You’re not too far away with the classical Patterns and Song schemes from the old drummachines, however the SeqV4 gives some more flexibilities.
- Basic Level is a “Track” (I wont go deeper into parameter layers and stuff right now)
Thats one sequence which you usually edit notes in and such.
The “name” of a track is set in the “Track Event” screen, but only shown in the edit screen.
- Pattern:
Four Tracks form a pattern. This is the basic level you can save. The patterns (due to historical reasons) are organised in Banks and Pattern Numbers.
E.g. 2:E4 is Pattern E4 of bank 2. This allows a large number of patterns, i.e. groups of 4 tracks to be saved in the box.
When you save a pattern (Utility -> Save) you can define a category and a label.
These are displayed in the “Pattern” screen, where you can also select which patterns shall play.
- Groups:
The Seq can play 16 tracks in parallel. So you can select up to 4 patterns to play in parallel (4x4=16).
To have a different naming, these are assigned as “Groups”, so you have Group 1 to 4. This was also from an UI point of view to easier access all 16 tracks via 4 group + 4 track buttons.
- Song:
Like on the classics, several pattern can be arranged to a song, i.e. a sequence of pattern to be played.
There are song positions (A1 … P8) for which you can define the 4 patterns to play and for how long, but also stuff like mixer maps etc.
In song mode, it just runs thru as defined in the song positions (think classical linear sequencing)
In phrase mode, it stay in the song position until you manually select another one (think kinda ableton live clips).
Hope that helps.