Arturia KeyStep Pro Keyboard with Advanced Sequencer and Arpeggiator - Manual (Page 46)

4.2.9. Step Buttons
These 16 buttons let you activate or deactivate steps in a sequence and program specific
steps. They provide visual feedback (active steps light up in the color of the selected track)
and an indication of the currently playing step (which is lit up in white). This is an intuitive
way of programming steps that will be very familiar to anyone who has worked with an
old-school drum machine.
On the KeyStep Pro, these 16 Step buttons can do many other things that just active or
deactivate steps. For example, holding down the Lst Step (Last Step) button while pressing
one of the Step buttons lets you set the sequence's length. Holding down the 'Shift' button
lets you do several different things, including clearing patterns, nudging notes backward or
forward and quantizing sequences. These functions are covered in detail in Chapter 5 [p.63]
of this guide.
One of the most distinctive features of these Step buttons is that they are color-coded to
match the track that is currently selected. So when Track 1 is active, the Step buttons light
up in green; for Track 2, they become orange, and so on. This color-coding is consistently
followed across the entire front panel and lets you know what track you are currently editing
in the KeyStep Pro.
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