Tascam BB-1000CD - Manual (Page 41)

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9–For practicing musical instruments
Using the Tuner
The BB-1000CD has a built-in tuner. By using a mic to
input the sound of an instrument, you can use the tuning
meter on the display to tune that instrument accurately. In
addition, you can output a tuner sound to, for example, tune
multiple instruments simultaneously.
Preparation
1. Press the TUNER key to open the Tuner screen.
The screen of chromatic tuner mode appears.
2. Press the
F1
key to select a tuner mode.
Each time you press the key, the mode changes
between the chromatic tuner mode and the oscillator
mode.
Changes to the oscillator mode
Changes to the chromatic tuner mode
3. Use the CALIB item to set the frequency of A above
middle C (A4) between 435 Hz and 445 Hz .
The set value appears in the lower right part of the
screen. This setting affects both tuner modes.
Use of the two tuner modes is explained below.
Chromatic tuner mode
This is the default mode. Use the tuning meter on the
BB-1000CD’s screen to tune your instrument.
The tuning meter and input signal pitch appear on the
screen. ("– – –" appears when no sound is input or the input
sound is out of the measurable range.)
1. The input is automatically changed to the left micro-
phone on the front panel and the input setting is
changed to
AGC
.
2. Input the sound of the instrument you are tuning
through the microphone. The name of the closest
pitch appears in the upper part of the meter.
3. Tune the instrument until the desired pitch is shown
and the center of the meter is highlighted. A bar
appears to the left if the tuning is too low and a bar
appears to the right if it is too high. The longer the
bar is the more out of tune the instrument is.
TIP
You can check the diff erence of the pitch also at the volume/play-
back/recording indicator.
The center LED lights up in green when the tuning is fi ne.
The center LED lights up in red and green LEDs show the degree of
pitch diff erence when out of tune.
Oscillator mode
The built-in oscillator can output a sine wave of a pitch in
the three octaves between C3 and B5 through the built-in
speakers.
In addition to the
CALIB item described above, you can
change oscillation pitch on the NOTE item.
NOTE
Set the output pitch (
C3
–
B5
).
Press the F2 key to turn the oscillator sound ON/OFF .
Using the Metronome
The BB-1000CD has a built-in metronome that outputs its
sound. The volume/playback/recording indicator lights up
along with its time.
Setting the metronome
To use the metronome, press the METRONOME key to
open the METRONOME screen.
You can set the following items on the METRONOME
screen.
TEMPO
Set the speed to a value between
20
and
250
beats per min-
ute ( BPM ).
BEAT
Set the accent frequency between 0 and 9. There is no ac-
cent when set to
0 . For example, set this to 4 if you want
4/4 time.