How does the step shifting of active instrument work?

[roboldham]

Hi folks

Has someone got any insight into how the "Shift all the active step of the current instrument" works? (quote from the manual)

As I understand it, it is used by holding down Shift + turning the Swing knob, in Step mode - and I expected to be able to shift the active sequencer steps to the left or right by the amount of steps that the Swing knob indicated, whilst playing live - allowing some groovy variations on sequences.

(There is also a note on the website FAQs that says it accessed by pressing "step + swing knob" but this just changes the Swing)

The Shift + Swing does seem to change something - that doesn't seem to be swing or step sequence shifting but I cant hear or figure out what it is....

Am I barking up the wrong tree here???

Thanks for any help!

[roboldham]

Duh, ok RTFM

For anyone else misunderstanding, it appears this function is for shifting events forward or backward +/- 50% of the set step interval to make unquantised sounding patterns - not shifting whole steps

Yay to this, but boo to not being able to shift whole sequences whole steps somehow

[groovelastig]

Shifting all notes in an instrument track one step to the left / right seems like a really cool and intersting functionality - would you care to write up a feature request?

(I put in some requests before 1.2.0.0 and two or three made their way into the firmware, sooo yay for feature requests  It seems to work somtimes.)

[roboldham]

ooh, great idea.... will do