Clip Mode and Quantization
Let’s talk some more about
Quant Size
and
Sync
. When a
Quant Size
other than
None
is
selected, the playback of the wave file will be delayed until the next selected unit of music
as specified in
Quant Size
. This will ensure that your playback “snaps to the grid” of the
beats established by your clock. Sometimes the WAV file you are playing is longer than
one beat. For example, the WAV file might contain a 2 bar drum riff. For a clip pad,
blackbox will make some assumptions about where the beats in your file occur. In Clip
mode, blackbox will play the whole 2 bar riff when the note is triggered. But the beats in
the WAV file might not be playing at the same tempo as the clock speed. If you leave
Sync set to None, the WAV file will play in its entirety and will get out of sync with your
clock. If your WAV file tempo is faster than your clock tempo, it will sound like the beats
are running ahead of the rest of the music. If your WAV file tempo is slower than your
clock tempo, it will sound like your drums are lagging. If you want to fix that, then choose
the value for Sync that identifies how tightly you want to snap to the clock while the WAV
file is playing in response to a single sustained note trigger. While the note is playing, the
sync will cause the playback of the WAV file to jump to the next selected sync increment
in the file when the corresponding clock time has passed. So if the WAV was a little faster
than your clock, the playback position will jump backwards to move the playback of the
WAV to the selected clock increment. If the WAV is slower than your clock, the playback
position will jump ahead to the selected clock increment. This will work well if the
difference between the BPM of your WAV file and the BPM of your clock is small. It will
sound like a stutter if the difference is large.
Note:
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Blackbox assumes your clips use 4:4 time. If you are using other time
signatures or polyrhythms, blackbox will have trouble synchronizing
the clip.
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