Alesis micron Reference Manual

 

d.  Pattern 
Turn the control knob clockwise to edit the drum’s pattern.  
(Remember, this will edit the pattern for just this one drum, not 
for all the drums that make up the rhythm setting.)  Press the 
control knob to edit the pattern.  The display will show a grid like 
this one: 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
In the top line, the screen indicates that Drum A is being edited in 
Step mode.   
 
The cursor is at bar 1, beat 1, tick 0, shown as 1:1:0. 
 
In the bottom line, each of sixteen steps is shown.  Rectangles 
appear where notes are present.  
 

Turn the control knob to travel amongst the different notes 
in the pattern.  For patterns that require more than one 
screen, keep turning the knob–the display will track your 
position in its upper right position. 

 
a.  Adding notes 

To add a note, press the white key that corresponds to that 
particular drum.  For instance, drum A is controlled using the 
A above middle C, labeled voice.  Your velocity information 
will be recorded, as well as the position of the pitch wheel 
and sliders. 
 
Note that you can press multiple keys at once in order to 
place multiple drums at a step.  In fact, you can enter an 
entire rhythm at once simply by playing it on the keys, as long 
as each step has at least one drum note. 
 
If you play a key that does not correspond to any drum, the 
cursor will advance, but the rhythm will not be changed.  
When entering a rhythm, sometimes it’s helpful to 
continuously tap on the highest note of the keyboard, to 
control the rate at which the cursor advances. 
 
After pressing the key, the cursor will automatically advance 
one step.