CORNFIELD ELECTRONICS Beatitude User manual

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Beatitude
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ADrumandBasssynthwithreal‐timedrumsequencerfortheArduTouch.
How to use:
------------ Playing Drums ------------
Play the keys on the keyboard. Different drums will sound
depending on the note played, as shown in the diagram below:
K= Kick Drum, T= Tom, S= Snare, R= RimShot, H= High Hat
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| | K| | T| | | S| | R| | H| |
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| ___ ___ | ___ ___ ___ |
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| K| K| T| S| S| R| H|
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----------- Recording a Drum Sequence ------------
To record a drum sequence press the right button.
The blue LED will turn on, and a "click track" (metronome) will
start.
When the blue LED is on, but not blinking, it means that the
ArduTouch is playing a "cue measure". This is a single measure which
plays before the actual recording starts, and lets you get ready for
your performance.
Any notes you attempt to play during the cue measure will not sound,
and will not be recorded.
By default there are 4 beats in a measure.

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When the cue measure ends the blue LED will start flashing. This
means that the ArduTouch is now recording anything you play (but it
doesn’t blink in time to the beat). By default the sequence is 4
measures long, after which the blue LED will turn off.
----------- Playing back a Drum Sequence ------------
To play back your drum sequence press the left button.
The red LED will start blinking (but it doesn’t blink in time to the
beat), and your sequence will begin playing.
When the sequence reaches its end it will loop back to the beginning
and continue to play (forever) until you press the left button
again.
------------ Playing Bass ------------
When a drum sequence is playing back, the ArduTouch keyboard will
turn into a bass instrument, and you can play bass along with the
recorded drums. The octave setting for the bass can be bumped up
and down by tapping the right and left buttons respectively.
To revert to playing drums, stop the sequence (by pressing the
left button).
----------- Controlling the Tempo -----------
Rotate the bottom pot to slow down or speed up the tempo.
----------- Panning between drums and bass -----------
The top pot controls the balance between the drum kit and the bass.

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------- Setting Beats per Measure & # of Measures --------
To change the # of beats per measure, and the # of measures in a
sequence, tap-press the left button (think of this as a
"double-tap" but with the second tap being of a longer duration.)
The red LED will turn on, indicating that the ArduTouch keyboard is
now in "Menu" mode.
Select the # beats per measure by pressing a key:
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| | 2| | 4| | | 7| | 9| | 1| |
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| 1| 3| 5| 6| 8| 10 | 12 |
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Now select the # of measures by pressing a second key:
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| | 2| | 4| | | 7| | 9| | 1| |
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| 1| 3| 5| 6| 8| 10 | 16 |
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The red LED will now turn off.
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Typesofbuttonpresses:
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Tap: quicklytapabutton
Press: long‐pressabutton
Double‐Tap: quicklydouble‐tapabutton
Tap‐Press: thinkofthisasaDouble‐Tapbutwiththesecondtapbeingofalonger
duration.
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