User's Manual

434 Live MIDI Effect Reference
chooser. Grooves in Arpeggiator behave similarly to grooves in clips, and the intensity of the
groove is determined by the Amount slider in the Groove Pool (page 196).
With the Hold parameter active, Arpeggiator will continue to play the pattern even after the
keyboard keys have been released. The pattern will be repeated until any other key is pressed.
When Hold is active and any of the original keys also remain physically held, notes can be
added to the pattern simply by playing them. Notes can also be removed from the pattern in this
scenario by playing them a second time, allowing the gradual buildup and rearrangement of the
pattern over time.
Tip: If you want the pattern to stop playing, momentarily deactivate Hold.
The Offset parameter shifts the sequence of notes in the pattern by the number of places selected
with the control. This is best illustrated with an example: A setting of “1“ makes the second note in
the pattern play first, and the first note last. If you imagine the pattern as a circle of notes that is
played in a clockwise direction from a set start point, the Offset parameter effectively rotates this
circle counter-clockwise one note at a time, changing where in the pattern play begins.
With the Repeats parameter, the pattern can be set to repeat a specified number of times until
it is retriggered. A setting of “inf“ will repeat the pattern indefinitely. Hint: This feature provides
an excellent way of emulating the strum of a guitar or playing a chord as an arpeggio once or
twice. Another interesting effect can be achieved by combining this feature with the Retrigger
parameter, which we will explain in a moment. This can be used to create rhythmically gener-
ated arpeggios separated by pauses.
The Retrigger parameter resets the pattern so that it starts again from the beginning. Retriggering
can be deactivated (Off), set to occur when new notes are pressed (Note) or set to occur at a
specified song position or beat-time (Beat). Beat retriggering can be specified in terms of notes
or bars and is aligned with song position. An LED in the upper right corner of the section indi-
cates when the pattern has been retriggered.
23.1.2 Transposition and Velocity Sections
The pattern generated by Arpeggiator can be transposed; the device’s transposition controls al-
low forcing this transposition into a specific major or minor key or (using the Transpose chooser’s
Shift option) doing it in semitones. The distance between transposition steps is set in scale inter-
vals (for Major and Minor transposition) or semitones (for Shift transposition) with the Distance
control. Using the Steps parameter, you can choose the number of times the sequence is trans-
posed. When Distance is set to a positive value, a setting of 8 Steps will transpose the sequence