Sequencer mode
In sequencer mode, the pads become a grid sequencer where melodies can be drawn visually. The Y axis is pitch, with each pad’s note being taken from the global scale (see notes setup). The root note of the scale is highlighted as it is in notes mode. The X axis is time and the current position of the playhead is indicated by a vertical white bar. This section covers editing sequences. For information on playing them, see the playback submode.
To enter notes, simply press the pads. Velocity is recognized in this mode just like notes mode, and by holding shift while you press a pad, that note will have slide enabled, meaning that the previous note (if any) will transition smoothly into it. This may require configuring the portamento setting on your synthesizer.
The color of the notes indicates their position within a beat. Red notes are even on the beat. Green are eighth notes midway between quarter notes. And yellow and blue are sixteenth notes before and after the eighths, respectively. In other words counting out the beat one-e-and-a, the one is red, e is yellow, and is green, and a is blue. The brightness of the notes indicates their velocity.
The sequence can be navigated by using the transpose buttons. Octave up/down move vertically and transpose up/down move horizontally. When first entering sequencer mode, the zoom-level is all the way out, only showing quarter notes, and no horizontal movement is possible. By using shift+octave up/down you can zoom in or out of the sequence to edit it in finer detail. The first zoom in reveals 8th notes, and the second 16ths. Once zoomed in, use the left and right arrow buttons to move side to side.
If there are notes stored in the sequence that are not part of the globally configured scale, they will still show in the sequencer on the row of the closest scale note with a lower pitch. They are not visually differentiated from actual notes of that pitch, so you need to listen for them. Say that you started a song by recording with a chromatic scale enabled, then switched to a major scale. This feature enables you to see and optionally remove those chromatic notes without needing to reconfigure your scale settings, but if you want to create new notes that aren't in the scale, the scale settings must be updated.
##In-between notes
When you are not zoomed in all the way, each pad represents not just one sequence step, but multiple steps. When fully zoomed out, each pad represents 4 steps, and after zooming in once, 2 steps. By default, the notes you see are the ones that fall on the first of this range of steps. For example, when you are fully zoomed out you are only seeing steps 0, 4, 8, etc. However, if there is no note on the first step in the range, then the first non-empty note will be displayed. Say you lived-recorded a note sequence, and your timing was off. Some of your notes fell on the beat, but some were a sixteenth or an eighth behind. You will still be able to see those off-beat notes, so there's no need to zoom way in and go searching for where the stray notes are, you can find them and remove them from the fully zoomed out view. As in non-scale notes, above, if you want to create a new note on an in-between step, you still need to zoom in to do so.
##Slide edits
As mentioned above, you can enter slide notes by holding shift and entering a note. When you are fully zoomed in, and one pad corresponds to one step, that's all there is to it, but if you are zoomed out, there's some more going on. Say you are fully zoomed out, ie. each pad represents 4 steps. If those steps are empty, pressing shift and a note will not only enter a single slide note, but will fill all four steps with the same note, so that you can enter a whole sequence of quarter notes without zooming in and editing each step individually.
If the steps are not empty, then any consecutive steps that are already tied together will be overwritten. For instance, if the four steps contain the notes C, C, D, F, and the second C is tied to the first, then pressing shift+G will make sequence G, G, D, F.
A similar rule holds for holding shift while deleting a note. Any consecutive, tied notes are deleted at once, leaving any individual notes, or non-tied notes alone.