Audio Damage Tattoo - Manual (Page 10)

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enables Tattoo to stay in sync with the beat and bar of your music. You’ll see a grey square drawn on the
pattern selector after you click it, showing you the pattern that Tattoo will next play.
Clear
The Clear button erases all notes in the pattern grid. One click and boom, they’re all gone. Use with caution.
Copy
The Copy button makes a copy of the current pattern, including both the contents of the pattern grid and the
settings of all of the Channel Controls for all of the instruments. This copy is retained inside Tattoo in a special
place that we’ll call the copy buffer for lack of a better name.
Paste
The Paste button overwrites the current pattern, including both the contents of the pattern grid and the
settings of all of the Channel Controls for all of the instruments, with the contents of the copy buffer. Together
the
Copy and Paste buttons let you easily duplicate a pattern and/or move it between any of the 16 pattern
memories. Click the Copy button to make copy of the current pattern, click a destination pattern on the
pattern selector, then click Paste to place a copy of the original pattern in the new location. The first pattern
is left unchanged.
Step Size
The Step Size popup menu determines both how many steps the current pattern has and the rhythmic value
of each step (relative to your host program’s sense of time). There are several choices: 1x32, 2x16, 1x16T,
1x16, and 1x8T where ‘T’ is used to denote triplet values. The choices indicate the length of the pattern and
the rhythmic value as shown in this table:
Setting Step Value Steps per Pattern
1x32 1/32 nd 32
2x16 1/16 th 32