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the displays. You can have
mutations
occur once every bar to once
every four bars via the
mutation
control
menu. The revert menu
tells
mutation-enabled
loops to go back to their original play
pattern
after
a
certain
number
of bars. Make
in/out
bar
settings
for this
track's
mutate
function
in the remaining two
menus.
Since
pattern-
mutating
counts the
number
of bars, not loop
repetitions,
between
new
mutations,
you might
double
the
enabled
section length if the
loop is set for
half-timed
play. Be sure too that the
frequency
of
mutating
does not exceed the
frequency
of
reverting,
or you won't
hear
the
intended
effect. Two
alternative
mutating
styles
at the
end of the
mutation
control
menu
let you add in or
drop
out
(mask)
pattern
data at the rate of one
additional
step-set
per bar.
Mutations
are not affected by
automuting,
but these are effective used with
Automutes
to
gradually
introduce
a loop or "devolve" its
pattern.
At the
bottom
of the Note Editor is a field of play
controls
comprised
of
menus
and
checkboxes.
Steps
delay
shifts the loop's onset by a
selectable
number
of steps, the
duration
of which varies
according
to the step
resolution.
The
16ths
sustain
on mute menu directs
Automute
to switch off that part following a delay setting
measured
in
16th-note
durations.
For
example,
muting
a track with a sustain-
on-mute
setting of 2 has the effect of cutting off the last note one
count into the following
muted
bar.
The
velocities
menu, normal by
default,
offers
velocity
treatments
that can
create
changing
effects with each loop
repetition.
With
cycle
enabled,
velocity step
numbers
increment
by one relative to
note steps, so that you can
create
a
variable
note-gating
effect by
including velocity values of 0. The selection to
rotate
velocities
increments
all values
greater
than 0 with each pass,
wrapping
them
around
from
8 to 1. Used
separately
or
combined
via the 2 ways
selection, these
functions
are most effective in
play-all-steps
mode.
The
pitch
rotate
menu shuffles pitches
harmoniously.
flip
2-6
inverts a subset of scale notes on
alternate
loop passes. The option
for 1-7 up 2 causes triadic tones
1-3-5
and passing tones
2-4-6
to
rotate
within their tone type, but values 7 and 8
remain
unchanged.