I have been looking through the owners manual of the Motif XS6, and I am trying to find out how I change the note length in song mode?  I know how to/where to change what measure/beat/clock the note starts, but what fields represent the duration.

Let me further illustrate with an example:

I have a piece I am working on that has a pattern with 4 different sections (A-D).  I have some melody in each of them, and I also have a low string section note (let’s say C1).  In each pattern section (let’s say each pattern section is 4 measures)I hold down the C1 string section note for the whole measure.  After I put together a pattern chain and convert it to a song, how do I make the note play through all 16 measures (as opposed to it re-keying every 4 beats)?  I want a continous C1 note for all 16 measures.

I know there is an easy way to do it.

Bill :)

From SONG mode
Press [EDIT] - This will take you to the EVENT LIST for your track data. You can select the track you want to edit by pressing the associated button [1]-[16]

On the screen the duration of a note is expressed in the column called “GATE”. Gate is a word used in audio to denote something being ‘ON’ or ‘OPEN’… When the GATE is OPEN the sound is heard. So GATE = note duration.

It is expressed as follows: xxx:yyy
Where the ‘xxx’ is the number of beats and ‘yyy’ is the number of clock pulses.

The Motif XS sequencer divides each beat into four hundred eighty clock pulses numbered: 000 through 479

So you would make the C1 note (assuming you are in 4/4 time) last a GATE time of 064:000 this would 16 x 4 beats.

Because a real musician would prepare to hit the next note a slight amount of time before the next beat… 063:450 is going to sound more natural.

001:1:000 ____ Note C1 ___ 063:450 ____ zzz

where ‘zzz’ is your Velocity (which controls how loud)

Hope that helps.

Great!!!!

Thanks!!!!