Future Retro Orb Owner Manual - Manual (Page 14)

WORKING WITH SONGS
SELECTING SONGS
Selecting a song is done in the same way that patterns are selected,
except that you must be in Song mode. To enter Song mode, first
stop the playback of the unit and press the Song key. Its indicator
will turn on, showing that Song mode is currently selected.
To select a song, press the Step key indicator (1–16) to select
one of the 16 song locations. If the sequencer is already playing a
song and another song is selected, the newly selected song’s Step
key indicator will be on at half brightness, showing that it is cued
up and will begin its playback as soon as the first song reaches its
loop point.
PLAYING SONGS
You must be in Song mode to play songs. Select a song to play by
pressing one of the 16 Step keys. Press the Play key to begin
playback of the song. The display will show the current step of the
song playing. If you press the Play key while the song is playing,
playback will stop but remain on the current step of the song.
Pressing the Play key again will resume playback from the current
step. If you want to start playback from the beginning of the song,
press the Shift/Clear key before starting playback.
EDITING SONGS
All song editing is done in Song mode. To enter Song mode, stop
the sequencer and then press the Song key so that its indicator turns
on. All song editing must be done while the sequencer is stopped.
Song editing is used to arrange your patterns into a song. There
are 16 song locations available and each is capable of arranging up
to 3,580 measures of patterns. Each song step records the pattern
that will play for that step, how much the pattern is to be
transposed from its original pitch, and whether or not it will be the
last pattern played in the song before it starts over again or loops.
Each song also records the tempo that it will play at.
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SELECTING PATTERNS FOR A SONG STEP
When in Song mode, the display will show the current step being
edited or played. You can select the desired song step by using the
Up/Down keys. You can also reset the song to Step 1 at any time
by pressing the Shift/Clear key.
To edit a song, you simply select the patterns in the order they
are to play in the song, change the transpose setting if needed, and
set a loop point on the last step you wish to play in the song.
To change the pattern that a song step will play, select the song
step you wish to edit, and then press and hold the Pattern key. The
display will now show the bank, and Step keys 1–16 are used to
select the a pattern within that bank. While holding the Pattern key,
use the Up/Down keys to select the bank and then press the Step
key to select a pattern within that bank. Release the Pattern key
once you have made your selection. Select the pattern for each step
in this way until all the patterns are in their correct order.
To see how your song sounds so far, press the Shift/Clear key
to reset the song to Step 1 and then press the Play key to begin
playback. Press the Play key again to stop the song’s playback
when you are finished. If you need to make changes to the song,
use the Up/Down keys to select the step to edit and make the
necessary changes.
All changes made when editing the song are automatically saved
by the sequencer.
TRANSPOSING A SONG STEP
The pattern for each song step can be transposed up or down
36 half-steps in pitch from the notes originally programmed into
that pattern.
To transpose a song step, select the song step and then press the
Xpose/Paste key. While holding the Xpose/Paste key, the display
will show the current transpose setting for that step’s pattern.
Use the Up/Down keys to change the transpose setting for that
song step.
Release the Xpose/Paste key when you are done and the
sequencer will automatically save your changes.
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