User Manual
Table Of Contents
- USING THE UNIT SAFELY
- IMPORTANT NOTES
- Contents
- Overview
- Setup
- Performance
- Drum Kit
- Instrument
- Mixer
- Effects
- Tempo
- Song Player
- Pattern Sequencer
- Settings
- Backing Up the Settings
- Data saved in USB flash drive
- Backing Up All Data to a USB Flash Drive (SAVE)
- Loading Backup Data from a USB Flash Drive (LOAD)
- Importing Kit Data from TD-20/TD-20X Backup Data (IMPORT)
- Deleting Backup Data from a USB Flash Drive (DELETE)
- Backing Up a Drum Kit to a USB Flash Drive (KITSAVE)
- Loading Kit Data from a USB Flash Drive (KITLOAD)
- Checking the State of a USB Flash Drive (INFO)
- Formatting a USB Flash Drive (FORMAT)
- Overall Settings for the TD-30 (SETUP)
- Output Assignments (OUTPUT)
- Assigning a Function to a Footswitch or Pad (CONTROL)
- Other Settings (OPTION)
- Restoring the Factory Settings (F RESET)
- Playing a Kit from the USB Flash Drive Without Loading It (Kit Selection) (KIT SEL)
- Digital Audio Level (GAIN)
- Auto Off Function (AUTOOFF)
- Viewing the Remaining Memory and the Program Version (INFO)
- Trigger Settings
- Backing Up the Settings
- Expansion
- Appendices
AppendicesExpansionSettingsPerformanceSetupOverview
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Overview of the TD-30
How the Sound Generator is Organized
Broadly speaking, the TD-30 consists of a controller section, sound generator section, and sequencer section.
TD-30
Perform
(Trigger signals)
Sequencer section
Patterns
Sound
generator
section
Playback
TRIGGER INPUT jacks
Controller section
(Pads and pedals)
Record
Controller section
The pads and pedals on which you perform are called controllers.
When a pad is struck it outputs a “trigger signal.”
That signal is input to a TRIGGER INPUT jack on the rear panel of the TD-30, and is received by the sound generator section.
Sound generator section
This section produces the sound.
It receives trigger signals from the controllers, the onboard sequencer or an external MIDI device, and plays the instruments
accordingly.
Sequencer section
This section can record what you play on the TD-30, and then be used to play that performance back. It can transmit MIDI
messages from the MIDI OUT or USB Computer port connectors to control an external MIDI device.