Owner`s manual

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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.

SNARE RIM HIGH MID LOWKICK

PALETTE

• Press the PALETTE buttons repeatedly to scroll through the five selections that are available for

the different instrument groups.

Important stuff!

All editing is automatically stored in the Palette. Please be careful when you start to explore

the different possibilities and parameters in ddrum4. If you do this while being in Palette

mode, ddrum4 will store each and every one of your edit procedures. Until you are familiar

with the ddrum4 parameters, do your exploring in one of the kits instead. The kits, will not

retain any edits unless you store them with a special procedure. See below.

Kit mode

If you turn the ROTARY dial clockwise from the Palette mode, the DISPLAY will change from PAL

to a P. or an F. followed by a number. This is the Kit mode. The number identifies the 99

different drum kits that are available as an addition to the Palette, in the ddrum4. Keep turning

the

ROTARY dial to scroll through the kits. You can program your own selection of sounds in the

P. kits, numbered from 1 to 26. The kits that are in the positions from 27 to 99 are the factory

kits, indicated with an F. and a number in the display. The factory kits can be edited but you

can only store any edits or sound selections in the P. kits.

A quick way to select sounds in the different instrument groups is to use the Palette buttons.

Any such change will be regarded as an edit and must be stored in a P. kit if you like to keep

that particular selection.

Select kits and sounds