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When you’re in Single mode and the patch’s Phrase Change mode is set
to LOOP END, selecting a phrase for recording while another is playing
puts it in a record standby state, and recording doesn’t actually
begin until the current phrase ends. If the guide is on, this behavior
ensures that all phrases’ beginnings and endings are aligned with guide
measure downbeats.
If you’re using Single mode as described in the tip above, you may
wish to record phrases on-after-the-other without stopping to listen to
the previously recorded phrase. After recording the first phrase, make
sure you initiate the recording of subsequent phrases exactly on—or
up to one-half measure before—the downbeat of a guide measure.
When you do this, Loop Quantize ensures that recording will begin on
the downbeat. If you initiate recording after the downbeat (anywhere
up to one-half measure after), you’ll find that your newly recorded
phrase will be out of sync with the guide sound when the phrase starts
playing back.
Loop Quantize and Multi Mode
As opposed to Single mode, where only one phrase can play at a time, Multi
mode allows you to play up to three phrases simultaneously. With multiple
phrases playing at once, measure length and timing becomes a critical
consideration.
Just like Single mode, Loop Quantize is automatically enabled in Multi mode
when you’re recording with the guide, functioning as described previously.
When the guide is off, however, keeping multiple phrases in time with each
other is more of a challenge. To help, there are a couple of conditions where
Loop Quantize can be used while playing along with a previously recorded
phrase.
If you want to record and play your Multi mode phrases without any timing
reference to each other, turn the guide, Loop Sync, and all phrases’ Tempo
Sync switches off.
Guide: OFF, Loop Sync: OFF
When Loop Sync is off, the patch’s three phrases can be of any length. Using
this functionality, it’s common to create phrases that have identical measure
lengths, but different numbers of overall measures. This is illustrated in the
following example, where Phrase 1 is one measure, Phrase 2 is six measures,
and Phrase 3 is two measures.
1 measure 1 measure 1 measure 1 measure 1 measure 1 measure
6 measures
2 measures 2 measures 2 measures
Phrase 1
Phrase 2
Phrase 3
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CCCCCC
CCCCCC
CCCCCC
CCCCCC
CCCCCC
CCCCCC
CCCCCC
CCCCCC
CCCCCC
CCC
CCC CCC
CCC
CCC
CCC
CCC
CCC
CCC
CCC
CCC
CCC
When you’re playing with the guide, it’s easy to create phrases in this fashion,
as Loop Quantize makes sure that all phrases match the guide’s measure
length.
If you don’t want to use the guide, there’s still a way to use Loop Quantize.
By turning on a phrase’s Tempo Sync switch, the phrase can be used as a
reference phrase for Loop Quantize. In essence, this allows the phrase to be
used as a replacement for the guide.
Loop Quantize is enabled during phrase recording when:
the desired reference phrase’s Tempo Sync switch is on.
the reference phrase is set for looped playback (its One Shot parameter
is set to LOOP).
the reference phrase is playing.
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