Steps

Steps is the first Beats page, and the home page that a tap on EDIT jumps to by default. The step area shows the steps of the cycle. Tap a step to turn it on or off. Press and hold a step to select it, then the value row sets its chance.

Hold EDIT and tap pad 41 in the picker, or press LEFT until you reach it.

Select step 5 (1), then tap 50 on the value row (2) to give it a 50 percent chance.

Turn steps on and off

Tap a step. The step area reads left to right, top row first: pad 81 is step 1 and pad 58 is step 32. Steps beyond the length of the track are dark.

Playing steps are drawn bright, and the playhead runs through them in the same order.

Select a step

Press and hold a step to select it. The selected step is drawn grey. Chance and the other value pads act on the selected step.

Chance

Chance sets how often a step fires. A step with no chance set always fires. Each value pad below sets a different kind of chance.

Chance type Set with What it does
Probability Top value row, 41 to 48 The step fires on a random roll. The levels are 41 is 12.5 percent, 42 is 25, 43 is 33, 44 is 50, 45 is 66, 46 is 75, 47 is 87.5 and 48 is 95. The lit pads show the level.
Last or not last Pad 31 The step fires only if the previous step fired (Last), or only if it did not (Not last). Tap pad 31 again to swap.
Cycles Pad 34 for the pattern, pad 35 for the length The step fires only on the cycles marked in its pattern. Pad 34 shows the pattern on the top row; tap a pad to switch that cycle on or off. Pad 35 sets the pattern length on the top row, from 1 to 8 cycles.

Pad 38 turns the chance on at 95 percent, or off again.

A step fires only when its chance and its trig condition (see Conditions) both allow it.

Lock and clear

  • Hold LOCK (26) and tap a step to lock it, or to unlock it. A locked step keeps its values when the pattern is regenerated.
  • Hold CLEAR (28) and tap a step to reset that one step, including its edits and its lock.
  • Hold LOOP (25) and tap two steps to set a loop. See Playback.

Hand edits lock steps

A hand edit locks the whole step automatically while Global > Settings, option 7 (‘Edits survive regen’, step pad 75) is on. A locked step leaves the Euclidean beat spread, so other generated beats can move when the pattern is regenerated.

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