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3.10 The song-chain mode
The pattern you have created can be chained to complete songs. The song chain mode of
the spectralis provides you great freedom.During a live session you can always directly
jump from song-chain to pattern-mode and back. If you realize, a songstep is not working
for the audience, just skip the songstep on the fly. When reaching a pattern, which drives
your audience crazy - just loop this pattern and start jamming with the mute and solo
buttons. After the jam session is over, jump back to the song chain and let the song run
until your end-marker. The Spectralis so far can memorize up to 32 songs with 32 patterns
each and up to 499 songsteps. That should be enough for your next rave event, electronic
mega festival or even your little brothers birthday party.
Songs inside the Spectralis memory are stored into the flash memory. When browsing the
flash rom with your computer, you will notice songfolders. They all have the same naming
conventions - The folders are named "SONGXX", where XX is the corresponding
memory location on your spectralis. Inside the folders are the patterns of the selected
song. By hitting the [Song]-button in the num-button assignment section, you set the
Spectralis into the song-chain mode. The songs now can be selected by hitting the num-
buttons [1]-[16] with and without holding down the [Shift]-button. All patterns must be
placed into these songfolders. If you want to use a pattern from another song, just copy
this pattern from the other song to the computers harddisk, rename the file in order to
specify the memory-location for this pattern and copy it to the desired song-folder. If you
want to backup the songs to your computer, simply copy the folders to the harddisk.
3.10.1 Playing a song
Since version 0.95, the Spectralis comes with preprogrammed songs. Just select one of
these songs with the num-buttons and press start. If you don't interrupt the songchain by
the commands below, the selected song will be played back from the beginning until the
end of the song.
[Page-Up] and [Page-Down]
The [Page]-buttons will jump to the next or the former songstep. The pattern change
will be done after the current bar is completed. If you push the [Page-Up]-button
multiple times before the bar end is reached, the Spectralis will jump multiple songsteps.
The next songstep can also be checked at the upper right corner of the display message:
S03:EMbient PA08:Speckie Pa:15 S 10
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The first line of the display shows the following informations. S03 is the selected songnumber
followed by the songname. PA08:Speckie is the current pattern that plays at the selected
songstep followed by the pattern name. Pa:15 is the currently selected partnumber assigned
to the knobs and the masterkeyboard and S 10 is the current songstep-number.
"How to...?" The song-chain mode
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