Drumulator Owners Manual
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There is an alternate way to set segment length
called
real time dimensioning
mode. This is useful
when you want a segment’s length to be other
than some number of whole measures (i.e. if you
wanted 2-1/2 measures of 4/4 or 6-1/3 measures
of 3/4). Press SEC. LENGTH then press
RUN/STOP;
the metronome will click and the
right-hand display will count off the measures as
they go by. After the appropriate number of
measures and beats have gone by, press
RUN/STOP a second time. The segment is now
set to that length. If you do not press RUN/STOP
precisely on the beat, it will be auto corrected by
the Drumulator (Section 2D gives more
information on auto correction).
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If you are in
real time dimensioning
mode and miss
the desired end point of the segment, hit
ENTER
while still in that mode, and you can immediately try
again to set the segment length.
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It might seem musically strange to specify triplets
for the denominator of the time signature. However, if
you specify quarter notes for the denominator of one
segment and quarter note triplets for another,
chaining them together in a song will result in the
quarter note triplet based segment running 33%
faster than the quarter note based segment.
Understanding Auto Correct 2D
Auto correct lets you create patterns with perfect
timing by placing whatever drum sound you play
on your choice of the nearest eighth note, eighth
note triplet, sixteenth note, sixteenth note triplet,
thirty-second note, or thirty-second note triplet.
(For more information on rhythmic notation, see
Appendix A.)
To understand how this works, consider figure A,
which shows one measure of 4/4 music (there are
four quarter notes, eight eighth notes, and sixteen
sixteenth notes in a measure of 4/4).
