Hold button, Scales & chords – Arturia KeyStep 37 MIDI Keyboard Controller and Sequencer User Manual
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2.3.6. Hold button
When the Hold button is lit you can lift your fingers off the keys and the arpeggio will keep
playing. It will keep running until you play another note or chord, at which point the new
note(s) will become a new arpeggio.
You may add as many as 32 notes to your arpeggio as long as you continue to hold down at
least one key. The notes you play will be added to the arpeggio at the nearest time division
increment.
The same rule applies with large arpeggios: once you release all of the keys the arpeggio
you have constructed will continue to run until you play another note or chord.
For even more in-depth coverage of the arpeggiator see
2.4. Scales & Chords
Some of the most interesting features of the KeyStep 37 are its scale and chord options,
which we'll cover in more detail in
, but to get an idea of the impact
that changing scale has on your sequences and arpeggios, try this neat trick while your
sequence or arpeggio is running.
• Hold Shift + (Scale)-minor. The Scale selectors are located just above the
keyboard. For example, you activate the minor scale with Shift + C4 (the third 'C'
from the left.) Try some of the other Scale selectors to hear the different types of
scale.
Creating strums in Chord mode is equality fascinating:
• Stop everything that's playing by pressing the 'Stop' button
• Hold Shift + HOLD/Chord. The Chord button will come alive and change from
dimmed orange to bright orange.
• Set the Type knob to 5, the Notes knob to its maximum position-
• Set the Vel>Notes knob to its minimum position, and the Strum knob to 40
• Play any key on the keyboard and hear how a strum is formed. Experiment with
the Type and Notes knobs to form strums of different lengths and chord types.
There are many other options to discover here such as browsing through a list
of chords, chord editing and strum editing. We'll cover these options in detail in
.
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