Peterson AutoStrobe 590 - Manual (Page 24)

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(Note that, at this point, the metronome has not actually been turned on; no audio or visual metronome beats have begun
cycling.) The second method available for initiating the Metronome screen is to press the "Metronome On/Off" button below
the "1" button on the front panel ONCE while the RUN screen is active.
KEY= C
A=440 C 00 ¢
AUTO
SETUP MODE MET
1 2 3 4
METRONOME OFF
BEATS/MIN=XXX
X=BEATS/MEAS
DOWN UP TUNER
1 2 3 4
Accessing Metronome Screen - Method 2
This Metronome On/Off button is connected in parallel with the "METRONOME SWITCH" 1/4-inch jack at the rear of the
unit. Any momentary-close contact device such as a footswitch may be used in place of or in addition to this button at any
time. (The front-panel button will continue to operate with a device plugged into this rear jack unless the device is held in
the closed position—make sure that the device operates in a momentary-close fashion. A proper footswitch is available from
peterson as part #140070.)
Once the METRONOME screen is active, you may initiate several operations: metronome rate changes, measure length
changes, and metronome on/off. The current rate for the metronome, expressed in beats/minute (BEATS/MIN), is always
displayed on the second line of this screen and is always adjustable (even when the metronome is running) with the "up
arrow" and "down arrow" buttons to the right of the LCD screen. The factory default setting is 120 beats/minute and the
Model 590 will continue to power-up with this value regardless of changes made in this screen from a previous session. (If
desired, the power-up default may be changed under the SETUP screens which are described in an earlier section of this
manual.) The range of values for metronome rate is 40 to 240 BEATS/MIN. Incrementing or decrementing above and below
these limits causes the parameter to "wrap around" to the opposite limit. This effectively reduces the time required to change
the rate from a very high setting to a low one or vice versa. For example, changing from 238 BEATS/MIN to 45
BEATS/MIN would require one to decrement through 193 values but by incrementing through 240, only 8 values are
traversed!
METRONOME OFF
BEATS/MIN=240
X=BEATS/MEAS
DOWN UP TUNER
1 2 3 4
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METRONOME OFF
BEATS/MIN= 40
X=BEATS/MEAS
DOWN UP TUNER
1 2 3 4
BEATS/MIN Wrap Through Limit Example
A second metronome parameter, beats per measure (BEATS/MEAS), is also displayed on this screen and may be adjusted
at any time that the METRONOME screen is active (even while the metronome is running) with the "1" and "2" function
buttons labeled "DOWN" and "UP" respectively. The factory default setting is 4 BEATS/MEAS and the Model 590 will
continue to power-up with this value regardless of changes made in this screen from a previous session. (If desired, the
power-up default may be changed under the SETUP screens which are described in an earlier section of this manual.)
Each time it is started (as described in the next section), the metronome will consistently begin at the first beat of a measure.
A measure is characterized by an initial "accented" beat followed by from 0 to 7 "unaccented" beats. This produces measures