FN menu and shortcuts

FN is the menu of the current screen: hold it and the GRID becomes a menu of what this screen can do, with the second functions of the keys around it; tap it and the same menu stays open.

The FN menu

The screen and the key lights at that moment

1. 1FN MENU and whose menu it is: SEQ ROLL
2. 2Rows 1–3: this page's items
3. 3Row 4: the same on every screen
4. 4Quick controls: BPM, volume, octave
5. 5Hold
6. 6Menu items: FN + a GRID key runs it
7. 7Letters of the items
8. 8Quick controls
9. 9REC

Holding FN on SEQ ROLL: this page's menu on the GRID. Only keys with an FN function are lit.

	HOLDFN Hold FN	Tap FN: the menu stays open
run an item	FN + its GRID key, or FN + its letter	its GRID key; the menu closes
close	let go of FN	FN or ESC
pads	silent; only the letters and quick controls work	keep playing
↑← ↓SUB ↵OK	big steps (SEQ note page: the GRID's page) and the second OK (see Second functions (letters and the keys around))	ADD / SUB do nothing; FN+↵OK still runs the second OK

• A hold is 250 ms; release sooner and FN counts as a tap.
• Every item answers: with FN held, the tile you press turns yellow until a moment after you let go, and the bottom line of the screen says what happened (for example COPIED P01, VIEW STEP). A grey item does not apply on this screen; pressing it says "… NOT HERE".
• Rows 1–3 belong to the page you are on; row 4 is the same on every screen: SAVE the project, TAP tempo, REC arm, SETUP (in SETUP: BACK).
• The FN panel and its pages are gone: settings live in 0 SETUP, and FN + 1…5 do nothing.

The screen and the key lights at that moment

1. 1Name · what it acts on · FN letter
2. 2Not available: dotted
3. 3A switch: VIEW (ROLL / STEP)
4. 4Whose menu: SEQ ROLL
5. 5FN / ESC close
6. 6Run an item
7. 7Keep playing

A tap on FN: the same menu, kept open. The bottom line says whose menu it is and how to close it.

Each tile has:

• the name on top and, top right in yellow, its FN letter: FN+C runs COPY; OK means FN+↵OK, PLAY FN+▶PLAY;
• a second line: what it acts on (PATTERN or STEPS, ROW 2, the engine) or its state (ROLL, 120 BPM, OFF);
• its light: half lit available, fully lit a switch that is on (shown inverse: VIEW STEP, REC ARMED, PLAY SONG), off and dotted when it cannot run now (PASTE with nothing copied, SCOPE without selected steps).

The menu on each screen

Screen	Rows 1–3
INSTR (every page)	PRESETS browse · SAVE / SAVE AS the preset · ENGINE picker · RESET OK: the focused parameter back to default (parameter pages, CHORD and ARP included); SAMPLER also SAMPLES (files), RECORD (a sample), PREVIEW
SEQ (every page)	COPY C · PASTE V · CLEAR X · QUANT Q: the selected steps, otherwise the whole pattern · DUP D: the pattern into the next free slot (16 at most) · VIEW: ROLL / STEP (dotted on a drum track) · RECORD: the RECORD panel and its takes · SCOPE OK: which chord note the step editor edits (with steps selected) · PAGE − / PAGE +: which page of a long pattern the GRID shows (note page, more than 16 steps) · LEN − / LEN +: the pattern's length, 1 to 256 steps (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, then 16 at a time)
TAPE SESSION	LAUNCH: the cursor's row · ADD TO SONG OK: the patterns playing become a new SONG part
TAPE SONG	COPY C · PASTE V (after the cursor) · DELETE X · DUP D: the part under the cursor (ROW n) · PLAY OK: SONG / LOOP
TAPE MIX	UNMUTE ALL · UNSOLO ALL
TAPE SENDS · FX	RESET OK
SETUP PROJECT · FILES	NEW · LOAD · SAVE AS (the project)
SETUP KEYS · SYSTEM	RESET OK: the focused setting back to default
row 4, every screen	SAVE S: the project (UNSAVED when there are changes) · TAP T: tap tempo, shows the BPM · REC PLAY: record arm, fully lit when armed · SETUP: to 0 SETUP; in SETUP BACK to the scene you came from

The screen and the key lights at that moment

1. 1PRESETS · SAVE · SAVE AS · ENGINE
2. 2RESET: parameter pages only
3. 3Row 4: SAVE · TAP · REC · SETUP
4. 4Available: half lit
5. 5Not available: off

Holding FN on INSTR VOICE (T2 Juno): the sound's items; RESET is dotted because VOICE has no parameter to reset.

