Fostex MR-8 owner manual Time base, ABS time, Bar/Beat/Clk, Time counter

MR-8 Owner’s Manual

Time base

The term, "time base", is used as the reference of recorder position information.

Using the [TIME BASE SELECT] key, you can select from among three time base types: ABS, Bar/Beat/Clk and Time counter.

ABS time:

ABS time stands for Absolute time, which is "striped" on a card when creating a song. It starts from 0m00.000s (=ABS zero, the begin- ning of a song) and ends by 60m00.000s at maximum.

The following screen shows that the recorder is located at 0m00.000s of ABS time, which is the beginning of the song.

You can see "ABS" at the right-top.

Bar/Beat/Clk:

The Bar/Beat/Clk information is created ac- cording to the internal tempo map.

The following screen shows that the beginning position of the song is "bar -2/beat 1/clk 000". You can see "clk" at the right-top.

The Bar/Beat/Clk information is initially off- set by "-2 bars" at 0m00.000s ABS time (which is called "bar offset"). The MR-8 determines the Bar/Beat/Clk values in a song according to the offset, time signature and tempo.

You can change the Bar offset (initially set to "-2") between 1 and -7 in the menu mode (see page 81).

Time counter:

This is similar to the "time counter" mode used for tape recorders. It shows the recorder posi- tion within the range between "-60m00.000s" and "60m00.000s" and looks similar to the ABS time, however, you can reset the current position to "0m00.000s" whenever you want (see page 52). Therefore, you can reset a start position of the part which you work with to the zero point (to which you can return by simply pressing the [0 RETURN] key (see page 53).

You can see no time base type indication at the right-top.

The figure below shows the relation between the three time base types.

Beginning the song
0m00.000s		0m03.000s	0m06.000s
(ABS ZERO)
ABS
-2bar 1	00clk	1bar 1 00clk	3bar 1 00clk

Bar/Beat/Clk

0m00.000s 0m03.000s 0m06.000s

Time counter

If you reset the time counter at the position pointed by the arrow, the time counter values changes as below.

Beginning the song
0m00.000s		0m03.000s	0m06.000s
(ABS ZERO)
ABS
-2bar 1	00clk	1bar 1 00clk	3bar 1 00clk

Bar/Beat/Clk

-0m03.000s 0m00.000s 0m03.000s

Time counter

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