Beat FX

Beat FX section

1.BEAT i_left , i_right button

Sets the number of beats for Beat FX.

•Press the [BEAT i_right ] button while pressing the [SHIFT] button to manually set BPM (Tap mode).

•Press the [BEAT i_left ] button while pressing the [SHIFT] button to automatically set BPM.

•Auto BPM is set when the unit turns on.

2.FX SELECT switch

Selects a Beat FX.

3.CH SELECT switch

Selects a channel to apply Beat FX to.

4.LEVEL/DEPTH knob

•Turn the knob all the way counterclockwise to output the original sound.

5.ON/OFF button

Turns Beat FX on and off. The button blinks when the effect is turned on.

Using Beat FX

⇨Beat FX types and settings

1Touch the FX tab on the waveform screen.

The effect information panel that shows the effect parameters appears.

2Slide the FX SELECT switch to select a Beat FX.

3Slide the CH SELECT switch to select an channel to apply Beat FX to.

4Press the [BEAT i_left ] or [BEAT i_right ] button to set the number of beats to synchronize the effect with.

5Turn the [LEVEL/DEPTH] knob to adjust the effect.

6Press the [ON/OFF] button to turn the Beat FX on.

The Beat FX is applied to the selected channel.

•Press the [ON/OFF] button again to turn the Beat FX off.

Setting BPM manually (Tap mode)

1Tap [BEAT i_right ] while pressing the [SHIFT] button more than twice in time with the beat of the track.

BPM is set according to the average time between taps.

•The length of one beat is set as the effect time when you set BPM with the [BEAT i_right ] button.

•Press the [BEAT i_right ] button while pressing the [SHIFT] button to automatically set the BPM.

Using Quantize (for Beat FX)

If you use Quantize, the unit adds an effect by automatically synchronizing it with the beat according to the track’s grid information analyzed by rekordbox. This happens even if you operate the [ON/OFF] button of Beat FX roughly.

•Analyze the tracks in rekordbox beforehand. For details on track analysis, see the rekordbox Instruction Manual.

rekordbox.com/manual

1Touch the FX tab on the waveform screen.

The effect information panel appears.

2Touch [QUANTIZE] to turn it on.

•[QUANTIZE] is displayed in red when it’s turned on and active and in gray when it’s inactive regardless of whether it’s turned on or off.

Beat FX types and settings

You can adjust the following settings with the buttons and knobs.

Beat FX/operation		Description
ECHO^12		Outputs a delay sound several times while attenuating it according to the beat.
	•BEAT , :	Delay time (1/16 to 16 beats)
	•LEVEL/DEPTH:	Balance between the original sound and the effected sound
REVERB^12		Adds reverberation to the input sound.
	•BEAT , :	Reverberation level (1 to 100%)
	•LEVEL/DEPTH:	Balance between the original sound and the effected sound
FLANGER^12		Adds a cyclic flanger effect according to the beat.
	•BEAT , :	Effect rate (1/16 to 64 beats)
	•LEVEL/DEPTH:	Effect level

*1When the CH SELECT switch is set to CH 1/CH 2, you can’t monitor the effected sound even if you press the [CUE] button for the relevant channel.

*2Only the effect sound remains if you set the channel fader to the [0] position to cut the input sound (the effect sound remains even after the effect is turned off).