BEATGRID
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A groovebox for the Ulanzi TC002, played with a Bluetooth gamepad: 8 drum tracks plus bass, chords and lead, song chains, 6 drum kits and live pads - every sound made by the clock's own synthesizer.
- Topic
- Gaming
- Includes
- Script
Runs on
- Does not run on 32×8 (TC001 & DIY) Made for 52×16 (TC002). Needs a Bluetooth gamepad and the built-in synthesizer.
- Runs on 52×16 (TC002) Gamepad: turn Bluetooth on and pair one under System → Gamepad on your AWTRIX.
- Does not run on 32×8 with AWTRIX 3 (TC001 & DIY) Made for AWTRIX NG.
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Script description
Make beats on your clock. BEATGRID turns the Ulanzi TC002 into a groovebox: a drum machine with a bass, chords and a lead on top, played with a Bluetooth gamepad. Every sound is made live by the clock's own synthesizer - no samples, nothing to upload. Start it and a 16-bar showcase song is ready to play.
What's inside
- 8 drum tracks: kick, snare, clap, closed and open hat, two toms and a percussion sound, shown all at once with the playhead running across.
- Bass, chords and lead on a piano roll. Pick a key and a scale and every note fits; change them and the whole song follows, live.
- 6 drum kits - ANALOG, PUNCH, TRAP, LOFI, CHIP and HARD - and every track can take its sound from any kit. 5 sounds per synth track, from acid bass to pads, keys and plucks.
- Expression: accents, ghost notes and rolls on the drums; long notes, accents, slides and chords with the seventh on the synths. The open hat is cut by the closed hat, as it should be.
- 8 patterns chained into a song of up to 16 bars. Jump through the song while it plays.
- Tight timing: tempo, swing and every note are sample-accurate, and every change lands exactly on the next bar line.
- Per track: sound, tune or octave, decay, tone, level and echo; mute and solo.
- Live pads that light up with the beat, with recording onto the grid, a metronome and erase.
- 13 drum styles to start from: house, techno, boom bap, trap, drum & bass, breaks, dembow, disco, electro, rock, funk, lo-fi and chiptune. Tap tempo, 8 scales, 12 keys.
What you need
- An Ulanzi TC002 with an AWTRIX NG firmware that includes the synthesizer. When installing, the web UI tells you if your clock is missing it ("needs synthesized sound").
- A Bluetooth gamepad, paired under System → Gamepad.
How to play
BEATGRID does not run in the app rotation. To start it, hold the middle button on the clock for a second, choose Scripts, then BEATGRID. Hold the middle button again to leave; your patterns, song and sounds are kept.
START plays and stops, SELECT moves through the pages, L2 / R2 change the pattern (in a song: jump back and forth through its bars). Changes are heard from the next bar on.
| Page | What you do there |
|---|---|
| STEPS | D-pad moves, A sets a step (hold A to paint), X velocity, Y roll, B listen, L1 / R1 mute / solo |
| SYNTH | the piano roll for BASS, CHORDS or LEAD (L1 / R1): A sets or removes a note, hold A with left / right to make it longer or shorter and up / down to move it, X accent, Y slide or seventh, B listen |
| PADS | A B X Y L1 R1 L2 R2 play the eight drums; D-pad up records, hold down to erase |
| SOUND | six sliders for the track you worked on last: left / right choose, up / down change, L1 / R1 switch track, Y reset |
| SETUP | pattern, tempo (A taps it), swing, key, scale, kit, styles, song chain, copy / paste / clear, volume, echo, metronome, and the demo song |
The three buttons on the clock work too: the middle one plays and stops, left and right change the pattern.
Settings
Everything is set inside BEATGRID on its SETUP page; there is nothing to set in the web UI. SETUP → DEMO brings the showcase song back at any time.
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