Working in bars & beats

Working in bars & beats

Besides working in minutes and seconds (as explained in detail in “Direct location” on page 28), 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 38).

“Bars” are also

sometimes ref-

erred to as “measures”.

Tempo setting

For the bars/beats function to be useful, you must set up a tempo and time signature. These allow the DP-01 to calculate where the bar and beat divisions fall, based on the tempo of your song.

1With playback stopped, press MENU and select the MIDI menu.

2Select the TEMPO/T.SIG (tempo and time signature) action and press the key:

3There are two parameters here, the tempo and the time signature. Use the cursor and jog wheel to set these.

The tempo is measured in beats per minute (bpm) and can be set from 20 to 250.

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).

Most rock and pop music is in 4/4 (with a few famous exceptions). Some

country and folk songs, as well as waltzes, are in 3/4.

Advanced techniques

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 jog wheel clockwise. ABS changes to BAR and the current posi- tion in bars and beats is shown, with the tempo shown on the right of the screen:

With the cursor at BAR, turn the jog wheel counterclockwise to return to the time-based display.

Location is performed in the same way as described in “Location” on page 28, 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 50, but because the editing points are now set to a bars and beats-based position, the editing can be more “musical”.

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D00871320A, DP-01FX/CD specifications

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