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.

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.

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You can check the difference of the pitch also at the volume/play- back/recording indicator.

Preparation

1.Press the TUNER key to open the Tuner screen.

The screen of chromatic tuner mode appears.

The center LED lights up in green when the tuning is fine.

The center LED lights up in red and green LEDs show the degree of pitch difference when out of tune.

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.

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 minute (BPM).

BEAT

Set the accent frequency between 0 and 9. There is no accent when set to 0. For example, set this to 4 if you want 4/4 time.

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