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1. 5 Screen Tour Default DEFAULT Screens Enter the PRE EDIT Screens by pressing down on Footswitch1 and releasing Then hit PAD4 to see screen 4 DEFAULT EDIT to confirm type hit pad 4 again FOOTSW1 TO EXIT PRE EDIT SCREEN 4 The DEFAULT Screens are the Screens that allow you to define your own defaults for most of your settings A default is a value which is entered for a particular setting when you hit the DEFAULT PAD PAD8 in EDIT Mode You define these defaults to be the values you typically use for each setting For example If you like 08 127 as your Velocity Range and use Velocity Curve 01 a lot make sure you make the default Minimum Velocity 08 the default Maximum Velocity 127 and default Velocity Curve 01 From then on you can enter these values for Velocity Settings 3rd row of PAD EDIT Screen at KIT EDIT SHORTCUT instantly when you are creating a new Kit If you use Channel 10 for your sound source make the default Channel 10 Then 1 hit of DEFAULT PAD and Channel 10 is in You will find that the small amount of time it takes for you to adjust the default settings to your personal taste will be very worthwhile Using defaults to change settings will save time and get you playing again sooner So on these Screens you can change what specific value is put in for a setting when you hit the DEFAULT PAD Hit PAD4 a second time to verify that you want to look at the DEFAULT Screens kit def
2. 2 m7 DoSo D052 8 Advanced Kits Melodic Modes MEANING Major scale Aeolian Major scale in 3rds chordal fashion Dorian scale minor with major 6th amp flatted 7th Dorian scale in 3rds chordal fashion Major 7th chord Minor 7th chord Mixolydian scale Mixolydian scale in 3rds chordal fashion Diminished scale Diminished chord Diminished chord with flatted 7th Augmented scale Augmented scale in 3rds chordal fashion Augmented chord with added flatted 7th Scale in 4ths Scale in 4ths with a flatted 7th Blues scale flatted 5th perfect 5th Variation of blues scale minor 3rd major3rd Variation of blues scale minor 3rd with flatted 5th Scale with perfect 4ths Scale with 4ths over 2 octaves First inversion major chord 2nd inversion major chord 1st inversion minor chord 2nd inversion minor chord 1st inversion major 7th chord 2nd inversion major 7th chord 1st inversion minor 7th chord 2nd inversion minor 7th chord Notes alternate between root and 5th Variation of notes alternate between root and 5th NOTE The above list contains both chords and scales Chords will sound pleasing when used with melMUL and melALT pads Scales will sound pleasing with melALT but possibly not sound pleasing with melMUL pads This is because a melMUL picks the first 4 notes of the scale which may sound nice as a scale but not as a chord As usual feel free to experiment 67 8 Advanced Kits Control Modes
3. 2 Connections CLICK OUT The drumKAT 3 5 also has a line level click output to provide tempo information when sequencing This click out as well as the internal beeper on the drumKAT 3 5 can be selectively enabled or disabled Click information is also available as a programmable MIDI Note TRIGGER INPUTS The drumKAT 3 5 has nine Trigger Inputs Each one of the nine Trigger Inputs are totally independent On the drumKAT 3 5 you TRAIN each of the Trigger Inputs for the type of trigger you have plugged into each Trigger Input To TRAIN the triggers the drumKAT 3 5 will ask you for a soft and a hard hit to define your playing dynamic range This allows the drumKAT 3 5 to memorize the decay envelope of your trigger for optimum trigger response The Trigger Inputs each have independent Gains dynamic range settings Mask Time Scan Time Head Room and Threshold settings to allow you to connect a variety of triggering sources including foot triggers fatKAT or kicKAT trigger pads like the flatKAT Pads poleKATs or rimKATs or acoustic drum triggers such as the KAT KDT 1 KST 1 KDT 200 KDT 250BD Each of the Trigger Inputs can perform the same powerful software control as the playing Pads on the top surface of the drumKAT 3 5 except for Pressure Control When using the triggers all of the playing Pads on the drumKAT 3 5 remain active A Trigger Interaction Matrix allows you to suppress the physical interaction between neig
