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Dave Smith Instruments MOPHO SE User Manual

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does not respond to MIDI start/stop/continue messages, but it can still sync to an

external clock. Simply turn on the sequencer and then play and hold a note to

start. Or use the Push It button’s toggle feature to latch a note on with one push

and release it with another; in this case, the Push It button is essentially a

Start/Stop control.

Reset and Rest
Sequences have a maximum of 16 steps, but they can have fewer—from 1 to

15—using Reset. (Sequences of 16 steps reset automatically.) Reset appears

immediately after the highest value setting for a step. Setting a step to Reset

causes the sequence to jump back to the first step and continue playing.

Reset is set separately for each of the four sequences, so it must be set at the

same step in all four sequences to shorten all the sequences equally. The

following illustration shows an example in which all the sequences are eight

steps in length.

Tip: Using Reset while programming a sequence can be helpful. For

example, when programming a specific melodic line, start by shortening

the sequence to four or eight steps until those steps are set, and then

gradually move the reset point to lengthen the loop until the desired

number of steps is playing.

Sequences do not have to be the same length, however, which makes for some

very interesting, less repetitive patterns, particularly when sequences are set to

odd and even numbers of steps.

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Steps

v = step value; R = Reset

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