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Selecting a SONG

The 00 is underlined to indicate that it will be changed if a new number is selected with the

keypad or the +/- buttons. The second line of the display shows the name of the currently

selected song (up to 14 characters). If the current song number is empty, the second line

will read EMPTY SONG. Pressing the +/- buttons immediately selects the next song

number, with the numbers looping past 99 to 00 and looping down from 00 to 99. If a

single digit on the keypad is pressed (2, for example), the display will change to:

SELECT SONG 2

SONG TITLE " ■

The display is now indicating that the second digit of the song should be entered. After

entering the second digit, the new song Is selected, and its name will appear. If the

second digit Is not entered within 2 seconds, the display will revert back to the previous

song number, and no new song will have been selected. The page up and page down

buttons have no function when selecting parts or songs.

A SONG is a list of parts (sequences) in a specific order, with each entry Into the list being a

STEP which contains a part number. Each step also contains which of the eight tracks

should be on for that step.

Manual TRACK selection and muting In SONG mode

While in SONG mode, the eight TRACK SELECT LEDs will display the tracks that are

turned on on the first part of the selected song. These buttons can be turned on or off to

change the selected tracks to be played, although these changes will be temporary and

not stored with the song. Pressing PLAY will start playing the selected song from its

beginning, and the PLAY LED will light. The display will read, for example:

SONG 00 STEP 001

PART 27 BEAT 001

The first line of the display is now showing the current song number being played, and

the current beat number of the part being played. The second line of the display is

showing the step number and the part assigned to the step that is playing at the

moment. When the song advances to the next step, the display will show the part for step

2, etc. The track select LEDs will change to show which tracks are turned on for the

current part. Again, the track selection can be changed by turning on or off the track

buttons.

Pressing STOP/CONTINUE will stop playing the song, and the display will return to the

select song display. Pressing STOP/CONTINUE again will begin playing the song from the

beat at which It was stopped. Pressing PLAY will always start the song from the beginning

of the first step. When a song reaches its end, it will stop and the PLAY LED will turn off,

unless LOOP Is on, which will cause the song to loop back to step one and continue

playing.

The « and » buttons (rewind and fast forward) can be used to advance or retreat through

the beats and steps of a song. If the song is playing, pressing the fast forward will cause

sustaining notes to stop, and the beat display to advance at a gradually increasing rate (up

to the maximum possible tempo) until the fast forward button is released, after which the

song continues playing from the beginning of the displayed beat. If the end of the current

step is reached, the next step is started.

The rewind button works similarly, but in reverse. In either direction, if the end or

beginning of a song is reached, the display remains on that step, unless loop is on, which

results in the step "wrapping around". When a song is not playing, these buttons can be

used for the same function, and by pressing STOP/CONTINUE the song will continue from

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