SQ-80 — Musician's Manual
The available Step values are the same as the Quantize values on the Quantize EDIT function.
The chart below shows the possible Step Sizes, along with how many Clock pulses each
corresponds to.
When, for example, Step Size=1/8, each time you press the "Soft" Button below STEP, the
Sequence will be advanced by one eighth note, or twelve "ticks" of the SQ-80's Clock. When
Step Size=1/4, each time you press STEP, the Sequence will be advanced by one quarter note,
or twenty-four "ticks" of the Clock. And so on.
TIME=
The readout in the Upper left corner tells you exactly where you are in the Sequence. The three
numbers displayed after TIME= represent the Bar, the Beat, and the Clock number of your exac
location within the Sequence.
•> Bar Number tells you which bar of the Sequence you are in.
Beat Number tells you which Beat of that Bar you are in. The value of a Beat is defined by the
Time Signature of the Sequence. In 4/4 or 3/4 Time, for example, one Beat is a Quarter note. In
6/8 Time, one beat would be an Eighth note.
Clock Number tells you which Clock pulse, within that Beat, you are on. One Clock is a very
small amount of time defined as 1/24 of a Quarter note. In normal Sequencer operation, when
you change the Tempo of a Sequence. what you are really doing is varying the Clock Frequency.
In the Step Edit Mode, the Clock is stopped, and this readout tells you at exactly which Clock
pulse within the Beat it is stopped.
So if the Display reads: TIME= 003 .02 .12, that means that you are in Bar Number 3 of
the Sequence, Beat Number 2 of that Bar, and Clock Number 12 of that Beat. If the
Display reads: TIME= 007 .01 .09, that means that you are in Bar Number 7 of the
Sequence, Beat Number 1 of that Bar, and Clock Number 9 of that Beat.
The following illustration shows the relationship of Bars, Beat and Clocks, for a Four Bar Sequence
in 4/4 Time:
128 Section 4 — The Sequencer
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