OWNER´S MANUAL version 1.
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Page 3 Table Of Contents 1. Introduction........................................................................... 5 Welcome! .................................................................................................................. 5 About this manual and about the ddrum4 system ..................................................... 5 The pads .................................................................................................................... 5 Expand your sound library ...........
Page 4 Shift functions......................................................................................................... 23 Important stuff ........................................................................................................ 23 Shift-Sound .............................................................................................................................. 24 Shift-Size .......................................................................................................
Introduction Page 5 1. Introduction Welcome! We would first like to congratulate you on your purchase of the ddrum4. The ddrum4 is a new type of electronic drum system with several innovative features. About this manual Please read it. It contains a lot of useful information. The first section contains the necessary information for connecting your system parts. The reference section contains information regarding all the functions of the ddrum4.
Overview Page 6 2. Overview Front panel Out A2 Out B3 Out B4 Out B5 Out B6 Midi Out Midi In Kick Snare Toms Percussion INPUT SENS INPUT SENS INPUT SENS INPUT SENS PALETTE PALETTE PALETTE 5 5 4 4 SNARE 3 2 1 KICK 4 3 2 2 1 5 4 3 3 PALETTE 5 2 1 RIM HIGH 1 MID LOW PERC CYMBAL 1 CYMBAL 2 HI HAT The front panel is divided in two sections. To the left side you see the channel slots with the CHANNEL buttons, the PALETTE select buttons and the INPUT SENSITIVITY knobs.
Overview Page 7 System SYSTEM Master level Sound MIDI BUTTON OPT NOTE P NOTE # OUT B OUT A DYN THRES TRIG INPUT DUMP ASSORTED EFFECT HI HAT CYMBAL PERCUSSION TOM RIM SNARE KICK SOUND SOUND EXIT VARIATION SIZE PITCH DECAY MEM. LEFT LISTEN LEVEL A MARK LEVEL B DELETE SHIFT KIT STORE To the right you have the edit section with the EDIT buttons, the ROTARY dial, the SYSTEM INDICATOR bar, the DISPLAY and the MASTER LEVEL control. The SYSTEM BAR will show activity when you are playing.
Rear panel Page 8 Rear panel The rear panel contains the INPUT and OUTPUT jacks, the MIDI connectors and the POWER switch. The outputs are configured according to this illustration. 10 9 8 OUT 7 6 Trigger inputs IN 5 4 3 2 1 Out B6 Out B5 Out B4 Out B3 Out A2 Out A1 Phones The ten TRIGGER inputs for the pads or external triggers correspond to each sound channel. They are identical in function except for the following: inputs 1, 2, 8 and 9 are pressure sensitive.
Connections Page 9 3. Connections 1. Make all the connections before turning on the ddrum4. Start with the main volume at 0. 2. Connect the pads to the ddrum4 according to the illustration below. Kick Out A2 Snare Out B3 Rim Out B4 Tom-high Tom-mid Tom-low Out B5 Out B6 Midi In Perc Cymbal Cymbal Hi hat Midi Out Kick Snare Toms Percussion INPUT SENS INPUT SENS INPUT SENS INPUT SENS 3. Connect the main outputs, marked A1 and A2 on the ddrum4 rear panel, to a suitable sound system.
Selecting trigger input type Page 10 Selecting the trigger input type 1. Press the light up. SYSTEM button once, to the left of the SYSTEM INDICATOR bar. The first segment will System SYSTEM Sound DUMP ASSORTED EFFECT HI HAT CYMBAL PERCUSSION TOM RIM SNARE KICK MIDI BUTTON OPT NOTE P NOTE # OUT B OUT A DYN THRES TRIG INPUT (If not, press the SYSTEM button repeatedly until the TRIG INPUT LED lights up or hold the SHIFT button while pressing SYSTEM to scroll downwards). 2.
Adjusting the input sensitivity Page 11 Adjusting the input sensitivity 1. Choose the TRIG INPUT option from the SYSTEM menu by pressing the SYSTEM button until the TRIG INPUT indicator lights up in the INDICATOR bar and select the channel you want to adjust. Hit the pad (not the channel button) and look at the TRIGGER LED, located above (the selected) channel button. It will dim briefly when the channel receives a trigger. In this System mode, the SYSTEM INDICATOR bar will indicate the trigger level.
