User Phrase Editor

In the user phrase editor, you can set up your user phrases.

To open the user phrase editor, click Show Editor Page .

You can display the velocity curve or two MIDI controller sequences for the phrase.

Phrase

To load a phrase, select it from the Phrase pop-up menu.

Note

Saved phrases include the Mode, Key Replace, and Wrap parameters, as well as the steps with their Level, Length, and Legato settings. The selected MIDI controllers or any settings on the main FlexPhraser page are not saved.

Mode

Determines how the notes are played back.

  • If Step is selected, the last note that is received triggers a monophonic sequence.

  • If Chord is selected, the notes are triggered as chords.

  • If Up is selected, the notes are arpeggiated in ascending order.

  • If Down is selected, the notes are arpeggiated in descending order.

  • If Up/Down 1 is selected, the notes are arpeggiated first in ascending, then in descending order.

  • If Up/Down 2 is selected, the notes are arpeggiated first in ascending, then in descending order. This mode depends on the set Key Mode.

    If Key Mode is set to Sort, the highest and the lowest note are repeated.

    If Key Mode is set to As Played, the first and the last note are repeated.

  • If Down/Up 1 is selected, the notes are arpeggiated first in descending, then in ascending order.

  • If Down/Up 2 is selected, the notes are arpeggiated first in descending, then in ascending order. This mode depends on the set Key Mode.

    If Key Mode is set to Sort, the highest and the lowest note are repeated.

    If Key Mode is set to As Played, the first and the last note are repeated.

  • If Random is selected, the notes are arpeggiated in random order.

Groove Q

To adapt the timing of a phrase to an external MIDI file, you can drop this MIDI file on the Groove Quantize drop field. You can quantize the playback of the user phrase to the timing of a sliced loop by dragging its MIDI file from the MIDI export drag field to the Groove Quantize drop field.

The Groove Quantize Depth parameter to the right of the drop field determines how accurately the phrase follows the timing of the MIDI file.

Key Select

The FlexPhraser scans the keyboard and writes the keys that are pressed into a note buffer.

Depending on the selected Key Mode, this note buffer is sorted either by pitch or in the order in which you play the keys.

Key Select allows you to play back a defined key from the note buffer. You can set up Key Select for each step separately, which allows you to create very elaborate phrases.

Note

Key Select cannot be used in Step or Chord mode.

  • To access the Key Select values of the steps, click Show Key Values to the left of the editor.

  • To switch between the available Key Select values for a step, click the value and drag up/down or use the scroll wheel.

    The following options are available:

    • P (Phrase) plays the note of the user phrase, according to the selected mode, for example, Up, Down, Up/Down 1, etc.

    • The settings 1 - 8 play the corresponding keys from the note list. Which key is played depends on the Key Mode setting. For example, if Key Mode is set to Sort, the setting 1 plays the lowest key.

    • L (Last) always plays the last key from the note buffer. Depending on the Key Mode, this is the highest note or the last note in the note buffer.

    • A (All) plays all keys from the note buffer as a chord.

Velocity Curve

  • To display the velocity curve, activate the Vel button on the left.

Key Replace

With this parameter, you can deactivate the Key Select function or specify how missing keys are replaced.

For example, if Key Select is set to 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 and you play a chord with 3 notes, key 4 is considered missing.

  • Off deactivates Key Replace and Key Select. The selected arpeggio plays back normally.

  • Arp replaces the missing keys with the note that the arpeggio would normally play.

  • Rest does not replace any missing keys. The arpeggio plays a rest instead.

  • 1st replaces the missing keys with the first note in the note buffer.

  • Last replaces the missing keys with the last note in the note buffer.

  • All replaces the missing keys with all notes in the note buffer. The notes are played as a chord.

Note

Key Replace can be set separately for each variation.

Wrap

For all modes except Step and Chord, you can use this parameter to restart the arpeggio after a specified number of steps.

Note

Deactivated steps are taken into account.

In Step and Chord mode, this parameter only affects the Octaves setting.

If the Octaves parameter is active, the arpeggio traverses the octaves and restarts from the original octave after the specified number of steps.

Controller Curve

To show a controller curve, click one of the controller buttons on the left.

MIDI Controller

Allows you to select the MIDI controller that you want to use.