displays all notes (use the vertical scroll bar on the right to display them
all).
We now can choose a bass sound:
1. If you left Browse mode in the meanwhile, press BROWSE to enter it again.
2. Load various bass presets into Sound slot 1 and play them on the pads to choose the bass
sound you would like to use.
Let’s choose the Sound “Analovue,” because it both has a nice bass content and some high-
frequency ornaments. Moreover, it holds interesting rhythmic content synchronized to the
Project tempo!
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Once you have found a bass to your liking, deactivate BROWSE to leave the Browser.
In this example you don’t need to specifically load the selected Sound, since it is al-
ready loaded via the Autoload function.
Adding a Bass Line
Loading a Plug-in Instrument for the Bass
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