Performing While Listening To The Rhythm Sound-About The Guide; Starting And Stopping The Guide; Adjusting The Volume Of The Guide Sound (Guide Level); Setting The Guide - Boss RC-50 Owner's Manual

Performing While Listening to the Rhythm Sound—About the Guide
When recording phrases with the RC-50, it can convenient to use the
guide, which can be used like a metronome.
The guide features numerous pre-programmed rhythm sounds with
drums and percussion in a variety of time signatures, so you can use
it not just as a metronome but also as a simple rhythm machine to
provide backing rhythm.
Additionally, by setting the tempo and guide beat before recording
and then recording in time with the guide, you can record looped
phrases at the correct length (Loop Quantize; p. 42).
The following provides a description of guide settings.
Guide settings are saved to each patch individually.
Starting and Stopping the
Guide
The guide sound starts automatically when you begin recording or
playback of a phrase.
The guide automatically stops when recording, playback, or
overdubbing of all phrases (1–3) is finished.
You can also press [GUIDE START/STOP] to manually start the
guide when recording or playback is stopped, or stop the guide
when the performance is in progress.
If there is no need to start automatically, set the Guide Level
(next section) to OFF.
Adjusting the Volume of the
Guide Sound (Guide Level)
You can adjust the volume level of the guide sound with the GUIDE
LEVEL knob.
No guide sound is played when the GUIDE LEVEL knob is turned
completely to the left (set to OFF).

Setting the Guide

Use the following procedure to change the guide settings.
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1.
Press [GUIDE SELECT] to display the guide settings screen.
2.
Press PARAMETER [ ] [
you want to set.
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(Example)
3.
Rotate the PATCH/VALUE dial to change the value of the
setting.
4.
Repeat Steps 2–3 as needed.
5.
When finished making the settings, press [EXIT] to return to
the Play screen.

Selecting the Guide Sound (Guide Pattern)

You can select the guide's performance pattern from a choice of rock
drums, Latin percussion, and other patterns.
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"Guide Pattern List" (p. 41)
Selecting the Beat (Time Signature)
for the Guide Sound (Beat)
This selects the guide sound beat.
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Available Settings:
2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 5/8, 6/8, 7/8, 8/8, 9/8, 10/8, 11/8,
12/8, 13/8, 14/8, 15/8
You cannot change a phrase's beat after the phrase is recorded.
Be sure to set this before recording.
1
] to display the parameter
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