User's Manual

611 Using Push
(Tip: press and hold the Add Track button to select between Audio, MIDI and Return tracks.)
Adding a track puts Push into Browse mode, so you can immediately load an instrument. After
loading your instrument, make sure Note Mode is enabled.
Note that when pressing the Add Track button while a track within a Group Track is selected,
any new tracks will be inserted into that Group Track.
When working with a MIDI track containing an instrument, Push’s 8x8 pad grid automatically
configures itself to play notes. By default, every note on the grid is in the key of C major. The
bottom left pad plays C1 (although you can change the octave with the Octave Up and Down
buttons). Moving upward, each pad is a fourth higher. Moving to the right, each pad is the next
note in the C major scale.
Play a major scale by playing the first three pads in the first row, then the first three pads in the
next row upwards. Continue until you reach the next C:
C Major Scale.
The pad colors help you to stay oriented as you play:
•Blue — this note is the root note of the key (C.)
•White — this note is in the scale, but is not the root.
•Green — the currently-playing note (other pads will also turn green if they play the same
note.)