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The back panel contains the audio jacks and the Midi ports:BACK PANEL15 Audio Output Left 16 Audio Output Right17 Foot Switch 18 Midi In19 Midi O

2.1 AC CONNECTIONThe Megabeat One comes with its own AC power supply.Plug the AC adapter into the “AC Adapter jack” (20) on the rear panel ofthe machi

2.3 MIDI CONNECTIONSThe MIDI connections between Megabeat One and any other external soundgenerator are very simple and are possible through only one

NOTE1. Before connecting DIGITAR to Megabeat One by means of the interface TODIGITAR, please check the position of the “MIDI INPUT” parameter in the “

3. LET’S START3.1 TURNING ONTo turn Megabeat One on, simply push the Power On/Off button (21) onthe front panel. After a few seconds, the following wo

3.2 SINGLE PLAYStraight after having turned Megabeat One on, it is in the SINGLE PLAYmode, i.e. it is set to play a single song at a time.The display

NOTEThe titles of the songs contained on the hard disk are displayed according totheir alphabetical order.Megabeat One’s operative system arranges eac

4. OPERATIVE MODES4.1 HIGHLIGHTED SONG AND SELECTED SONGBefore describing the various operative modes, we have to make apreliminary statement about th

4.2 Soft KeysThe SOFT KEYS buttons (6) are located just below the display.The 5 SOFT KEYS buttons have not a fixed function (as the PLAY and STOPbutto

To enable one of the command assigned to a Soft Key, simply push theSOFT KEY button corresponding to the desired function.◆ CLRSEL:(Clear Selection) a

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Now another Soft key, corresponding to the following function, has beenenabled:◆ ADJUST: allows to access the page which will help you adjusting thepa

◆ CONTIN: It is usually called Continue and is often used together with thePLAY/STOP functions. It allows you to continue to play the song from the po

4.3.2 DISPLAYING TEXTS AND CHORDSThe function is enabled by means of the LYRICS soft key and can beretrieved both before and during the playing of a s

enabled, could be “lost”. In fact the text is stored in the song, and then read byMegabeat One, with a certain anticipation on the performing time of

At this point you can:◆ push the CONTIN soft key (to continue the performing of a song from whereit had been stopped),◆ push the PLAY button (to start

◆ RESTOR: “clears” all the changes carried out by the user on the parametersand retrieves the values originally stored in the song.◆ SAVE: saves the c

measure and the value “090” after the tenth measure on the display (near thevolume of the MIDI channel number 2).Therefore the variations made by usin

To change the volume of a MIDI channel: position the cursor on the desired channel; turn the PAGE/VALUE Dial to change the displayed value; push t

Also in this case, the CHANNEL VOLUME ADJUST parameter will show (in thefirst line of the display) the variation just carried out (for example: +010,

sequence (in order to organise one’s own repertoire), or to group one’s own songsper type (e.g.: disco music, bossa nova, etc.).One song may belong to

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In order to enable one of the Soft Key commands, just press the SOFT KEYrelevant to the desired command.◆ LOOP/NOLOOP: allows you to decide whether, a

4.4.1 CHOOSING A GROUPWhen you have access the GROUP PLAY mode, the display shows the groupsstored by the user in the hard disk or those automaticall

soft key, you can change the value from LOOP to NOLOOP and vice versa.NOTELOOP/NO LOOP value can be changed even when the group is in PLAYmode.If you

As usual, you can display the other pages of the group songs (if present)with the PAGE/VALUE Dial.With the cursor buttons you can move from one group

5. UTILITYUTILITY menu contains different utility functions in order to create andorganise groups, load or erase songs, format hard disk or floppy dis

ENABLED SOFT KEYSThe soft keys enabled in UTILITY mode are the following:◆ SELECT: allows you to have access to one of the previously describedfunctio

NOTEIn order to use the COPY SONG function you must insert a floppy disk intothe drive of Megabeat One, otherwise the following message will appear: F

NOTEThanks to the automatic creation of a group containing the songs whichbelong to a same floppy disk, you can reorganise your songs in the hard disk

In order to work on a group, choose first the desired group (with theCURSOR buttons or the PAGE/VALUE Dial) and then press the soft key relative tothe

