Optimizing the usb, The chromatic tuner, 5 – the us-122 control panel – Teac US-122 User Manual

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5 – The US-122 Control Panel

TASCAM US-122 —

Optimizing the USB

There is another option available which
allows you to disable the audio, and only
use the MIDI facilities of the US-122.
This is useful if you have a high volume

of MIDI data to be transmitted through
the interface and the timing is critical.

The Chromatic Tuner

Open the US-122’s control panel and
select the

Tuner

tab.

In the

Input

section, select the US-122

input channel that you want to tune (L or
R).

Play a note and adjust the level for that
input until the signal is strong, but not
clipping.

The

Level

meter on the screen should dis-

play bright green segments without
lighting the top red segment.

If desired, you can change the

Tuning

Standard

in the

Reference

section. Nor-

mally, the

Tuning Standard

is set to

440 Hz for a middle “A” note, but you
can use the up/down arrows to change it
to a number between 430 and 450 Hz.

As you play, the detected note will be
displayed below the

Tuning

lights (

, for example). If the note is sharp, the

Sharp

arrow and a

Tuning

light to the

right of

are bright red; if the note is

flat, the

Flat

arrow and a

Tuning

light to

the left of

are bright red.

The numbers below the tuning lights
indicate how far out of tune the note is,
in cents (100 cents is one semitone).
When the note is in tune, the center ‘0’
light and both the

Flat

and

Sharp

arrows

are bright green.

NOTE

The chromatic tuner consumes some CPU
bandwidth in your system. Therefore,
when you finish using the tuner, we recom-
mend that you either select another con-
trol panel tab or close the control panel.