Rhythm Core Alpha 2
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1. somale Woverorm SPIECC A sound mnome From the 11st Oel ow FM Grungy Boss Fil Lleod Fret esschorus erect C conce e The Envelope menu This menu adjusts the envelopes for both the loudness and the pitch The loudness envelope is the same as the ADSR data from the Load Sound menu There is also a pitch envelope which works very similarly but has a few important differences For the pitch envelope D __Attack Paak there are the additional parameters Attack Peak and Release Bottom Release Bottom These parameters control the pitch that is reached at the end of the Attack time and at the end of the release time Both are offsets from the current note in 1 64 of a semitone with 768 being one octave 12 semitones These values can be positive or negative with a negative value being a lower pitch For the pitch envelope the sustain point is always the current note so there is no spinner for that value Each step of each envelope also has a Curve Type control This allows you to set the shape of the curve for that tat The choices are Linear Exponential LAB Reverse a a Smooth LA The Echo and Pitch menu This menu sets the echo and pitch of the current track Echo is specified by Rate and Decay spinners is the number of beats between each echo Decay is the number of echoes that will be played before the echo volume decays to nothing Rhythm Cor2. At A is the Drum Grid Each square on the Drum Grid corresponds to one beat 1 16th note of the drum that is named in the left column of that row i major mojor 5 a I mE mi gy Ef a f Tapping on the grid places a drum beat in a wl i i Ra j z f onlar o track Tapping on a drum beat that is already i lbg Yoa tet Oz eeg placed will erase it DURANTE bated Snorel Clos dot 1 To the upper right of the Drum Grid is the iG aren win uat VELOCITY control BI Each dot corresponds 5 I sn Tam ahi Lii yn fom 1 to a different velocity loudness of a drum beat Seine NELOCITY Tap on the dot for the TLU a Eg desired velocity loudness AEREE for all subsequently added drum beats hid ISM 5 EDIT 3 Blucky uitora lhm 5 EDIT Strings The Drum Grid starts with sixteen beats visible em ET melinchair and is preset to loop after that many beats have i played You can adjust the length of the Drum TUNE amp OCTAVE 01 I Grid to as many as 64 beats by using the c Rhythm Core Alpha 2 User Manual Page 2 LENGTH spinner c above and to the left of the Drum Grid Spinner controls can be operated in two ways Tapping the upi and downka ih arrow controls will increase or decrease the value by one Holding the control will automatically change the value after a short time has elapsed You can also change the value by touching the number with the stylus and sliding the stylus up and or to the right to increase the valu
3. readable version of the song to the SD card slot Because of unavoidable limitations files can only Export fFilenomes ore imited e r to the Form Songt CyAe t be saved with a standard filename and a number Pleose enter the number that is selected with this menu The files will be located in a directory on the card called private ds app HHHHHHHHARCaASCIIL where Sove File numoer HHHHHHHH is Some arbitrary number The file will be named Song txt where is the number you set in the menu Export Binary to SD Card writes the binary save file to the SD card slot The same name restrictions apply Data will be saved in the directory RCaBIN and filename will be Song RCa Soe at Se Se Export MIDI to SD Card writes a MIDI file to the SD card slot You can select between MIDI FORAGE PU ENPRE SCOTE s Tel ae type 0 16 MIDI channels only or MIDI type 1 Pieose enter the number separate MIDI tracks each with one channel Again filename security restrictions apply so the data will be saved in the directory RCaMIDT and te ale ea lL have the filename Song mid O Tyne E O TYPE 1 Export Controls to SD Card Rhythm Core Alpha 2 automatically saves the first 20 minutes of user input This option allows you to save this data online tool to render your performances as audio or video files Mmiol File TCyAe to the SD card We hope to someday offer an Export Bloc
4. Play Block you can make a completely different loop or block of music while another block is still playing Between the two Block controls are two small arrows pointing left and right Tapping on each arrow will copy the number behind the arrow block number to the control in front of the arrow This is useful to say edit the currently playing block or play the currently edited block Note that when the Play Block is changed the revised block will not play until the currently playing block has reached the end or has reached a multiple of the number set in the Allow block or pattern step change on beats New for Rhythm Core Alpha 2 is the Block Lock mode selected by touching the padlock icon between the Edit and Play Block spinner controls When the lock ft is closed yellow changing either block will change the other Note that the currently playing block must finish playing according to the previously established settings The Block Lock is useful if you are recording Solo data that spans several blocks When Rhythm Core Alpha 2 plays a pattern of blocks as set in the Pattern Screen the Edit Block will follow the Play Block so that your edits will be recorded into the currently playing track There may be some gaps at the track changes as recorded notes are automatically cut off at the end of a track Solo Mode Galo In the Solo mode you can play the Touch Screen as a musical instrument with
