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assigned to the first 16 steps after using Clear. If you extend the Pattern length to 32 steps once
again, all notes/hits previously assigned to steps 17 to 32 will still be there.
You can also use Duplicate with the Step Page button. Holding down Duplicate and pressing the
Step Page button will extend the Pattern length for the currently selected track to 32 steps, and copy
all data at steps 1 to 16 to steps 17 to 32 respectively, including automation data. Any data already
present on Page 2 will be overwritten by this operation.
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 contiguous, that is,
numerically 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 Tracks’ Scenes feature allows
you to overcome this restriction: see page 82 for details of how to use Scenes.)
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