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MR-8 Owner’s Manual
Time base
The term, "time base", is used as the reference
of recorder position information.
Using the [TIME BASE SELECT] key, you can
select from among three time base types: ABS,
Bar/Beat/Clk and Time counter.
ABS time:
ABS time stands for Absolute time, which is
"striped" on a card when creating a song. It
starts from 0m00.000s (=ABS zero, the begin-
ning of a song) and ends by 60m00.000s at
maximum.
The following screen shows that the recorder
is located at 0m00.000s of ABS time, which is
the beginning of the song.
You can see "ABS" at the right-top.
Bar/Beat/Clk:
The Bar/Beat/Clk information is created ac-
cording to the internal tempo map.
The following screen shows that the beginning
position of the song is "bar -2/beat 1/clk 000".
You can see "clk" at the right-top.
The Bar/Beat/Clk information is initially off-
set by "-2 bars" at 0m00.000s ABS time (which
is called "bar offset"). The MR-8 determines
the Bar/Beat/Clk values in a song according to
the offset, time signature and tempo.
You can change the Bar offset (initially set to
"-2") between 1 and -7 in the menu mode (see
page 81).
Time counter:
This is similar to the "time counter" mode used
for tape recorders. It shows the recorder posi-
tion within the range between "-60m00.000s" and
"60m00.000s" and looks similar to the ABS time,
however, you can reset the current position to
"0m00.000s" whenever you want (see page 52).
Therefore, you can reset a start position of the
part which you work with to the zero point (to
which you can return by simply pressing the [0
RETURN] key (see page 53).
You can see no time base type indication at the
right-top.
The figure below shows the relation between the
three time base types.
If you reset the time counter at the position
pointed by the arrow, the time counter values
changes as below.
ABS
Bar/Beat/Clk
Beginning the song
0m00.000s
(ABS ZERO)
0m03.000s 0m06.000s
1bar 1 00clk
3bar 1 00clk
-2bar 1 00clk
Time counter
0m00.000s
0m03.000s 0m06.000s
ABS
Bar/Beat/Clk
Beginning the song
0m00.000s
(ABS ZERO)
0m03.000s 0m06.000s
1bar 1 00clk
3bar 1 00clk
-2bar 1 00clk
Time counter
-0m03.000s
0m00.000s 0m03.000s