Tempo Maps - Akai DPS24 Operator's Manual

SETUP

TEMPO MAPS

Pressing TEMPO in the main SETUP page takes you to this page:
Here, you can set up a 'tempo map' so that a sequencer that is being synchronised to the DPS24 can follow time
signature and/or tempo changes.
You will see that there is a tempo and time signature entry at the start of the song. These determine the map's starting
tempo and cannot be deleted. You may edit them, however, to something more suitable simply by moving to the
VALUE field and entering the tempo and time signature.
The first thing you should do when creating a tempo map is identify the start of the song and reset the start time so
that the song starts at Bar 1, Beat 1, Clock 1. Locate to the start of the song and carefully jog over it until you have the
exact start point. Now press RESET START. All tempo changes and/or time signature changes you enter into the map
will now be referenced to that song start point.
After that, to add more steps to the map, first play/spool/jog/whatever to the point where you want the first change to
be and press either T.SIG (to add a time signature) or TEMPO (to add a tempo change). No prompts are issued - an
event is simply inserted. If you add an event accidentally, simply press DELETE (F4).
NOTE 1: Because time signature changes can only occur at the start of a bar, adding a time signature event
will place it at the nearest bar boundary.
NOTE 2: It is not possible to have several time signature/tempo changes at the same time. This is mentioned
because you may attempt to enter a time signature/tempo change and nothing appears to happen. Chances are
that a change even already exists at that time.
The cursor will automatically be placed on the step you have just created and you may edit its value (the default step
value for tempo is 120.0 BPM and for time signature it is 4/4 - these should be edited as appropriate).
Continue adding tempo changes and new time signatures as you need through the project.
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