Track

The Track sub-mode of EDIT holds the settings that shape one track as a whole: scale and root, speed, feel (swing, groove and humanize), play direction and loop, MIDI voices, changes that happen over time, cross-track rules and the drum rack.

Select the track first in the right column (pads 89, 79, 69, 59, 49, 39, 29 and 19 are tracks 1 to 8). Then open the sub-mode with EDIT (96): tap EDIT, then tap UP or DOWN with nothing held until the sub-mode reads Track, or hold EDIT and tap pad 21 in the picker.

Hold EDIT (1), then tap a page on the value row (2). Page 2 is Feel.

Pages

Page Picker pad What it holds
Params 41 Scale, root, speed, channel, device and the basic switches
Feel 42 Swing, groove and humanize
Playback 43 Play direction, loop and launch quantize
Voices 44 Echo, round-robin voices and the partner channel
Evolution 45 Actions that run every N cycles
Rules and rack 46 and 47 Rules link tracks together; the rack turns a track into four drum lanes

With nothing held, LEFT and RIGHT step through these pages in the order above.

Track or pattern

Some settings belong to the track and stay the same when you switch pattern (see Patterns and launching): channel, device, scale, root and octave range, everything on Voices (echo, voice mode, partner channel), launch quantize and the rack settings. The other settings on these pages, such as speed, swing, direction, evolution and rules, are stored with the active pattern.

Tips

  • Hold a track in the right column and tap UP or DOWN to transpose it; hold it and tap LEFT or RIGHT to rotate it. With nothing held the arrows move between pages and sub-modes.
  • The Track pages are also reachable from the picker, so you can jump straight to a page without walking through the others.

See also

  • Beats for the rhythm of the track.
  • Keys for the notes.
  • Global for the global swing, groove and key.

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