Elektron Monomachine - Manual (Page 67)

THE PATTERN SEQUENCER
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Traditionally synthesizers retrig all envelopes when a NOTE ON event (a key pressed on
the keyboard) occurs. In the Monomachine NOTE ON events can be split up, allowing you
to trig the amplitude envelope (AMP trig),filter envelope (FILTER trig) or the LFO’s (LFO
trig) at any step of the sequence. Please refer to the first two illustrations in Figure 7, “Trig
track illustrations,” on page 60.
The [TRIG SELECT] key cycles between which trig track is being programmed, and the
<TRIG TRACK> LED’s indicate the current active selection. All three <TRICK TRACK>
LED’s lit means the ALL mode, where trigs for all three trig tracks are set. The four states
are listed below:
• ALL - This is the default state where all <TRIG TRACK> LED’s are lit. [TRIG] keys
pressed add or remove trigs on all three Trig tracks, and a pitch is added as default.
• AMP - Only adds or removes trigs on the AMP Trig track. No pitch is added as default.
• FILTER - Only adds or removes trigs on the FILTER Trig track. No pitch is added as
default.
• LFO - Only adds or removes trigs on the LFO Trig track. No pitch is added as default.
When trig track AMP, FILTER or LFO is selected, the <TRIG> LED’s are lit red if a trig is set
for the corresponding step on the trig track selected. The <TRIG> LED’s are green if the
trig is not set for the trig track selected, but on some other trig track (or if it has a Trigless
Trig, see section “TRIGLESS TRIGS”, on page 59). For example, a FILTER trig will be indi-
cated with a green <TRIG> LED when the AMP trig track is active, given an AMP trig is not
placed on the same step.
When Trig Track ALL is selected, the <TRIG> LED’s are lit red if a trig is set on all AMP,
FILTER and LFO Trig Tracks. If one or more of them are missing then it is lit green. Steps
with NOTE OFF events are lit yellow.
TRIGLESS TRIGS
It is possible to change pitch or make parameter locks, even without trigging any enve-
lopes. But since pitch and parameter locks are set with a [TRIG] key pressed, and trigs are
added when the [TRIG] key is pressed you need to insert a trigless trig first.
The quickest way to do this is to press the [TRIG] key twice while holding [FUNCTION].
The corresponding <TRIG> LED will then first turn yellow (NOTE OFF) and then green
which indicates it is a trigless trig. You can now hold the [TRIG] key and program a pitch or
parameter lock as normal, but no envelopes will be trigged. You can add these later using
the trig track functions as described in the previous section.
Normal trigs can also be converted into trigless trigs by removing the AMP, FILTER and
LFO trigs manually using the trig track functions.
PITCHLESS TRIGS
You can easily remove the pitch from a trig by pressing [EXIT/NO] while holding the [TRIG]
key. The pitch from the previous note will then continue to sound for the trig.