Instruction Manual

UAD System Manual - 83 - Chapter 8: Tempo Sync
Sync Activation To activate Tempo Sync, click the “Sync” button within the plug-in interface.
The Sync button “LED” will illuminate and the time parameters will change
from a time-based display to a note value (see Figure 21).
Note: When Tempo Sync is activated, the plug-in will automatically switch
the time or rate parameter(s) to the nearest available note value(s) given the
range of the parameter in question and the current tempo.
Available Note Values
The note values that are available for selection are listed in Table 6 on
page 83. The values are listed in musical notation as a division of measures.
For example 1/4 = one quarter note, 1/1 = one whole note, 4/1 = four
whole notes, and so forth.
The available note values were chosen to allow syncing to tempo in odd time
signatures as well the common 4/4 time signature.
LFO rate parameters have their note values listed from longest to shortest,
since long note values correspond to slow LFO rates.
A quarter note is always a quarter note, independent of the time signature. In
different time signatures a quarter note can represent different numbers of mu-
sical beats (e.g. 6/8 ) or different fractions of a bar (e.g. 5/4). For example,
say the time signature is 6/8 and the delay time tempo sync note value is
1/4. If a sound occurs on beat one of the measure then its delay will occur on
beat 3, which is 1/4 note (i.e. two 8th notes) later.
Note: The “beat” value in a sequencer's BPM tempo setting always refers to
a quarter note, independent of time signature.
Table 6. Tempo Sync available note values
1/64D*
1/64
1/32T
1/32
1/16T
1/32D
1/16
1/8T
1/16D
1/8
5/32*
1/4T
1/8D
1/4
5/16
1/2T
1/4D
1/2
5/8
1/1T
1/2D
1/1
5/4
1/1D
7/4
2/1
3/1
4/1
5/1
6/1
8/1
9/1
12/1
16/1
D = Dotted
T= Triplet
* = RE-201 only