Audio Damage Tattoo - Manual (Page 28)

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3. Quantize this clip as desired, or apply a groove template to it.
4. Put Tattoo in "MIDI Note Sync." Tattoo will now follow along with the host's groove or swing.
The one caveat to using this mode is that you do not get random notes smaller than the step size. Also, the
internal swing of Tattoo has no effect.
Using the steps above, but varying the placement of C5 notes, will enable you to drive Tattoo in virtually any
time signature, as long as your smallest division is less than 32 steps. Want to recreate the 5/8 section of
Tarkus? No problem. Just follow the steps above, but make one D5 followed by 9 C5 notes, and you've got
Tattoo stepping in 10/16 time, easy as that.
Play/Stop
The large, inviting Play and Stop buttons mostly do what you expect: click Play and Tattoo starts playing,
click Stop and Tattoo stops. The manner in which they will not meet your expectations is that they function
only when Tattoo’s Sync control is set to Internal, i.e. when Tattoo is running independently of your host
program’s transport.
The Play button has an extra trick. If Tattoo is playing and you click the Play button again, the sequencer will
jump back from its current position to the first step.
Tempo
The tempo knob sets the tempo at which Tattoo plays when it is in Internal sync mode. When the Host sync
mode is active, this knob has no effect on Tattoo’s operation but the current tempo of your host program’s
transport is displayed above it.