User Manual

21 PERFORM-VE User Manual
Clocks, Loop Length & Tempo
Perform-VE’s tempo matching depends on whether external MIDI clock is driving
Perform-VE or not.
Let’s consider the case when no MIDI clock is coming in. In this situation you don’t
have a MIDI cable or USB cable supplying MIDI clock messages to Perform-VE
from any external device or instrument. This means Perform-VE uses its own
master clock, which is updated via the TAP tempo button and whenever you
record a drum loop.
Pausing and Restarting Loop Playback
Loop playback is paused by double-tapping the loop corner button or by pressing
the TAP button. Once you've paused the LOOPER, playback will resume at the very
beginning of the loop. This means you always resume playback from the top of
the loop when you press the loop corner button.
Once you have armed recording, the looper is waiting (ashing red) to record
either an audio loop or a drum loop.
To record a drum loop, press the kick, snare or headphone buttons to begin
recording drum events at whatever tempo you like. Press the loop button to end
recording and immediately begin playback.
To record an audio loop before drums, press the loop button again to begin
recording (button lights solid red) and then vocalize into your mic. Press the loop
button to end recording and immediately begin playback.
Regardless of loop type, Perform-VE will analyze the loop length and decide
whether it is a 1 bar, 2 bar, 4 bar or 8 bar pattern at a valid tempo between 80
and 160 BPM (beats per minute). The clock tempo of Perform-VE will be updated
to match the loop and the LOOPER button will turn green to indicate play mode.
Now that your loop has a dened length, you can press loop again (turning
LOOPER red) to overdub additional audio and drum events. These overdubs will
not have an eect on the tempo or on the drum or audio loop lengths.
NOTE: if you record your drum loop rst, you can make audio loops that are
multiples of the drum loop in length, up to 40 seconds in length.
The alternative looper setup is to have MIDI clock coming in from an external
instrument or a computer running audio workstation software. In this situation,
Perform-VE is the slave to the external device and any loops you record will need
to be made in time with the ashes shown on the TAP button.
One advantage of external clocking is that odd bar patterns (3, 5, 7 and up) can
be recorded as loops, and playback will be perfectly synchronized with your
external gear such as drum machines, arpeggiators and the like.
Unless you record your loop perfectly in time at the current tempo, it won’t sound
musically pleasing - this is where Looper Quantize comes in.
Looper Quantize
Perform-VE’s looper can either quantize your drum events as they are recorded, or can leave their timing untouched. If Quantizing is enabled, drum events will be
‘corrected’ to the closest 16th note as they are recorded, resulting in a tighter more ‘machine-like’ groove.
To enable/disable Looper Quantize, press SET and TAP to toggle
between OFF and ON
Range: OFF, ON