Tempo; Using The Metronome; Beat Match; Sync Mode - teenage engineering OP-1 User Manual

10 Tempo

10.1 Tempo – Introduction
In Tempo, you set the master
tempo for all sequencers. You can
switch between Free, Beat Match
and Sync modes, and you'll also
find the Metronome here.
10.2 Setting the Tempo/Tap Tempo
To set the tempo you have two choices:
• Turn the Blue encoder
• Tap the tempo – Do this by hitting the tempo key
multiple times until you get the desired tempo.

10.3 Using the Metronome

To use the metronome, turn the Orange Encoder until
you get your desired pitch. To start the metronome,
press Play.
10.4 Free Mode
In Free mode the Tempo and Tape speed are
independent of each other.

10.5 Beat Match

Beat Match is a concept of keeping the Tempo and
the Tape speed in sync. When Beat Match is turned
on, (Turn the Green Encoder until Beat Match lights
up) the current tempo is locked to the Tape speed
and dimmed. This means that you now have to adjust
the tape speed to change the tempo. If you turn Beat
Match on and switch to Tape mode, you'll notice that
Bars have appeared above the tape tracks. These
Bars are your guidelines when recording in sync. One
bar is 16 beats long. Now, play a sequence and
adjust the tape speed, you will hear the sequence
play slower if you turn down the tape speed, and
faster if you turn tape speed up. However, the pitch
won't change.
This is the beauty of Beat Match, to have a drum beat
playing using the sequencer and have recorded
material played back from Tape in sync at the same
time. Add some tape tricks to that and you have a
nice live-tweaking set-up.
PRO-TIP: Record different variations to single bars
and use the arrow keys explained in the Bars section
8.1-8.6 to easily move the playback loop between the
variations.

10.6 Sync Mode

Sync mode means the OP-1 is listening to whatever
external tempo you may be feeding it via USB. This
lets you slave tempo lock the OP-1 to MIDI Time
Code (MTC) sent from external sequencers.
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