5. preventing key and scale from changing until you lift the stylus Chonge Che noces oyvoiloole For ing Tapping the control on the bottom of the menu displays the Solo Note Arrangement menu This menu allows you to select between 6 way grid 8 way grid or 1 2 gt or 3 row piano keyboard arrangements for the Solo Mode RRA YM a For the grid modes there are five spinners to control the arrangement of the notes O Only St oe ees cChonge on Iu o no e Line Offset sets the difference in notes in the given scale between each line S1SS2 S02 Jeueue s gt a row of the Touch Screen 0 is the same Decoys epee AE Sere pe eee note all the way up the Touch Screen 1 is one note difference for each row so dragging the stylus up will go one note up e Odd is an additional difference for every odd line 1 3 5 etc A is an additional difference for every 4 line SHIA ine count e Skip line count and Skip line offset SHIP ine offset work together Skip line count is how many lines to skip before applying the Skip line offset If Skip line count is 5 and Skip line offset is 3 then every 5 solilo Mote Arrongemenct E O O O m lines it will add 3 to the note This is a bit complicated we know but we want to put all of the power we can in the hands of the user The default arrangement in Rhythm Core Alpha 2 is slig
6. that data to repeat all the way to beat 64 select beat 16 and count of 03 and you will copy the data three more times until it reaches the end of the track If you only wanted to copy to the middle of the track at beat 32 you would select a count of 01 Tap Select to perform the operation or Cancel to exit without doing anything The Echo command allows you to set repeating owe drum beats or notes of reducing velocity Adjust tne rete ond decoy oF loudness for an echo effect With the echo See dialog you can set the Rate number of beats between each echo and Decay number of echoes it will take to reduce from the initial Decoy velocity to zero The Velocity command allows you to set all of the selected beats or notes in the track to the same velocity use the set value control or to scale them up or down by a percentage of their current velocity See Oee The spinner on the Touch Screen represents a E Scole volues percentage For Set it is the percent of the maximum velocity for every note or drum beat and for Scale is the percentage of the change If Set values is selected and the velocity spinner control is set to 100 then all notes or beats will be played as loud as they can be whereas if it is set to 50 they will be only half of the maximum loudness AOjQUSt Velocity scale oar Set Velocity Welocity Rhythm Core Alpha 2 User Manual Page
7. time to reach the Sustain level after the Attack peak is reached Below the R Release control is a control to adjust the Volume of the Wo ume sound This is a percentage of total available loudness If the volume is set to greater than 100 notes and beats with low velocities will be made louder but those at 100 velocity will not get any louder Below the volume control is a slider for panning Simply drag it left or Cd right to pan the sound The Allow key change checkbox control is normally selected Unselecting it will prevent the Remap Controls from changing the key of notes in this track The Select control accepts the changes and the Cancel control returns the adjustments to the way they were before The buttons display the previous or next sound adjustment menus in the order listed on the Load or Modify Sound menu Rhythm Core Alpha 2 User Manual Page 10 The Sample Waveform menu This menu changes only the sound sample waveform of the sound A sample is like a recording of a sound The recordings are sped up or slowed down to make the different pitches of the notes Simply tap on the name of the waveform to change the sample that is played for that track Adjust Sound Cheange oFooAitiangl sound FOromMetcters Ene l 00E Loudness Pitcn ACCOCKH PeoOR 004 05a ACCOCH Decoy a perar eter o ionar mana7 SUSECOIM Re leose ReE eose Battom serece_ Ceanee _ GB
8. to make this the best live music program meliachair x 3 m 5 EDIT Spoceoct on any mobile device x Recording of solos patterns and vibrato were included in the European version of Rhythm Core Alpha Rhythm Core Alpha 2 User Manual Page 1 The Main Menu tabs at the bottom of every screen provide a shortcut to all the main screens of Rhythm Core Alpha 2 Simply touch the tab for the desired screen to display it instantly You can also select screens by using OSELECT The main menu options are he All commands for saving and loading your work as well as the settings menu Solo Play the selected instrument live with your stylus You can customize this screen quite a bit with a sub menu While in solo mode just tap the solo tab again 4 Drum NEW With this screen you can play the drums live You can even play the Touch Screen with your fingers R Mixer NEW With this screen you control the volume and panning of all tracks x Pattern Arrange blocks loops and key scale changes into a complete song You can even make different looping sections that you can access with the Control Pad Y Block On this main screen of the program you can build drum and instrument parts by drawing on the appropriate grid set the function of the buttons mute or solo tracks control the pattern sequencer and much more Help This option opens the instruction manual The BLOCK screen RUETHLE ERE IE ALBRHA
