Soundtoys EchoBoy - Manual (Page 45)

Rhythm Length
This menu allows you to determine the overall length of the rhythm pattern from between 1 and
8 “beats”. If you think of the pattern length as a musical measure, the number here defines how
many beats there are per measure.
For example, if you select “3 Beats” the pattern will repeat every third beat. This is like playing
in 3/4 time. If you select “4 Beats” the pattern will be 4 beats long and it is like playing in 4/4
time, as it will take 4 “beats” to complete the pattern.
Rhythm Grid
As we have been discussing, the Rhythm Mode is akin to a pattern based drum machine. To
make life easy for you to place delay taps exactly in time you we have created a grid, which are
the thin lines that you can see in the editor window. These display exact divisions of the Beats
and can be set between a 1/2 note and 1/64th notes. When you create a delay tap or move one
of the taps it will automatically jump one of the vertical bars on the grid. The finer the setting of
the Gird the finer the control you have in moving the delays around. This is a lot like
“quantization” where the beats (in this case the delay taps) are forced to appear on one of the
selected beat divisions / locations.
Note that you CAN change the Grid value and that notes that are ALREADY on the grid will NOT
jump to new values unless you specifically grab them and move them! What we mean by this is
the following; say you had the grid set to 1/16th notes and set a bunch of taps on the grid at
various locations. Then you set the Grid to 1/4 notes. The taps that are already set will NOT
jump to 1/4 notes but any NEW taps you create will appear at 1/4 note intervals. Select 1/32
note grid and you can create taps exactly on 1/32
nd note locations but the other notes will
remain where they are.