User Manual

KONG DRUM DESIGNER
(RECORD+REASON)
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Checking the sounds in a Kit Patch
There are three ways you can listen to the sounds in a patch without using the main sequencer:
D By clicking the Pad buttons on the front panel.
! Note that the vertical click position on the pad determines the Velocity value. If you click towards the bottom of
a pad, the velocity is low and at the top of each pad the velocity value is high.
This will give you a vary good idea about the dynamics behavior of each drum sound. This also allows you to record
in the main sequencer using the full dynamic range of each drum sound, even without a connected MIDI key-
board/control surface.
D By playing the keys C1 to D#2 or C3 to B6 on your MIDI keyboard or on the On-screen Piano Keyboard.
In the C1-D#2 range, each MIDI note will trig one pad each, from Pad 1 to Pad 16. In the C3-B6 MIDI note range
each pad can be triggered from three adjacent keys on your MIDI keyboard. C3-D3 trigs Pad 1, D#3-F3 trigs Pad
2 and so on. The C3-B6 note range is perfect if you want to play fast passages by triggering the same pad from
several keys on your MIDI keyboard.
Creating a new Kit Patch
To create a patch of your own (or modify an existing patch), you use the following basic steps:
1. Click on the pad for the drum sound you want to load or replace.
A blue frame surrounds the selected pad.
Velocity = 127
Velocity = 4
C1
Pad 4 Pad 2 Pad 9 Pad 11 Pad 7
Pad 1 Pad 3 Pad 5 Pad 6 Pad 8 Pad 10 Pad 12
C2
Pad 16 Pad 14
Pad 13 Pad 15
C3
Pad 2 Pad 1 Pad 3 Pad 4 Pad 3
Pad 1 Pad 1 Pad 2 Pad 2 Pad 3 Pad 4 Pad 4
C4
Pad 6 Pad 5 Pad 7 Pad 8 Pad 7
Pad 5 Pad 5 Pad 6 Pad 6 Pad 7 Pad 8 Pad 8
C5
Pad 10 Pad 9 Pad 11 Pad 12 Pad 11
Pad 9 Pad 9 Pad 10 Pad 10 Pad 11 Pad 12 Pad 12
C6
Pad 14 Pad 13 Pad 15 Pad 16 Pad 15
Pad 13 Pad 13 Pad 14 Pad 14 Pad 15 Pad 16 Pad 16