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10. 8 If Scale values is selected and the velocity spinner control is set to 100 the loudness of notes or beats will not change If it is set to 50 they will become half as loud as they currently are So if they are already at 50 loudness then they would change to 25 of their maximum loudness TTonsAogse motes For instrument tracks there is also a Transpose option The amount of the pitch Tronseose oll notes in tne SE BCCE Oreco change in semitones can be selected with the spinner on the dialog box Tr roansprase amount les The Copy Instrument s command allows all of the parameters of the given sound sample waveform envelope ADSR pitch envelope echo pitch vibrato portamento volume pan and instrument name to be copied to any other track in any block The notes are not copied Use this menu to select the destination for the Cosy instrument copied data Block is the destination block number Track is the destination track eoe Cece ee cleees number Block Count is number of destination blocks in a row So if you set Block Block to 05 and Block Count to 10 TCOCH you will copy the sound data to all blocks from Block Count oiar block 5 up to block 14 If you use the top edit button to select a group of tracks the Track option will be missing and you will copy all the sounds selected to the same track number in the selected Block T
11. SELET On your console You can set a sequence of blocks and keyscale changes steps to be played back under machine control using this screen This sequence of steps is called a pattern All the controls on the bottom screen are spinners but they work just a little differently than on the other screens The up and down arrows will appear on the left and right of the value when you tap on it First tap on the number or text of the item you want to change The arrows will appear on either side Then you can tap on the arrows to change the value or tap and slide on the value to change it There are seven values Step Number cannot be changed It is the order in which the steps will be played You can add and remove steps in the middle of a pattern by tapping on the step number and then tapping n to insert a step before the selected step or to delete the selected step Block indicates which block number to play Rhythm Core Alpha 2 User Manual Page 15 Length determines for how many beats 16th notes the block should be played Key shows the key to be used for playback C D E F Remap key An X means that the key will not be changed Scale identifies the scale to remap the block to Major Minor etc An XXX XX means that the scale will not be changed Shift adds an offset to the notes before applying the key and scale So if the sequence has the note C and is in C Major and th
12. a similar Select Scale and Key menu that allows the function of that control to be changed In the Select Scale and Key menu for the remap controls The keyscale selection grid on this Select Scale and Key menu works the same way as before This menu includes an option not to change the keyscale at all SEIECC ScCoOle ond Rey PEG Bue Ueo cen Serece ong At the bottom of the menu there are controls to change the Seley ee sees block number or pattern step number This feature is ceodereceane useful for moving around in a song structure or for major i HOPmonic Minor triggering drum fills mel Minor UA Anoo ADODO minor Blues Moca minor Tapping the Next button will display the second page mixolygion of the menu Additional Button Options The Shift el Minor Oown All notes Notes option shifts the pitch without changing key The z Gens Ereine S MEE A Senie Allow block or pattern step change on beats option Be Ea es a e sets the length of the wait time after you tap the control or O Chonge to Agaccern h SCEA press t button to Additional Button Options change to the next block The delay can be any multiple of the number you set OO will Mencin EE EEE wait till the end of the block If you set it to 04 then you can change block on beats 4 8 12 16 while 05 will Shift notes change on 5 10 15 20 etc Allow O8 loOCK or Aottern Stean
13. been played It changes color from blue to green to yellow to red and finally to white on the last beat Rhythm Core Alpha 2 User Manual Page 17 The right Song Location Meter amp shows the number of the next block to be played and the number of beats remaining in the currently playing block A bar graph below shows progress Note that if the pattern is set to play a shorter or longer section of a block the counter and bar graph will still show the number of beats to the end of the block rather than till the next change Above all the controls is a section of VU meters They are arranged in the same order as the internal sound channels of the Nintendo DSi system Channel 1 is in the center of the screen and channel 16 is on the far edge If a sound is panned to the right only the right side will rise The VU bars are colored to match the sound channel colors and drum sounds are colorized similar to the bass channels Repeating colors start at track 8 The VU meters scale automatically to fit the available screen area providing useful information even when the screen is scrolled almost all the way up CED As mentioned earlier if you turn on the pattern recording mode you can record the block and chord changes made during live performance When you press a Shift Button L or R a panel will drop from the top of the Touch Screen Tap the control once and it will turn red Ly indicating that pattern recording ha
