Rate And Gate Time; Swing - Arturia ACID V User Manual

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♪ Here's how to think of the relationship between these sliders and the dice icon seen when hovering

over the note name column, which controls the overall note randomizer. That dice icon increases the

odds that at any step, a different note is going to be played than the one you've chosen for the step.

Then, in terms of what that alternate note is going to be, the sliders here give each note in the scale an

advantage or disadvantage. It's like a prize drawing: The winning ticket is chosen blindly out of a hat,

but you could guarantee a win by purchasing every available ticket, which is like raising a note's slider

all the way. On the other hand, you can't win if you don't play, which is like lowering a note's slider all

the way.

4.2.9. Rate and gate time

The Rate parameter sets the sequencer tempo. Click the green word below the knob to

access tempo sync options:

BPM: Absolute beats per minute, independently of your host/project tempo

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Bars: Either a division or a multiple of musical bars relative to your DAW tempo,

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with a "straight" feel

Triplet: Like Bars, but three eighth-notes are played in the space of one quarter-

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note

Dotted: Like Bars, with a pair of eighth-notes played as a dotted eighth then a

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sixteenth

Gate time adjusts the window of time in which each step is allowed to "speak." In practice,

this can sound like the step has more or less sustain.

Swing is often described as a "behind the beat" rhythmic feel, and Acid V has a range of 50

to 75 percent, which you change by dragging up or down on the number. Fifty percent is

closest to a "straight" feel.

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