This allows you to put all your clips together in one place to build a complete song..
It's pretty much like a DAW ..... such as the Arranger View in Abelton Live.
(Song view is like Session View in Abelton, and clip/track view is akin to playing individual clips in Abelton) .
And just like in abelton, the Arranger, Song & clip views are not independent of one another.
Song view is made up of clips, and Arranger view is made up of tracks ... kinda like in Abelton
The nice thing about this view is that the song loops CAN BE arranged independently from one another ..
It's not linear .....
that is they can overlap...... clips can start and end at separate times.
To enter arranger view:
1. enter song view. (solid blue LED)
2. Press the song view button again.
The Blue LED should be flashing and you are now in arranger view.
(The main Grid is blank. The mute / launch pads will be lit.).
3. You can place an instance of a clip onto a track’s row by pressing a pad.
if you tap a pad on the clip-instance other than its leftmost pad, you'll be taken into
clip view for that clip.
Clips are arranged according to the section colours (there are 12 colours in total)
ie: the colours of clips in arranger view reflect the colours for the respective
section in song view.
4. There is
just one row per instrument, MIDI, CV, audio.
eg: a synth in one row. A drum in another row , Cv & midi in another, etc etc
Holding down on audition pad will reveal the name of that preset in the display.
Each instrument can be muted and unmuted as in song view.
4a. To Change or add a new Instrument for a row
Hold Audition pad + turn select knob or press
instrument-type buttons
5. If you press any song instance tail pad ie a pad to the right of the first brightly lit one),
you can see the original clip.
6. You can change the CLIP INSTANCE of an instrument by holding the PAD and
turning the Select knob.
7. The Undo / redo button works in arranger view.
8. Press SHIFT + SCROLL<> to move clips left or right.
8a. To Move a clip-instance horizontally
Hold grid pad of clip-instance and scroll horizontally
9. Press PLAY to play the song of Arranger view.
10. Press PLAY to stop
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White Clips
White Clips are unique. they are independent from the original.
You can create two types of white clip.
1. A brand new white clip in the row that is totally blank.
(That is, it doesn't contain any note or sound pattern information).
OR
2. A white clip that has a variation in the original pattern.
1. To create a Blank White Clip.
a. hold a PAD and turn the Select knob (turn anticlockwise) till the pad turns white.
You may also convert an existing coloured clip to a white clip by pressing :
[SHIFT] + [PAD head]
b. Pressing the clip ‘tail’will switch to clip view where you can see that no
notes or sound patterns exist.
2.
Creating a White Clip with the old pattern.
You are converting an existing clip to a white clip
This allows you to make a variation of the old pattern which won't effect
the original source clip.
a. Press [SHIFT] + [PAD head] of an existing coloured clip
The head of the clip will go white.
b. Press the 'tail' of the white clip to switch to clip view.
The clip will still contain the old note info.
d. make your variations to the pattern.
e. Press [song] to return to arranger view
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Recording your Song into Arranger view
Another way to use the arranger view is to play the clips in Song view and record that
performance into arranger view.
This is just like in Abelton.
1.Set up song view as usual (mute what is necessary)
Solid blue LED.
2. Press & hold the Record button
3. Press the Song button again
You will now see a flashing blue LED but will stay in song view.
The Play button will automatically light green.
4. Do your performance.
5. When finished, press PLAY.
The flashing blue song button will now be solid.
6. Press song to enter arranger view.
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Entering a clip from song view into Arranger view (and vice versa)
1. enter song view
2. Press a pad on that clip
3. Press song button
4. The clip will be copied into arranger view
You can do the reverse of this if you are in Arranger view, and wish to
drag a clip into song view. This is useful if you have made a white clip in arranger view.
You can drop it into song view. Once you have done this, the white clip will be assigned a new section colour, which will also be visible the next time you go back into arranger view.,,,
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Deleting tracks in Arranger view ****
1. Hold down the audition button
2. Press save/delete
*** this feature doesn't seem to work
Future update ??
Clearing the entire existing Arrangement.
Hold [SCROLL▼▲] + [BACK / UNDO]
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Playing in Arranger View
To start from the beginning,
1. press PLAY
To play from a desired/current scroll position.
1. Scroll to the position
2. Press & hold (left/right SCROLL◄►)
(don't turn the knob)
3. Press [PLAY]
To solo a track.
1. Hold down the Left/right SCROLL◄►knob
2. press the Launch/mute pad (turns blue)
3. to Unsolo - press the mute pad again.
To move an instrument
1. Hold down the audition pad
2. turn the up/down knob
Changing a Tracks Preset / instrument
1. Hold down the Audition Button.
2. Turn the select knob
or
Press the track type button (Synth, Kit, MIDI, CV)
Note:
You can jump from arranger view to song view (and back again)
while the song is playing in arranger view.
This won't effect or interrupt the performance.
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Rename tracks
1. Press Audition tab
2. Press name tab
3. Press eNTER (on qwerty keyboard to confirm & save)
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To clear the entire arranger view.
1. Hold down the left/right knob
2. Press Back/undo
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Automation
Press shift + these header buttons (for the clips)
They are now stand alone clips and you can add your automation to them without it effecting
all the other clips in that row.
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Inserting & deleting time
1. Hold shift and turn the ◄► knob
This will move all clip-instances which are currently on-screen or to the right of the current screen.
2. Any clip-instances which “fall off” the left of the screen are deleted -
but you can get these back using the undo function (press back).
(source : official manual)
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