Arturia KeyStep Pro Keyboard with Advanced Sequencer and Arpeggiator - Manual (Page 134)

6.4.2.1. How to Make a Scene
Saving a Scene
Hold down Save and press the Scene button to enter Scene Save mode. The 16 steps will
blink, waiting for you to select a destination. The step buttons of empty Scenes will blink
once in blue; scenes that have content will keep blinking in blue.
Pressing a step button now will save the Patterns and Chains (if any) that are current on
each of the four tracks. You can keep the Save button held down and save to multiple Scene
destinations by pressing multiple step buttons.
If, at the moment when a Scene is loaded, a track is in a different mode than that stored in
the Chain, loading the Chain will switch to the mode saved in the Scene.
Scenes are automatically saved whenever you save a Project. Press Exit to cancel saving.
You can also directly save a Scene by holding Save and pressing Scene.
Scenes can be copied and pasted, and erased, in the same way as Patterns. (See above in
this chapter.)
Selecting and Loading a Scene
To select a Scene, hold down the Scene button and press one of the 16 step buttons. Empty
Scenes will be unlit, and loading them has no effect. Scenes with previously stored content
will light up in blue.
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♪ : The Wait to Load Pattern [p.129] setting also determines when the next Scene will load.
Erasing a Scene
To enter Scene Erase mode, hold down Erase and press the Scene button. The 16 step
buttons will blink, waiting for you to erase a Scene. Empty Scenes will only blink once;
scenes that have content will blink in blue.
Pressing a step button now will erase all the Patterns and/or Chains that were stored in that
Scene. If you want to erase several Scenes, keep the Erase button held down and press the
appropriate step buttons. Once erased, the selected step(s) will blink once in blue then turn
off.
Press the Exit button to exit Erase mode.
Switching Scenes
You can set Scene Launch Quantize in the Utility menu ('Shift' + Project). The options are 1
beat, ½ bar, 1 bar, 2 bar, 4 bar. This setting determines the precise point in time at which a
Scene, once loaded, will start playing.
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♪ : Scenes are saved in the KeyStep Pro's internal memory, so if you power down the KeyStep Pro
OFF and then switch it back ON, your saved Scenes will still be there.
All Patterns of all sequencers – but not the arpeggios – will reset when a new Scene is
loaded.
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