27—UTILITY Menu Parameters
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Programming the Metronome’s Beat Box
When you’ve selected DRUM as the metronome’s TONE TYPE parameter, you can
press F1 (PtnEdt) to view the METRONOME DRUM PATTERN EDIT screen.
The beat box uses a simple grid of one measure’s worth of quarter notes. A shiny black
ball signifies a played note. The beat box has a bass drum (“B.D.”) sound, a snare drum
(“S.D.”), closed and open hi-hat sounds (H.H) and any of three percussion sounds. To
choose the percussion sound, select the PERCUSSION parameter and turn the Time/
Value dial to select Hand Clap, Cowbel or Maracas.
Each instrument has its own horizontal line of quarter notes. To make an instrument
sound one of its quarter notes, cursor to the quarter note and turn the Time/Value dial
clockwise so that a black ball appears. To silence the note, turn the Time/Value dial the
other way to remove the black ball. For the hi-hat, dial in the black ball for a closed hi-
hat sound, or an empty circle for an open hi-hat sound.
The CURRENT TEMPO MAP settings show the tempo and time signature of the tempo
map at the now line’s position when you first enter the beat box screen—the map
number isn’t updated when you stop and start playback while on the beat box’s screen.
Selecting, unselecting and re-selecting either the tempo or time signature parameter
causes the tempo map settings to be updated to reflect the tempo map settings at the
now line’s current position.
Sending the Metronome to Outputs
1. On the metronome’s screen, set METRONOME OUT to INT.
2. Set its level, mode and sound as desired.
3. Press F6 (EXIT).
4. Press PAGE once.
5. Press F4 (OscAna)—the GENERATOR/OSCILLATOR screen appears.
6. Set the SOURCE parameter to METRONOME.
7. Set Sw, just above SOURCE, to On.
With these settings, the generator produces the metronome’s output signal. As you
can see, the generator has its own set of CH EDIT-like parameters (Page 146) with
which you can send the metronome to an Aux bus feeding a headphone mix, to the
MASTER mix, or to a Direct path routed to a VS-2400CD output.
Changing the tempo or time signature on the METRONOME DRUM PATTERN EDIT
screen changes it in the tempo map as well, so be careful about any changes you make
to these settings if you’re using the Tempo Map feature for other purposes.
Beat box pads
Pattern grid
You can play along with
the pattern using the F
buttons—the beat box
pads. The sound each
button plays is shown
above it on the display.
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