Yamaha AW2400 Creating a tempo map, Editing a tempo map event, Step, Measure, Meter Tempo

Creating a tempo map

Creating a tempo map

The “tempo map” contains data that changes the tempo or time signature at the beginning of the song or at any measure or beat within the song. The measure/beat display counter, the internal metronome, and the MIDI clock data generated within the AW2400 are all based on this tempo map.

HINT

•The Start point of the song corresponds to the starting location of the tempo map.

•The data (“tempo map events”) recorded in the tempo map will continue to apply until the next event of the same type is encountered.

NOTE

•If you modify the tempo map after recording on an audio track, the measure/beat counter display values will be affected. For this reason if you want to use MIDI clock to synchro- nize with an external MIDI device, or if you want to control the song in measure units, you should create the tempo map before you record. If you modify the tempo map after a track has already been recorded, a popup window will ask you for confirmation.

■Editing a tempo map event

When you create a new song, the following tempo map event will be input at the beginning of the tempo map (the first beat of the first measure).

•Time signature: 4/4

•Tempo: 120.0

Here’s how to edit the values of this tempo map event.

1 Call the EDIT screen Tempo Map page by either pressing the Work Navigate section [EDIT] key as many times as necessary, or by pressing the [F2] key after pressing the [EDIT] key.

In this page you can input or edit tempo map events for the current song.

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B

C

D

E

This page contains the following items.

1List

This area lists the tempo map events that have been entered for the current song. The line enclosed by a dotted frame is the currently selected tempo map event.

BLOCATE button

By moving the cursor to this button and pressing the [ENTER] key, you can move the song to the location of the tempo map event currently selected in the list.

CNEW button

To create an event at the beginning of the measure fol- lowing the last step, move the cursor to this button and press the [ENTER] key.

DINSERT button

To insert a blank event at the step preceding the tempo map event currently selected in the list, move the cur- sor to this button and press the [ENTER] key.

EDELETE button

To delete the tempo map event currently selected in the list, move the cursor to this button and press the [ENTER] key.

FSTEP

Indicates the step number of the tempo map event.

GMEASURE

Indicates the location (measure/beat) of the tempo map event.

HMETER

ITEMPO

These fields show the time signature and tempo of each tempo map event.

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