CONTENTS
★ PART NAMES AND FUNCTIONS
- 01. EACH PART OF SCREEN NAMES AND FUNCTIONS
- 02. ALL SCREEN COMMON FUNCTIONS
- 03. TRANS CONTROLLER
- 04. PIANOROLL
- 05. SEQUENCER
- 06. SYNTHESIZER
HOW TO
EACH PART OF SCREEN NAMES AND FUNCTIONS
8Bitone contains 3 screens which are called PIANOROLL, SEQUENCER, SYNTHESIZER to control and create songs.
ALL SCREEN COMMON FUNCTIONS
1. SONG TITLE
The title for editing song is displayed here.2. POSITION TICK
Position bar location is showed with Tick.From the left, there are Bar（Number of Bars）; Note（Number of Quater Notes）; and Tick.
3. BPM
Bar position that is displayed with BPM will be shown here.4. TRANS CONTROLLER SWITCH
You can change the switch to show TRANS CONTROLLER on and off.5. SCREEN CHANGER BAR
Bar for showing editing screen is operated here.From the top, there are PIANOROLL, SEQUENCER, SYNTHESIZER. Touch one of the task to move to one of those screens.
TRANS CONTROLLER
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This is a button to change operation for each editor screen. Please read the explanation of each editor screen in detail. |
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These are buttons to change operation for each editor screen. Please read the explanation of each editor screen in detail. |
TRANS CONTROLLER of 8Bitone has 3 mode which are called PLAY MODE, EDIT MODE and FILE MODE.
PLAY MODE
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The position of POSITION BAR moves back to 1:00:00. |
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POSITION BAR moves to left side. |
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POSITION BAR moves to right side. |
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It will stop playing. If the voice doesn`t stop, this function will stop every voices. |
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It will play start from the POSITION BAR. |
EDIT MODE
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In ON mode, grids of Piano Rool will become triplet. If you turn it off, it backs to the previous setting. |
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It will display the window to change the note length. |
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The choosen note will be copied. It differs from each editor screens. |
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Copied note will be attached. It differs from each editor screens. |
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The choosen note will be deleted. The effect changes in every editor screen. |
FILE MODE
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Song will be loaded. |
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The song that is being edited will be saved. |
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The song that is being edited will be saved to another place. |
PIANOROLL
1. TRACK NO.
It shows the tracks that are being edited.2. POSITION BAR
It shows play start position.3. GRID BAR
It shows the distance of active music sheet. The ordinary color is gray, though white is usually arranged in every uniformity.4. GRID NO.
White grid bar for number of the bars and quavers are shown on the top.5. VOICE CHANGE
It changes the voice. The number is the voice number, the place which is indicated with left arrow shows the changing position.6. NOTE
It represents one note. The vertical side is the interval, the horizontal side locates start position, the width is the length of the sound.7. NOTE KEYBOARD
It represents the note interval.SEQUENCER
1. POSITION BAR
It shows Play Start Position.2. REPEAT RETURN MAKER
By repeating, it shows the position of returning.3. REPEAT START MAKER
It shows the position to start for returning.4. BPM CHANGE
It represents the BPM Change order. The number is BPM, the horizontal part is change position.5. GRID BAR
It shows the distance of music sheet.6. GRID NO.
The number of the bars is shown on the grid top bar.7. TRACK AREA
This is the area expressing one track. The track area includes truck number, truck voice, mute button, solo button, and note bars.8. TRACK NO.
This is the truck number that the truck area has. 1until 4 from the top are assigned in 8Bitone.9. TRACK VOICE
This is the voice number and voice name that the track uses now.10. MUTE BUTTON
This button changes the condition of track mute.11. SOLO BUTTON
This button changes the solo condition of the truck.12. BAR NOTE
It is displayed when there are note and program change on the bar,SYNTHESIZER
1. KEYBOARD
This is keyboard for checking voice of tones while editing.2. PITCH WHEEL
Wheel to move music interval up and down.3. KEYBOARD SHIFT SWITCH
Switch that is used to change the keyboard position.4. SYNTH PANEL
Various functions appear when they are made to scroll the panel area.