14. change on Heats Tapping Select on either menu accepts the options as selected tapping Cancel returns without changing anything On the Block Screen notice that the remap controls are arranged like the Control Pad and A B x and If you press either the Control Pad or tap any one of the remap controls the result will be the same change the remap Keyscale Holding L or R Shift Buttons will change to a different set of remap controls depending on which button is held In this way up to 24 different combinations can be instantly selected Change these additional keyscales the same way you do normally but simultaneously hold the correct Shift Control Rhythm Core Alpha 2 User Manual Page 6 The EDIT menu On the left of each track whether drum or instrument there is an EDIT control Tapping it gives the following options Copy Copies a set of drum beats or notes to a new location in eae the same track or even to a different track or block A block is a set of tracks containing drums and drum beats instruments pean eae a ay CoA and notes See the section on blocks later in this manual Note that blank space is not copied Shift Like copy but the original data is removed Velocity Copeau Instruments TrTOoOnsSAose Set Sets every single drumbeat or note data to be turned on Useful for setting up Hi Hat sounds quickly Clear Removes all drum or note data for every selec
15. creen in the same manner as you do on the Block Screen touch the Touch Screen with the stylus while moving it vertically on the Touch Screen You can return to the Block Screen by using again or by tapping the Block tab ij at the bottom of the Touch Screen On the Block Screen there are several controls for the pattern mode The PAT RUN control has ON and OFF positions Tapping the ON position OH causes the pattern to begin playing at the step shown in the PAT STEP control when the end of the current block is reached Otherwise it will start when the Play Ei control on the Block Screen or Mixer Screen is tapped or when the START button is pressed to start the sequence Rhythm Core Alpha 2 User Manual Page 16 This control sets which pattern step will To the left of PAT RUN is the PAT STEP oe rewind 2 and Lal fast forward 3 play next The step can also be changed with the controls on the left of the Touch Screen The bent arrow next to PAT STEP shows that the results of PAT STEP will change the Play Block when the timer in the upper right of the Block Screen reaches zero In the center of these controls is the name of the current block AN Tap on this to change the name On the left of the screen are several controls like on a music player R Rewind and Fast Forward affect the next Pattern Step and have already been mentioned C The STOP control 5 causes all playback to hal
16. e control again so that it changes the color to grey will stop recording The other control 1s used for recording the Pattern Mode described later Tapping the word REC on the left will turn on recording for both Pattern and Solo mode or if either is already turned on will turn both recording types off ia Just below the instrument names there is an OCTAVE Q control to the left of the Note Grid With this control you can change the octave of the Note Grid you are viewing Although a wide pitch range for notes is available some instruments sound better in certain pitch ranges than others For example bass sounds generally sound better with 3 or 4 Note The octave numbers are different than in Rhythm Core Alpha 1 In that version Middle C was treated as octave 0 but now it is octave 4 as it would be on a real piano keyboard Some instrument sounds are pitched higher than the corresponding note on a piano keyboard to reduce screen scrolling when entering instrument parts You can now modify the pitch of the sound yourself from the Echo and Pitch sub menu of the Load or Modify Sound menu if you prefer As you draw notes in the Note Grid Rhythm Core Alpha 2 tries to identify the key and scale Keyscale for simplicity of the notes you have added This information will appear in the block keyscale box control I below the VU Meters in the center of the screen orion it On the right side of this control is a smal
17. e or down and or to the left to decrease it Tip On most controls holding L or R together referred to as Shift Buttons while tapping controls or sliding the stylus on a control will change values more quickly To set more than sixteen 16 beats on the screen you need to scroll the visible area of the Drum Grid Flick the Touch Screen to slide the Drum Grid left or right To flick touch the Touch Screen with the stylus while already sliding left or right You can do this almost anywhere on the Touch Screen but avoid spinner controls or you will change their value instead of scrolling moving Beats past the end of the looped area are shown darker D to indicate that they are not played You can set beats in the dark area but they will not be played until you increase the LENGTH setting so that the area is no longer dark Tip Holding a Shift Button while changing the LENGTH control will adjust it by four 4 beats Unless you are writing a waltz three beats using multiples of four is a good idea 4 8 16 32 or 64 beat loops will keep your music from sounding strange To the left of the Drum Grid are several controls il Mis the MUTE control E The M on the left of each track turns off playback of the drum track in this row Tapping on the M above all tracks will reverse the mute status of all tracks Mute tracks will play and vice versa Tapping on the M above all the tracks F while holding a Shift Button L or R turns o
18. e Alpha 2 User Manual Page 11 Adjust Sound Cheange oooitiangl sound FOromMeters AOJUStC the rate ond decay oF Echo ROCE Pitch AOjustment 03b 0004a serect cance 1G BF Decoy Rate Coarse Pitch semi Fine Mee eS eae ASS See For Pitch Adjustment there are Coarse Pitch and Fine Pitch spinners Coarse Pitch is specified in a pa aan semitones while fine pitch is specified in percent of a semitone cents Note that internally there are only 64 pitch divisions per semitone so the number of cents might seem to vary slightly from what you 7orotcto Deloy OOOO a ROCE OOO Y specify when you return to this menu Amel 1i Cude 000 I J Dne The Vibrato menu MY N 7 L L Vibrato adds richness to a sound by changing the mou hr pitch of a sound periodically over time Delay is the Rore period before the vibrato starts Rate is the speed of the vibrato loop repeats ms If you try to set a rate less than O there are options to set the rate in terms of beat 1 3 beat 1 4 ME beat and beat counts from 1 to 16 Amplitude refers to how much the pitch will change in 1 64 of a half step or semi tone A value of 64 will vary pitch by a whole note H which is usually far too much unless you are doing a special effect Amplitude 2 is how much the pitch will change if you are holding one of the shift buttons L or MANAL we Below the vibrato controls is a set o
