Teac DP-01 Series Owners Manual - Manual (Page 33)

Advanced techniques
TASCAM DP-01 Owner’s Manual
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W
o
rking in bars & beats
Working in bars & beats
“Bars” are also
sometimes ref-
erred to as “measures”.
As well as working in minutes and seconds (as explained in detail in “Direct
location” on page 25), the DP-01 can work in musical bars and beats. This is
especially useful when working with external MIDI devices (see “Working with
MIDI” on page 35).
Tempo setting
For the bars/beats function to be useful, you must set up a tempo and time sig-
nature which allow the DP-01 to calculate where the bar and beat divisions fall,
based on the tempo of your song.
1 With playback stopped, press MENU and select the MIDI menu.
2 Select the TEMPO/T.SIG (tempo and time signature) action and press the
y key:
3 There are two parameters here, the tempo and the time signature. Use
the cursor and wheel to set these.
…
The tempo is measured in beats per minute (bpm) and can be set from
20 to 250 .
Most rock and pop
music is in 4/4
(with a few famous exceptions).
Waltzes are in 3/4.
…
The time signature can be set with the number of beats to the bar ( 1
through 12 ) and the number of beats per whole note ( 1 , 2 , 4 , or 8 ).
Selecting the time mode
Once the time signature and tempo are set, the DP-01 can map the bar and
beat divisions to the time.
To display bars and beats: On the “home” screen, move the cursor to
the ABS field:
Turn the wheel clockwise. ABS changes to BAR and the current position
in bars and beats is shown, with the tempo shown on the right of the
screen:
…
With the cursor at BAR , turn the wheel counterclockwise to return to
the time-based display.
Location is performed in the same way as described in “Location” on
page 25, except that there are only two fields now; bars and beats.
Track editing is also performed in the same way as described in “About
track editing” on page 46, but because the editing points are now set
to a bars and beats-based position, the editing can be more “musical”.
- T E M P O / T . S I G -
T e m p o / 1 2 0
T i m e S i g : 4 / 4
A B S 0 0 : 0 0 : 0 5 : 1 2
B A R 0 0 2 - 0 1 5 0