recipes
Build a song from scenes
In arrange, a scene is a snapshot of which pattern every track plays — copy scene 1 into scene 2 with , give a track a new pattern there with , then key the scenes into song mode () in playing order and choose whether the song loops.
Scenes turn loops into sections and song mode strings the sections together. Start from a loop that already works as the verse, copy it into the next scene and change as little as makes the chorus lift: one new pattern is often enough. Keep adding scenes for a bridge or an ending, then key the song in the order it should play. With the loop left on, the song starts over at the end, handy while writing; switch it off for a finished take.
How to
Make a chorus scene in which track 3 plays a second pattern
before you start the verse's patterns play in scene 1
- 1 scene 1, the verse
- 2 scene 2, a copy of scene 1
- 3 a new, empty pattern 2 for track 3, playing in scene 2
- 4 program the chorus bassline on track 3's new pattern
Scene 1 still plays track 3's pattern 1; scene 2 plays its pattern 2.
Chain the scenes into a song that plays through once
- 1
- 2 song mode
- 3 clear the song order
- 4 shift held, verse twice, chorus twice
- 5 counter-clockwise, loop off
- 6 the song plays from its first scene
Verse, verse, chorus, chorus, and no start over at the end.
Details
- TE’s guide
A scene remembers the pattern every track plays and their mix; a project has 99.
- TE’s guide
Choosing an empty scene fills it with a copy of the one playing, so the next section starts as the last one did.
- TE’s guide
and a black key choose scenes 1–9; scenes 10–99 start with and two more black keys.
- worked out
In arrange, adds a new pattern to the selected track; the replica plays it at once in the current scene, which then remembers it, while other scenes keep their own choice.
- TE’s guide
opens song mode, where and black keys add scenes to the song order one after another and empties it.
- TE’s guide
E1in song mode turns looping on or off; with it on, the song starts over from its first scene after the last. - TE’s changelog
OS 1.0.45 added stopping playback at the song's end; the replica stops there with loop off, which is not yet confirmed on a unit.
- TE’s changelog
Since OS 1.1.0 the black keys add scenes in song mode only with held.
- worked out
A chorus often needs only one or two tracks to change, such as a busier drum pattern or a new bassline, while the rest carry on; each changed track gets its own pattern in the chorus scene.