4. 8 Advanced Kits Control Modes EXTERNAL MIDI CLOCK CNTRL Mode Value advance the Motif setting to EXT MIDI CLOCK This Screen allows you to control the sending of an external MIDI Clock The screen will look like this k01 30 PAD1 TRIG 9 k01 PADSHE EXT MIDI CLOCK START STOP Various Choices Various Choices START STOP CONT STOP A SLICE KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 Detailed explanations of this screen are found in Chapter 12 MOTIFS CLICKS amp CLOCKS PRESSURE CNTRL Mode Value advance the EXT MIDI CLOCK setting to PRESSURE This Screen allows you to control Continuous Controller type information like Pitch Bend The screen will look like this k01 30 PAD1 TRIG Various Choices k01 PAD5H Various Choices 01 16 B N R L Various Choices 01 16 p 70 KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 When you select PRESSURE the Pads are scanned differently It is not impact from hitting the Pads but from continuous pressure As you press on the Pad a continuous flow of information comes out of the drumKAT to your sound source This results in smooth continuous effects like PITCH BEND MODULATION EXPRESSION etc 16 of the most typically used specific PRESSURE control messages are spelled out by name Also you can select all 128 General Purpose Control Numbers After selecting pressure type you select which Channel and Sides to
5. CONTROL MODES In this Session you will learn how to use the Control Modes on your Pads and Triggers These Control Modes are TAP TEMPO MOTIF playback External MIDI CLOCK control PRESSURE ReadyRecord HOME BASE KitAdv KitRev and Note FREEZE Alt Reset Motif Resync GroupStepTrans GroupStepTransR AutoPadTRANS AUTOPadTRANS amp Home TAP TEMPO CNTRL Mode While holding Footswitchl1 down hit Pad 1 to see it s settings Change Pad 1 s Mode from SIMPL through all the COMPLEX Modes to the CNTRL Mode or use REVERSE then VALUE ADVance The screen will now say k01 30 PAD1 TRIG9 1 8 Various Choices Various Choices OFF or 00 127 1 16 00 127 vel 08 127 crv0l gate time 0 050s ere NO OFFs or 0 005 6 300 KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 TAP TEMPO Mode allows you to control your clock tempo by the timing you play on any Pad defined to be a TAP TEMPO Pad This is explained in detail in Chapter 12 MOTIFS CLICKS and CLOCKS MOTIF PLAYBACK CNTRL Mode Value advance the TAP TEMPO setting to MOTIF This Screen allows you to Start amp Stop the Playback of Motifs with this Pad The screen will look like this k01 30 PAD1 TRIG Various Choices Various Choices lt OFF or 01 08 tempo SLAVE 39 2 INFINITE LOOPEL 39 2 250 SLICE ONCE KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 Detailed explanations of this screen are found in Chapter 12 MOTIFS CLICKS amp CLOCKS 68
6. Pitchbend Modulation Playing a Note by Linking to another Pad or Trigger SCREEN ADV PAD1 10 TRIG1 9 PAD5 threshold 18 05 64 KIT EDIT SCREEN 17 The threshold controls the low end sensitivity of your Pads or Triggers The lower the number the lighter the hit your drumKAT will respond to If the number is too small like 1 or 2 you may risk some false triggering If the number is too high your softer hits may not be seen by the drumKAT This is a repeat of the Screen under the PAD ADJUST or TRIGGER ADJUST Screens under PAD7 or PAD8 It is repeated here because if you have trouble with a Pad or Trigger playing itself or false triggering any time you press FOOT1 you may do a KIT EDIT SHORTCUT accidentally when the Pad false triggers itself as you depress the footswitch If that happens just SCREEN ADV to this screen and raise the setting value SOUND ADV will increment the Pad for you All done with KIT EDIT Screens 27 5 Screen Tour All Notes Off ALL NOTES OFF SCREENS Enter the PRE EDIT Screens by pressing down on Footswitchl and releasing Then hit PAD3 to see screen 3 ALLNOTESOFF to confirm type hit pad 3 again FOOTSW1 TO EXIT PRE EDIT SCREEN 3 The ALL NOTES OFF Screens are the panic button Screens that allow you to shut off notes that may be stuck on any sound source you are using There are three levels of action depending on how many times you hit PAD3 after you
