Numark Industries DM1635 - Manual (Page 11)

DM1635
BEATKEEPER OPERATION
Channel Selection
When your mixer is first turned on the channels
selected will be 1 & 2 respectively. If you wish to track
the beat of another channel, tap on the channel select
button until the desired input is reached.
NOTE: The Beatkeeper will track the source that is
selected with the channel toggle switch.
Syncing Your Beatkeeper
When learning how to use the Beatkeeper, choose
some dance music with a hard, steady beat.
Start the music for left channel of your
B e a t k e e p e r . When the Beatkeeper has located the
beat, the BPM display will illuminate with the music's
Beats Per Minute.
You'll notice a flashing green LED every time the
Beatkeeper detects a rhythm defining instrument. The
Beatkeeper will soon flash a red LED on every beat, the
same way you would tap your foot to the beat of the
music. The Beatkeeper will display a BPM which will
update every five-seconds while scanning. As long as
the beat is well-defined the BPM number will equal the
beats per minute of the song being played. Once you
see the red beat LED flashing with the beat of
the music, press the respective Sync Lock
b u t t o n , and the Sync Lock LED will illuminate.
Activating the Sync Lock tells the Beatkeeper to stop
scanning the music for a different BPM and to start
tracking the beat changes of the current BPM as you
adjust the pitch of the music. This function is manual to
ensure that the Beatkeeper is right on the beat. O n c e
the Sync Lock LED is on, the Beatkeeper
tracks the beats of the music and updates the
BPM display on every beat.
To unlock, simply tap the Sync Lock button once and
the Beatkeeper is back in BPM scanning mode.
After syncing an audio input, try speeding up and
slowing down the music. You'll notice that the red beat
LED will continue to flash on the downbeat, and the BPM
number will adjust itself to match the tempo of the music.
This indicates that the Beatkeeper is successfully
tracking the beat and will continue to do so throughout
your mix. If you stop the music you will notice the Beat
LED will go solid and the BPM number will remain in
memory. Once the music is restarted the Beatkeeper will
remember the last tracked rhythm pattern and pick up on
the beat right away.
P L A Y the music, O B S E R V E the beat match, and
PRESS the Sync Lock Button. That's it. If you can
do that twice, you can mix with the Beatkeeper.
Beat Assist
The Beatkeeper is foolproof. The Beatkeeper can
track any music up to 199 beats per minute. The unit,
however, is set to automatically track tempos between
80-150BPM. Of course not all music is within this range,
you may need to track the high tempos of Meringue or
Salsa, or the low tempos of R&B slow jams or Reggae.
Let's face it, not all music has hard steady beats either
and sometimes you just need the music set up yesterday
For these occasions we have the Beat Assist Button.
If the Beatkeeper is having trouble matching
the beat to the flashing red Beat LED, or if you
need to sync up Immediately, tap the Beat
Assist button 2-8 times as you hear the beat,
the same way you would tap your feet to the
music. Pressing the Beat Assist Button more than
once aligns the Beatkeeper to your taps. Notice that the
Sync Lock LED automatically illuminates, signifying that
the Beatkeeper is now locked in with the beat. Simply
put, if the Beatkeeper isn't on track, or you're in a real
hurry, you need to press a button twice instead of once.
If the Beatkeeper is synced to the correct
BPM but is aligned to the music's offbeat, tap
the Beat Assist button with the beat of the
music just once and you will have brought the
Beatkeeper back in sync.
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