User manual ALESIS MMT-8

[. . . ] ALESIS MMT-8 Multi track MIDI recorder Alesis MMT-8 Instruction Manual Alesis MMT-8 Instruction Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i 1 2 2. 1 2. 2 2. 3 2. 4 2. 5 2. 6 3 3. 1 3. 2 4 5 5. 1 5. 2 5. 3 5. 4 6 6. 1 6. 2 6. 3 6. 4 6. 5 6. 6 6. 7 6. 8 7 7. 1 7. 2 7. 3 8 8. 1 9 9. 1 9. 2 9. 3 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 PART Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Selecting and Playing a PART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 PART button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Selecting a PART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Selecting TRACKs for playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 FAST-FORWARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 REWIND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Recording a PART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Selecting the RECORD TRACK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Entering RECORD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 LENGTH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ERASE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Erasing a PART. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Erasing a single TRACK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Erasing selected information (notes, pitchbend, individual MIDI channel, etc. ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Erasing a SONG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 COPY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Copying a PART to itself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Copying a PART to another PART. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Copying a TRACK to itself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Copying a TRACK to another TRACK of the same PART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Copying a TRACK to another TRACK of a different PART. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Copying selected information (notes, pitchbend, individual MIDI channels, etc. ) . . . . . . . . . . 10 Copying a SONG to itself. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] The display appears as follows: The step number can be moved forwards or backwards with the fast forward and rewind buttons. The part number is underlined, indicating that it can be changed with the keypad or +/- buttons. If a song is empty, the first step's part will be blank. The step past the last part of a song will also display a blank part. To change a part, simply type in a new part number. To erase a step, hold ERASE and press RECORD. The displayed step will be erased, and all parts from the steps past the erased step will shift down one step. The display will read: The keypad or +/- buttons can be used to change the part number. Pressing RECORD inserts the part at the displayed step, and moves the previously displayed step and all subsequent steps one step back. When the buttons are released, the display reverts back to the song edit display. 8. 1 Automatic TRACK selection and muting at each step of a SONG You can select which tracks will playback at each step of a song by turning off the tracks you don't want to hear (LED's off) and leaving on the tracks you wish to hear (LED's on). The MMT-8 will store in memory which tracks were selected for playback at each step. - Page 15 - 9 9. 1 SONG Mode SONG button Press the SONG button to enter song mode. The display will read as follows, with the last song entered being indicated in the number portion of the display: 9. 2 Selecting a SONG The 00 is underlined to indicate that it will be changed if a new number is selected with the keypad or the +/- buttons. The second line of the display shows the name of the currently selected song (up to 14 characters). If the current song number is empty, the second line will read EMPTY SONG. Pressing the +/- buttons immediately selects the next song number, with the numbers looping past 99 to 00 and looping down from 00 to 99. If a single digit on the keypad is pressed (2, for example), the display will change to: The display is now indicating that the second digit of the song should be entered. After entering the second digit, the new song is selected, and its name will appear. If the second digit is not entered within 2 seconds, the display will revert back to the previous song number, and no new song will have been selected. The page up and page down buttons have no function when selecting parts or songs. A SONG is a list of parts (sequences) in a specific order, with each entry into the list being a STEP which contains a part number. Each step also contains which of the eight tracks should be on for that step. 9. 3 Manual TRACK selection and muting in SONG mode While in SONG mode, the eight TRACK select LEDs will display the tracks that are turned on, on the first part of the selected song. These buttons can be turned on or off to change the selected tracks to be played, although these changes will be temporary and not stored with the song. [. . . ] If the MMT-8 does not see the sync tone for a half second, it will assume that the sync tone has ended and will go into STOP mode. If possible, do not use any noise reduction, EQ, or signal processing on the sync tone. Avoid recording high energy, high frequency tracks next to the sync track. · · - Page 34 - 23. 2 To clock the MMT-8 from tape sync 1. Connect the output of the track of the tape machine that has the sync tone to the TAPE IN jack of the MMT-8. [. . . ]