7. Do not clean the rubber or metal surfaces with alcohol or solvents alcohol and solvents will dry rubber out and the rubber may then crack and alcohol may remove some of the paint The rubber can be cleaned with a mild cleanser such as dish washing liquid Do not pour cleanser on your playing surface Apply a small amount to a clean cloth and then clean your playing surface with the cloth For a major cleaning of the rubber playing surface remove the rubber from your drumKAT by first removing the 6 screws around the front and two sides that hold the metal frame down over the rubber Use a mild cleanser such as Soft Scrub then wash clean with water Dry off completely before reapplying The metal can be cleaned with a mild cleanser such as dishwashing liquid Do not pour the cleanser on the drumKAT Apply a small amount of cleanser to a clean cloth and then clean the metal surfaces with the cloth 125 13 Appendix Appendix K KAT Inc KAT is a company dedicated to making the most powerful Controllers in the world We have a commitment to quality and responsiveness Our designs are responsive and we as a company are responsive Feel free to call us with questions or suggestions Our products are designed to be upgradeable Product improvements and upgrades are designed to allow them to be implemented on original versions of the product Our address phone and fax are KAT Inc 53 First Ave Chicopee MA 01020 Ph
8. Do this for each trigger and the Trigger Interaction Matrix will be setup to eliminate cross talk SOUND ADV will increment the Trigger for you Depending on the type of acoustic trigger or pads you are using or even the different locations you play you might have to re set the Interaction Matrix from time to time SETTING UP MIDI ASSIGNMENTS Setting up the MIDI Note and Channel assignments to get your sound source to play the sound you want is discussed in detail from Chapter 3 through Chapter 9 83 10 Triggering TRIGGERING IN DETAIL FINE TUNE A TRIGGER If you want your trigger response to be a little better you need to do some fine tuning To do fine tuning you need a little back ground on what triggering is all about and where the difficulties lie To properly use the 9 Trigger Inputs you must TRAIN the drumKAT to recognize the envelope of the external trigger you are using There are an incredible array of different kinds of external triggers available for you to use There are acoustic trigger devices which are connected to the head or shell of an acoustic drum like the KAT KDT 1 KST 1 KDT200 amp 250 foot triggering devices like the kicKAT fatKAT and miniKICK and trigger Pads like the poleKAT flatKAT and rimKAT They all have dramatically different characteristics The acoustic trigger devices have a long envelope because of the ringing of the acoustic drumhead This makes triggering d
9. SCREEN ADV k01 30 ch01 16 Mia 00 127 ch01 16 ie 00 127 B N R L NO 00 127 B N R L NO 00 127 KIT EDIT SCREENS 11 amp 12 The two of these Screens combine to give you 6 possible PROGRAM or VOLUME settings per Kit Each time you enter a Kit any settings you have selected here will be sent out through MIDI On each row you may independently select which Side and Channel to send either a PROGRAM or VOLUME setting to If you don t want to send out that many select N for Sides or NO for value of PROGRAM or VOLUME 25 5 Screen Tour Kit Edit You may select in the PREFERENCE Screens under PAD9 to have these settings SENT or NOT SENT every time you enter KIT EDIT If you are ever doing any editing directly on your sound source itself change that selection to NOT SENT SCREEN ADV k01 30 k01SeqSongChange N 00 127 songselect NO selecttempo NO currenttempo78 7 NO 39 2 250 KIT EDIT SCREEN 13 This Screen allows you to send a SONG SELECT to an external sequencer to call up a specific Song Pattern when you enter this Kit You may also cause the tempo of your internal Clock to change when youl enter this Kit If you do this any Motifs that are used will play at a different tempo If you have sent an external MIDI Sequence Start or Continue command by CNTRL Mode Pad or Trigger or FOOT3 or FOOT4 the Clock sent out MIDI will speed up or slow down as well causing your external
