Setting a tempo Tempo Set ? menu, 100

Changing the initial setting (SETUP mode)

Setting a tempo (“Tempo Set ?” menu)

The “Setting a tempo” menu enables you to specify a tempo at a given point in a song that already has a time signature setting. For example, you can specify a tempo of 150 to the third beat of the 12th measure.

Time signature and tempo settings make a Tempo Map, which is used by the FD-8 to manage the song using the BAR/BEAT/CLK Time Base, and enable the Metronome function. Tempo settings as well as time signature settings are required when you wish to output MIDI clock and Song Position Pointer to an external sequencer.

•Initial setting: bar 001, beat 1: 120 (001BAR 1 120TEMPO)

•Setting range of measures: Determined by the time signature setting.

•Setting range of beats: Determined by the time signature setting.

•Setting range of tempo: 30-250/quarter note, --- (delete)

•Max. setting points: 64 points

*You can set the tempo for each Program individually.

*The settings can be saved and loaded as part of song data.

*The settings are maintained after you turn off the power to the unit.

Checking the stored tempo setting

1. Select a Program to check the tempo setting for.

Press the SETUP key, use the JOG dial to select the [Tempo Set ?] menu, then press the EXECUTE/YES key. Indication on the display changes as shown below, and the current tempo appears. The initial setting is [001 BAR 1 TEMPO 120]. This means that a tempo for the first beat of the first measure is set to 120.

2. Rotate the JOG dial clockwise.

You can view the current tempo values in sequence. Tempo value [- - - BAR - TEMPO - - -] means that no tempo values are specified after the current setting. With the initial setting, [001 BAR 1 TEMPO 120] is followed by [- - - BAR - TEMPO - - -].

44.1kHz

SETUP

SYNC OUT

CLK

AUTO

DRIVE

SCSI

A.PUNCH

44.1kHz

SETUP

BAR

TEMPO

SYNC OUT

CLK

AUTO

DRIVE

SCSI

A.PUNCH

Storing a tempo value

3. Press the EXECUTE/YES key.

The display indicates [Tempo Edit] and [TEMPO] flashes. (See the figure below.)

This means that you can enter a value now.

	44.1kHz
SETUP
BAR
	TEMPO
SYNC OUT	DRIVE
CLK	SCSI
AUTO	A.PUNCH

4.Press the HOLD/> key, the REWIND button, or the

F FWD button to move the flashing cursor to the desired edit location, and use the JOG dial to enter the bar/ beat/tempo information to be stored.

Pressing the HOLD/> key or the F FWD button repeatedly will move the flashing cursor from TEMPO to BAR and to , then returns to TEMPO.

Pressing the REWIND button repeatedly will move the cursor in the opposite direction.

The bar and beat settings for the time signatures determine the setting range of bar and beat settings for the tempo. You can specify a tempo between 30 and 250 per quarter note.

The indication [---] means “no tempo,” which is used to delete a tempo setting.

When you turn the JOG dial, [---] appears for the bars and beats for which no tempo has been set.

100 FD-8 specifications

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Fostex FD-8 owner manual Setting a tempo Tempo Set ? menu, Checking the stored tempo setting, 100

Models: FD-8