Alesis DM10 manual Utility Menu, General, Metronome F1, Measure F1

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UTILITY MENU

The DM10's Utility Menu contains several pages of parameters that affect the module's overall operation as well as system-related information and functions.

GENERAL

The main page of the Utility Menu contains some global parameters that affect the kit as well as the module itself.

1.Press UTILITY to enter the main Utility Menu page.

2.Use CURSOR UP / DOWN to move through the menu items and VALUE UP / DOWN or the VALUE DIAL to adjust the settings:

•Tempo: Indicates how the module determines tempo from pattern to pattern. When set to "PATTERN," each Pattern will have its own tempo (i.e., the tempo

can change when moving from one Pattern to the next). When set to "GLOBAL," the module will follow a fixed, global tempo, ignoring the tempo specific to a pattern.

•Output: Determines the module's output routing. When set to "MAIN&AUX," the Drums and Accompaniment tracks will be sent through the MAIN OUT with effects applied and through the AUX OUT without effects applied ("dry"). When set to "MAIN>AUX," the signal sent through the AUX OUT will be identical to the one sent through the MAIN OUT.

•Acc Pitch: The tuning of the module's Accompaniment. The default is a standard "A=440Hz." The available tuning range is 430 – 450 Hz.

•Contrast: The contrast of the LCD (0-99).

METRONOME (F1)

Pressing MTRO (F1) from the main Utility Menu lets you access pages that contains the settings for the module's metronome.

MEASURE (F1)

This page controls the sound and level settings of the module's metronome.

1.Press UTILITY to enter the main Utility Menu.

2.Press MTRO (F1) to access the metronome settings. The first page to appear will be MEAS (F1).

3.Use CURSOR UP / DOWN to move through the menu items and VALUE UP / DOWN or the VALUE DIAL to adjust the settings:

•MeasLvl: The volume level of the first metronome beat of every measure (00-99). (The first beat is often louder than the others to mark the beginning of each bar.)

•MeasSound: The sound of the first metronome beat of every measure. (The first beat is often at a slightly higher pitch than the others to mark the beginning of each bar.)

•BeatLevel: The volume level of the overall metronome beat (00-99).

•BeatSound: The sound of the metronome beat.