Overview; What Is Tanzbär; Play-Mode - MFB Tanzbar User Manual

Overview

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MFB says „thanks"!
First of all we would like to thank you for purchasing the Tanzbär. We appreciate your
choice very much and hope you will have lots of fun with your new instrument.
what is Tanzbär ("Dancing Bear")?
Tanzbär is a drumcomputer, featuring a real analogue soundgeneration and a very sophis-
ticated, pattern based stepsequencer. It sports some advaced circuitry of the MFB drum-
mies MFB-522 and MFB-503, as well as some features that are completely new to MFB
instruments.
What's exacty going on inside Tanzbär? This is a brief overview of it's functionality:
Soundgeneration:
• 17 drum instruments with 1 to 8 tweakable and storable parameters.
• Level pots on all drum instruments plus master volume (not storable).
• Individual outs (in pairs except claps).
• Simple synthesizer for lead- and bass sounds with one parameter each.
Sequencer:
• 144 patterns (on 3 sets resp. 9 banks).
• 14 tracks triggering the drum instruments.
• 2 tracks for programming note events (output via MIDI and CV/gate).
• Combination of step number (1 to 32) and scaling (4) allows all kinds of beats.
• A/B pattern toggle
• Roll/Flam function (multiple triggering)
• Fill function (chaining patterns - not storable).
• Track mute function
The following functions can be programmed on each track (drum instrument):
• Track lenght (1 - 32 steps)
• Shuffle intensity
• Track shift (micro delay of entire track via MIDI controller)
The following functions can be programmed on each step (drum instrument):
• Step on/off
• Accent level
• Sound setting of current instrument
• Bend (pitch modulation - only DB1, BD2, SD, toms/congas)
• Flam (multi trigger = flam, rolls etc.)
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• Additional sound parameter (on selected instruments)
The following functions can be programmed on each step (CV tracks):
• Step on/off(output via MIDI note-on and +/-gate)
• Pitch with 3 octave range. Output via MIDI-notes and CV
• Accent level (on bass track only)
• 2nd CV (on bass track only)
Operation Modes
Manual Trigger Mode
• Triggering instruments via step buttons and/or MIDI notes (with velocity).
• Access to sound parameters via knobs or MIDI controller.
Play Mode
• Pattern selection
• Access to sound parameters via knobs
• A ccess to play functions (A/B pattern toggle, roll-, fill-, and mute function and some
more)
Record Mode
• Programming a pattern in one of three available modes (Manual-, Step- or Jam-
Mode)
Synchronisation
• MIDI clock
• Sync signal (clock) and start/stop input or output; output clock devider
Not bad, uh? Of course it was not possible to place a dedicated knob or button for each
function on the front panel. Sometimes a second function level and some button combi-
nations have been necessary to access all features. To ensure that you and your Tanzbär
will become friends as soon as possible, we really advice you to read this manual carefully.
This will be the best and most easy way to explore your Tanzbär entirely - and there's pret-
ty much to explore. So we beg you: please read (and understand) this f... manual.
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