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Pattern Selection Group

You use this group of 12 buttons to select pattern A to L for playing and editing. A

solid blue light indicates the currently chosen pattern. The currently chosen pattern

is the pattern that you edit with the Pattern Edit Lanes. If the pattern engine is not

currently playing this pattern, it will do so after it has finished playing its current pat-

tern. The pattern that is currently playing is shown by a flashing green light.

If a pattern is empty (i.e. no triggers), its label will be a lighter gray and if the cur-

rently selected pattern is part of a chain, the patterns of the chain will have blue la-

bels.

Right-clicking a pattern button will bring up the pattern menu with some actions

that you can perform on the pattern (as described above under Pattern Menu But-

ton).

Pattern Edit Lanes

The Pattern Edit Lanes are used to edit the currently selected pattern. Alternatively

you may wish to use the Matrix Editor described below for editing all channels si-

multaneously. The length lane is common for all the channels of a pattern while the

other three lanes edit the currently selected channel only. All lanes are clickable and

you may click and drag to set or reset several switches in one sweep. Furthermore,

holding down the shift key will make the click alter all drum channels that are not

currently muted. For example, you can use this feature to create a short pause or to

set accents on a step for all the channels.

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Channel Triggers

This is the most important lane in the pattern editor. Each button in this lane rep-

resents one step in the pattern and decides if a drum should be triggered at that

step or not. The buttons displays the steps for the currently selected drum chan-

nel. A blue button indicates a trigger and a white indicates a pause. (Note that the

accent and fill buttons are ignored for steps without triggers.) Clicking a button

with the Control Key held down (Alt Key on Mac) will switch the accent of the

step as well as the trigger.

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Channel Accents

The Accents affect the velocities of drum hits triggered by the pattern engine. A

step without an accent will trigger a drum with MIDI velocity 64, and a step with

accent will play with MIDI velocity 127.

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Channel Fills

Each step also has a Fill switch that is used to create rapid drum rolls. The Fill

Rate is set globally for all patterns in Microtonic and may be set to two times per

step up to eight times per step. The velocities in these fills decay by a fixed

amount to achieve a natural rolling effect.

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Pattern Length

The length of the current pattern is shown and edited here. The length is dis-

played in blue. In addition, a green light indicates the current play position within

the pattern. The length is the same for all channels of a pattern so the currently

selected drum channel does not affect this lane.

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