A ‘Session’ on SL MkIII contains eight Parts on the SL MkIII with each made up of eight patterns (containing 16-steps). A Session also contains the Scales, Arp settings, and Zones.
By sending a Session to SL MkIII, from Components, you can restore all the steps, automation data and assignments. To enter Sessions view, press the ‘Sessions’ button. In Sessions view, the square 8x2 pads become locations for saving and loading your Sessions.
The arrows to the left of the 8x2 pad area are used to change pages of Sessions view. There are four available pages, each containing 16 Sessions laid sequentially across the 16 pads. These four pages give you a total of 64 Sessions.
Sessions have names (re-nameable in Components), and you can change their colour. To select a colour, press the Save button once, then use the first two soft buttons below the screens to select a colour. Press Save again to confirm.
You can save your current Session at any time. Press the Save button once, and it will begin to flash. Press Save again to confirm the Save.
Select Sessions view and you have the option to save the Session to a new location or change the colour of the Session. Press the Save button once so the Save button is flashing. You can now use the two left-most soft buttons below the screen to scroll through session colours.
Once you have found your preferred colour, either press the Save button again to save in place or select a different session pad to save the Session to a new slot. This will overwrite any data currently saved to that slot.
To clear a session of all data and reset the Session’s settings to default: select a Session, hold Clear and press the current Session’s pad.
While the Sequencer is playing, you can prepare a new Session in Session view. When you press a pad, it will flash; this shows the Sequencer has ‘cued’ this Session to start at the end of the currently playing pattern on track one (main track). At this point, the Session pad will turn white to show its selection.
You can load a Session by sending a ‘program change’ message to the device on channel 16. By default, the shown Session will load instantly. If you add 64 to the program ID the Sequencer will cue the Session load (see The OLED display).
It is possible to load a Session by sending a ‘song select’ message to the SL MkIII while the Sequencer is stopped. The Song ID shows the session to load.