User Manual

TUTORIAL 2: BUILDING A SONG

Figure 4-9: Building a song.

7 To hear the song, press Play: you’ll see the

playback wiper advance, as well as the playback

position ﬁelds above the timeline.

If you’re using BPM as a plug-in within a

sequencer/DAW, the song playback position will

follow the host.

8 To export the entire song as a new audio ﬁle,

choose Export Song as Audio from the File menu.

Figure 4-10: Exporting a song

Live mode

Instead of planning out your scene changes in Song

mode, you can trigger scenes on-the-ﬂy using Live

mode. In this mode, you change scenes using MIDI

input (from a keyboard or a sequencer/DAW

application) or by clicking on the 16 pads in the

BPM user interface.

9 To enable Live mode, press the Live button in the

lower left corner.

Figure 4-11: The Live mode button

As with Song mode, the pads are for Scene1,

Scene2, etc.

10 Each scene is assigned a MIDI note

chromatically beginning at C1: Scene 1 is triggered

by C1, Scene 2 by C#1, and so on.

Play C1 on your MIDI controller keyboard: Scene 1

starts playing.

11 While Scene1 is playing, play C#1: Scene 2 plays.

12 Now click on the Scene3 pad: Scene 3 plays.

Sequencing Live mode from your host

Live mode is also great for programming scene

changes from your host sequencer. Since the scene

changes are controlled by MIDI notes, you can

insert MIDI notes in your host that can be cut,

copied, pasted, repeated, etc. just like any other

MIDI notes.

13 In your host sequencer, instantiate BPM in the

normal fashion and assign a MIDI track to BPM

channel A-1.

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