Future Retro Mobius Owner's Manual - Manual (Page 10)

OPERATIONS
Selecting songs
Selecting a song is done in the same way patterns are selected, except you must be in the song mode.
To select a song, press the step key indicator (1-16) to select one of the 16 song locations. If the sequencer is
playing a song and another song is selected, the newly selected song key’s indicator will be on at half brightness
showing it is cued up and will begin playback as soon as the first song reaches it’s loop point.
Playing songs
You must be in the song mode to play songs. Select a song to play by pressing one of the 16 step keys. Press the
RUN/STOP key to begin playback of the song. By pressing the RUN/STOP key again playback of the song stops,
but the song remains in the location it was stopped. Pressing the RUN/STOP key once more begins playback from
where the song was stopped. If you want to start playback from the beginning of the song, press the CLEAR key
before starting playback.
You can cue a song to play after the current song has reached it’s loop point, by simply selecting another song
while the current one is playing. The cued song’s indicator will be on at half brightness to show it is the next song
to play.
Editing songs
All song editing is done in the song mode. To enter the song mode, stop the sequencer, and press the SONG key
until it’s indicator is on. All editing in the song mode will be done while the sequencer is stopped. The song edit
mode is used to arrange the patterns into a song. There are 16 song locations available and each is capable of
recording up to 3580 one-measure patterns. Each song step records the pattern that will play for that step, how
much the pattern is to be transposed from it’s original pitch, and whether or not that is to be the last pattern played
in the song before it starts over again or loops. Each song also records the tempo for that song to playback.
Selecting patterns for a song’s step
When in the song mode, the display will show the current step being edited. 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 CLEAR key.
To edit a song, you simply select the patterns in the order they are to play in the song, and set a loop on the last
step you wish to play in the song. Not having a song clear function prevents any accidental erasure of an entire
song.
To change the pattern a song step will play, select the song step, press and hold the BANK key. The display will
now show the bank and step key 1-16 are used to select the pattern of that bank. While holding the BANK key, use
the UP/DOWN keys to select the bank and the press the patterns step key. Release the BANK key once you have
made you 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 CLEAR key to reset the song to step 1, and press the RUN/STOP
key. To stop the song’s playback, press the RUN/STOP key again. 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 you make when editing the song are automatically saved by the sequencer.
Transposing a song’s step
Each song step’s pattern can be transposed up or down 36 half steps in pitch, from the notes originally
programmed in that pattern.
To transpose a song step’s pattern, select the song step and press the XPOSE key. While holding the XPOSE 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 key when you are done and the sequencer will
automatically save your changes.
To reset the transposition to a value of 0 for all the song steps, press and hold the CLEAR key, then press the
XPOSE key. This will allow all the patterns in the song to play at their original programmed pitch.
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