Elektron Monomachine User Manual
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THE PATTERN SEQUENCER
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2.
Enter GRID RECORDING mode by pressing the [RECORD] key. The <RECORD> LED
above the key should now be firmly lit.
3.
You can press [PLAY] if you prefer to listen to the pattern playing while composing. It will
loop over and over, until you press [STOP] to stop the playback or [PLAY] to pause it.
4.
Press a [TRIG] key to set a note trig for the corresponding step. The <TRIG> LED’s indi-
cates which steps contain note trigs. You will see that the LED above the [TRIG] key
lights up with a red light as you press it. You can remove a note trig by pressing the cor-
responding [TRIG] key one more time. The LED should now be switched off.
5.
While holding a [TRIG] key you can see a mini-keyboard appearing after a short delay. It
is located in the lower left corner of the LCD interface. This mini-keyboard indicates the
pitch of the note, both by a marker on the mini-keyboard and the note printed below. The
<KEYBOARD> LED’s of the SFX-6 also indicate the pitch programmed.
6.
There are two methods for adjusting the pitch of a trig. You can either press a key on the
keyboard while holding the [TRIG] key to set the pitch indicated by the keyboard key.
You can also use the [ARROW] keys to adjust the pitch programmed while holding the
[TRIG] key. Holding [FUNCTION] while pressing the [RIGHT] or [LEFT] key adjusts the
pitch one full octave up or down.
7.
You can set NOTE OFF trigs by pressing the [TRIG] key while holding [FUNCTION].
NOTE OFF trigs are events that tell that the key is lift up, starting the Release phase of
the Amplitude Envelope (see page 26). NOTE OFF are indicated with yellow <TRIG>
LED’s.
8.
Chords can also be programmed. These can be used for POLY mode (see section
“POLY MODE”, on page 69) and trigging the arpeggiator (see section “THE ARPEGGIA-
TOR”, on page 61). If not in POLY mode and if the arpeggiator is not activated, only the
base pitch will sound. You can program chords with the keyboard by pressing more keys
while holding the first base pitch key. The mini-keyboard shows chord-notes as dots. A
scroll list will appear below the mini-keyboard and the base pitch. This list can also be
edited using the [ARROW] keys. Press [ENTER/YES] to enter the list if no chord key is
yet entered.