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TRACK NO. It shows track number. |
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TRACK VOICE It show the voice that is being worked in progress. It indicates the voice number that is used in the track and voice name too. |
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VOLUME It shows voice volume. 0～127 |
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OSCILLATOR OSC TYPE It shows wave of Oscillator. There are Square wave 12.5%、25.0%、50.0%、75.0%、Triangle wave, Sawtooth wave, and Sign wave. |
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OSCILLATOR OCTAVE It shows basic octave of Oscillator. -12～+12 |
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OSCILLATOR F.PITCH It shows specific basic pitch of Oscillator. 436.0～444.0 |
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NOIZE FREQUENCY Noice basic frequency is shown here. 1～16 |
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OSCILLATOR NOIZE SWITCH This is the switch for expressing On/Off of the noise. On/Off |
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ENVELOPE ATTACK It shows ADSR envelope attack. 0.0～10.0 |
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ENVELOPE DECAY This is for ADSR envelope decay. 0.0～10.0 |
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ENVELOPE SUSTAIN ADSR envelope sustain is operated here. 0.0～10.0 |
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ENVELOPE RELEASE This is the release of ADSR envelope. 0.0～10.0 |
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LFO DEPTH Modulation depth is shown here. 0.0～10.0 |
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LFO TARGET It shows modulation object. VOLUME、PITCH |
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LFO SPEED It shows modulation speed. |
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LFO OSC TYPE This is modulation for Wave Oscillator. There are Square wave 12.5%、25.0%、50.0%、75.0%、Triangle wave, Sawtooth wave, and Sign wave. |
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LFO START It shows start point of wave that is used in modulation. 0、1/4、1/2、3/4 |
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ARPEGGIATOR OCTAVE SLIDER It shows arpeggiator that is added in octave. Capacity for slider is 8 engines. -12～+12 |
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ARPEGGIATOR TIME It shows arpeggiator period times. 0.0～10.0 |
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ARPEGGIATOR TYPE Arpeggiator shows the variety to decide for the next octave. SINGLE、LOOP |
Each Screen Using Method
PIANOROLL
To move music sheet
The music sheet will be moved horizontally, if you touch the part without notes on it then move your finger to the right left side,If you do up and down, it moves vertically.
To enlarge and to reduce music sheet size
Touch the sheet with your 2 fingers, and move one to right and another to left at the same time.
To move position bar
Touch the area on the side the truck number, move to right and left until it moves to the certain point of the position bar.
To create notes
When you touch the part without notes and then release,the one grid size of notes with the position of interval will be made.
To select notes
Touch the unselected notes and their color will become brighter.
To move notes
You can change the position of the notes just by moving them.Do it horizontally to change the start position and vertically for the interval.
To change notes length
If you touch and move the note to the left and right, the note length will be adjusted. 
To change the length of the note with GAME TIME window
Push and decide the “Tick” that you want to add. You can appoint it starts from one grid space unit.
To create Voice Change
Touch the area on the right side of “VOICE” and then release.When you choose Voice and push “OK”, the Voice will be changed.
To select Voice Change and to change
After you touch Voice Change, it will be actived and Voice window will come up.If you choose Voice and press “OK”, voice on the Voice Change will be changed
To select range of Note/ Voice Change
Range of Note and Voice Change can be selected while you are pressing on the sheet and move it, 
To erase Note/ Voice Change
Select Note, Voice Change and push. 
To release Note/ Voice Change selection
Touch , and then release the selection,To copy Note/ Voice Change
After you touch , selected Note/ Voice Change will be copied.
To paste Note/ Voice Change
It is based on the most left part that is showed on the music sheet.When you touch
,the copied Note/ Voice Change will be pasted. 
SEQUENCER
To move music sheet
If you touch music sheet and move it to left and right, it will be moved horizontally.
To resize music sheet
Touch the sheet with your 2 fingers, and move one to right and another to left at the same time.
To move position bar
After you touch some area of music sheet and move it to right and left, the bar position can be moved to the one that you touched.
To select tracks
If you touch track number, the track with that number and all of their note bar will be selected.
To change track voice
After you touch Voice name, Voice window will be shown.After you select Voice and touch “OK”, the voice that is used on the track will be changed.
To change Track to Mute condition
If you touch “M”, the track will be changed to Mute condition.If you turn it on, all of the notes on the track while it is playing will be ignored.
To change track to Solo condition
If you touch “S”, track will be changed to the Solo condition.If you turn it on, all notes of other tracks on Solo condition that are played on other tracks will be ignored.
To move Repeat Marker
When you touch the Repeat Return position marker and the Repeat Start position marker,then move it to the right and left, the position of the marker can be moved.
Marker will be moved per bar unit.
To create BPM change
BPM window will be showed after you touch and release BPM on the side of the area.After you turn the knob, select BPM and push the “OK”, the BPM change will be made.
BPM change will be created per bar unit.
To select BPM change
When the unselected BPM change is touched, the BPM window will be selected.
o change BPM of BPM change
After BPM change is touched, the BPM window will be appeared.When you turn the knob, select BPM and push the “OK”, the BPM of the BPM change will be changed.
To select note bar
After selected note bar is touched, the certain note in the grid will be activated, and the note bar on the track will be selected too.All of the certain note bars in a grid will be chosen too.
To select range of note bar
If you touch and move the music sheet to right and left, the note bar can be selected by the range.The note bar of several tracks can`t be selected together.
To erase note bar/BPM change
Push”DELETE” after you selected note bar and BPM change to erase.
To remove selection of note bar/ BPM change
If you touch and release , note bar/ BPM change will be released from the selection.To copy note bar
If you touch , the selected note phrase will be copied.