Setting the threshold Page 12 Setting the trigger threshold This feature becomes helpful if you find that, e.g. one of your tom pads triggers the other toms as well or that the kick triggers the snare. You then need to adjust the trigger threshold. 1. Press SYSTEM twice or repeatedly to select the THRES indicator on the SYSTEM INDICATOR bar. System SYSTEM Sound DUMP ASSORTED EFFECT HI HAT CYMBAL PERCUSSION TOM RIM SNARE KICK MIDI BUTTON OPT NOTE P NOTE # OUT B OUT A DYN THRES TRIG INPUT 2.
Select kits and sounds Page 13 4. Selecting kits & sounds Palette mode When you turn on the ddrum4, it will set itself to the Palette mode, indicated by PAL in the display. Each one of the four main instrument groups, kick, snare, toms and percussion has a PALETTE button with which you can quickly choose one of five sound setups. You can program your own selection of sounds in the Palette. See the reference section, from page 19 and onwards, for more details regarding programming.
How to store your edits Page 14 How to store your edits As previously mentioned, all editing that you do, while the ddrum4 is in the Palette mode is automatically stored. In the Kit mode however, ddrum4 needs to be told when to store any edits. You can only store edits in the first 26 kits, the P. kits. When you have edited anything in a kit, a dot appears after the kit number, e.g. P. 17. This is to alert you about an edit that has not been stored.
Good drum sounds Page 15 5. Good drum sounds About your sound system The ddrum4 is an electronic drum kit and is totally dependent on a good sound system. Since all of the ddrum4’s sounds have been recorded in the best studios, you will obtain the best results using a good quality amplification. The sounds coming from your ddrum4 will only sound as good as the sound system you are playing them through.
Reference: System Page 16 6. Reference System functions System SYSTEM MIDI BUTTON OPT NOTE P NOTE # OUT B OUT A DYN THRES TRIG INPUT Sound DUMP ASSORTED EFFECT HI HAT CYMBAL PERCUSSION TOM RIM SNARE KICK These functions are active for editing when the SYSTEM LED is lit. 1. Select a system function by pressing the SYSTEM button repeatedly, until the desired function is shown in the SYSTEM INDICATOR bar. Press the SHIFT button together with the SYSTEM button to scroll backwards. 2.
Reference: System Page 17 ddrum trigger microphone. If you get multiple triggers, try to raise the threshold on the ddrum4 channel or select Ac2. A c2 This one is slightly less trigger sensitive than Ac1. Try this one if you are triggering ddrum4 with a ddrum trigger microphone mounted on acoustic toms or kick drums. A c 3 This is the least trigger sensitive selection. It is designed for triggering ddrum4 with long, sustained acoustic drum sounds.
Reference: System Page 18 Out A System SYSTEM MIDI BUTTON OPT NOTE P NOTE # OUT B OUT A DYN THRES TRIG INPUT Sound DUMP ASSORTED EFFECT HI HAT CYMBAL PERCUSSION TOM RIM SNARE KICK This is where you position a channel in the stereo image at the outputs A1 and A2, like a panpot on a mixer. You can pan each channel individually. The stereo image stretches from 1.00 (full left) via 1.50 (center) to 2.00 (full right). There are 25 steps to either side of the center position.
Reference: System Page 19 Note P System SYSTEM MIDI BUTTON OPT NOTE P NOTE # OUT B OUT A DYN THRES TRIG INPUT Sound DUMP ASSORTED EFFECT HI HAT CYMBAL PERCUSSION TOM RIM SNARE KICK This sets the channel to a ”note position” mode. The sounds that are triggered utilizing the position feature will transmit the note number chosen with the Note # function at its center position.
Page 20 MIDI Reference: System System SYSTEM MIDI BUTTON OPT NOTE P NOTE # OUT B OUT A DYN THRES TRIG INPUT Sound DUMP ASSORTED EFFECT HI HAT CYMBAL PERCUSSION TOM RIM SNARE KICK The MIDI function has several modes. You cycle through these modes by pressing the SYSTEM button repeatedly. C. 1-16 This selects the MIDI channel that the ddrum4 is using. The selected channel will be used for transmitting and receiving MIDI data. P.
Reference: Sound functions Page 21 Sound functions SOUND VARIATION PITCH DECAY LEVEL A LEVEL B The sound functions select how the different sounds, that are assigned to the channels in the ddrum4, behave when triggered and how they sound. One particular sound can be used in several Kits and in the Palette. The sounds can also have different sets of sound parameters in each and everyone of those kits. 1. Select the channel that you wish to edit by pressing one of the CHANNEL buttons. 2.
