Tiptop Circadian Rhythms - Manual (Page 34)

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Circadian Rhythm Functions in Detail
This section walks through each of the CR’s functions and describes them in detail. The functional
details include some additional functional and technical details that are not covered in the quickstart
tutorials above. We suggest using this as a reference after walking through the quickstart tutorials.
View - a view is the UI display mode for the step data.
Views include:
• Vertical - full editing of all steps plus other functions
• Zoom - editing a Preset Channel Step sequence at high (24 PPQ) resolution
• 8x8 - 8 Steps of all 8 Channels displayed horizontally
• 4x16 - 16 Steps of 4 Channels simultaneously displayed horizontally
• 2x32 - 32 Steps of 2 Channels simultaneously displayed horizontally
• 1x64 - 64 Steps of one Channel displayed horizontally
Group: the CR has 8 Groups which each hold 8 Presets. Groups can be chained in loops to make
longer structures.
Preset: A Preset contains 8 Steps at 16th note resolution. Presets can be chained in loops.
Step - A Step contains one 16th note event.
Sub step - A sub step is a single event at up to 64th triplet (24 PPQ) resolution. Sub steps can be
edited in Zoom view.
Trigger - a short pulse of one internal clock tick - about 5ms at 120 BPM
Gate - a pulse longer than a single trigger. Gates can be up to 64 steps in length.
PPQ(N) - Parts Per Quarter Note. The subdivision of a musical 1⁄4 note for timing. A 16th note is 4
PPQ, MIDI and DIN Sync use 24 PPQ and the CR internally runs at 96 PPQ. Higher numbers indi-
cate more precise timing resolution.