Editing patterns

In (3) Instrument selector select empty instrument number you wish to load.

First select an instrument. This is the position where new samples/instruments will be loaded. If you load over existing instrument it will be overwritten.



Now go to DiskOp in (2) Scopes/DiskOp.



Load a sample by clicking on it. All supported instrument/sample types will appear in browser window. Most common are WAV files, AIF/SND files, RNI (Renoise instrument) files, XI (FastTracker instrument) files. To do so, please choose the filetype "sample" first.



Preview the sample by playing it on virtual piano keyboard (try keys qwertyuio and zxcvbnm). You can use your MIDI-in keyboard if it is properly configured (check configs). If headphones icon is pressed sample will be previewed automatically while loading.



First move the pattern cursor (highlighted square) to track you wish to edit using Arrow keys. Click Edit off and it will change to Edit on and activate edit mode. Now press the virtual piano keys again and you will enter notes in (4) Pattern editor. You can record notes "on-the-fly" if you press the Play button and play notes on your keyboard. They will be inserted in pattern as you play them. Edit mode must be on if you want to record notes this way.

Note that you must be in note column to enter notes, otherwise you are entering effects numbers in effects columns. To learn about effect numbers look at section (4) Pattern editor. To learn which number is assigned to which effect look at the Pattern effect commands.

When you entered some notes you can test them by pressing Play. This is how you insert notes in one pattern. Now let's see how to select more different patterns and arrange a song.



You can change the current pattern by clicking on the Arrow buttons next to sequencer list. Here you can also insert or delete patterns and change the song length. If you get distortion while playing song that means overall volume is too high, so you better lower the Master Volume slider or turn on AD (Auto Decrease). Take good care how you balance your sample/instruments volume because AD will keep volume at the highest possible level without producing digital distortion (clipping). So out of this, you might sometimes get a pretty quiet song volume.

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