why you only have 13 spaces, not 16. You should see the hexagon you wrote to turn red
to show there is now a sequence in that slot.
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Now let go of the round buttons to exit Left Option Menu, and edit your sequence into
something else. Once you’ve got another cool pattern, go back to Composition Write
Mode (hold down bottom-left round button, then add top-right round button to it)
and touch another hexagon in those bottom two rows.
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You now have two slots in the current Composition filled with sequences. If you hold
down the bottom-left round button to enter Left Option Mode (but don’t press the top-
right), then you can touch one of those two hexagons that represent the slots you have
stored sequences in, and it will immediately load that stored sequence into the current
sequencer. Try setting up a few different sequences in there, and quickly switching
between them.
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OK, now you’ve got a Composition that contains several cool sequences. Currently, if
you turn off the power to the MantaMate, all of those cool sequences will be lost. If you
want to store them and be able to recall them another day, you can save them to a
Preset. To do that, press the “S” button on the MantaMate panel. The 7-segment
display will jump to slot 10 (since the first 9 slots can’t be written over) and start
flashing. Use the up and down buttons on the MantaMate panel to navigate to
whichever preset number you want to save your current setup to. Then press “S” again
to save the preset. The 7-segment display will stop flashing and your current setup is
now stored on flash memory that will be retained even when the device is powered
down. You can test it out by turning the MantaMate off and on again, and then
navigating to your saved preset
-TURNING A SEQUENCER INTO A WEIRD KEYBOARD OR ARPEGGIATOR
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Let’s say you’ve set up a cool sequence, but then you want to have those different steps
playable like a weird arbitrary keyboard, instead of them being triggered by a clock. Just
enter the Left Option Menu (hold down bottom-left round button) and touch the
Upper Hexagon marked “Touch” in the diagram of the Sequencer Mode Left Option
Menu above. Now the clock is ignored, and steps are stepped when they are touched
instead. Alternately, you can press the Upper Hex marked “Arp”, and it will still step on
the clocks, but it will only step on the Lower Hexagons you are currently touching
(rather than paying attention to the activated Hexes selected in Play Mode).
-RANDOMIZING A SEQUENCE
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Let’s say you want some inspiration. You can generate randomized sequences to give you
some unexpected possibilities, and then edit them from there. Enter Left Option Menu,
and touch the Hex marked “Randomize Sequence”. It will randomize all of the step
parameters, and which steps are toggled. If you just want a small change, you can use the
“Deviate Sequence” once you have a sequence you like. It will apply subtle changes to
the sequence each time you press it.
-SPLIT MODE (VIEWING TWO SEQUENCES AT ONCE)
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Entering the Left Option Mode and Touching the “Split Mode Toggle” Upper
Hexagon will enter Split Mode. This is a way for you to see both of the sequencers at
once on a single page, at the expense of limiting both sequencers to 16 steps or fewer
(instead of the full 32). Try that out when you have two sequences going. One thing
