MFB Tanzbar User Manual page 11

Record Mode
Accent
Each step in a track can have one of three accent levels:
• Press Acc/Bend button. The function toggles between the three accent levels
(LED off = soft, green = medium, red = loud).
• Press an allready active step to apply the selected accent level (step LED off).
• Press step again to enable step again (step LED lights up red again).
If you want to apply the same accent level to several steps at once:
• Select several steps (see „Select Steps").
• Press Acc/Bend button to select accent level.
• Press Select again to confirm function.
Bend
This function "bends" the pitch of an instrument up or down. As well as the accents, it can
be applied to individual (active) steps of an instrument. It generates e.g. typical D&B bass
drums. The effect might only be audible with longer decay settings. Bend works on BD 1,
BD 2, SD, LTC, MTC and HTC.
• Hold Shift + press Acc/Bnd to enable the Bend function. The LED flashes (This is
a sub-function, accessed via shift button).
• Press desired (allready active) step. The step-LED goes off.
• Adjust Bend intensity with Data knob. Please note: effect is not yet audible!
• Press desired step again to apply the function. It becomes audible now. (LED lights
up red again).
• Go for more steps if desired: press Step, turn Data, press Step again.
If you like the result:
• Hold Shift + press Acc/Bnd to close function.
Flam
This function creates flams resp. rolls on individual (allready active) steps.
Please note: This function is not available on the tracks "Clap", "CV 1" and
"CV 2/3".
• Hold Roll/Flam (step LEDs flashing green) + press Step button to select one of the
16 flam patterns.
• Press (allready active) Step(s) (green LED). The coloure changes to orange and
the flam pattern becomes audible.
• To select another flam pattern, again hold Roll/Flam button (step LEDs flashing
green) + Step button to select another flam pattern.
• Press again (allready active) Step(s) to apply the new flam pattern.
If you like the result:
• Press Roll/Flam to close function.
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Programming Synth- resp. CV/Gate Tracks
On tracks CV1 and CV2/3 you can programm note events. These notes are sent out via
MIDI and Tanzbär's CV/gate interface. Next to this, both tracks "play" two very simple
synthesizer voices. They are a good help to monitor the note tracks without the need of
external equipment.
This is how to programm the CV1 track (CV2/3 works the same way):
• Hold Rec/ManTrg + Instrument/track button CV1 to select track.
• Set Steps. The internal lead synthesizer plays the steps with identical lenght and
pitch.
To programm notes on the CV1 track:
• Hold Rec/ManTrg + press Instrument/track button CV1 to select track.
• Press Sound button (LED red).
• Press Step buttons 1 - 13. They select notes between "C" and "c".
• Press Step buttons 14 - 16. They select the octave range.
Each time you press steps 1 to 13 subsequently, the sequencer moves on one step
further. A 16th note sequence is generated.
• A/B sets a silent step.
• Select connects several steps to longer note values.
• Pattern moves one step forward.
• Shift moves one step backwards.
Accents and CV 3 on Bass Track:
The bass track (Rec/Man/Trg + CV2) is programmed the same way. In addition you can
apply accents. They are programmed the same way as on the drum tracks (see above).
With CV 3 you can control the filter cutoff of an suitable synthesizer. To programm CV 3
values, please select steps on track CV 2 and use the Data knob to enter values. It works
the same way as the stepwise parameter programming on the drum tracks.
Shuffle function
When using the shuffle function in Record Mode, each track can have it's individual shuffle
intensity:
• Hold Rec/ManTrg + press Instrument/track button to select instrument/track.
• Press Shuffle (Step LEDs light up green).
• Press Step 1 - 16 to select shuffle intensity.
• -Press Shuffle again to close shuffle function.
When used in Play mode, the shuffle function works globally and affects all
tracks in the same manner.
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