Probability R3

How likely each step is to play every time the pattern comes round, and how far off the grid it plays. The steps stay on top; probability and micro-timing are the two lanes below them.

• Tap a step to select it; hold several to set them together.
• Rows 5–6: 16 levels in sixteenths, left to right along row 5 and then row 6: 6%, 13%, 19% … 94%, and 100% (always) on the last pad. A chord plays whole or not at all.
• Use it for ghost notes and fills that keep a loop from repeating exactly the same way.
• Hold CLEAR and tap a step to put it back to 100%. SHIFT + the four rows of steps goes straight to any of the 32 pages and shows which one you are on, as in Note mode — Clear is no longer a navigation key, which it had no business being. DUPLICATE + step + step copies a step’s probability.
• Rows 7–8: micro-timing. How far off the grid the step plays, in ticks — a tick is a 24th of a step. Straight is the 9th pad, the first of row 8, and the lane lights from there out to the value: left for early, right for late. The pads are rungs, not a count, close together near the grid and further apart towards the ends, because a tick either way is a feel and twelve is a different placement:

  Early		Late
  −1, −2, −3, −4	a hair behind — drag and swing feel	+1, +2, +3, +4
  −6, −8	−8 and +8 are the triplet rungs: see below	+6, +8
  −10, −12	half a step — flams and in-between hits	+12

• Triplets. A beat is 96 ticks and the grid sits at 0, 24, 48 and 72, so every 8th- and 16th-note triplet position in the beat is exactly 8 ticks from a step. That is what the ±8 rungs are for: an 8th-note triplet is step 2 at +8 and step 4 at −8, and 16th triplets fill in at step 2 ±8 and step 4 ±8. For triplets inside one step, a ratchet of 3 or 6 divides it evenly instead, and the arpeggiator has 1/8T, 1/16T and 1/32T rates.
• The grid doesn't move. A nudged step still belongs to its place: the playhead, the bar and the song count it where it sits, only the notes play early or late. Use it for a snare that drags or a hat that pushes.
• For a groove across the whole pattern rather than one step, use swing; the two add up. Swing delays every second step — the “e” and the “a” — so a hit on the offbeat 8th (steps 3, 7, 11, 15) is left where it is.
• SHIFT + B1–B8 changes the track page, so a track past the eighth can be edited without leaving this mode.
• R1 returns to Note mode, and SHIFT + R3 — this mode’s own button with the modifier — opens Project mode, so R3 stays lit there.