19. e keyscale of the pattern step is also C Major but the Shift is 2 it will play a D D is in C major but it is 2 notes up from C If you set shift to 1 it will still play a C because 1 up from C is only C and that is not in the C Major scale Use this option when you are soloing and want the chord to change but don t want the notes for the keyboard to change As long as you keep the same keyscale the notes in the solo grid will stay the same There are other ways to do this but this method allows other sections of the song to change the keyboard layout if necessary gt The last value sets what occurs at the end of this Pattern Step An arrow pointing down means Go to next step A Pause icon Il interrupts playback To start again you must tap the play control on the Block Screen An arrow that points in a circle gt is a Loop command The system will keep repeating this step until you turn off the loop using the loop control on the Block Screen An arrow that points up with a number WE means jump backward this number of steps This is very useful for setting up a looping chord progression Below the pattern steps are and controls The control adds a new step to the pattern after the last pattern step The control removes the last step from the pattern If you have made more steps than fit on the screen you can scroll the Touch Screen vertically by flicking the Touch S
20. f pictures of waveforms for the vibrato function Tapping on a waveform selects it Square waves are useful with very large Amplitude settings e g 768 for a whole octave Edit Instrument MOME The Edit Instrument Name menu Enter o new nome For the SE ected instrument sound This menu lets you change the instrument name as displayed on the Block Screen for this Track The Touch Screen is set up exactly like a computer keyboard Simply type on the keys with the stylus to HUeEBHSE Aee Le enter an instrument name Pressing the control will JWI Wee I 8 Lr Jaa e clear the name completely so that you can enter a new a Eae A Coo name serece cence J A fF About Blocks A block is a complete loop of musical data Everything you see in the Drum and Note Grids including LENGTH drum names and instrument settings are in a block You can make different blocks and switch between them instantly Above the Drum Grid you will see two controls marked BLOCK Sune Beside one of the BLOCK controls is a pencil icon This is the currently edited Rife block or T Edit Block This is the block that is currently displayed and changed by the user Rhythm Core Alpha 2 User Manual Page 12 F E TA ied At the left of the other BLOCK control is an icon of a right facing arrow like a ki play button on an audio player This is the currently playing block or U Play a By changing the Edit Block without changing the
21. ff mute on all tracks so that they play again El sis the SOLO control GI If it is turned on only this track and other Solo tracks will play Clicking on the S above all the drum tracks works the same as it does for MUTE AUIE Tapping the EDIT control H displays a menu that os allows multiple drum beats in the track to be copied Select source set cleared etc TrToOcCHS Tapping the EDIT control above all tracks allows orum Troces BOSS T rocCHS multiple tracks to be processed at once Tracks can be ee T OES Iected tCrocH 5 selected by tapping the number I to the far left of the track until it turns yellow There are also other ways to select a track For more information please read the section on the EDIT menu The Drum Name 1 is to the right of the EDIT control Tapping on a name Drum Hame displays the Load or Modify Sound menu From this menu you can select Aca EgfEOMUIN Rhythm Core Alpha 2 User Manual Page 3 different sounds or change all attributes of the selected sound Because there are so many options for adjusting the sound in Rhythm Core Alpha 2 they are divided into several sub menus Please see the section on the Load or Modify Sound menus for more information Touching Cancel leaves that list without changing the sound Tip If you hold a Shift Button while tapping the Drum Name you will go directly to the Load Sound menu which also includes controls for ADSR volume pa
22. he Load Sound Menu The left side of this menu lists all of the sounds Both drums and instruments that are available for this track Tapping on the name of the sound sets the sound waveform as well as all of the other parameters including parameters on other screens like vibrato echo portamento etc Holding a Shift Button while tapping will change only the sample waveform m Allow Hey chonge C without changing the other parameters On the upper right are a number of options to control the sorting of the list System sorts in the order input in the system This is useful mostly if System you are used to the way Rhythm Core Alpha I sorted sounds ABC ABC sorts in alphabetical order Hit Type sorts by the instrument type so that all the snare drums will be grouped together all the bass synth sounds together etc Kit is only available for drums It groups sounds that belong together all the acoustic drum sounds are in one kit all the synth drum sounds are in another etc The A D S and R spinner controls modify Attack Sustain Decay and A ic l Release of the sound loudness volume A value of O is the longest and 127 is the shortest D ig ler Attack controls the time taken to reach full Y 5 ipa F volume loudest while Release controls how long it takes to taper off Sustain controls the volume level where it is held 0 softest 127 loudest and Decay is the
