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Chapter 17 Performance Recorder By now, you're well on your way to becoming a master DJ. In fact, you've probably got a slew of hip ideas and cool moves that you'd like to record for posterity. Enter the Performance Recorder! 76 Record your performance Here's another powerful DJX-II function you'll love! Record all your DJ moves to this amazing Performance Recorder, and play them back - any time you want! Six Performance Recorder buttons give you recording space for up to six performances. Really easy to use, too! Here's how: 1 Enable recording. Simultaneously hold down the RECORD button and press one of the PLAYER Pads (1 - 6). You're ready to record! Flashes 2 Start recording. Start performing on the DJX-II - recording starts automatically! Just about anything can be used to start - playing a Pattern or Activator key, pressing one of the Sample Pads, scratching the Ribbon Controller (with Scratch 1 or 2), or even by tapping the BPM/TAP button four times (see Tip 79). 3 Stop recording. To stop recording, press PATTERN STOP or RECORD. Performance Recorder records the following performances. or • Mode status (Pattern or Keyboard) • Keyboard performance (Keyboard mode) • Voice number • Pattern Player settings and performance (Pattern mode) • Pattern number • Live Effector settings and performance • bpm (including BPM/TAP performance ) • Sample Pad settings and performance • Key Shifter performance (Pattern mode) • Ribbon Controller settings and performance • Activator settings and performance (Pattern mode) • Part Controler settings and performance If you've recorded to a Pad when the external clock is set to "Sync," the bpm value is not recorded. This means that when you play back the performance, it will play at the current bpm value, and not necessarily the one intended. N Tech tips: • The length of your recorded performance is quantized to the next downbeat. This ensures that the recorded data makes rhythmical sense - even if you stop a Pattern between downbeats. Be careful, though! Always try to stop slightly before the downbeat, or the recorded performance may carry through to the next beat! • A maximum of 2500 events (for all six Pads) can be recorded to the Performance Recorder. What constitutes an "event" differs depending on the control used. For example, pressing a button or a key is a single event, but turning a knob or working the Ribbon Controller use up dozens of events at a time. 4 Play the performance. Simply press the appropriate PLAYER Pad to play the recorded performance. The DJXII gives you six pads for six separate performances. Playback continues repeatedly until you press PATTERN STOP. Pressing the same Pad during playback instantly re-starts the recorded performance from the beginning. Pressing a different Pad during playback stops playback of the previous Pad and starts playback of the pressed Pad. Naturally, you can record your entire performance to one button. Or you may want to divide your performance up into several parts, and record each separately, one-by-one. This lets you change the order of playback as you see fit, and it lets you repeat individual performances as many times as you like, and string them all together in various orders and... well, you get the idea! It's an awesome tool for live performance! 56

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Chapter 17
Performance Recorder
By now, you’re well on your way to becoming a master DJ.
In fact, you’ve probably got a
slew of hip ideas and cool moves that you’d like to record for posterity.
Enter the Perfor-
mance Recorder!
76
Record your performance
Here’s another powerful DJX-II function you’ll love!
Record all your DJ moves to this
amazing Performance Recorder, and play them back — any time you want!
Six Perfor-
mance Recorder buttons give you recording space for up to six performances.
Really
easy to use, too!
Here’s how:
1
Enable recording.
Simultaneously hold down the RECORD button and press one of the PLAYER Pads
(1 - 6).
You’re ready to record!
2
Start recording.
Start performing on the DJX-II — recording starts automati-
cally!
Just about anything can be used to start — playing a Pat-
tern or Activator key, pressing one of the Sample Pads,
scratching the Ribbon Controller (with Scratch 1 or 2), or even
by tapping the BPM/TAP button four times (see Tip 79).
3
Stop recording.
To stop recording, press PATTERN STOP or RECORD.
Performance Recorder records the following performances.
• Mode status (Pattern or Keyboard)
• Keyboard performance (Keyboard mode)
• Voice number
• Pattern Player settings and performance (Pattern mode)
• Pattern number
• bpm (including BPM/TAP performance )
• Key Shifter performance (Pattern mode)
• Activator settings and performance (Pattern mode)
Flashes
or
• Live Effector settings and performance
• Sample Pad settings and performance
• Ribbon Controller settings and performance
• Part Controler settings and performance
If you’ve recorded to a Pad when the external clock is set to “Sync,” the bpm value is not
recorded.
This means that when you play back the performance, it will play at the current bpm
value, and not necessarily the one intended.
◆
Tech tips:
• The length of your recorded performance is quantized to the next downbeat.
This ensures that the recorded data
makes rhythmical sense — even if you stop a Pattern between downbeats.
Be careful, though!
Always try to stop
slightly before the downbeat, or the recorded performance may carry through to the next beat!
• A maximum of 2500 events (for all six Pads) can be recorded to the Performance Recorder.
What constitutes an
“event” differs depending on the control used.
For example, pressing a button or a key is a single event, but turn-
ing a knob or working the Ribbon Controller use up dozens of events at a time.
4
Play the performance.
Simply press the appropriate PLAYER Pad to play the recorded performance.
The DJX-
II gives you six pads for six separate performances.
Playback continues repeatedly until you press PATTERN STOP.
Pressing the same Pad during playback instantly re-starts the recorded performance
from the beginning.
Pressing a different Pad during playback stops playback of the pre-
vious Pad and starts playback of the pressed Pad.
Naturally, you can record your entire performance to one button.
Or you may want to divide your performance up into
several parts, and record each separately, one-by-one.
This lets you change the order of playback as you see fit, and it
lets you repeat individual performances as many times as you like, and string them all together in various orders and...
well, you get the idea!
It’s an awesome tool for live performance!