10. Channels match you will want to start tweaking your Kits to the way you want them In this section we are assuming you are using your Pads in Simple Mode All of the Complex Modes and Control Modes are discussed in the next section The first changes you ll want to do involve adjusting the Note s on the Pads to give you the layout you want So first you need to decide what layout s you want Eventually you will use different layouts in different Kits for different songs or different situations Below are some suggested layouts for what sounds to put where SSD SL Drum Kit 1 Drum Kit 2 DZ Conga Conga Hi Med Bongo Bongo a Hi Lo Percussion Kit Melodic Kit 50 7 Basic Kits Of course you are free to create your own layouts these are just starting suggestions As you create new layouts make copies from the Kit Templates in APPENDIXC To change the layout of the sounds on your drumKAT you have several choices You can use MIDI NOTE AutoTrain search manually with your drumKAT for the right sound or even look in your sound source s manual for how the Notes are assigned and directly edit each Pad to the Note numbers you find The MIDI Note number value is shown in two formats note and octave number Different manufactures use one or the other so we use both to reduce confusion If you are using a drum machine this is the important value along with Channel to adjust If you want a Pad to no
11. When you NoteMap to a particular Pad if that Pad is linked to another Pad the link is ignored in NoteMapping See also ChannelMapping in the KIT EDIT Screens data dump dumptype ALL MEM ALL MEMORY ALL KITS MOTIF 1 GLOBAL KIT 1 30 to start dump hit the left ear GLOBAL SCREEN 8 If you strike PAD7 or PAD8 when at this screen you will dump the contents of your drumKAT s Memory to the Left MIDI OUTs This is to Save your work to a Data Disk Computer or Sequencer as a back up Then the Data Dump can be sent back into your drumKAT later on to retrieve those settings again You may choose to dump 1 All of your Memory 2 All of your Kits 3 Your Global Settings Trigger and Pad training Curves Songs Preferences Defaults etc 4 1 Kit or 5 1 Motif To receive a dump simply send it back into the drumKAT on the Left MIDI IN The drumKAT will automatically accept that dump as long as bulk exclusive protect is OFF see PREFERENCES Screen 1 p 41 and the device ID matches see PREFERENCES Screen 7 p 42 Backing up your work is a must Dumps of your settings is like having a spare tire in your trunk You don t generally need it but when you do need it you ll be sorry if you didn t bother That s it for the GLOBAL Screens Next up KIT EDIT Screens these are the screens you will use most to get each Kit to do what you want 20 5 Screen Tour Kit Edit KIT EDIT S
12. exhibit their peak which tells the true strength of the hit However it is undesirable to wait longer than is absolutely necessary because any wasted time results in a delay until the note is sounded Because of this the drumKAT allows you to select how many scans or snapshots of your trigger should be taken before it is assumed that the actual peak has been seen All 9 triggers have their own of SCANS This setting allows you to make a trade off between MIDI delay and accuracy of the reading of the peak of the trigger It should be noted here that the actual problem of MIDI delay is mainly in the receiving sound sources not in the drumKAT itself The hottest current drum machines take about 6 2mS to respond AFTER they have received all of the MIDI information A SCAN is one look at the size of the trigger level Each look occurs during a processing loop in which all of thepads triggers and footswitches are checked as well as MIDI IN etc This loop takes 3 4 of a millisecond A low of scans like 3 results in a very short MIDI delay 2mS from hit to MIDI completely sent out but a less accurate reading of the peak of the trigger waveform because not very much of the trigger waveform has been seen A large of scans like a value of 9 means you are very likely to have an accurate reading of dynamics but a longer MIDI delay 9 Scans is 7 mS from hit to MIDI completely sent out
