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  • Page 1 USER MANUAL...
  • Page 2 B.Beat safe use of the device and under- standing of the inherent hazards. Do not use exceeding the range of the system and other electrical equipment.
  • Page 3 B.Beat Plier Stand, which accessible by the user. allows you to join B.Beat to mi- crophone stands and other stage stands. Leave the ventilation grille of the...

  • Page 4: Input/Output Jacks

    Contact the distributor from whom Compatibility Directive). In particular, the you purchased the unit or a equipment is designed and manufactured B.BEAT service center with the following on the basis of technological progress, so information: product model, serial number that:...
  • Page 5 Precautions for use and safety COPYRIGHT COPYRIGHT Windows, Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 7 are trademarks or reg- istered trademarks of Microsoft Corpo- ration. Macintosh and Mac OS are trade- marks or registered trademarks of Apple Inc. The SD and SDHC logos are registered trademarks.
  • Page 6 B.Beat Data Sheet B.Beat Data Sheet Internal Audio File Format PCM (uncompressed) 48 kHz 24 bit Compatible Audio Formats WAV 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 96 kHz 16/14 bit MP3 fixed bit rate [64 - 320] kbps when importing MP3 VBR...
  • Page 8 WAV 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 96 kHz 16/14 bit - MP3 fixed bit rate [64 - 320] kbps - MP3 VBR OGG fixed bit rate [64 - 320] kbps – AAC – STEMS – MTA M-Live 8 tracks stereo or 16 mono (Audio multitrack)

  • Page 9: Future Developments

    We introduce you eos during a Show. With B.Beat there is FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS no need to bring to the stage Computers, Tablets, Sound and Video Cards, Cables, Mixers - more or less small - and other The B.Beat Manager App is being con- accessory devices: B.Beat solves the is-...
  • Page 10 INDEX SAFETY TECHNICAL DATA SHEET. LET'S INTRODUCE B.BEAT LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT B.BEAT COME ON, LET'S GET STARTED. - MAIN FEATURES AND CONNECTIONS TRANSFER THE DATA BACKING TRACKS - FORMATS OPERATING ENVIRONMENTS PLAYLIST SHOWS METRONOME SYSTEM LYRICS AND CHORD WRITING...

  • Page 11: Power Supply

    OF THE DEVICE AND SUPPLIED WITH IT. OF THE DEVICE AND SUPPLIED WITH IT. POWER SUPPLY NETWORK CABLE USER MANUAL, you are reading. OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES M-Pen for Wi Fi connection and Hotspot generation B.Beat Hard Bag, custom-made hard bag B.Beat plier, pole stand...
  • Page 12 Ram memory UP – DOWN: UP – DOWN: generically serve to scroll of B.Beat. B.Beat can load Audio Backing through lists on the display, to change Tracks synchronized to video, or audio and the position of the active cursor, or to in- video unsynchronized and independent.
  • Page 13 LIVE: LIVE: sets B.Beat in live operation, to avoid POTENTIOMETERS: POTENTIOMETERS: blockages and incidental actions, such as unintentional pressing of a key. To turn BCK-TRACKS: BCK-TRACKS: adjusts the level of the it on: press Live and confirm your choice Backing Tracks going to the headphones.
  • Page 14 3A and maximum serted. When you insert a USB flash drive length 1m. It is not possible to determine B.Beat displays its contents in the Library at first glance whether a device will work window. Connecting the Wi Fi M-Pen flash from license plate data.

  • Page 15: Main Features

    Audio tracks on DAW. In first see a complete connection diagram addition to audio tracks B.Beat can play of B.Beat by imagining a Live Set Up, on videos and/or images that can be trans- a stage. mitted on video Walls; it reads and trans-...

  • Page 16: Transferring Data

    4. After about 60 seconds the App will mixed you will be ready to transfer it to detect the B.Beat connected, so you can B.Beat. For this we use B.Beat Manager, a connect to the B.Beat by pressing the but- software made available in both Windows ton on B.Beat Manager:...
  • Page 17 This solution is perfect when you are us- 1.Insert Wi Fi Stick on B.Beat ing B.Beat at home and want to use Wi Fi. 2.Connect the B.Beat to the pc via the provided Ethernet cable (or via hotspot as above) 3.open B.Beat manager on pc and connect...
  • Page 18 (with click in one of the two tracks)* The maximum number of tracks you can read with B.Beat is 16 mono, or 8 ste- 3.Audio multitrack (mp3 or wav or other reo. digital formats) ** You are now ready to import the project 4.Stems (audio multitrack according to an...
  • Page 19 IMPORTING A VIDEO OR IMAGES TO B.BEAT OR IMAGES TO B.BEAT 4.Click on the key: B.Beat can play Video files in Mp4 and MOV format. Video files can be previously synchronized with an Audio project. Synchronization can From this point you can transfer video File be done with any Video Editing software to B.Beat.
  • Page 20 Midi track will be played by B.Beat through Playlists that are built either on B.Beat the MIDI output. To properly transfer the but even better on PC with the B.Beat Midi file associated with the Audio proj- Manager software. ect, it is recommended that the Midi file...
  • Page 21 NEXT SONG location, in fact the that can be reached by clicking the rele- item will be ready to play at the end of the vant key. By default, B.Beat will turn on in current execution. the Library environment, but then it will be b)Delete: deletes the selected item.