After positioning the cursor on one of the groups present in the EDIT GROUPSmain page, by pressing the CREATE soft key you have access to thecreation/

5. UTILITY ... page 325.1 COPY SONG: loading Songs in the hard disk

IMPORTANTDo not use the EXIT button placed under the PAGE/VALUE Dial, you willloose all the work you have done.5. Save the changes made to the group w

The first choice for the NEW NAME is the same of the OLD NAME.The cursor will highlight the first letter of the NEW NAME field: in order tochange the

The difference between the CREATE and MODIFY functions is that the CREATEfunction always creates a new group, while with the MODIFY function all thech

❐ EXIT: allows you to return to the EDIT GROUPS menu. Every change you didnot save with the SAVE soft key will be lost. RENAME: allows you to change

5.3 GLOBAL SETUPThis function allows you to have access to the global parameters ofMegabeat One, in order to specify:◆ the kind of disk from which you

5.3.1 MEDIA PLAYERThis parameter identifies the kind of media from which Megabeat One readssongs (during PLAY phase).The values are:◆ H.DISK (songs wi

5.3.3 QUICK STARTThis parameter enables the Quick Start function, used by Megabeat One tospeed up the reading of the first beats of a song.These beats

The set-up concerns:◆ MIDI CLOCK OUT,◆ MIDI INPUT (Midi or Digitar) choice,◆ possibility to select a song of a group via Midi,◆ possibility to visuali

5.4.1 MIDI CLOCK OUTThis parameter indicates whether Megabeat One must transmit the MidiClock from its MIDI OUT. The values for this parameter are:◆

With the current version of Megabeat One, these two input can not be activeat the same time, this means that it is not possible to play simultaneously

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In order to perform the song, just act as usual, by using the PLAY button onthe frontal panel of Megabeat One, or with the START/STOP pedal.The MIDI S

NOTEThe Megabeat One has an always-enabled function called MIDISOFTTHRU.This function produces the retransmission of the messages received by Megabeat

In order to copy a song to the floppy disk:1. insert a formatted floppy disk into the drive,2. choose the song to be copied with the CURSOR buttons or

The display shows the list of all the songs present in the hard disk (songsare divided in pages, as usual, and are accessible with the CURSOR buttons

Once you have finished the song name editing, confirm it with the OK softkey (in order to save the modified name), or leave the change with the EXIT s

The display will change as follows :To erase the song press the soft key YES , otherwise push NO.By pressing ALL you will automatically erase all the

Moreover, the dump files can be included in a group (as the first file of agroup for example ) and transmitted before playing the songs of that group.

When all messages have been received, the page that allows you to namethe file you have just recorded is automatically retrieved .The instructions are

The display will show the utilities menu:The active soft keys are :5.10.1 F. DISK FORMATThis function allows you to format the floppy disks.We rem

Choose NO to halt the formatting or YES if you want to continue. When theoperation is completed the display goes back to the UTILITIES menu .5.10.2

1. INTRODUCTIONWe wish to compliment you on your new Megabeat One.Megabeat One is a “Hard Disk Midi Player”, i.e. a Standard Midi File Player,in 0 and

Once the RECOVER has been enabled the display changes once again:The solution of the problems may even take a few hours because the systemwill have to

If there are problems with the hard disk, we recommend to try with theH.DISK RECOVER function described in the next pages before formatting it.To enab

6. OPERATING SYSTEM (updating)The operating system of the Megabeat One is made up of all the commandsand functions which enable the Megabeat One itsel

7 FILE PREFIXESThe display of the Megabeat One will show different file names.The files could be:◆ Songs◆ Songs with “pilot-track” for Digitar◆ SysEx

SPECIFICATIONS64MEGABEAT ONE SPECIFICATIONS• POWER SUPPLY:External power supply according to EEC regulationPrimary: 230 Vac - 50HzSecondary: 12 Vac -

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◆ the possibility of changing at once volumes, effects (reverberation andchorus) transposition and performing time of a song;◆ the possibility of stor

- an A/D system to connect Megabeat One to a microphone or a line signal;- an Audio Recording system (to record an audio-digital track by means ofthe

2. CONNECTIONS AND COMMANDSThe front panel contains all the commands which you can use to operatewith your Megabeat One.FRONT PANEL1 Page/Value Dial