Owners Manual

TimeFactor User Guide Looper
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Recording
 – Record to Dub transition quantizes to the next beat.
► – Record to Play transition quantizes to the next beat.
 – End recording and stop, quantized to the next beat
Dubbing
 – Dubbing in/out doesn’t do any footswitch action quantization.
► – End Dubbing and Start Playing from Loop Start. This action quantizes to the
next tick.
 – End Dubbing and Stop Playing. This action quantizes to the next beat.
Playing
 – Start Dubbing, no footswitch quantization.
► – Start Playing from Loop Start. This action quantizes to the next tick.
 – Stop Playing. This action quantizes to the next beat.
Stopped
 – Starting a new recording quantizes to the next beat ONLY if in MIDICLK
Slave mode AFTER having received a MIDI Start command. Otherwise, this begins
recording on the next tick.
► – Start Playing from Loop Start. This action quantizes to the next tick.
 – No action.
Control Knob Tempo Mode Sync Features
The following control knobs have enhanced features for Tempo Mode and MIDI sync allowing
for perfect MIDICLK beat sync even when they change.
Dly Time A / Loop Play-Start Point:
In Tempo Mode, the minimum length of audio that can be played out is 1 beat so, the Play-
Start Point will display in beats allowing you start playback from 0 beats up to Loop Length
minus 1 beat. For example, if you recorded an 8 beat loop, this will range from 0 to 7 beats.
Changing the Play-Start Point during Playback will apply the next time the Loop comes
around and will maintain perfect beat sync with MIDICLK.
Dly Time B / Loop Play-Length:
In Tempo Mode, the minimum length of audio that can be played out is 1 beat so, the Play-
Length will display in beats allowing playback lengths of 1 beat up to the Loop Length. For
example, if you recorded an 8 beat loop, the Play-Length will range from 1 to 8 beats.
Changing the Play-Length during in Playback will apply the next time the Loop comes around
and will maintain perfect beat sync with MIDICLK. Of course, new Play-Lengths that don’t
evenly divide the total Loop Length will cause the loop to “walk” the downbeat, thus creating
interesting poly-rhythms against an existing pattern.
Speed / Varispeed:
In Tempo Mode, the Looper always loops about the current Play-Length number of beats in
the originally recorded time base, regardless of changes to the Speed. Thus, for slower
speeds the loop length will be truncated, and for faster speeds the loop will play through
more than once. For example, if you record an 8 beat loop at 1x, then play out 8 beats at a
Speed of 50 (.5x), the Looper will loop beats 1-4. Alternatively, if you choose to play at a
speed 150, the loop will complete one full cycle of 8 beats, then a half cycle of 4 beats, and
continue to loop this 1.5x pattern against the original time base. Please note that this Speed-
based sync feature is temporarily disabled while Dubbing, allowing you to dub through an
entire loop, and once you exit Dub mode moving back to Play, this sync feature will
resume. This ensures that the Looper always maintains perfect timing with external audio,
drum machines, etc. while providing the option to layer expressive pitched and poly-rhythmic
patterns or even minutely controlled drifts that always come back on the downbeat.