To paste the phrase note
If you touch , the selected grid from start point is used as the base, then the copied note phrase will be pasted. 
To change note length with Game Time Window
If you touch and select Tick that you want to add, Tick will be added to all notes of the note bar. SYNTHESIZER
To move synthesizer panel
Synthesizer panel can be moved after you touch and move the knob and slider on top of the panel.
To change tracks
If you touch track name and release, track will be changed to the next one.The order are 1→2→3→4→1→…
To change voice
After voice name is touched, the voice window will be showed.After you select voice and touch “OK”, the voice that is used on the track will be changed, and the voice data can be edited too.
To move knob
If you touch while move the knob, it can turn around.According to the center of knob, the direction will be pointed to the opposite side of the touched point.
To move slider
The sliders move when their knobs is touched and moved up down.
To change the switch
Touch switch to change On/Off.
To change target
You can change the target by touching the parts.
To play the voice
Touch keyboard to play.If you release, the voice will stop.
To move pitch wheel
The sound pitch can be changed if you touch and move up down the pitch wheel.If you release, it will back to normal.
To move keyboard
While you hold the Keyboard Shift Switch, moved the keyboard up and down to do it.
SONG WINDOW
It shows while song is loading.
To select song
Touch the song name and it will be selected.To move song area
Song area will be moved after song name is touched and moved up and down.To delete song
After touch “DELETE”, the Erase Check Window will be shown to ask the selected song will be erased or not.To copy song
Touch “COPY”, and the selected song will be copied and moved to the Song Copy Window.To rename song title
After you touch “RENAME”, the song name that you selected can be changed.To load song
After you touch “OK”, the selected song will be loaded.Before loading, if the song that you are edited is not saved, the Check before Loading Window will be showed.
To close window
Touch cancel button to do that.ERASE CHECK WINDOW
It shows before a song is deleted.
To erase song
If you touch “YES”, the selected song will be erased, and the Erase Check Window will be closed.To back to the previous
The Erase Check Window will be closed after you touch “NO”,SONG COPY WINDOW
It will be showed when the song is copied.
To select song
If you touch the song name, that song will be selected.To drag song name on the song area
If you drag the song name up and down, the selected song name will be moved vertically on the song area.To copy song
If you touch “OK”, selected song will be overwrited to the song that you want to and Song Copy Window will be closed at the end.To back to the previous
If you touch “CANCEL”, Song Copy Window will be closed.CHECK BEFORE LOADING WINDOW
It shows when you load new song without saving previous one that is being edited.
To load new song after save the previous one
If you touch “YES”, the song that is edited will be saved and then the new one will be loaded. This window will be closed after it is finish.To load new song after editing previous one without saving it
If you touch “NO”, the song that is edited won`t be saved and then new one wil be loaded. This window will be closed after it is finish.WINDOW FOR SAVE SONG AS
After you touch “SAVE AS”, the song that you edit will be saved to another place.
To select song
If you touch the song name, that song will be selected.To drag song name on the song area
If you drag the song name up and down, the selected song name will be moved vertically on the song area.To save song
After you touch “OK”, the song that you edit will be saved and rewrited to the selected song. This window will be closed after it is finish.To go back
Touch “CANCEL” and the window will be closed.VOICE WINDOW
It is used when you select voices that are used in track, create and change voices.
To select voice
After you touch voice name that is showed, that song will be selected.To drag voice name in the voice area
If you touch voice name and move up down, you can drag it vertically inside the voice area.To copy voice
If you touch “COPY”, Voice Copy Window will be showed.To rename voice name
If you touch “RENAME”, the selected voice name will be changed.To decide voice
After you touch “OK”, the voice that is selected will be decided and the window will be closed in the end.To go back
The window will be closed after you touch “CANCEL”.VOICE COPY WINDOW
It shows when you copy voices.
To select voice
The voice will be selected after you touch the voice name.To drag voice name in the voice area
If you touch voice name and move up down, you can drag it vertically inside the voice area .To copy voice
After you touch “OK”, the voice will be overwrited to the selected one and the window will be closed.To go back
The window will be closed after you touch “CANCEL”.BPM WINDOW
It shows when you want to create and change BPM Change.
To move knob
It you touch while move the knob, it will be rotated.It is based on the center of the knob. The position that you move goes oppositely with the direction of the knob rotation.
40～400
To decide BPM
After you touch “OK”, the Knob number will be selected as BPM, and the window will be closed afterward.To close the window
Touch “CANCEL” to close it.GAME TIME WINDOW
It shows when you touch “GATETIME”.
To move knob
It you touch while move the knob, it will be rotated.It is based on the center of the knob. The position that you move goes oppositely with the direction of the knob rotation.
-480～+480
To decide BPM
If you touch “OK”, the Tick that you want to add is selected, and the window will be closed at the end.To close the window
The window will be closed after you touch “CANCEL”.
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