He piggybacks this unit directly on top of a scope, allowing him to produce never-before-captured wide-field images, like his striking, ghostly picture of Barnard's Loop-a huge arc of gas that covers the length of the constellation Orion.

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The bottom-left 4 x 4 pads represent drum sounds (touch the slider to scroll up and down through even more sounds), while the bottom-right quarter of the grid serves as a clip-length control (press and hold the first pad, tap the fourth for a four-bar loop, etc.).

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