Quick controls: BPM, volume, octave

The three most used settings need no page. Hold FN: the 2×3 block at the right end of the pads, next to the GRID, is three plus/minus pairs, upper row up, lower row down (like ADD above SUB):

1. 1Hold
2. 2BPM + / −
3. 3Volume + / −
4. 4Octave + / −

Hold FN: 6 7 8 up, Y U I down

01HOLDFN+6

BPM +1 (Y is −1). Hold to keep changing.

02HOLDFN+7

Volume: too quiet, press 7 (louder); too loud, press U.

03HOLDFN+8

Octave: 8 up, I down.

Key	Does
FN+6 / FN+Y	BPM + / −
FN+7 / FN+U	VOLUME + / −
FN+8 / FN+I	OCTAVE + / −

They work on every screen while FN is held, repeat while held, and pop the new value up at the bottom of the screen, over the menu. While FN is held these six keys are half lit, fully lit while pressed.

Second functions (letters and the keys around)

1. 1Hold
2. 2Stop all
3. 3Previous track
4. 4Previous page
5. 5Big steps
6. 6Second OK
7. 7Record arm
8. 8Copy, paste
9. 9Clear
10. 10Quantize
11. 11Duplicate
12. 12Tap tempo
13. 13Save

Keys with a second function while FN is held

FN +	Does
GRID	run that menu item
ESC	stop all: the sequencer, every sounding note and every ARP (ALL STOP)
TAB	previous track
CTRL	previous page (CTRL alone: next page)
↑← / ↓SUB	big steps: ×10 on wide parameters (BPM ±10), ×3 on narrow ones, ×5 on the SETUP settings, 10 sounds on VOICE, 8 rows in lists; SEQ note page: the GRID's page of a long pattern (with steps selected: their values in big steps)
↵OK	the screen's second OK: INSTR, SENDS, master FX and the SETUP settings pages: the focused value back to its default; SEQ note page: which chord note to edit (all / one); SESSION: ADD TO SONG; SONG: SONG / LOOP; RECORD panel: merge a take into the current pattern; sample list: rename / delete
▶PLAY	record arm (REC)
C / V	copy / paste (selected steps or the current pattern; a part in SONG)
X	clear (selected steps, or the current pattern after confirming; deletes the part in SONG)
Q	quantize (selected steps or the current pattern)
D	duplicate the current pattern into the next free slot; the part in SONG
T	tap tempo: tap two or more times, the interval sets the BPM
S	save the project (an untitled one gets the first free name, SONG 01, SONG 02…, without asking)
F	in the preset and sample lists: search, see FN in input screens: the yellow legends
1–5	nothing

note

A letter works where the menu has its item (the pad is half lit then); S and T work everywhere. Each shows its name and result at the bottom of the screen. In the menu kept open (FN not held) the pads play notes, not letters.

FN in input screens: the yellow legends

In every pop-up (text entry, the preset and sample lists, the engine picker, the RECORD panel, confirmations) holding FN shows no menu; it uses the yellow legends printed on the key caps instead:

1. 1Hold
2. 2Up
3. 3Down
4. 4Left
5. 5Right
6. 6Page up / down
7. 7Search (lists)

Hold FN: the four keys at the lower right of the GRID are arrows

• In the preset and sample lists the pads do not type: FN + F opens a search field (up to 16 characters), ↵OK filters the list by it. ESC clears the search first, a second ESC closes the list.
• FN+ESC stops all here too, except in text entry, where ESC cancels.

Typing text

When naming something (a project, a sound, a sample) the whole keyboard types its caps:

The screen and the key lights at that moment

1. 1What you are naming
2. 2Name and cursor
3. 3Characters / 24
4. 4OK accept · DEL erase · ESC cancel
5. 5Erase (del)
6. 6Accept
7. 7Cancel
8. 8Space

Typing a name: SAVE PROJECT AS.

• Letters, digits, space (the PLAY key, not as the first character) and -; up to 24 characters (a search: 16). SAVE AS starts from the current name, or SONG.
• The top-right key (the del cap) erases before the cursor; ↵OK accepts; ESC cancels.
• FN + , / / move the cursor, FN + ; / . jump to the start / end, FN + del deletes after the cursor.
• The cursor is a bar between characters, a block at the end.