{"id":282,"date":"2021-01-17T17:27:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T17:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/?p=282"},"modified":"2022-01-05T02:27:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T02:27:47","slug":"programming-the-mfb-tanzbar-lite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/2021\/01\/17\/programming-the-mfb-tanzbar-lite\/","title":{"rendered":"Programming the MFB Tanzbar Lite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Note: If you have not used the Tanzbar Lite for a time, be sure to press the buttons firmly. They seem to not work well when left unused. After a session of use (and firm presses) they should to start working normally again.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like most MFB products, the Tanbar light is a mix of great sound and maddeningly convoluted user interface. In this post I hope to make things somewhat easier for the new user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Starting the sequencer<\/strong>: shift + play (top button)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selecting a pattern:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tanzbar Lite has 4 bank of 16 patterns. Selecting a pattern can only be performed in &#8220;Play Mode&#8221;. To enter play mode, press Rec\/Real once so that both lights above the rec\/real are out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hold Down Pat\/Bank and press a step key to select pattern 1 to 16<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To change banks, hold down shift + Patt\/Bank. The Two LED&#8217;s above Patt\/Bank will change to signify which bank you are now in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Muting Tracks:<\/strong> while in Play Mode, press a step key to mute that instrument<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recording a pattern:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hold down Rec\/Real and press the instrument step key to select that instrument. Let up on Rec\/Real<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Press step keys to program the pattern for that instrument.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To program flams, accents, etc. you must first select the steps that will be affected. To do this, press select + one or more steps. The selected steps will start flashing which indicates that they will be affected by the next edit operation (ie. adding flam, accents, etc.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saving a pattern:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Select the bank you which to save to. Press shift + 5 (&#8220;store pattern&#8221;), press the pattern number you want to save to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: If you have not used the Tanzbar Lite for a time, be sure to press the buttons firmly. They seem to not work well when left unused. After a session of use (and firm presses) they should to start working normally again. Like most MFB products, the Tanbar light is a mix of great &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/2021\/01\/17\/programming-the-mfb-tanzbar-lite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Programming the MFB Tanzbar Lite&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music_making","tag-drum-machine","tag-mfb","tag-synth","tag-tanzbar-lite","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}