Save Your Song; Arranging The Parts - Tascam POCKETSTUDIO 5 Reference Manual

4 – Patterns on the Pocketstudio 5
by reducing the number of possible change
points displayed).
Note that the number of change points avail-
able in the bar, as shown on the second line,
changes as you change the division value.
B 0 0 4 s
k
• E - / -
( 4 / 4
6 Move to the first change point and make sure
that the root chord is still
7 Now move to the second change point and
as the root chord. Then use Á to
select
B
move to the chord type immediately to the
left of the root chord, and then use the wheel
to select as the chord type).
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B 0 0 4 s
k
• B 7 / -
( 4 / 4
NOTE
You cannot move the cursor from a change point on the
second line which has not been set (
and so you will not be able to change the root chord or
the chord type. You must always move the cursor from
a set change point to the third line to change the root
chord and chord type.

Arranging the parts

When you've got the chords and pattern you want,
you can then arrange the parts as you want.
There are four parts in each pattern: the drum kit
(counts as one part), a bass, and two other instru-
ments, used for backing parts. The overall output
level of the tone generator is adjusted with the TG
fader, but you may want to adjust other ways in
which you heat these parts.
Select the part ( ,
Drum Bass
), and turn the wheel.
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You'll find that the preset instruments in the blues
patterns sound pretty good, but just for fun, we'll
change the instruments for a bit of variety.
You will find that you can only select drum kits of
different types to use with the
instruments to use with the
two parts can have any instrument in the set assigned
to them.
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I n t r o )
.
E
k
I n t r o )
) to the third line,
•
, or
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Drum part and bass
part. The other
Bass
You'll see that there are other fields on this line, but
we'll explain them later on. Right now, we'll concen-
trate on setting up this sample song.
This is the basic procedure for setting up
chords within a song: move to the bar where
the chord change will happen, set the change
points if necessary, and change the chord.
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Repeat this process for the whole song, refer-
ring to the chart we made earlier.
TIP
You can also use the copy and insert functions ("Copy-
ing and pasting sections" on page 13) to save time
when setting up repeating sections like verse-chorus
combinations.

Save your song!

It's important that you write the
chord progression to the card. If you don't, you'll
lose all your hard work if the Pocketstudio 5 gets
turned off!
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When you've finished writing the chord
sequence, press EXIT
main menu. Use the cursor pad to move to
the menu, and press
CARD
down to the
Song Save
press ENTER . Answer yes by pressing
when you are invited (twice) to save the song
(and overwrite the song already in memory).
This saves the chords and pattern ready for
later use.
To adjust volume and pan position, etc., press Á.
I n s t / O v e r D r v
l e v e l : 1 0 0
P a n : R
R e v : 1 0 0
Use the cursor and the wheel to change the different
values:
Display Explanation
level
The level of the part in the
mix
Pan
The left-right position of
the part in the stereo mix
Mute
Whether the instrument
sounds or not
Rev
The level of the part sent
to the TG internal reverb
twice to return to the
. Scroll
ENTER
menu item, and
ENTER
1
;
Min value Max value
0 127
L63 R63 a
off on
0 127