23. he Load or Modify Sound Menus Tapping on a drum name or on a selected instrument name for any track on the Block Screen will display the Load or Modify Sound menu This menu has six 6 options that allow you to change the sound for that track Load Sound Displays a menu for selecting a preset sound adjusting its volume panning and Loogod or Modify Sound Lood on existing sound or Ooojust the Sound sorometers to envelope options MOKeE O new sound Sample Waveform Displays a menu for selecting a waveform style to be used for the sound without Somele wowerorm changing the ADSR envelope or any other parameters of the sound including the name Lood Sound Env2 1OAe Echo amp Pitch Envelope Displays a menu to set the loudness and Se PEP TO e pitch envelopes for this track s sound Sie ee ees Wiley Echo and Pitch Displays a menu for setting a Select CONCE sound to echo and changing its pitch Vibrato amp Portamento Vibrato makes the sound richer by a vibrating pitch Portamento slides the pitch slowly when the note changes a new feature for Rhythm Core Alpha 2 Edit Instrument Name You can now change the name of the instrument to anything you like Rhythm Core Alpha 2 User Manual Page 9 Select will accept the changes Cancel will exit Lood Sound without changing anything Select o Sound nome From tne Here is a more detailed description of each menu T
24. htly different than in the original version but it gives more flexibility Drum Mode _ ft Drum Mode lets you play the drums live There are twelve 12 drum controls arranged in a 4x3 grid The number on each drum shows the track aa ai that it corresponds to Simply tap the appropriate T drum control to play that sound Rhythm Core Alpha 2 User Manual Page 14 Mixer Screen Mixer B b If Eja o 0 The Mixer Screen contains twenty one 21 faders and twenty 20 pan controls to control the volume loudness of each individual track and the master volume Simply tap or drag the fader with the same number as the track you wish to change and the volume will instantly change For pan controls turn the knob by tapping or dragging the stylus across the Touch Screen around the edge of the circle of the knob and the knob will instantly turn to that direction The large fader control on the right is the master volume control Although the Nintendo DSi systems have hardware volume controls this control is much more precise and is useful for fading in or fading out your song There are also some controls for the pattern sequencer in the upper right These work identically to the controls on the Block Screen Pattern Screen A Te eunen cenom vev 1 some suet Tapping on Pattern x on the menu tab at the bottom of the Touch Screen displays the Pattern Screen You can also page to that screen using O
25. i User Manual Note that this manual is based on an early draft of the built in user manual and there may be some subtle differences between this and the final content In all cases please refer to the internal user manual when there is a question of proper operation that doesnt match this guide Introducing Rhythm Core Alpha 2 Rhythm Core Alpha 2 is an advanced music creation and performance tool It allows you to build loops of music with drums and a variety of instruments as well as to play live music with the stylus using the Solo Mode With this software you can build music quickly and perform it live in front of an audience This new version greatly expands the capabilities of the original Rhythm Core Alpha by adding CRVTEET EERE CI i Arp H HA e Drum Screen e Mixer Screen e 8 Way Solo Mode e 1 2 and 3 Layer Piano Solo Mode e Large finger playable Solo Modes e Vibrato r UnknownScoe E e Portamento H TE ee e Pitch Envelopes Hepa e Envelope Curve Options Ch 5cH E OOogs on OFF Echo 7 7 a ORRE c boo gt SaaS z e Individual Sound Tuning al EE C E e Recording of Solos L e Recording of Patterns vm oO LEG e Recording of Control Inputs to SD Card i sun tamai lt gt e MIDI File Export to SD Card aim Sun TomaLow C e Import and Export of Individual Blocks e A C a E T e Renaming of Tracks and Blocks MEENT Meriti 5 Eit Enss and many other new features fixes and tweaks strings designed
26. k Save Block writes the currently selected Edit Block to a file in system memory Import Block Load Block reads a block from a file to the currently selected Edit Block There is an option to merge the new data with existing data in the track Import RCA1 Song reads a saved song from the original Rhythm Core Alpha version 1 if it is installed Rhythm Core Alpha 2 User Manual Page 19 SEEE Mon Settings allows you to adjust the Touch Screen sensitivity and choose whether the stylus and button graphics are displayed Generol arogrom ofnerocian SEctt ings TOUCH Screen Sectings Retry Ronge smoothing Threshold Lee DisAloy E Show Stylus gropnic E Show Ouctonmn groenics Please enjoy using Rhythm Core Alpha 2 We look forward to hearing your music Rhythm Core Alpha 2 User Manual Page 20 Credits Programming graphics production T B Trzepacz Songs Lucky Button Pusher Marcus Polster Terence James Timon Marmex Tina Belmont Title Page Art Daryl Basarte Sound Design T B Trzepacz little scale Sebastian Tomczak Translation R Perez Marcus Polster M Speranza Nielsen A K Trzepacz Testing Marcus Polster Special Thanks Tim Abad Jesse Avila David Baggett Jordan Grey Starpause Monty Goulet Kevin Martinez Wizwars Karen McMullan Marcus Polster Jeni Roberts Seth Sternberger 8 Bit Weapon Rhythm Core Alpha 2 is a trademark of SoftEge Copyright 2