13. send to Also you select a RANGE for how much effect and a CURVE to correlate as you press harder how soon the effect gets greater Some of the specific settings have SUSTAIN with it For PB UP SUSTAIN for example as you start to press down on the Pad a MIDI SUSTAIN ON command is sent as you start to PITCHBEND When you release the Pad because you are done bending a MIDI SUSTAIN OFF is sent 69 8 Advanced Kits Control Modes Using different Curves can give interesting results Reverse Curves will start with a lot of effect and decrease effect as you press harder Curves that don t start at 0 especially 2 5 and the reverse Curves 11 13 will leave your pitch detuned after you have released the Pad if you are doing Pitchbend You can use this fact to use Pads as quick transposes and all you have to do is strike them and your pitch setting will be instantly transposed The Range setting will determine the transpose amount There are times when you want to get at some more obscure specific Control setting This might be because your particular sound source has a special way of implementing hihat control of its sounds Or you may need to send out some specific control number to utilize your new MIDI Lighting Controller Or you want to control some new expression mode on your latest sound source The new list for Continuous Control allows you to select by any of the MIDI Continuous Controller Numbers 0 Undefined 64 Sust
14. understand it Continue to read the manual and experiment with your drumKAT If you are trying to do something and get stuck pick up that mysterious phone and give us a call we ll be glad to help you ALL YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW TO GET GOING WITH MIDI 1 Match the Channel your drumKAT is sending on with the Channel your sound source is set to receive on 2 Match the Note numbers on your drumKAT Pads to the sounds you want your sound source to play 49 7 Basic Kits 7 Basic Kits What if all you want to do is make a couple of Kits of your own and get playing This section will point you to other sections to help solve any problems you may be having then advise you on making basic changes to Kits to make them more useful to you MAKING SURE YOU RE SET UP RIGHT For help with connections and cables see Chapter 2 CONNECTIONS For help setting up your triggers refer to Chapter 10 TRIGGERING For help getting your sound source to respond at all refer to Chapter 3 MAKING A SOUND or APPENDIX A Troubleshooting Help For help Training your drumKAT to your playing style refer to Chapter 5 SCREEN TOUR and look at the PAD ADJUST Screens TRIGGER ADJUST Screens PREFERENCE Screens and FOOT BREATH Screens For help learning about editing with the Pads refer to Chapter 4 EDITING GET THE PADS TO PLAY THE SOUNDS YOU WANT Once you ve gotten your sound source responding to you
15. 14 Steps 1 8 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 Steps 9 16 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 Steps 17 24 125 122 119 116 112 108 104 100 Steps 25 32 95 90 85 80 74 68 62 56 Steps 33 40 48 40 32 24 16 08 08 00 Steps 41 48 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Steps 49 56 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Steps 57 64 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 119 13 Appendix 120 13 Appendix 121 13 Appendix 122 Appendix H Triggering Trouble Shooting Guide SYMPTOM Multiple triggers with just one hit False triggers when not hit Drum triggering not sensitive Dynamic range not very wide Adjacent drum triggers when you