  • Page 22: Using The Usb Flash Drive

    The following screen appears when insert- When a USB flash drive is inserted into ing a USB flash drive into the B.Beat drive: B.Beat, the internal memory can be ac- cessed by pressing the LIBRARY key, and the flash drive by pressing the F2 USB key.
  • Page 23 the Alpha Dial. SPP will move to the de- ALPHA DIAL: ALPHA DIAL: by turning the alpha dial the sired point, and pressing Enter will move song position moves along the Time line of to that point. the project loaded in memory, the display Below the SPP are the time indicators: shows the target song position (GO TO) time elapsed from the beginning, time to...

  • Page 24: Edit Tracks

    EDIT TRACKS EDIT TRACKS muted, for all Audio projects uploaded to B.Beat. If we want to exclude the Fam- Editing of tracks and mixes on the ily Mute from a specific project, we can DAW is recommended to be completed. In always do so from the Mute function on any case B.Beat and especially the B.Beat...
  • Page 25 The Playlist is a set of Audio Projects (or audio + video) that is selected from the B.Beat Library and can be played in se- quence according to a preset order. Be- tween songs the Playlist can stop or it can continue automatically via Autoplay (see System menu ->...
  • Page 26 Press F3 [LOAD] to load the Playlist into memory. Now it is ready to play. Alterna- tively, you can press PLAY and the Playlist B.Beat allows editing a Playlist. To edit: will start immediately. Press [PLAYLISTS] Turn [Alpha Dial] or [Up...

  • Page 27: Play A Playlist

    Press F3 [NEW] to create a new Playlist. The new playlist will automatically be named LIST # since on B.BEAT there is no way to name items. At a later time we can change its name from the B.BEAT Manager...
  • Page 28 Playlist. images. To create and edit the Show refer F2 [NEXT] Inserts the selected song into to the B.Beat Manager Software guide. the Next location. So the song will be Structurally, the B.Beat Show is divided played after the one playing. Select the into Scenes, which in turn contain Slots.
  • Page 29 (or scene). B.Beat manager to explore this topic fur- ther. Once the programming of the Show is When we load a SHOW the B.Beat is ready completed, the Show must be transferred to play the list of all the events contained to B.Beat for Live performance.
  • Page 30 METRONOME F1 [SKIP] Excludes the selected SLOT from the execution of the Scene. Select B.Beat includes a metronome. It can be the SLOT by turning [ALPHA DIAL] or [Up used as guide during a Live performance. down] press F1 [SKIP]. An icon will appear...
  • Page 31 LIGHT: allows the CLICK sound to be asso- Playlist. When Autoplay is OFF at the end ciated with a timed light, in the METRO- of each song in a playlist B.Beat stops un- NOME key. til the Play button is pressed to contin- ue the playlist.
  • Page 32 Wi Fi or Hot Spot connection are alterna- Audio track. Press Enter to enter the con- figuration screen and turn the Alpha Dial tives, if you use B.Beat as a Hotspot it to choose the desired output. Press Enter cannot connect to a Wi Fi network, and or F3 [SAVE] to set.
  • Page 33 B.Beat to recognize settings with the function keys: it, also you can enter the Network pass- word. Once we have set B.Beat to recog- 1.F1 [BACK] to exit this page. nize a particular Wi Fi network all we have to do is press CONN and it will recognize it 2.F2 [INFO] displays the IP and password...

  • Page 34: Software Licenses

    Apple Store and How to write a text for B.Beat - Prompter How to write a text for B.Beat - Prompter Google Play. Backing Tracks in M-Live Chords are written to a Daw capable of MTA8 format available at www.songser-...
  • Page 35 [Low, when necessary] If we want to write File use the usual procedures via B.Beat an inversion, e.g. low E we use the sym- Manager. You can load the Midi File along bol "/" followed by the low note in English...
  • Page 36 Display Icons Display Icons Icon Meaning Hotspot active (optional M-Pen required to generate Wi Fi) Active connection via Ethernet cable Active connection via Wi-Fi Play Status Pause Status Stop Status Live mode active Edit mode. You can change the data of: •Playlist •Project (Track) The adjacent number is the number of items in the selected environment The adjacent number is the number of tracks in the project Work environment: Library –...
  • Page 37 Delete item Live mode confirmation Metronome configuration Metronome Configuration - Tap Import audio files from USB File Transfer (B.Beat Manager) enabled System update or DSP Load item into memory Load item as NEXT Edit Tracks of a Project View Vu meters...
  • Page 40 M-Live Srl Via Luciona 1872/B, 47842 San Giovanni in Marignano (RN) Tel: (+39) 0541 827066 Fax: (+39) 0541 827067 m-live.com - songservice.it...

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