Project, Pattern generator mode, Global settings menu – Erica Synths LXR-02 Drum Machine Synthesizer User Manual

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Step wise shift the pattern to the left

or right.

rot

Rotation

Morph parameter also found on the

performance page.

mrp

Morph

Displayed name

Name

Description

The length of the track in 1/16 notes.

Each track can have a different length.

len

Track Length

The number of active steps in the

pattern.

stp

Number of Steps

MENU LOCATION

To start the pattern generator press the SHIFT + PERF buttons.
A flashing PERF button LED indicates that the pattern generator mode is active.
The display will show the pattern generator menu.

PATTERN GENERATOR MENU

The pattern generator page offers the following parameters

7.6. GLOBAL SETTINGS MENU

The settings menu contains the global configuration of the synth. Global settings
are saved with the project.

MENU LOCATION

> Press the SHIFT + CONFIG (Seq. 12) buttons.
> The CONFIG button starts to flash to indicate that the global settings menu is
active.

GENERATING PATTERNS

Generating a new pattern is fairly simple.
> The generator will always modify a single track from the pattern.
> The active track can be chosen with the 7 VOICE buttons.
> As soon as you either change the 'length' or the 'number of steps' parameter, a
new pattern will be generated on the track.

ATTENTION!!!

Existing pattern data will be overwritten. However, if you don’t save the
pattern and reload it from the pattern menu, the original pattern will
be restored.

MORPH KITS

A morph kit is a normal kit that is loaded as morph target. Any kit can be loaded as
a morph target.

Loading

> Press LOAD + MORPH
> Select the preset number of the kit you want to load.
> Push the encoder.
> The morph sound is loaded.
> Please note that you won't hear any change if the morph parameter value is set to
zero.
> Use the morph parameter on the performance page to morph the current kit into
the loaded morph kit.

Saving

You can also save the resulting sounds from morph operations. Just press the
SAVE + MORPH buttons and save the sound as a new kit. Instead of the original
sound, the currently playing mixture of the 2 presets will be saved.

Did you know?

If morphing arbitrary presets is too drastic for you, try modifying your
favourite pattern just a little bit and save it to a new location. Now you
can control all tweaked parameters at once!

SONGS

The process to load and save songs is the same as described for the kits. Just use
the button combo Press LOAD + SONG or SAVE + SONG instead.

PATTERNS

Patterns are a special case as they have no name. Loading and saving is done in
a similar fashion like changing patterns in pattern mode.

Loading

> Press LOAD + PATTERN
> The screen will show “Select Pattern, Current: x”
> Now you can use the SEQUENCER and BAR buttons to select the pattern to load.
> If the sequencer is playing, the new pattern will start after the current pattern
has finished playing.

Saving

> Press SAVE + PATTERN
> The screen will show “Save Pattern, Current: x”
> Now you can use the SEQUENCER and BAR buttons to select where to save the
pattern.
> As soon as you press the SEQUENCER button, the display will show “success!”
and the pattern is saved.

PROJECT

The process to load and save project is the same as described for the kits. Just
use the button combo Press LOAD + PROJECT or SAVE + PROJECT instead.

Where Projects are special is in regard to the place where they are saved. All
previous datatypes are loaded from and saved to the non persistent RAM region
where the project data is located. Projects however are saved to the memory
card and are the only way to save kits, songs and patterns so they will be
restored after a power cycle. Projects are containers that are a collection of Kits,
Patterns, Songs and settings.

7.5. PATTERN GENERATOR MODE

The pattern generator provides an easy way to generate interesting poly rhythms
on the fly. You just have to set the desired pattern length and the number of
active steps to generate a new pattern using the euclidean algorithm.

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