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Drum Cycler

Purpose

Choose which drum destinations the TR-8’s UP/DOWN buttons walk through. There are six destinations: sequencers 13, 14 and 15, each in its normal and its alt configuration: held in the eight-slot drumcycler array, plus two slots reserved for a future drum sequencer. The view holds no pattern and makes no sound; it only shapes the route UP/DOWN takes.

Interaction

The top row of the LP RHS, one pad per slot, counting left to right from column 1. The other 56 pads and the whole LP LHS stay dark.

Slot Pad Destination Lit colour
0 column 1 TR-8, normal green
1 column 2 TR-8, alt red
2 column 3 seq 14, normal yellow
3 column 4 seq 14, alt vivid orange
4 column 5 seq 15, normal blue
5 column 6 seq 15, alt violet
6–7 columns 7–8 reserved always dark

A slot switched off shows dim grey rather than going fully dark, so you can still see it is available. Both players see the same array: the walk is a property of the rig, not of a player.

Shortcuts

Gesture Where Action Modifiers
Press a pad on the top row LP RHS row 8 Toggle that slot in or out of the walk (0 ↔ its preset value) none
Press a reserved pad LP RHS row 8, cols 7–8 Nothing. No destination is mapped there none

Each slot holds a signed sequencer number: 13 is TR-8 normal, -13 is TR-8 alt, 0 is out of the walk. UP/DOWN walks to the next non-zero slot, so switching one off removes it from the route rather than leaving a dead step.

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