Cirklon Sequencer User Manual
The three choices are step, poly and arpeg.
step - notes will enter each step, starting from the current input position, in the order
they were received. The previous notes do not need to be released for each following note to
be recorded, which makes it possible to enter a group of notes by playing a chord, which will
then play back as an arpeggio.
poly - notes will enter each step, as with step mode, but if multiple notes are played
together, and the pattern has been configured with aux rows assigned to play extra notes,
the chord played will be entered in the current step. All notes must be released before input
will advance to the next step. This allows polyphonic step-time input of chords or single
notes.
arpeg - this mode is the same as the monophonic step mode. However, whenever a
new note or chord is played after previously recorded notes have been released, the input
position is reset to the first step in the pattern, and the last-step value reset so that only the
newly entered notes will be played. The result is that this mode behaves in a similar fashion
to a non-programmable arpeggiator.
The step record input position is shown at the right and centre of the display.
This shows the bar and step number that the next note received will be recorded into.
You can manually force this position to any point in the pattern by selecting that step with its
step encoder. Note that you must hide the record menu to do this, by pressing the MENU
key. When the menu is hidden, step-time record will remain active.
Returning to the other menu options…
The “mthru” option determines whether incoming notes will be soft-thru’d or not, as with the
normal record mode.
The “clear” option resets the last step of the bar to step 1, sets step 1 to skip, and resets the
next step to be captured to bar 1, step 1.
This has the effect of creating a silent pattern, ready for new notes to be entered from the
beginning.
As notes are entered, the last step value for the bar will be increased to include the new notes
if required, and extra bars may also be added.
The precise order the notes are played in determines their order in the captured arpeggio - so
by controlling the order you press the notes in the chord entered, you can control the nature
of the resulting arpeggio.
Or you could use some of the other P3 direction modes for a more random or varied arpeggio
pattern.
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