Every feature, and where it is written up

This is the whole instrument in one list. Each row says what a feature does in a sentence and links to the page that walks you through it on the real hardware.

It exists because the guide is organised by what you are doing — generating, playing, mixing, saving — which is the right shape for learning and the wrong shape for the question “does it do X?”. This page answers that question and nothing else.

If something you expected is missing, it may be deliberate: What could come next carries the idea list and, at the end of it, what was considered and refused, with the reason.

Generating patterns

The generator owns the pattern. You set the odds and the shape; it writes the notes into the sequencer at every wrap.

Feature	What it does	Where
Euclidean drums	Five drum channels, always alive. HITS, ROTATE, DIVIDE and LENGTH; the generator writes the notes.	Generating patterns
Per-step odds	Hold SHIFT and tap a pad to ladder that one step through 100, 75, 50 and 25 per cent.	A step that sounds sometimes
SWING, VELO, OCTAVE and RANGE	The four knobs that shape what the generator writes rather than deciding it. SWING is per channel.	SWING, VELO, OCTAVE and RANGE
CHORD	The generator plays more than one note at a time. Seven voicings built from scale degrees, so every shape stays in the key. Draws dead on a take and on a sampler.	CHORD
Six scales	MIN, MAJ, DOR, PHR, HMIN and PENT, shared by all three voices.	The chord walker
Turing-machine voices	Three voices, each evolving its own shift register into a melody.	How it works
A pattern rebuilt every cycle	The bar is regenerated rather than looped, so it does not come back around identical.	How it works
Polymeter	LENGTH reaches three, five and seven beats against a four-to-the-floor kick.	Lengths that do not agree
Probability per channel	CHANCE, read live while the pattern plays, so a step sounds only sometimes.	A step that sounds sometimes
Ratchets	RATCHET fires one step several times inside its own slot.	RATCHET
Reroll	One button asks for a different bar from the same settings; the selected channel decides which half of the instrument it touches, and a second press before the wrap takes it back.	Reroll
The drum rhythm register	Steps appear and disappear bar to bar without the line sliding sideways. A pad tap goes into the same register — taking a hit out or putting one in — and survives ROTATE.	The drum rhythm register
A wandering voice	MODEL switches a voice between its shift register and a bounded walk, with SPAN and STRIDE.	The voice AUTO page
Voices that listen to each other	FEED and AMOUNT drift one voice’s register toward another’s — related, never identical.	The voice AUTO page
ROTATE on a melody	The whole line turns around the bar, notes and rests together.	The voice AUTO page
A cellular automaton	RULE evolves a register by looking at each step’s neighbours instead of rolling dice, so shapes travel and collide.	RULE
A generator that leans	LEAN weights hit positions by what the part is for — the floor, the eighths, or the offbeat.	LEAN
A constraint on the generators	LANE measures a bar and removes the hits furthest from the beat until it holds together.	LANE
Per-channel automation depth	MOVE is how often the machine may touch a channel at all. At LOCK it holds while everything else moves — and its Group button blinks, so you can see the lock from any page.	MOVE
A phrase with a fill	PHRASE and FILL make every second or fourth bar answer the ones before it.	PHRASE and FILL
Key and scale, shared	ROOT and SCALE are global and land on the bar, so three voices cannot drift out of key.	The chord walker
A chord walker	The shared root steps along the scale every few bars, reflecting at the edge of its span.	The chord walker

Playing and recording

Feature	What it does	Where
The pads play	Sixteen pads, the selected channel’s sound, over whatever the generator is doing.	Playing and recording
Editing a take by hand	On a channel you own, a pad in STEP mode adds or removes that one step — a chord goes as a chord — and leaves the rest of the pattern alone.	Editing a take
Pressure	Squeeze a held pad on a voice and the filter opens, proportionally, easing back as you let go.	Pressing harder
Overdub	Hold REC and what you play is written into the pattern.	Playing and recording
Ownership	A channel you have played is yours: the generator stands off it until you hand it back.	Who owns the pattern
Audio capture	The jam is recorded to a file on the instrument.	Capturing the jam

Structure and performance

Feature	What it does	Where
One phrase clock	A single bar count for the whole instrument, which every timed gesture resolves against.	The phrase
ARM — land it on a bar	Choose a gesture and a length; it fires at the boundary rather than under your finger.	ARM
PENDING	A page showing what is armed and how long it has left, and how to cancel one.	PENDING
FREEZE	Two stages on one button: hold the generators, or hold the modulators as well.	FREEZE
The mute grid	One pad per channel, instant on the top row and queued to the bar on the bottom.	The mute grid
Beat repeat	Hold a button and the whole machine squeezes down to one beat, then lets go.	Beat repeat
Gate collapse	Every note shortens across the bars you choose, then returns.	Gate collapse
DROP	Everything falls away except the channels you nominated, and comes back on the bar.	DROP
BREAK	Fall out now, come back on the bar.	BREAK
HALF and DOUBLE	The same rhythm at another speed, landing on a boundary.	HALF and DOUBLE
The CHANCE ramp	The kit thins out over the bars you choose and re-forms.	The CHANCE ramp
The ratchet ramp	The roll into the drop, climbing RATCHET as it goes.	The ratchet ramp
Banks as scenes	Hold or tap DUPLICATE: sixteen pads are sixteen whole arrangements, and a press lands on the bar.	The bank grid
Parts that leave rather than stop	EXIT closes a channel through its filter and level over a bar or four instead of muting it.	EXIT

Sound, mixing and modulation

Feature	What it does	Where
Modulators on any timbre control	Hold MOD and an encoder stops setting a value and starts setting how that value moves.	Modulation
Bar-synced rates and four shapes	The pads become the menu: nine rates, four shapes, all locked to the phrase.	The pads become the menu
The shape, on the screen	A bound column draws a small picture of its wave, so you can see what it is without remembering.	The shape, on the screen
RISE	A sweep that happens once and does not come back.	RISE
The pump	A negative-depth modulator on LEVEL, with MOD + RESTART snapping every one into phase.	The pump
Drift	The pattern itself moves at the wrap, and refuses on any channel you have taken over.	Drift
Kits and samples	Change a drum kit or a single sample while the rig plays.	Sound and presets
Engine presets	Walk a synth’s own patches from the panel.	Sound and presets
Switching what a channel IS	A drum channel can behave as a voice, and back, without swapping its engine.	How switching a kind works
Deep parameter pages	Eight knobs reaching a plugin’s fortieth parameter, on pages built from what it publishes.	Deep parameter control
Plugin switches	A port with named positions steps between the plugin’s own words on its own encoder, never landing between two.	Switches
The lens — one verb across eight channels	Hold ALL and the eight encoders become whichever channel verb your hand last moved, on all eight channels at once. Level, the sends, cutoff, swing, chance, anything a channel carries.	Modes, pages and the lens
Two inserts per channel	A post-fader echo and reverb on every one of the eight.	How it works
A master insert	One filter across the whole mix.	The master insert

The surface, and keeping what you made