27. l E2 If you i tap on it it will bring up a Select Scale and Key menu Select Scole ond Key In the Select Scale and Key menu for the block keyscale control Detected HEYS ond ScCoOIlIeS Ore red But you Con SPIBCt ony SCOle YOU wont A grid control on the right makes it easy to set the key cfoderfce ade and scale The key scale combinations with a red Homon i ic minor highlight are recommended by Rhythm Core Alpha 2 as best for the notes that you have currently drawn na E e aS However you can tap on any of the keyscale mel minor Down E combinations BH AutomMoeatcicol y OeSTCeECtT HEY ond scale on note ChHoOonge Below the keyscale grid you will see an option that is used to tell Rhythm Core Alpha 2 to automatically redetect the appropriate keyscale when you draw new notes If the control is not checked Rhythm Core Alpha 2 will use your selected Keyscale from now on On the Block screen below and to the left and right of the block Keyscale control are remap controls si Tapping on any of the remap controls will automatically cause playback to use the keyscale shown on that remap control or perform other actions assigned to that control The control will highlight in color to show that it is selected Rhythm Core Alpha 2 User Manual Page 5 Like on the block keyscale long box control there is a small ts in the upper right corner of each remap control Tapping this control brings up
28. n and key change fA The C control K clears all the drum beats in the entire track Because this control is dangerous it will only work if you hold a Shift Button E The fal and EP L controls shift the beats in the track left or right respectively Any beat past the end of the grid loops back to the beginning depending on the track length There are twelve 12 available drum tracks MI Below them are tracks for other musical instruments For the other instruments there is a Note Grid instead of aDrum Grid This grid can be used to build bass and melody tracks ol Most of the controls in this section work like the controls on the Drum Grid with a few exceptions Tapping in the Note Grid adds a musical note using the currently selected instrument The note of the sound is based on its vertical position in the grid To draw notes with a different instrument tap on its name g If you tap on its name when it is already selected the Load or Modify Sound menu will appear just as when you tap on a drum name As on the Drum Grid holding a Shift Button while tapping the selected instrument name will go directly to the Load Sound sub menu You can make a note that is longer than one beat by tapping the note to start holding briefly and then dragging to the right to increase the length of the note On an existing note tap and hold to change its length With scrolling you can make a note longer than sixteen beats Each O ins
29. s started Any changes to key scale or block number being played will be recorded as they occur in the pattern at the position indicated by the PAT STEP spinner control on the Block Screen The final tab at the bottom of the Touch Screen is the File option Pf File Menu File ae YOu Con sowe your songs For locer or l oo0d0 or delete songs Tapping the File option displays the File Menu WOU Soved before Here you can save load or delete songs or ee individual blocks to from the system memory Sere eae export songs and other data to an SD Card clear Se AE AEE the current song or change system settings CeCe ExAorc ExAoOorc SoVE2 gaong ImAore Formoc Cortriaqge Seccings Conce PIeBOSe SEIECE Oo SIOE TO Soe im gtumid d LI i ee Girl Bien MOCI CE Save Song writes all of the song data to the system memory When selected a dialog box Rhythm Core Alpha 2 User Manual Page 18 listing the songs currently in memory will be displayed Tapping EMPTY SLOT will display a keyboard where you can type a new song name Load Song lists all of the saved songs and allows you to restore any of them to play or make changes Delete Song removes song files from the internal memory Clear Current Song deletes all notes and beats from every track in every block It destroys everything that hasn t been saved Use with caution Export ASCII to SD Card writes a human Export ASCII to so
30. t and the current beat to be set to 0 H b The PAUSE PLAY control 6 causes all playback to stop but will resume playback at the same beat on which it was stopped when tapped again The pattern can also use its NEXT action to put the program into Pause fl waiting for the user to un pause it The LOOP control 7 repeats the current pattern step when it is selected yellow and stops C looping when it is tapped again The pattern s Next action can put the program into Loop state waiting for the user to turn the loop off so that it may continue This is useful if you want to leave some time for a solo and start the song again after you are done There are two spinner controls of note on the Block screen TEMDD The Tempo spinner 8 sets the rate at which the music plays in beats per minute BPM or quarter notes per minute The Rhythm Core Alpha 2 Drum and Note il Grids are lined for sixteenth 1 16 notes so the beats should line up with the dark lines on the grid aa The Tune spinner 9 adjusts the pitch of all instruments in increments of a percent of a semitone This is useful if you are playing with another musician The Block Screen also includes two Song Location Meters on the far left and right of the screen above all the other controls The left Song Location Meter shows the currently playing block and the current beat number A bar graph below shows how much of the current block has already
