Operation Manual

Drum Set

The rhythm section of the VEGA 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 VEGA 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

If you wish to play a Drum Set on your keyboard, press F9 EDIT DRUM on the main page of the display and then enable F10 Manual. Otherwise you

may press F10 DRUM MIXER, again on the main page of the display, and then select F10 DRUMSET and enable the function pressing F10 MANUAL.

Note: If a style is being played while in Manual Drum mode, the Drum tracks will remain active, however, you will not be able to change the chord

(or play the full arranger) until you deactivate function F10 (since the other components of the arranger will be muted). To change the Drum

Set, simply press the function button relevant to the Drum Set and use the PAGE +/- buttons or the first six VOICE buttons to go to the next

pages. 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 VEGA 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 VEGA, 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,

although you have deactivated them: this behaviour is a result of the groove processing and is not a defect of the VEGA.

To access the Drum Mixer pages from the main display page press the F10 DRUM MIXER button and scroll the next pages with the PAGE +/-

buttons. Otherwise you may use F9 EDIT DRUM, select F9 EDIT and then F9 DRUM MIXER.

The percussion sounds are grouped as follows:

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 DRUM SET calls the page to select the Drum Sets.

On the second page you can access the Arabic percussion families as follow:

F1 Tabla

F2 Reck

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Drum Set