play anearby drum POSSIBLE CAUSE drumKAT not Trained properly Wire of trigger is touching rim or shell of drum Trigger head is not seated well on drum head Threshold Point set too low Threshold Point is too high Bad trigger element Not enough difference between soft and hard hits in Training Unusual response curve used Trigger Interaction Time too short Trigger Interaction too low Courtesy of TRIGGER PERFECT 123 13 Appendix REMEDY See p 82 92 Shape wire so that no portion touches rim or shell Remove trigger head replace double stick foam tape clean head with alcohol and then apply trigger to head Raise Threshold See p 82 92 Lower Threshold Use another trigger Retrain Make it normal Lengthen time Raise setting 13 A
16. 33 40 39 39 40 40 41 41 42 42 Steps 41 48 43 43 44 44 45 45 46 46 Steps 49 56 47 47 48 48 49 49 50 50 Steps 57 64 51 51 51 52 51 127 127 127 117 13 Appendix Velocity Curve 6 Steps 1 8 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 Steps 9 16 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 Steps 17 24 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 Steps 25 32 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 Steps 33 40 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 Steps 41 48 44 47 50 53 56 59 62 65 Steps 49 56 68 72 75 79 82 86 89 93 Steps 57 64 97 101 105 109 114 119 124 127 Velocity Curve 7 Steps 1 8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Steps 9 16 01 01 02 03 04 06 08 10 Steps 17 24 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 Steps 25 32 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 Steps 33 40 46 50 54 58 62 66 70 74 Steps 41 48 78 82 86 90 94 98 102 106 Steps 49 56 110 114 118 122 126 127 127 127 Steps 57 64 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 Velocity Curve 8 Steps 1 8 00 04 09 14 19 25 29 33 Steps 9 16 37 41 45 49 52 55 59 63 Steps 17 24 66 69 71 74 76 78 80 82 Steps 25 32 84 86 87 89 91 93 94 95 Steps 33 40 97 98 100 102 103 105 106 108 Steps 41 48 109 111 113 114 115 116 117 117 Steps 49 56 118 119 120 120 121 121 122 123 Steps 57 64 124 125 125 126 126 126 127 127 Velocity Curve 9 Steps 1 8 00 14 25 35 46 53 59 64 Steps 9 16 69 73 77 82 86 89 93 96 Steps 17 24 99 101 103 105 107 109 111 113 Steps 25 32 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 Steps 33 40 121 122 122 123 123 124 124 125 Steps 41 48 125 125 125 126 126 126 126 126 Steps 49 56 126 12
17. 4 Hit PAD7 to train The Screen will then tell you to hit the trigger once at your soft dynamic playing level If the beeper doesn t stop after you hit the soft hit hit the trigger once again slightly harder The drumKAT tells you it saw the soft hit when the beeper stops sounding TRIG1 9 HIT TRIG1 ONCE SOFT TO SET BOTTOM OF DYNAMIC RANGE The screen will now tell you to hit the trigger at your hard dynamic level The drumKAT will again tell you that it saw the hit when the beeper stops 82 10 Triggering TRIG1 9 HIT TRIG1 ONCE HARD TO SET TOP OF DYNAMIC RANGE NOTE Keep in mind the purpose here is to train for your playing dynamics it s not a test of strength Put in the soft hit that you really would play not some tiny hit that is not realistic Put in the hard hit that you really would play not a caveman smash TRAIN FOR TRIGGER INTERACTION MATRIX SCREEN ADV within the TRIGGER ADJUST Screens until you see TRG1 9 or DKAT TRG1 interaction OFF 6 200 matrix LTT TTT 10 130 Select one trigger at a time in the upper left corner of the display and simply give the trigger one hard hit If any of the solid blocks on the 2nd line change to a trigger these triggers would have cross triggered had it not been for the Interaction Matrix The drumKAT shows you on the third line the time amount and the percentage of supression it took to get rid of the cross talk