31. ted beat Random Generates drum or note data by chance It might be interesting Take a chance Echo Generates additional drum beats or notes by tapering off the velocity loudness over time giving an echo effect Note that there is also a non destructive version of echo as part of the sound parameters see the Echo and Pitch sub menu under the Load or Modify Sound menu Velocity Changes the velocity loudness of drum beats or notes Transpose For note tracks only Shifts the pitch of notes up or down in semitones Note that there is also a non destructive version of transpose as part of the sound parameters see the Echo and Pitch sub menu under the Load or Modify Sound menu Copy Instrument s Copies all of the parameters of an instrument sound ADSR vibrato portamento echo etc to another track and or block Notes and drum beats are not copied here For every operation there is a Select Source dialog box Used COPY correctly this is a very powerful feature Sel ECE SOUrCe With this dialog you can select the beats of the track to which the lisse sat eels selected operation will apply At the top of the dialog is a grid that divides the track into sections of four beats Tap on the squares in the grid to tell the program that you want only those beats to be affected by copying setting etc Below the first line of boxes the grid is divided into sections of 8 beats 16 beats etc The bot
32. the stylus NEW Now the notes that are played by the sequencer light up in color in the Solo Mode Using O or tapping on the Solo option iW at Ba Ee the bottom of the Touch Screen displays a new pe fads Jp je Ego Je E FEA screen the Solo Mode In this mode you can play music live by tapping and holding on the appropriate note on the Touch Screen On the left of the Touch Screen there are controls for playing each of the drum sounds The notes available on the Touch Screen reflect the currently selected key and scale keyscale When you change keyscale using the Control Pad or the remap controls the notes available on the Touch Screen also change to match You can t hit a wrong note Instrument Rough Eoss 1 Muted Bors The Solo Mode uses the instrument that is currently selected on the Block Rough ens Screen Solo sounds play with the velocity loudness that is selected on the strings Block Screen as well MElochoir Spoceoct Rhythm Core Alpha 2 User Manual Page 13 F Along the left side of the Solo Screen there are twelve 12 numbered controls that make the selected drum sounds when tapped with the stylus SeEe ECE Solo Scole ond Aey Sometimes you don t want the scale to change automatically If you tap the main menu option for Solo Mode while you are already in Solo Mode a new dialog box will appear for selecting the key and scale for Solo Mode turning off automatic tracking of key and scale and
33. tom box selects all of the beats in the track To select all beats quickly just tap the bottom rectangle till it turns red Red means Selected black means Off When you have selected the desired beat ranges tap the Select control To cancel the change tap Cancel Rhythm Core Alpha 2 User Manual Page 7 If you have not selected any beats when you complete the operation nothing will happen So be Corny sure something 1s selected SEPlectc torget For the Copy and Shift commands there is also a Select Target 1122233444556 dialog box With this dialog you establish the destination of the drum Oial An SSSeeeeeeeeeeees beats or notes you have selected The grid at the top gives you the destination in four beat chunks You can also use the spinner below the grid to select beats located before the start of the track or beats that do not fall on a four beat boundary Tip The destination beat is not an offset but the actual position where the first beat you selected in the source dialog will be placed The Track spinner allows you to select another track as the destination This is useful for doubling instrument parts inside the same block The Block spinner allows you to select a destination in another block That is how you can build new loops out of parts of old ones Count allows you to duplicate more than once If you select the first sixteen beats to copy and then want
34. trument track can only play one note at a time If you extend the length of a note so that it overtakes other notes they will be erased Be careful To make a chord where all notes are played on the same instrument set three instrument tracks to use the same sound by double tapping on their name and selecting the same sound Then draw each note of the chord separately after tapping on that instrument track name The keyboard to the right of the instrument name will play the currently selected sound g when you tap on it This is useful for composing but it is not recommended for live m erformance For that you use the Solo Mode which you enter by tapping on the nn tab at the bottom of the Touch Screen or by paging through screens with OSEET Please see the section about the Solo Mode for more information CED you can record notes that you play on this keyboard or in the Solo Mode with the Solo Record Mode If you press a Shift Button L or R a panel will drop from the top of the Touch Screen Tap the ES Rhythm Core Alpha 2 User Manual Page 4 control once and the control will turn red indicating that recording has started ill Now any notes that you play on the keyboard or in the Solo Mode during playback will be recorded using the currently selected instrument track in the currently edited block If notes are recorded where other notes are already in the track the old notes will be overwritten and deleted Tapping th
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