Working In Bars & Beats; Tempo Setting; Selecting The Time Mode - Tascam D00871320A Owner's Manual

Working in bars & beats
Working in bars & beats
Besides working in minutes and seconds (as explained in detail in
"Direct location" on page 28), the DP-01 can work in musical bars
and beats. This is especially useful when working with external MIDI
devices (see "Working with MIDI" on page 38).

Tempo setting

For the bars/beats function to be useful, you must set up a tempo
and time signature. These allow the DP-01 to calculate where the
bar and beat divisions fall, based on the tempo of your song.
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With playback stopped, press
2
Select the
TEMPO/T.SIG
key:
3
There are two parameters here, the tempo and the time signature. Use
the cursor and jog wheel to set these.
The tempo is measured in beats per minute (bpm) and can be set from
to .
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The time signature can be set with the number of beats to the bar (
through ) and the number of beats per whole note (
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Selecting the time mode

Once the time signature and tempo are set, the DP-01 can map the
bar and beat divisions to the time.
To display bars and beats:
to the field:
ABS
Turn the jog wheel clockwise.
tion in bars and beats is shown, with the tempo shown on the right of
the screen:
With the cursor at
BAR
to the time-based display.
Location
is performed in the same way as described in "Location" on
page 28, except that there are only two fields now, bars and beats.
Track editing
is also performed in the same way as described in "About
track editing" on page 50, but because the editing points are now set
to a bars and beats-based position, the editing can be more "musical".
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and select the
MENU
(tempo and time signature) action and press the
On the "home" screen, move the cursor
changes to
ABS BAR
, turn the jog wheel counterclockwise to return
menu.
MIDI
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, , , or ).
1 2 4 8
and the current posi-
"Bars" are
sometimes
erred to as "measures".
Most rock and pop
music is in 4/4 (with
a few famous exceptions). Some
country and folk songs, as well as
waltzes, are in 3/4.
also
ref-