ARTURIA – KeyStep – USER’S MANUAL 45
10 USING MIDI CONTROL CENTER
The built-in MIDI Control Center manual has general descriptions of the features that are
common to all Arturia products. To learn how to access the manual, see section 9.5.
This chapter will cover only the MIDI Control Center features that are unique to KeyStep.
10.1 The Sync option
As mentioned in section 9.4, clicking the Sync button is a quick way to back up your
KeyStep sequences. It also allows you to do other things we’ll cover later in this chapter.
However, there are some things you can do even if you don’t click the Sync button.
Here’s a quick overview of the different states:
10.1.1 Sync operations
The MIDI Control Center (MCC) does the following when you click the Sync button:
It automatically makes a backup copy of the internal KeyStep sequences. This is
known as a Template.
It updates the Device Settings window with the settings from the KeyStep. These
must be saved using the Device Settings Export button (see section 10.5).
It allows live editing of sequences from within the MCC sequence window. This is
an extremely useful feature, and we’ll cover it in section 10.7.3.
10.1.2 Non-sync operations
When the MIDI Control Center and KeyStep are not synced there are plenty of features
available. For example, you are able to:
drag and drop one of the sequences in the Project Browser to one of the SEQ tabs
send one sequence or a set of eight sequences to the KeyStep internal memory
use the Store To and Recall From buttons to transmit an entire set of 8 sequences
edit the Device Settings
perform other MCC functions such as sequence editing, file management and
Template creation, among other things.
Note: The MCC will do all of these things when the MCC and KeyStep are synced also.
