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Drum Set
The rhythm section of the SD5 uses both the regular Drum Sets and the Live sampled drum loops. The regular Drums are assigned to the Drum
1 track (MIDI channel 10), whereas the Live Drums are assigned to the Drum 2 track (MIDI channel 9) within a style.
The SD5 is equipped with 24 preset Drum Sets and 24 additional User Drum Sets that can be freely programmed by the user. Live Drums can be
programmed and modified only within a Style, from the Arrange View menu.
PLAYING A DRUM SET
To play a Drum Set on the keyboard, you need to activate the
MMaannuuaall DDrruummss
function using the relative button of the panel. If a style is being
played, the Drum track still remains active but it is impossible to change the chord until the
MMaannuuaall DDrruummss
function is disabled.
To change the Drum Set, simply go to
EEddiitt DDrruumm SSeett
and select the set required using function keys F1.. F7. or move onto the next pages using
the
PPAAGGEE ++//--
buttons or the first six
VVOOIICCEESS
buttons
The Drum Sets written with lower case letters are editable locations and available for new User Drum Sets to be stored in.
LIVE DRUM SETS
The SD5 features an innovation of the electronic keyboard technology, allowing you to achieve fluidity and musicality of rhythms that so far,
have been simply inconceivable. All this is the result of extensive musical research and complex processing of sampled drum loops (grooves).
With the SD5, in fact, the groove is not a simple audio file combined within the rhythm, but an actual Live Drum Set where the single instru-
ments have been separated for each single key of the keyboard. This particular feature on the one hand allows you to use the grooves at dif-
ferent speeds without changes to the intonation, and on the other hand it enables you to arrange the rhythm according to your own taste. Using
the Live Drum Sets on a separate track makes it possible to complete the rhythm section with the usual Drum Sets and to combine groups of
similar instruments in Arrange View. It is not possible to play Live Drum Set directly on the keyboard. The only moment in which you can listen
to it and especially play it is while editing the Style. The instrument's disposition in a Live Drum Set is substantially different from the one in a
usual MIDI Drum Set, so some time might be needed to become familiar with the way these drum parts are laid out on the keyboard.
DRUM MIXER
The four Drum Mixer pages allow you to turn on/off, control the Volume, Reverb, Pan and parameters for ten categories of percussion instru-
ments within a drum set. This makes it possible to personalise the Drum Sets and the Live Drum Sets in a few instances, simply by activating or
deactivating a group of instruments. With regard to the Live Drum Sets, you may perceive a number of instruments at a very low volume, althou-
gh you have deactivated them: this behaviour is a result of the groove processing and is not a defect of the SD5.
To access the Drum Mixer pages from the main display page press the
FF1100 DDRRUUMM MMIIXXEERR
button and scroll the next pages with the
PPAAGGEE ++//--
but-
tons. Otherwise you may use
FF99 EEDDIITT DDRRUUMM
, select
FF99 EEDDIITT
and then
FF99 DDRRUUMM MMIIXXEERR
.
F1 Kick
F2 Snare ( Snare, Rim Shot )
F3 Hi Hat
F4 Cymbals ( Crash, Ride, Cup )
F5 Toms/FX
F6 Rimshot
F7 Latin 1 ( Congas , Bongos, Tambora )
F8 Latin 2 ( Cowbell, Guiro, Claves, )
F9 Latin3/Tamb ( Maracas, Cabaza, Shaker, Guira, Whistle )
F10 CLAP/FX
The first page allows you to activate or deactivate the instruments of a percussion
group, by pressing the function buttons corresponding to the specific group.
To disable all the drums sets in one go, simply press the
DDAATTAA CCUURRSSOORR ((LLeefftt aanndd
RRiigghhtt))
keys together at the same time, which correspond to the
VVAALLUUEE ++//--
func-
tion; when you press one of the two buttons, all the sets are re-activated.
The second page is used to control the volume of the single groups to be selected
with the relevant function keys. The volume of the selected group can be modified
from value 1 to 15 using the
DDAATTAA CCUURRSSOORR
buttons.
The third page is used to control the reverb quantity of the single groups to be
selected with the relevant function keys. The reverb quantity of the selected group
Drum Set
