Microfreak/UG/11 Icon Strip/01 Key Hold Button

• 11.1 The Key Hold Button

  • Key Hold locks a key or chord so both hands are free to adjust the MicroFreak's controls.

  • Note/Info The HOLD state is not saved with the preset.
    

  • The Hold Icon
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  • Pressing Hold once keeps the held keys active after the fingers lift. In paraphonic mode, playing additional notes adds them to the current chord.
  • In Arp mode, Hold keeps the arpeggiated notes playing after keys are released. Turning off Arp or Hold ends them. Playing new keys replaces the notes currently playing.

  • Note/Info Hold does not work with external MIDI. To hold external MIDI notes, send the MicroFreak a Sustain message.
    

  • In Sequencer mode, the Hold Icon has alternate functions.
  • The alternative functions of the Hold Icon
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  • In Step-record mode, Hold adds a tie or silence.
  • In Real-time recording mode, Hold clears the content as the sequence records.
  • With Seq Mod, Hold clears sequence modulation; with A or B, it clears the selected sequence.
  • When the Sequencer is disabled, Hold returns to its usual Key Hold function.

  • Note/Info Key Hold can help create a generative, self-evolving patch. Modulating pitch with independent rates from sources such as the LFO and Cycling Envelope makes the pitch change continuously without a sequencer.