to another location. The quick Copy function works with steps, patterns, tracks, and
Variations.
Orange – currently played step (track playhead).
Red – currently played step when in Live Rec mode.
Grid pads will be illuminated in different color sets when toggling between Play’s various
modes and screens.
Patterns are created by engaging steps, placing them accordingly on the tracks, moving,
copying, deleting, etc. A pattern holds all the sequencer playback data and steps parameters
settings for the 16 available tracks. You can store up to 128 such patterns per project. Each
pattern consists of 8 audio and 8 MIDI tracks. You can easily put these patterns together into
an entire composition using the Pattern mode described later on.
A single track can be from 1 up to 64 steps long. Each track can have an independent length.
If a track is longer than 16 steps it is split into the next page. There are four step pages
available, signed as 16, 32, 48, and 64. Each of them can contain up to 16 steps. This makes it
easy to create polymeters and polyrhythms.
As all tracks can have independent lengths, a pattern’s length is indicated by the longest
track in that pattern. If you want to manipulate the pattern length as a whole, select all the
tracks at the same time and use the Track Length knob.
Press the Shift key while editing the pattern steps to visualize the length of certain
tracks on the four rightmost function pad columns.
Use Shift + one of the four function pads on a corresponding track to expand the next
page of steps.
If you want to extend a certain track length in an equal interval, you can press the Shift
key and select an empty page.
Press and hold the source track page pad while holding the Shift key + destination page
to Quick Copy the track steps between the source and target step pages.
You can Quick Copy the entire track pages with all the step parameters among the
tracks. This will also work when selecting the entire track and copying/pasting it.
You can change the default track length of 16 steps by using the Track Length knob or
by Quick Copying its pages.
The 4 x 8 function pad columns are located on the right side of the grid. The use of these will
affect an entire track and all of the steps it contains. While working in the audio sequencer
mode, the function pads are green. You can switch to MIDI sequencer mode using the Shift +
Patterns key combo, whereupon the steps will turn violet.
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