Roland MC-909 Getting Started Manual page 38

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Auto Sync
The MC-909's powerful Auto Sync feature allows you to change a sample's timing so it fits perfectly
into a pattern that uses a different tempo. Auto Sync is super-simple to use, as we'll see. Let's use
Auto Sync to make our 90 BPM sample work with our 100 BPM pattern.
1. Make sure that Part 16—the part that plays the patch we just
created—is selected.
2. Press the AUTO SYNC button so it lights. That's all there is to it.
Remember how we set the sample's tempo during editing? This gave
the MC-909 all it needed to know in order to do the necessary Auto
Sync math.
Let's listen to what just happened.
3. Press PLAY so Get Started! plays.
4. Press VELOCITY PAD 2 on the first beat of the pattern, and listen to how our originally-90-BPM
sample now plays in time with the 100 BPM pattern.
Whenever you want to re-time a sample to fit a pattern, select its part and turn on Auto
Sync.
5. To really lock our sample in, let's record a part using it.
6. Press REC, and then F1 (Realtime).
7. Set Quantize Resolution to 1/4 notes this time to make sure we plant our groove right on the
beat.
Here's what's going to happen.
You'll play the loop twice: once at the top of the pattern, and again at Measure 3—if you're
unsure of where Measure 3 starts, you can watch the onscreen counter.
Each time you press VELOCITY PAD 2, you'll hold it down for two measures so the groove keeps
playing. Here we go.
8. Press PLAY, and after the countoff, press VELOCITY PAD 2 at the very first beat and hold it
down.
9. At Measure 3, press and hold VELOCITY PAD 2 again.
If you need to, you can erase notes and then re-record them as we described earlier.
10. At the end of the pattern, press STOP, TOP, and then PLAY to hear how the drum groove totally
locks in.
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MC-909 Getting Started Guide Page 38