Future Retro Revolution Owner Manual - Manual (Page 18)

SEQUENCER OPERATIONS
ENTERING NOTES
When in the Pattern Edit mode the 16 Step key indicators will be used to display where notes are
placed in that pattern. The brightness of the indicators will determine where notes start, the length
of their duration, and where rests occur.
1. A note-on (where a note begins) will be shown by a Step key indicator being on at full
brightness.
2. The sustained portion for a note will be shown by the Step key indicator being on, but only
half as bright as a note-on.
3. A rest is shown by the Step key indicator being off.
NOTE-ON To enter notes you must be in the Pattern Edit mode (Pattern key indicator off). Placing
16 th or 12 th notes (depending on which time signature is selected) is done using the same method. By
using the 16 Step keys, simply press the keys one at a time where you wish notes to exist. The
indicators for the notes you enter will now be on at their brightest state.
SUSTAIN To place sustained notes, press and hold the Step key where the note is to start and then
press the Step key that represents the last step you want this note to sustain to. The first Step key
indicator of a sustained note will be on at full brightness showing that is where the note starts. The
sustained portion of the note will cause those Step key indicators to be on at half brightness.
As an example, place and hold a 16 th note and press the next Step key in the clockwise direction.
Doing this just wrote an 8 th note. Use this method to create notes of various durations.
Notice that the last step of a sustained note must be higher in value than where the note starts. For
instance a note may start on step 1 and sustain to step 16. A note can not start at step 9 and sustain to
step 5. If you need a note to sustain past step 16, you will need to use the glide function discussed
later in this manual.
REST Placing rests is done by just leaving notes off, or clearing notes that appear in the position you
want to be a rest. Rests will be shown as the Step key indicator being off. To write a rest to a step
where a note already exists, press and hold the Shift/Clear key and then press the Step key where you
want the rest to be placed.
There is a way to write new notes without having to clear previous notes. For instance, if you place a
new note in the sustained portion of a note, the new note will now be in the position you selected.
This now shortens the previous sustained note, and it will sustain until the step the new note was
written. The Step key indicators for these positions will also change to show how the previous
sustained note was shortened. By writing a sustained note over previous notes, the previous notes will
no longer be heard. You can use this method to change a sustained note’s duration. Any new notes
written over a sustained note’s note-on will override the entire sustained note. The only exception is
that you can not write a 16 th note over a sustained note’s note-on. To do this you must first clear
the sustained note and then write the 16 th note.
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