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Chapter 11: User Programmable Functions

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- Check the “OK To Use Macro Notes” box.

- Playback the pattern with the [CHORD] button. (The [PLAY] button gives you an

“as played” playback with the strange sounding high macro notes.)

Making Piano, Guitar, and Strings Patterns

Piano, Guitar and Strings are all considered together because they have all the same

options available. They, like the Bass patterns, are recorded live from a MIDI keyboard.

If you can't play in real time, or if you don't have a MIDI keyboard, you'll have to import

these instruments from other styles (as we'll be doing with the Strings).

In this section we will refer to Piano patterns, but this information applies equally well to

Guitar and Strings patterns.

Moving to the Piano Pattern Screen

Move to the Piano area by mouse clicking on the [Piano] button.

If you're making a simple piano pattern you'll only need to record pattern(s) on the A 8

beat row (the top row). These patterns will get chosen for every chord, regardless of the

length. But if you want the style to play different patterns when the song is encountering

chords that last 1, 2, 3, or 4 beats, you should record separate patterns on these rows.

Recording Piano Patterns

Move to the top row of the piano area, in column 1. Press the [REC] button. This will

begin the recording of the piano pattern. You will hear a 2 bar lead-in, and then you

record a 2 bar piano pattern. For your piano pattern, you will play a pattern based on a

C7 chord. You can use all 12 notes, but should just play the pattern as you would if the

chord was a C7.

Tip: If you are uncertain what to play, press the LOAD button and edit another style that

comes with the program - you can then play the piano patterns by the pressing the PLAY

button to see what patterns we used to make it, and imitate them in your style.

After you have recorded the piano pattern, a dialog box with options will appear. This

allows you to specify the conditions that must occur for this pattern to be played back in

the song. These are called masks. Usually you can just accept all the defaults, which

allow the pattern to be played at any time.

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