Press RUN/STOP (H) when programming has been completed. As you can see,
Chaining Rhythms are used to program a measure requiring more than 16 Steps. With
the Clearing operation (pressing the CLEAR/RESET button (F)), both of two patterns
are erased. When using Chained Rhythms, it is necessary to set up the SCALE and
STEP number for each Rhythm used. However, the number of STEPS or SCALE of
the Chained Rhythms does not have to be the same.
It is possible to select different SCALE and different STEPs for each Chained
Rhythm by quickly changing the SCALE and STEP selection while the TR-606 runs
from one Chained Rhythm to the other. This is usually most successful if it is done
while the TEMPO is running fairly slowly.
The easiest way to program a Chained Rhythm is to program each Rhythm Pattern
individually, and then chain them together.
Fig. 7
123456789012 123456789
BD x-------xx-- --------x
SD --x--xxxx--x -x-x-xxxx
CH x-xx-xx-xx-x x-xx-xx-x
AC --x---x----x --xx-xx--
The program score in Figure 7 shows a Chained Rhythm in which the Rhythms have a
different number of STEPs. To program Figure 7, set the SCALE at 3, and set the
number of STEPs in the first Rhythm Pattern at 12 and the number of steps in the
second Rhythm Pattern at 9.
[You can get far more complex chained rhythms when you give each pattern a
different scale setting as well. Look at the last
sample pattern
for a good example - ed]
Composing the Rhythm Track
So far, we have used many of the TR-606 performance controls to produce creative
and interesting results, but a function that completely sets the TR-606 apart from any
other device is its ability to record an entire composition's percussion score (which we
will call the Rhythm Track).
A Rhythm Track is composed (as we call it) in real time, and in much the same way
you have programmed Rhythm Patterns, by using the Rhythm SELECTOR Switches
(K) to change from one Programmed Rhythm to another. We will program a short
Rhythm Track from some Rhythms you now have in memory.
Track Memory
The TR-606 contains eight different tracks, which can be used for eight different
songs or for a less number of songs longer in length. Each of the tracks #1-7 contains
enough memory storage capacity to create songs of up to 64 bars in length. For songs
that are longer than 64 bars, these Tracks can be run together. Up to 4 tracks can be
chained together in this manner to create songs of 256 bars in length (4 Tracks x 64
bars each = 256).
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