Reference: Sound functions Page 22 Variation VARIATION SIZE Usually there are several variations to each and everyone of the ddrum4 sounds. A variation uses the same sound sample or multi sample, but with some additional programming or tweaking. This could be different equalization, different velocity selections etc. Try them. Values: 1 ~ 10, may differ from sound to sound. Pitch PITCH MEM. LEFT The sounds can be tuned with this function. The range is between +12.0 and -48.0 semitones.
Reference: Shift functions Page 23 Shift functions SOUND SIZE EXIT MEM. LEFT LISTEN MARK DELETE SHIFT KIT STORE In order to access the shift functions you are required to press and hold the SHIFT button immediately before selecting one of the functions that are labeled on the panel below the function buttons. The SHIFT button latches. To leave the shift functions, press EXIT. The ddrum4 has a huge sound memory where all the sounds reside.
Reference: Shift functions Page 24 Shift-Sound SOUND SOUND This selects a single sound for removal from the sound memory. It defaults to the very last sound that you have triggered with a channel button. Select a sound with the ROTARY dial. To quickly jump between sound groups, press and hold the SOUND button while turning the ROTARY dial. A dot in the right corner of the display indicates that the sound is used in the Palette or in one or more of the Kits.
Reference: Shift functions Shift-Mark Page 25 LEVEL A MARK Pressing SHIFT-MARK will mark the sound that you have selected for removal. A dot in the right corner of the display warns you if the sound that you have marked for removal is being used in at least one of the Kits or in the Palette. The dot is just a warning however, you can still remove the sound, leaving the Kit or the Palette that used the sound incomplete. When a sound is marked for removal, the DISPLAY will flash.
Page 26 Reference: Sound formats Sounds, sound formats The sounds in the ddrum4 reside in a memory that is technically called a flash-ROM. This means that besides storing sounds, you can delete sounds that you do not want and replace them with new ones. The flash-ROM also retains its content when the power is switched off. You can load sounds into the ddrum4, loading them via MIDI in two different formats, the ddrum4 format and the MIDI Sample Dump format.
Reference: Load new sounds Page 27 point is correct (no air before the actual sound) etc. Please note that the ddrum4 playback sample rate is 44.1 kHz. If you load a MIDI sample from a source that is sampled with a lower sample rate, the ddrum 4 will automatically adjust them. Sounds with a higher sample rate, will be played back with a lower pitch. Adjust this with the Pitch function, see page 20 for details.
Page 28 Appendix 7. Appendix MIDI Program Change messages The ddrum4 has a special way of interpreting MIDI Program Change (MPC) messages. The kits, P. 1 ~ 26 are selected by sending MPC 0 to 25 to the ddrum4. The factory kits, F.27 ~ 99 use MPC 26 to 98. MPC 99 is used to turn the ddrum4 to the default Palette mode, the same as appears after you turn the ddrum4 on.
Appendix Page 29 Output assignment This figure shows the path that the sound from each channel follows to the outputs. Outputs Sound Master level Level A Out A A1 Headphones Level B A2 B3 B4 B5 B6 Out B Dynamic curves This figure shows the relationship between the striking force and the trigger level, with three different dynamic curves. trigger level max pos. dyn curve (+15) linear dyn curve (preset) neg.
Page 30 8. Index A N After Touch 20 Note # 18 Note P 19 B Button 19 C Channel button 10, 19 Connections 9 Control Change messages 20 D ddrum4 sounds 26 Decay 22 Delete 25 DuP 27 Dyn 17 E Err 27 Error codes 27 Exit 16 F FuL 27 H Headphones 15 I Important stuff 13, 23 Input jacks 8 K Kit mode 13 Kit store 14 L Level A 22 Level B 22 Listen 24 M Mac-OS 27 Main outputs 22 Mark 25 Mem.
Page 31 MIDI IMPLEMENTATION CHART Model: Clavia ddrum4 FUNCTION TRANSMITTED RECOGNIZED Basic Channel Default Changed 1 1-16 1 1-16 Mode Default Messages Mode 3 X Mode 3 X 0-127 0-127 Note Number Velocity Note ON Note OFF O v=0-127 X O v=1-127 X After Touch Key’s Ch’s O 0-127 X O 0-127 X X X X X O X X X X X X X X X X X O X X X X X O X X X X X X X X X X X O X X X O 0-127 O 0-127 O 1 O 1, 2 Common : Song Pos : Song Sel : Tune X X X X X X System Real Time : Clock : Commands
