sequencer
Live recording
arms recording, which begins with your first note; during playback, hold to overdub or press to latch recording. adds a count-in.
Arming means nothing runs until your first note, so a take starts exactly on the downbeat. Once a pattern loops, holding layers new notes on each pass. Live takes are pulled onto the grid by the track's quantisation in the bar menu.
How to
Record a part live
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- 2 recording starts with the first note
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Add notes to a playing pattern
before you start the pattern is playing
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Record with a count-in
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Details
- TE’s guide
arms live recording: the step 1 key flashes red while the sequencer waits.
- TE’s guide
The first note you play starts playback and recording together.
- TE’s guide
Steps that receive notes turn red while recording and show white after .
- TE’s guide
While a pattern plays, holding records into it until you let go.
- TE’s guide
Pressing during playback latches recording on without holding .
- TE’s guide
Encoder moves made while recording are stored per step, like parameter locks; smooths them.
- TE’s guide
plays a count-in before recording starts.
- TE’s guide
A take longer than the pattern wraps round and plays over itself, so lengthen the pattern first.
- community
Notes arriving over MIDI while recording is armed land in the pattern too, according to community test tools.