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SPECTRALIS
3.13 The arpeggiator
An arpeggiator extracts single notes from played chords and plays them in a
selectable order. The Spectralis sports 6 arpeggiators - for each tonal line one
independent arpeggiator. The arpeggiator receives notes from the MIDI input,
the internal minikeyboard of the spectralis or by the pattern sequencer. After
recording some chords into the sequencer, you can playback them with the
arpeggiator activated and tweak the arpeggiator parameters in realtime during
playback. But the Arpeggiators work as well in case you are controlling parts
via MIDI from an external sequencer. In this case you should activate the
MIDI sync function of the Spectralis.
But let’s start to explore the Arpeggiator a little bit. Select a part you want to
arpeggiate, select a cool sound for the arpeggiator and enter the edit menu by
pressing
[Arpeggiator]
.
Now you can activate the arpeggiator and explore the
different settings:
1/3:Arpeggiator Settings
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„State“
Here one can activate the arpeggiator of the selected part.
„Dir“
- Direction
The playback order of the resulting notes can be controlled here. The
following directions are available:
„Up“
- Upwards
Plays the notes with increasing pitch from the lowest to the highest note of
a chord.
„Dwn“
- Downwards
Just the opposite of „upwards“ - plays all notes with decreasing pitch from
the highest to the lowest note.
„U+D“
- Up and down
Toggles between upwards and downwards.
„U+D2“
- Up and Down 2
Equals with up and down but plays the upper and the lower note twice.
„RND“
- Random
This setting plays the notes in random order.
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