User's Guide

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Chapter 5 Action Composer
Setting basic items
Set the items below before you start composing
sound.
Tempo box Choose the number of beats
per minute, in quarter notes.
You can choose from 120, 160,
and 240 beats/min.*
Time box Choose a rhythm.
You can choose from 3/4 and
4/4.
* If MIDI files edited using commercially available
tools have tempos other than those above, open
such files in the MIDI Window to add the tempo to
the list.
Composing sound
Specify the note and place sound data on the
score channel.
The velocity (impact) of a sound is indicated by
the vertical line in the velocity channel. Change
the length of the line to adjust the impact of a
sound. The length of a sound data on the score
channel indicates the length of a note.
Note
AIBO reproduces only one note at a time
(monophonic). You should position sound data so
that no more than one note is reproduced at a time. If
the notes overlap, the data is converted to
monophonic sound when saved to the files.
x Making sound data
1 Select the note you want and
place the sound on the score
channel.
If you choose a note, it will change to
input mode and the mouse pointer
changes to in the score channel.
The length of the sound data corresponds
to the note chosen. The velocity is set to
maximum and the sound is reproduced.
In the input mode, sound data is inserted
each time you click the score channel.
2 Adjust the sound data as
required.
When you place the mouse pointer on an
existing sound data, the pointer changes
shape depending on the spot and
indicates the available editing function.
Drag the mouse to make changes.
Change the timing
(horizontally)
Change the scale
(vertically)
Change the
length of the note
3 Change the velocity as required.
Mouse pointer