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Chapter 3: Recording Sequences
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tempo or the master tempo is currently active. It is a choice field
with two options:
1. SEQUENCE : Within each sequence is a unique tempo
setting. If this option is selected, this unique sequence
tempo is used. In this case, whenever the active sequence
number is changed, the newly selected sequence’s tempo
immediately becomes active. When playing sequences,
this is useful if you want each newly selected sequence to
play at its own preset tempo. Only the sequence’s tempo
is saved to disk when a sequence is saved.
2. MASTER : The master tempo is a single tempo setting that
applies to all sequences and songs. When playing se-
quences this is useful if you want each newly selected
sequence to always play at the same tempo.
• Tempo Display Mode field ( BPM/FPB:BPM BPM BPM BPM BPM ):
This field has the same function as the Tempo Display Mode field in
the Play/Record screen: it determines whether the active tempo is
displayed as Beats Per Minute or Frames Per Beat. It is a choice
field with two options:
1.
BPM
: The tempo is displayed in Beats Per Minute, with
the digit to the right of the decimal point indicating
tenths of a beat. This is the most common format used to
specify a tempo setting. In this mode, the range of tempo
settings in the MPC3000 is from 30 BPM to 300 BPM.
Beats Per Minute is also sometimes referred to as metro-
nome marking, or MM.
2. FPB : This is another way of specifying tempo settings and
is often used in the making of music for film or video
soundtracks, because the tempo is referenced to the
number of film or video frames that pass for every beat of
music. Frames Per Beat is also sometimes referred to as
click. If the FPB setting is in use, the digit to the right of
the decimal point in any of the numeric tempo settings
indicates eighths (1/8 of a frame). The range is from 0 to
7. There are four different types of FPB tempo, described
in the
Frames field below.
• The Frames field:
This field selects one of four Frames Per Second standards, used to
calculate the current FPB (frames per beat) setting. It also sets the
frame rate (and therefore affects the tempo) for received SMPTE
sync or MIDI Time Code. The four options are:
30 (30 frames per second, non-drop):
This is the most common frame rate for music production in
the United States. It was also the standard for black and
white television in the U.S. Using this mode, the tempo
range of the MPC3000 is from 60.0 to 6.0 FPB.