Held pads and undo

Some pads act as modifiers. You hold them and tap a second pad. The held pads are SHIFT (95), LOCK (26), LOOP (25), DUP (27), CLEAR (28) and PERF (97).

Combinations

Hold And tap Result
SHIFT A track Mute or unmute the track
CLR A track Reset every step of that track (its settings stay)
DUP A track Copy the selected track onto the tapped track (speed and channel are not copied)
LOCK A step Lock or unlock that step
CLR A step Reset that one step: its edits and its lock go, and its generated value comes back
LOOP A start step, then an end step Set a loop on a page that allows locks (either order)
CLR + LOOP   Clear the loop
PERF   Fill while held. Used by the Fill conditions
SHIFT + PERF   Resync all tracks on the next bar
SHIFT + SESS   Open Global
CLR + SESS   Empty every track’s steps, restore its channel, scale and root defaults, and empty all scenes and stored patterns

Track and step combinations with LEFT, RIGHT, UP and DOWN are in Modes and pages.

Hold LOCK (1), then tap a step (2) to lock it. Tap it again with LOCK held to unlock it.

Sticky modifiers

Global > Settings has three options that make a held modifier stay on after a tap: sticky SHIFT (option 2, step pad 83), sticky DUP (option 3, step pad 85) and sticky CLEAR (option 4, step pad 87). Undo and redo never latch. See Global settings.

Undo and redo

Gesture Result
SHIFT + CLEAR (95 + 28) Undo the last edit
SHIFT + DUP (95 + 27) Redo

The screen names the action, for example “Undo: …”. Undo and redo are not available:

  • in SESS;
  • on Global > Projects;
  • under the hold-EDIT picker;
  • while the automaton view is open;
  • while a motion recording pass is open (see CC).

With a step pad held in EDIT, SHIFT + CLEAR does not undo. It clears that step’s parameter locks instead (see Parameter locks).

Hold SHIFT (1), then tap CLEAR (2): undo. SHIFT + DUP (27) redoes.

Tip

Matrix and LFO edits in the companion window are not part of undo.