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3:3 Other Pad operations
Operating Pads
The on-screen Pads are used to select the current Pad (in oth-
er words, for editing in the Pad Edit view). They can be used
to play notes, even during Pattern recording within GURU. You
can even set them, via an option in the Options panel, to send
the highest velocity at the centre of the Pad and lower veloci-
ties towards the edge. Please note, however, that triggering
the corresponding MIDI notes for a Pad will not select it as the
current Pad for editing – you need to click the on-screen Pads
in order to do this.
If you hold down the [ALT] key while hovering the mouse over
the on-screen Pads, any Pad containing sample layers will be
highlighted in its category colours (kicks in blue, snares in red,
hihats in yellow and percussion in green).
Pad context menu
If you [CTRL]-click on a Pad, you will be presented with the
Pad Context Menu. Using this menu, a variety of functions can
be performed on the Pad.
MIDI Learn
This is a quick and easy way to set the MIDI note used for a
Pad. When you click on this menu item, GURU will assign the
next MIDI note received to the Pad.
Edit Pad/Close Edit Pad
If you’re not currently editing the Pad, this menu item will read
‘Edit Pad’. Clicking on it will bring up the Pad Edit view for the
Pad. If you are already editing the Pad, the menu item will
show ‘Close Edit Pad’. Clicking it will return the GURU LCD to
the Pattern View.
Cut Pad or Copy Pad
Cuts or copies the contents of the Pad and its Pattern lanes in
all of the Engine’s Patterns to the clipboard.
Paste Pad
Pastes the Pad contents of the clipboard to the specified Pad.
Paste Pad+Seq
Pastes the Pad data from the clipboard to the specified Pad
and its Pattern lanes to all Patterns in the current Engine.