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MIDI effects

MIDI effects change the notes before they reach the instrument. Audio effects change the sound afterward.

Add one

  1. Select an instrument track.
  2. Open MIDI FX and double-click an effect.
  3. Play the pattern and adjust. Use the enable button to compare with the plain notes.

Give an arpeggiator a held chord. Give a repeater a simple rhythm. Very short notes leave no room for repeats.

The arp panel controls how held notes become an arpeggio before reaching the instrument.
The arp panel controls how held notes become an arpeggio before reaching the instrument.

The effects

  • arp plays the held notes one at a time. Rate, Direction, Octaves, Gate, and Velocity shape the result. Generated notes are not written into the pattern.
  • beat-repeat repeats each note. Rate sets spacing, Gate sets length, Velocity scales strength.
  • quantizer snaps playback to a grid. It is not the transport's record quantization.
  • transpose-range folds pitches into a range between a minimum and maximum transpose.
  • spatial-harmonic-delay adds delayed taps with pitch, velocity, and pan variation.
  • trigger-to-track sends triggers to another track by number. Make sure that track has a sound.

Order and locks

Effects run in chain order; transpose before repeat differs from repeat before transpose. MIDI effect parameters take p-locks like any other control.

When a rhythm sounds wrong, bypass the MIDI effects before touching the synth.