(Small) Documentation

IMPORTANT : This application requires a recent version Chrome with access to your system's MIDI devices.

• Step Sequencer Editor

  

  Use the piano roll to enter pitch notes like you'd normaly do inside your DAW.

  1. Toolbar : The toolbar provides access to sequencer playback, plus various other functions to manipulate and export your creations.. More information is given in the section bellow

  2. Step Measure : Upon playback the step measure indicates the currently played step.

     Clicking on the Step Measure will truncate the pattern to the selected number of steps.

  3. Pitch Cells : Clicking a pitch cell will set the current step to the selected note. Clicking on a selected note, will render the step as a rest.

  4. Audition : The "Auditon" column on the left, displays the note name for each row.

     Left clicking however will trigger the corresponding note on the TD-3 in normal velocity.

     Right clicking will trigger the corresponding note accented, on the TD-3.

  5. Ornaments (Slide & Accent): Click on the ornaments rows named "Slide" and "Accent"

     to add these ornaments to each step. Enabling "slide" to the first of two notes with the same pitch has the same effect as "tie"

• Toolbar

  Perform various operations using the toolbar at the top of the application.

  • Play / Stop : Play the pattern using the app sequencer.

  • Tempo : Set the playback tempo.

  • 8T & 16 : Switch the step size, between triplets of eight and sixteenths.

  • Move Left : Move the pattern steps to the left. Leftmost steps will appear at the end of the pattern.

  • Move Up : Transpose the notes one semitone up. Notes at C2 won't be transposed.

  • Move Down : Transpose the notes one semitone down. Notes at C-1 won't be transposed.

  • Move Right : Move the pattern steps to the right. Rightmost steps will appear on the start of the pattern.

  • Clear : Clear / Reset the pattern.

  • Randomize : Create a new random pattern.

  • Reverse : Reverse the order of the steps.

  • Clear : Clear / Reset the pattern.

  • Store / Recall : Perform various store and recall operations. The operation reveals a menu, with the following options.

    • Download : Download the pattern as a file to your hard drive.
    • Upload : Upload a previously saved pattern from your hard drive.
    • Export MID : Download an SMF (MID) file of the pattern.
    • Get URL To Share : Get a URL that you can share on social media with friends.
    • Send SYSEX : Send the pattern as SYSEX to TD-3 at a given Group / Pattern / Variation location (Opens a new dialog).

  • Utility : Miscellaneous operations can be found in this menu.

    • Settings : Set the midi device and channel.
    • About : Display information about the application.

SPECIAL CREDITS & THANKS: Part of the MIDI SYSEX implementation used information from the site 303patterns.com.

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