User Guide

Beact provides you creative ways to make music and visuals interactively.
You could combine keyboard-pressing with mouse-operation randomly to make it happen.

Basic Usage

Keyboard:

• [space]: play/pause the sequencer.
• [a-z]: each keystroke triggers an audio sample with an animation popping out window screen.
• [1-8]: each keystroke contains a sequencer preset.
• [up/down]: speed up/slow down the seqencer.
• [right/left]: switch to next/previous audio sample set.
• [shift + right/left]: switch to next/previous animation set.

Sequencer:

• Each row contains an audio sample with its matching animation.
• Click on blocks to form up unique sequence.
• Samples and animations are triggered as the sequencer plays through clicked block.
• When the sequencer reaches the end, it loops from start again and again.

Buttons:

play/pause button: play/pause the sequencer.

clear button: clean up the sequencer.

shuffle button: randomly generate a sequencer pattern.

menu button: open sidebar.

Advanced Usage:

Pattern:

play pattern

1. make up a sequence.
2. enter a name for the sequence. ex. chorus, bridge, pattern6...
   
3. save the pattern.
   
4. click the items on list to play your saved sequence.
   

update pattern

1. click the item you wish to update.
2. modify the sequence.
3. enter its new name. (optional, leave input field empty to remain the old name)
4. update the pattern.
   

exit pattern mode

1. clean up and pause the sequencer.