LINE6 ECHOPRO
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Some Real Life Examples:

Syncing to MIDI Clock

SOME REAL LIFE EXAMPLES
Syncing to MIDI Clock
If you�re using your Echo Pro with MIDI equipment, whether live or in the studio, you�re in for a lot of fun. Echo Pro�s ability to assign note values as delay times and then sync to MIDI Clock will enable you to quickly achieve great time synchronized effects that otherwise would be a royal pain to manually calculate.

In The Studio
If you�re in the Studio, using your Echo Pro with MIDI tracks that you�ve sequenced, or audio that you�ve tracked in sync with the click generated by your software, it doesn�t get much simpler. Just make sure that your sequencer/audio application is sending MIDI Clock, set Echo pro to listen to MIDI Clock (see Chapter 3) and let �er rip. NOTE: Most devices only send MIDI Clock when they�re actually playing back the music. When you stop the device, it stops sending clock and Echo Pro will remain at the last tempo, flashing its Global Button to indicate the absence of MIDI Clock. The tricky part comes when you�ve got a track you�ve recorded that wasn�t sequenced or played to a click, but instead was played in �free time� (especially if your drummer doesn�t have the world�s steadiest tempo!). Luckily, modern technology offers a strategy to deal with just that. If you�ve tracked your tune to a computeer-based or stand-alone hard disk recorder without playing to a click or sequence, set up a tempo map so that the software can generate the correct MIDI Clock to jive along with the track. Most hardware hard disk recorders and software sequencing programs do this; check your product�s manual for details, since every system does this slightly differently. Most often, it involves selecting the whole song, telling the program/device �This is (x number) of bars�, and letting it do the math to figure out the tempo. Then, since your drummer�s not perfect, you find where the bars don�t match up anymore, select smaller sections, recalculate the tempo,
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