Pattern rotation

The LaunchControl’s left and right arrows rotate a trig pattern: every trig moves one step left or right, and the one that falls off the end wraps round to the other side. The trigs you wrote are not changed. Rotation is an offset the MSEQ applies as the pattern plays, so you can always rotate back.

Hold SHIFT + MUTE and press either arrow to reset the rotation, which puts the pattern back where you wrote it. Hold SHIFT + SOLO and press either arrow to randomise it.

On a synth sequencer the arrows rotate the whole pattern, every row together. They work in any view except IO and peer IO, where the same arrows page through the catalog. In a view that does not show trigs you will not see the pattern move, but you will hear it. The jam keyboard is the one exception: there the arrows rotate the jam keyboard’s own pattern (see Jam keyboard).

On the TR-8 drum sequencer (13) the arrows rotate one row at a time, so you can shift a single voice against the others. They act on the selected row, the last row you pressed with 8B in the trig view, in whichever bank (main or alt) is showing, and reset and randomise act on that row only. Boom-tsk is left alone: while it is playing, row 1 does not rotate.