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Doepfer Musikelektronik GmbH - SCHALTWERK Users Manual - Aug. 1997 - Page 25
7.4.14 Song menu
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The Schaltwerk offers 16 Song memory locations.
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When the Song-Mode is desired, one of the Song-Bank
or Song buttons must be pressed, and as their LED's
are lit, the Song-Mode is now enabled.
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To quit the Song-Mode, press one of the active Song or
Song-Bank buttons. Both LED’s will go out, and the
Song-Mode is now disabled.
✏ Caution: To play in Song-Mode the Pattern-Edit
buffer is used and overwritten. It is therefore
recommended to avoid activating inadvertently
the Song-Mode while valuable Pattern data is
held in the buffer. The latter should be saved in a
Pattern memory location prior to the execution of
the Song-Mode.
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Each Song is made of a list defining the Pattern
sequence chain. This list will be executed according to:
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Play from the beginning with Start
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restart from the present position with Continue
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execute the current Pattern content
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repeat it a number of times as predefined
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take care of the individual mute switches status
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Each Song has memory for 128 Pattern steps.
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The pattern defining each Song step can be repeated up
to 127 times.
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Each Song-Step can store the individual ON/OFF track
mute status for all 8 tracks in each Pattern. This can be
different from the default value of the Pattern.
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At any location in the step sequence it is allowed to
have
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an end marker to stop the song
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a jump instruction
✏ All changes are done in the Song-Edit-Buffer
only. Should you want to keep these changes, it
is then necessary to explicitly store the data in
one of the 16 Song memory locations.
✏ Recalling a Song will load it in the Song-Edit-
Buffer, overwriting its current content. It is
therefore recommended to save any valuable
data present in this buffer as it is the case with
the Pattern buffer
The activation of the Song Seq. Menu leads us to:
7.4.14.1 Editing of the Song buffer
Song001 Step:001
Patt.001 -*:002
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The Song we are editing here comes from Song
memory location 1 and is held in the Song buffer. It
will execute its first step by playing the pattern 1
twice.
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The instructions for Song1 are based on the data
present in the Song-Edit-Buffer and cannot be edited
from this menu.
✏ To prevent an inadvertent overwrite of the Song-
Edit-Buffer while in this menu, all song buttons
are disabled.
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The step position can be selected through the Step
Left & Right buttons.
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Any Pattern can be directly selected with its dedicated
buttons while standing at the step position.
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The number of iterations each pattern has to play is
adjusted with the rotary encoder.
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When the number of iterations is set to zero, it
becomes an End Marker. The pattern is then canceled,
and the display shows:
Song001 Step:001
Patt.END -*:000
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Should this End Marker be canceled, a repeat value
different from zero is displayed, and a pattern has to
be selected.
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When a Pattern is selected, its track mute settings are
recalled automatically.
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In each step, the mute settings can be modified freely.
This “other” mute configuration is nevertheless only
effective in Song-Mode. The actual mute setting of
the pattern remains unaffected.