Setting Up The Rhythm; Selecting The Pattern; Adding The Rhythm Guitar - Tascam Pocketstudio 5 Getting Started Manual

5 – Your first song using the Pocketstudio 5

Setting up the rhythm

The first thing to do is to set the tone generator to the
"pattern" setting.
1
From the "home" screen, press
then enter the
SYSTEM
R e c o r d : T r a c k i n g
T g M o d e / P a t t e r n
T e m p o : - - - - - - -
T i m e : A B S
2 Use the cursor to move to
wheel to select
PATTERN
TIP
While you are in the SYSTEM
that you want to think in terms of bars and beats, not
minutes and seconds. Set the
if you want to work this way (see
Bars/Beats
"Choosing the time type" on page 22 of the reference
manual).

Adding the rhythm guitar

The first thing to do is to make sure your guitar is in
tune. Happily, the Pocketstudio 5 contains a tuner—
you don't need other equipment.
1 Connect the guitar to the Pocketstudio 5.
Make sure the switch on the right of the
D
Pocketstudio 5 is set to the
tion. Plug your guitar into the Pocketstudio
5's jack.
GUITAR IN
NOTE
NEVER plug your guitar amplifier speaker output into
the Pocketstudio 5. If you do, will almost certainly dam-
age the Pocketstudio 5 and your guitar amplifier. You
may have an output marked LINE OUT on your ampli-
fier. If such a jack exists, you may use that, but you must
make sure that the selector switch on the Pocketstudio
5 is set to LINE and not GUITAR (even though the
instrument you are playing is a guitar!).
2 Assign the
GUITAR IN
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and
MENU
menu.
;
, and the
TgMode
.
menu, you may decide
parameter to
Time
posi-
GUITAR
to track 1.

Selecting the pattern

press the key, and enter the
MENU
menu.
C t g r y / R o c k 1
S t y l e : 6 0 s H r o c k
T e m p o : d = 1 0 0
A r n g e : P r e s e t
Select a category and style to use as a backing.
You can also adjust the structure of the song, arrang-
ing fills, intro, verses, etc. into the order that fits your
song, and you can also adjust the chord changes
throughout the song, as well as adjusting the relative
levels, pan positions, etc. of the instruments.
See the reference manual describing the use of pat-
terns ("Patterns on the Pocketstudio 5" on page 7) for
full details of how to do these operations.
Start playback using the
PLAY
Bring up the and
TG MASTER
nal positions so that the meters show some life, and
adjust the headphone volume using the headphone
A
level control until it is comfortable. Do not use the
or the faders to adjust the monitoring
TG MASTER
level in the headphones.
Press and hold the INPUT A GUITAR
make sure the
REC READY
and 2 flash rapidly (you will be recording on
tracks 1 and 2 in stereo).
3 Adjust the levels. Make sure that your gui-
tar's pickup volume and tone controls are set
to the level you want.
NOTE
N
If you have exceptionally powerful pickups on your gui-
tar, you may find that the red OL indicator by the
INPUT A key flashes on loud passages. This means that
you are overloading the input stages of the Pocketstu-
dio 5, and you should reduce the input level using the
GUITAR/LINE control.
Make sure the Pocketstudio 5 is showing its
home screen ("The "home" screen" on
page 10). You've already adjusted the
fader, haven't you?
MASTER
From the home screen,
PATTERN
. ;
y key.
faders to their nomi-
key and
lights for tracks 1