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2. Press and to see the note selection box move up and down the screen. This box selects
the note you’ll be turning on or off. As it moves to each note, you hear the note.
Note selection box
3. Press and to select the closed hi-hat at A#4.
A#4
The keys along the left
edge are numbered.
Each octave starts at C,
so you have C1-B1, C2-B2,
and so on.
You can see the currently selected
note number here.
4. Press all of the VELOCITY PADS, one-by-one, so they’re all lit. You don’t need to do this in rhythm,
since in TR-Rec mode, you’re just setting each note’s on/off switch. As you turn on each pad, its
note appears in the grid, until it looks like this.
When all of the pads are lit, you’ll hear the hi-hat on all 16 16th notes in Measure 1. The other
three measures remain silent, since you haven’t yet added hi-hat notes there.
Let’s replace one of these closed hi-hat sounds with an open hi-hat sound.