Future Retro Orb Owner Manual - Manual (Page 9)

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 cannot 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.
CLEARING NOTES
There are two ways to clear previous note data that exists within a
pattern. You can either clear all the notes at once or clear
individual notes one at a time.
To clear all notes from a pattern, first make sure you are in
Pattern Select mode (the Pattern key indicator will be on). Select
and hold the Step key for the pattern you wish to clear all the notes
from, and then press the Shift/Clear key. You can press the Pattern
key and enter Pattern Edit mode to verify that all the Step key
indicators are now off.
To clear individual notes, enter Pattern Edit mode (the Pattern
key indicator will be off). Press and hold the Shift/Clear key and
press the Step key that represents the Note On for the note you
want to clear. You can clear as many notes as you want while
holding the Shift/Clear key. Once you are done clearing individual
notes, you may release the Shift/Clear key. All the notes you
cleared will be shown with their Step key indicator being off.
Notice that clearing notes only erases where notes are placed and
their durations. Other pattern information such as the step’s pitch,
accent, glide, loop point, time signature, and swing amount will
still retain their values. This is a safety in case you accidentally
erase notes or an entire pattern by mistake. You then only need to
re-enter where notes are located and their duration.
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CHANGING A NOTE’S PITCH
Once notes exist in a pattern, you can change the pitch that each
one is to play. Select a pattern you would like to edit and then enter
Pattern Edit mode. When in Pattern Edit mode, one of the 16 Step
key indicators will be flashing to indicate that it is the current step
selected and ready to be edited. You can select a different note to
edit by pressing the Step key where that note starts.
Notice that pressing any Step keys other than where a note starts
will write a new note, as described in the previous section.
Once a note is selected, the display will show the pitch of that note,
ranging from C1 to D#6. Notice that the display will show an =
sign for sharp notes. Using the Up/Down keys, select the desired
pitch for the currently selected step. When the sequencer is playing
and you change a note’s pitch in this way, each time that the
pattern reaches this step the new note pitch will be played. If you
hold a note’s Step key while you change the note’s pitch, the new
pitch will not take effect until you release that note’s Step key. You
can use this method to ensure that only the desired pitches will be
heard while the sequencer is playing.
Notice that pitches programmed into the sequencer can actually
range from C1 to C9. However, the sequencer will only play back
pitches in the range of C1 to D#6. The extended range of E6
through C9 is provided only to retain the original pitches of a
pattern when it is transposed up to +36 half-steps.
There is also an offset to the pitch values transmitted and
received via MIDI, so that a pitch of C1 in the sequencer is equal
to MIDI note C2, and pitch D#6 in the sequencer is equal to MIDI
note D#7.
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