7.2 PLAYING THE FACTORY PRESET PATTERNS
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# 7.2 PLAYING THE FACTORY PRESET PATTERNS 7. QUICK START 7. QUICK START This quick start will guide you through some of the basic operations to start using the Digitone II right away. First, connect it as described in section “3.3 SETTING UP AND STARTING THE DIGITONE II” on page 14. 7.1 SELECTING AND PLAYING THE PRESETS There are a large number of presets in the Digitone II that you can use in your music-making or as starting points for your own sound design. 1. Press [PRESET/KIT] to open the PRESET/KIT menu. 2. Select LOAD (PRESET) to open the LOAD PRESET MENU 3. Use the [UP]/[DOWN] keys or LEVEL/DATA to highlight a preset. 4. Press [KEYBOARD] and then use the [TRIG] keys to play and listen the highlighted preset. 5. Press [YES] to load the preset to the active track. 7.2 PLAYING THE FACTORY PRESET PATTERNS You can find a number of factory preset patterns in the Digitone II. Follow the instructions below to get started exploring your new instrument. 1. Press [PTN] and then use the [LEFT]/[RIGHT] keys to select bank A. Then press [TRIG 1] to select pattern A01. 2. Press [PLAY] to listen to pattern A01. 3. Press [PTN], and then press [TRIG 2] to cue pattern A02. It will start once pattern A01 has reached its end. Select pattern A03 by pressing [PTN], and then press [TRIG 3], and so on. 4. Press [STOP] to stop playback. 7.3 USING KEYBOARD MODE You can use the [TRIG] keys to play any track chromatically. 1. Select the track to play chromatically by pressing [TRK] + one of the [TRIG 1–16] keys. 2. Press [KEYBOARD] to enter KEYBOARD mode. The [TRIG] keys will light up in a pattern that resem bles an octave of a piano keyboard. Only lit keys are playable. 3. Play the [TRIG] keys. The preset will be pitched differently for each of the playable keys. Press [+]/[-] to transpose the virtual keyboard up or down one octave. For more information, please see “8.5.1 KEYBOARD MODE” on page 24. KEYBOARD mode is an effective way to add musical variety to your tracks. The timbre, tonality and impact of playing a preset chromatically depends on the character of the source preset. 7.4 USING MUTE MODE You can mute any of the sequencer tracks in this mode. Unlike the KEYBOARD mode, it makes no difference which track is active when this mode is activated. You can access all tracks simultaneously. 1. Make sure a pattern is playing. 2. Press the [FUNC] + [TRK] key to enter MUTE mode. 3. Press any of the [TRIG] keys to mute the corresponding track. Press again to unmute. The light of the [TRIG] keys indicates the mute status. Unlit keys are muted tracks. Lit keys are active tracks. For more information, please see “8.5.3 MUTE MODE” on page 27.
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