Got any Monotribe tricks up your sleeves?

[MBlom]

I've got a Monotribe at home that I bought for my students (12-16 yrs old) and I thought I'd get to know it better during the summer. I know the basic stuff, but I would love to get "under the hood", trying stuff that squeezes that little extra out of it. For example, I don't get the Flux mode. Don't understand it at all. And the drums are 16ths but I can only get 8ths out of the synth part.

[SeedyLee]

One trick I came across recently (probably old news to most people) is step recording of synth parts by changing the active steps during recording. Turn flux mode off, and make sure only the first step of the sequence is the only one turned on. Hit record, and hold whatever note you want. Then, whilst recording, turn step two on, then step 1 off. Record the next note and so on.

Flux mode is like quantise on and off, so having flux mode on records all pitch changes, slides etc for a given sequencer part, whereas having it off records only a single note per sequencer part. Having it turned on allows you to record and ply back pitch sweeps and other such things.

My favourite new monotribe feature though is the CV gate input, which allows me to sequence it from my daw and play the monotribe with a midi keyboard.

[Zai]

Install the latest firmware, and you can use 16 step drum sequences by holding down the relevant drum button to access the interleaved beats.