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Pitch and mod touch strips, The pitch strip, The mod strip – Arturia KeyStep Pro Keyboard with Advanced Sequencer and Arpeggiator User Manual

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3.1.3. Pitch and Mod Touch Strips

The Pitch and Mod touch strips are similar to standard wheels in how they work, except that

you slide your finger backward or forward along the strip instead of rotating a wheel.

3.1.3.1. The Pitch Strip

The Pitch strip has a center zone in which slight finger movements produce no change.

Moving your finger forward bends the pitch upward, and moving it backward bends the

pitch downward. When you lift your finger, the Pitch bend value snaps back to zero.

3.1.3.2. The Mod Strip

The Mod strip works like a mod wheel: from minimum to maximum. Placing your finger at

the bottom of the Mod strip (the end closest to you) produces no modulation, and moving

your finger all the way up (to the end furthest from you) causes maximum modulation. The

Mod strip differs from the Pitch strip in that it does not snap to zero when you lift your finger.

3.1.4. The HOLD Button

The HOLD button enables the Arpeggiator to keep playing after you take your fingers off the

keys. But there's another way to use it: while HOLD mode is active, you can keep adding

notes to an arpeggio as long as you continue holding down at least one key.

For an in-depth look at the Arpeggiator, refer to

chapter 5 [p.63]

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3.1.5. Sustain Pedal

If you have a momentary footswitch, plug it into the Sustain jack socket on the rear panel. If

it works backwards, disconnect your KeyStep Pro from its power source and then reconnect

it. KeyStep Pro will sense the polarity of the pedal, and it should work fine after that.

: The KeyStep Pro offers limited MIDI Machine Control (MMC) for pedals : you can only use them to

start and stop sequences.

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