FXpansion GURU - Manual (Page 50)

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• Clicking in the Graph edit area will cause the relevant step’s
value to jump to the mouse cursor. You can then drag up and
down in order to further adjust the value. Clicking and drag-
ging left/right will result in the mouse ‘painting’ values across
multiple steps.
• [CTRL]-clicking returns the step in the Graph to the default
value. You can [CTRL]-click and drag left/right in order to do
this to multiple steps.
• [SHIFT]-clicking ‘fixes’ the mouse’s vertical position, so you
can paint the same value across multiple steps by clicking and
dragging while holding down [SHIFT].
• Holding down the [ALT] key while clicking and dragging al-
lows you to shift the Graph’s events vertically and horizontally.
The graph will ‘wrap’ horizontally, but if you release the mouse
button after points in the Graph have exceeded the vertical
boundaries of the Graph edit area, these values will be lost
(they will be ‘cut’ by the vertical boundaries of the Graph edit
area).
Some sub-Graphs behave slightly differently from the Veloc-
ity example in the screenshot above: some have positive and
negative values, while others may have stepped values, and
so on. The next section goes into each sub-Graph in detail.
It is worth noting that Velocity is a very special type of sub-
Graph: any changes to the velocity of a note made by clicking
on it and dragging up/down in the Pattern view will be reflected
here, and vice versa. It is also important to note that if a note is
deleted in the Pattern view draw mode, its Velocity graph value
will not be affected: when you add a new note on the same
step, it will have the same velocity as the previous note.
The Shift Graph is very important in several other functions
in GURU, such as Score mode, unquantized Recording and
advanced Groove operation.
Graphs are designed to be used on GURU’s internal Patterns.
However, all Graphs will affect notes from your MIDI sequenc-
er too, with the exception of the Repeat and Shift Graphs.
Instant Graph Recorder
One of GURU’s Host automation parameters
1 can be used to
record live into the currently viewed Graph! Simply automate
the
Instant Graph Recorder parameter from your sequencer
while in Graphs Edit view.
1 See section 11:4 for more de-
tails on host automation.