As noted here on the forum several times, the Pyramid manual is both terse and dense with information and it pays to re-read it multiple times. Just the other week I realized my printout of the manual is for PyraOS v2.3, so there’s a lot of goodies that I’ll be missing on my next scheduled re-read. So off to print and read the v3.2 manual.
Every re-read has paid off with one revelation or another, but this time I really hit the pay dirt. Hiding in plain sight in the “quick step edits” section of step-mode docs was this little bit:
● Press < or > to move horizontally the selection
The times I’ve used copy-paste-delete to move that one pesky note to another step, thinking “this is klunky but oh well.” I had to double-check the v2.3 manual and yup, it’s there alright, just somehow managed to miss it on all the half-a-dozen or so reads of the manual so far. Oh well.
Anyway, that was my manual re-re-re-reread of the week, feel free to share yours.
the manual is really quite dense, and so I found I tend to only remember the ones i use… these then feel ‘obvious’, and others I forget until I go check them again.
my favourite is one the newer ones
Track + Length + > , to duplicate/double track length.
I also have a habit of forgetting to use the note transposition shortcuts (discussed under piano roll in manual)
oh, and I sometimes forget (even though printed on unit!) hard record…
but favourite feature of all (again relatively ‘new’) is consolidate, this is so useful. I use it all the time for things like quantizing,
and of course, the various selection modes used with delete, transpose, copy n’ paste really are workflow wonders.
Pyramid is too much treated as sequencer, so underestimated as MIDI controller and input device.
for instance, it’s very easy to recreate Korg Kaossilator functionality with Pyramid’s XY pad, and even exceed it, since XY pad output can be further processed with MIDI effects.
p.s. and at last, i have a use case of loopback technology! (Pyramid USB output —> additional processing with Axoloti —> Pyramid USB input.)
Yes! That little nugget was all I needed to remind me that quantize wasn’t the only tool available to get synth lines starting from the first beat!
It’s the biggest learning curve I’ve ever had for a piece of hardware but so far it has been the most rewarding learning experience I’ve had with a complex piece of music equipment.
I had to double-check the v2.3 manual and yup, it’s there alright, just somehow managed to miss it on all the half-a-dozen or so reads of the manual so far. Oh well. 
of the week, feel free to share yours.
Haven’t looked at the unofficial one.