Behringer EG8180 Musical Instrument User Manual


 
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Advanced operation14
Repeating musical passages for practicing5.5.4
The following section describes how to play back a specific pas-
sage of a recorded music piece repeatedly. This function is ideal
for practicing a specific difficult passage recorded by your piano
teacher.
To make the best use of this function, the left and right- +
hand parts should be recorded separately on tracks
1 and 2. In this case, you can play back one part only
with the music sequencer, while you practice the other
part.
Select the track to be played back, so that the PLAY LED 1)
above the corresponding TRACK button lights up.
.
The volume of a muted track is adjustable (see chap- +
ter 5.5.5).
Press the START/STOP button to play back the selected 2)
track.
Press the SELECT button in the TEMPO/EDIT MODE sec-3)
tion when the playback has reached the point from which
you want to start repeating a passage.
The display reads:
A-: Starting point of the loop is set.
Press the SELECT button again when the playback reaches 4)
the point where you want to end the repetition of a pas-
sage.
The display reads:
A-b: Ending point of the loop is set.
The musical passage is now repeated continuously, so that you
can practice it to perfection.
When you want to stop practicing, press the START/STOP 5)
button again to stop the playback.
Press the SELECT button again to quit repetition +
mode.
The passage marked as a loop for repetition is automati- +
cally erased when you quit music sequencer mode.
Setting the volume of muted tracks5.5.5
This function allows you to set the volume of muted tracks.1)
Please enter EDIT mode (see chapter 5.1) and select the +
following function.
Function: E6
Value: 0 ... 20
Description:
1 ... 20: Volume of muted track (default setting: 5)
0: Muted tracks are not audible
Editing the music sequencer settings5.5.6
The following paragraphs explain how to edit the playback settings
of recordings made with the music sequencer.
The following settings can be edited separately for each of the
two tracks:
Sound (see chapter 2.4) =
Room effect intensity (see chapter 4.2.2) =
Modulation effect intensity (see chapter 4.2.3) =
Layered sounds (see chapters 4.1 and 5.3) =
The following global settings can be made for the whole music
piece:
Tempo (see chapter 5.4) =
Meter (see chapter 5.4) =
Type of room effect (see chapter 4.2.2) =
Type of modulation effect (see chapter 4.2.3) =
Press the REC button in the SONG section to enter record 1)
mode. The REC LED above the TRACK 1 or TRACK 2
buttons lights up and the dots in the display start flashing in
the rhythm of the selected metronome tempo, thus indicat-
ing the beat.
Be sure not to press the START/STOP button during +
the following steps. Otherwise, a new recording would
be made on the selected track erasing all the data re-
corded before.
Use the TRACK button to select the track whose settings you 2)
wish to edit. If you want to edit global settings (e.g. tempo,
measure, etc.) you can select either one of the two tracks.
Edit the settings as described in the chapters mentioned 3)
above.
If necessary, repeat step 2 for the second track.4)
Press the REC button to quit record mode.5)
The changes made have now been stored in the music sequencer.
When you play back the music piece, the new settings will be ef-
fective. All previous settings are deleted.