Starr Labs, Inc
.
8868 Clairemont Mesa Bl.
Suite N.
San Diego, CA 92123
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different PlayFunctions you can achieve a huge variety of performance
techniques.
3) The
TIMING
screen is set to
a. TOUCH if the duration or the Events (notes) is simply as long as the Pad
is held down,
b.
TIMED when the Events’ duration is set in terms of milliseconds or MIDI
clocks (governed by the MIDI clock source such as the internal
metronome or external clock) or,
c. LATCHED which plays the Events and holds them until you hit the Pad
again.
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Some fun tricks with the TCA1
1) Hold a chord on the fingerboard. Press
the “REC” hotkey and see the “REC” LED
flash. While holding the chord, tap one of the Trigger Pads and the chord will
appear there.
If you only hear one note, go into the SENSORS/ EVENTS screen for that TPad
and set the
PlayFunction
from
BASIC
to
ALL
. Now
you’ll hear the full chord. You
can tap the chord with one finger and play a bassline or melody on the
fingerboard with the other hand. Set up all six TPads with chords this way.
You can also turn one of these chords into a sequence in the
SENSORS/EVENTS by setting the
PlayFunction
to “
SEQUENTIAL
” to make the
chord a sequence. Also, in the SENSORS/EVENTS screen you can change the
note-duration from milliseconds to MIDI-clocks so you can adjust the sequence-
timing with the onboard metronome. Press the softkey where it says gate-time
and see the
asterix(*)
appear after the number to indicate MIDI-CLOCKS.
Then, go to the SENSORS/TIMING screen to set the Hit-Mode to
TIMED
so the
TPad will play out its notes using the onboard metronome rather than timing the
notes from your touch. Set the BPM where you like it in the UTILITIES/CLOCKS
screen.
These little (up to 8-note) sequences may be also single-stepped by setting the
PlayFunction to
ALT-UP, ALT-DN, or ALT-RANDOM
.
Bend individual strings from the TCA-1
1) Set
up a Ztar Song (preset) such as “6STRING” that has each fingerboard
string on a different MIDI channel.
2) In the SENSORS screen, tap a TPad to select it. Set the MODE to
EVENTS
.
3) In the EVENTS screen set the
PlayFunction
to “
ContCtl
”
