Tascam D00871320A Owner's Manual

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Working in bars & beats36 TASCAM DP-01 Owner’s ManualAdvanced techniquesWorking in bars & beats“Bars” are alsosometimes ref-erred to as “measures”.Besides working in minutes and seconds (as explained in detail in“Direct location” on page 28), the DP-01 can work in musical barsand beats. This is especially useful when working with external MIDIdevices (see “Working with MIDI” on page 38).Tempo settingFor the bars/beats function to be useful, you must set up a tempoand time signature. These allow the DP-01 to calculate where thebar and beat divisions fall, based on the tempo of your song.1 With playback stopped, press MENU and select the MIDI menu.2 Select the TEMPO/T.SIG (tempo and time signature) action and press the key:3 There are two parameters here, the tempo and the time signature. Usethe cursor and jog wheel to set these.z The tempo is measured in beats per minute (bpm) and can be set from20 to 250.Most rock and popmusic is in 4/4 (witha few famous exceptions). Somecountry and folk songs, as well aswaltzes, are in 3/4.z The time signature can be set with the number of beats to the bar (1through 12) and the number of beats per whole note (1, 2, 4, or 8).Selecting the time modeOnce the time signature and tempo are set, the DP-01 can map thebar and beat divisions to the time.To display bars and beats: On the “home” screen, move the cursorto the ABS field:Turn the jog wheel clockwise. ABS changes to BAR and the current posi-tion in bars and beats is shown, with the tempo shown on the right ofthe screen:z With the cursor at BAR, turn the jog wheel counterclockwise to returnto the time-based display.Location is performed in the same way as described in “Location” onpage 28, except that there are only two fields now, bars and beats.Track editing is also performed in the same way as described in “Abouttrack editing” on page 50, but because the editing points are now setto a bars and beats-based position, the editing can be more “musical”.