Tiptop Circadian Rhythms - Manual (Page 23)

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Please note your fills are NOT recorded in your Step sequences. Fills are designed for live perfor-
mance.
Let’s have some fun and have a fill with 1/32 triplets. Press the Fill button again to select options for
your fill. The Preset column has divisions from top to bottom of triplet notes of 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32
duration. Select the 4th button down. Now, press Fill twice to return to an active Fill. Press down the
Trig4 button to fire your fill with 1/32 triplets.
(For further information on programming fills of different note values, see the section on Fills in the
Circadian Rhythm Functions in Detail) section.
Triggers
Simply put, triggers allow you to record steps to your patterns live and on the fly. Some folks feel
more comfortable with this approach to building up rhythmic patterns or sometimes when you have a
good pattern going, it’s great to be able to add beats in real-time. Regardless, CR has you covered.
To activate Trigger programming, hold down the Fill button. The Fill button will turn green and the
Trig1-Trig8 buttons will turn red. The red Trig buttons indicate that they are armed for recording.
While the CR is playing, to record a step in your current Preset, press the Trig for the Channel you
wish to record a step. For example, if you want to record a step on Channel 5, press Trig5. Your step
will be record in the appropriate Channel’s Preset quantized to the nearest 16th note.
Apart from inputting Steps in realtime, there’s nothing special about Steps that have been recorded
using the Trigger function. You can edit them the same as you would for any other Step.