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Record Mode – Programming Patterns MFB Tanzbär Lite Sound Generation
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CB (Cowbell)
• Decay controls decay time
• Tune detunes both signal generators and changes the sound
(can be modulated by an LFO track)
CL (Claves)
• Decay controls decay time
• Tune detunes both signal generators and changes the sound
(can be modulated by an LFO track)
CYM (Cymbal)
• Decay controls decay time
• Tone changes the sound
• Snd+CYM+Step changes the tuning (eight values)
HH (Open und Closed Hihat)
• Decay controls decay time
When using long decay settings, open and closed hihat may cut off each others decay
phase.
LFO (modulation tracks for BD, CP, T/C, CB and CL)
• Snd+LFO+Step 1-8 controls LFO speed („Speed“)
• Snd+LFO+Data 9-12 controls modulation amount („Amount“)
• Snd+LFO+Step 13-16 selects LFO waveshape („Wave“): saw up /
down, sine up / down
In addition to the parameters listed above, each instrument comes with a dedicated
level control that cannot be programmed / stored. Same thing goes for the Master Volume
control. We thought we should point this out in case you were wondering.
RECORD MODE – PROGRAMMInG PATTERnS
It is about time now to create your own patterns – please stay tuned.
The different record modes
As you (hopefully) will have learned in the Play mode section, you can program individual
sound settings for each sequencer step. Patterns programmed that way can sound much
more interesting than you would expect from a drumcomputer with only seven instruments.
Still, you might not want to use this cool feature all the time. Sometimes, it can make sense
when every beat of a pattern sounds exactly the same across the entire pattern length. Or
maybe you feel like tweaking the sound in realtime while the sequencer is running? This is
all possible.
Apart from that, you can play Tanzbär Lite „live“ via step keys or external MIDI devices
such as a keyboard, or drum pads. You can even program your pattern in realtime by
recording these steps into the sequencer. To provide you with all these features, Tanzbär
Lite uses several different record modes that will be discussed right now (sweaty hands
already).
Step Record Mode (page 22)
In this mode, you can set steps, program accent and flam settings as well as sound
settings for each step individually, or in groups.
Realtime Record Mode (page 28)
Here, you can tweak the sound settings using the frontpanel controls and record them into
an existing pattern in realtime.
Manual Trigger Record (page 29)
In this mode, you can record steps via step keys or external MIDI devices such as a
keyboard, or drum pads in realtime. The sounds can be tweaked (but not recorded) via
frontpanel controls or MIDI controller in realtime.
Pattern length and scaling (Last Step and Scale)
No matter which mode you select – it makes perfect sense to select specific scaling and
pattern length first. This goes for Record mode as well as for Play mode – with one impor-
tant difference: in Record mode, each track can have an individual length (resp. number
of steps). The functions „Last Step“ and „Scale“ are described on page 16 in section „Play
Mode“.