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Chaining Patterns
Once you’ve created several Patterns for one or more tracks, you can start to chain them together to
make a longer sequence. Press Patterns
10
to open
Patterns View.
Patterns can be chained on a per-track basis. When Patterns are chained, they play sequentially, e.g., a
Pattern Chain comprising four Patterns will play them in numerical order one after the other, and then
repeat. If they are all 32-step Patterns, the chain will be 128 steps in length. Another track with just
a single 32-step Pattern will be played four times during each chain; a 16-step Pattern will be played
eight times.
To create a Pattern Chain, press and hold the pad for the lowest-numbered Pattern required and
then press the pad for the highest-numbered Pattern required. (Or indeed, the other way round.) For
example, if you want to chain a track’s Patterns in memories 1 to 3 together, hold Pad 1 down and
then press Pad 3. You’ll see that all three pads now illuminate brightly in the track colour, indicating
that they now form a chained sequence.
If you want to select a chain from Patterns across the Page boundary, selection works the same way:
for example, to select Patterns to 3 to 6 as a chain, press and hold the pad for Pattern 3, then press J
to move to Page 2, then press the pad for Pattern 6. You’ll now find that the pads for Patterns 3, 4, 5
and 6 are all lit. To chain Patterns that use the same pad on the two pages as the start/end points (e.g.
1 and 5), hold the pad for the first Pattern, move to Page 2, then release the pad. In this example, a
chain of Patterns 1 to 5 is then created.
What’s important to remember is that the Patterns you chain together must be consecutive. You can
chain Patterns 1, 2, 3 and 4 together, or 5, 6 and 7 together, or 4 and 5 together, but you can’t chain
1,2 and 6 together. (However, Circuit Rhythm’s Scenes feature allows you to overcome this restriction:
see page 59 for details of to use Scenes.)
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