18. ALT7 or ALT6 etc If you do this the pattern would move in pitch every 7 or 6 notes When the control Pad AutoPad amp Home is hit all pads will be brought back to their original pitch Without the Home the transposes will happen in addition to wherever pads left off from other transpose pads For both modes If you end the chain with a STP Stop the chain will stay stuck at that last step If you end the chain with RPT Repeat or RST Reset the pattern will wrap around In RPT if the total sum of all the transpose steps is not zero every loop around the chain will raise or lower the cycle of pitches if you re not careful it will spiral right out of sight In RST the pitches are brought back to normal at the beginning of each cycle through the transpose chain 74 8 Advanced Kits Control Modes HOW TO SETUP for TRANSPOSING k01 trnsps enble 1234567890 01 30 Y YES or N NO trgs NNNNNNNNN KIT EDIT SCREEN 9 Any pads that you wish to be transposed should have Y in it s position in the Transpose Enable screen k01 30 Various Choices X01 PAD5 CNTRL GroupStepTrnspos 02 12 RPT 60 60 RST RPT STP PAD1 TRIG9 Various Choices SN Zn mem KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 On the 2nd line you can select which kind of Transpose Mode you wish to use On lines 3 and 4 you actually spell out the pattern of transposes that you wish to utilize In any example h
19. HCLOS BchlOnote G2 42 vel 08 127 crvOl gate time 0 050s KIT EDIT Screen 5 kOl PAD5H HCLOS2 Bchl0OnoteA 4 70 vel 08 127 crvOl gt0 050s thr 00 KIT EDIT Screen 5 5 If you are able to use the CLOS2 sound CLOS2 is an additional HiHat sound that will play depending on your velocity how hard you play After assigning the CLOS2 Note there are two other settings you need to be concerned with I Velocity Range you will want to set the Minimum velocity to a point at which the transition between the CLOSE sound will blend smoothly with the CLOS2 sound The Maximum velocity can be set to 127 II Thr or Threshold is the point at which CLOS2 will start to play Set this to where it sounds natural to you 6 The Foot sound gets assigned in the FOOT CHICK Screen KIT EDIT Screen 7 The Maximum Velocity setting is the Velocity that the Chick will always play when using a footswitch into the hatKAT KFl input 80 9 HiHat 01 30 kOlkitFoot Chick B NRDafBch10note G 2 44 1 16 08 127 crvol 00 127 gatetime NO OFFs NO OFFs or 0 005 6 300 KIT EDIT Screen 7 The Splash sound get Chick blinking and VALUE ADV to Splash should be set to the OPEN sound unless you have a good separate Splash sound in your sound source for this Mode SOUND ADV will toggle the Foot Chick Splash for you OFF or 00 127 1 16 01 30 kOl KIT SPLASH B N R Ue Bch1Onote G 2 44 1 16 0
20. If you are playing into a synth you may need a longer Gate Time if you are playing into a limited drum machine you may need to change the Note numbers to numbers your drum machine responds to Once you get all 4 Sounds happening you should notice the following Soft hits play only Sound 1 medium hits play either both Sounds 1 and 2 or both Sounds 2 and 3 and hard hits play only Sound 3 The very hard hits will play Sound 4 only When Sound 2 plays it s always loud Sounds 1 and 3 never play at the same time because their Dynamic ranges do not overlap 63 8 Advanced Kits Complex Modes HiHat Mode Move the cursor to the Pad Mode and advance the value to HOPEN k01 PAD5 HOPEN BchlOnoteA 2 46 vel 08 127 crvOl gate time 0 050s k01 PAD5 HCLOS Bchl0OnoterF 2 42 vel 08 127 crvOl gate time 0 050s k01 PAD5H HCLOS2 Bch10noteA 4 70 vel 08 127 crvOl gate time 0 050s KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 HiHat control is so important a topic that the entire next Chapter is about HiHat control so look there for detailed explanations fcGATE Mode Advance the Mode to feGATE Mode In this Mode the length of Gate Time is controlled by the Foot Control 01 30 PAD1 TRIGY Various Choices k01 PADIBFC GATE BchOlnote G 2 44 127 crv0l 85 2 00 01 NO OFFs or 0 005 6 300 B N R L OFF or 00 127 1 16 00 127 1 16 KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 This Mode is very similar to Gate Shift Mode except the leng
21. Link this Pad or Trigger to another Pad or Trigger that is making an appropriate Sound you can change Kits without even missing a beat 71 8 Advanced Kits Control Modes NOTE FREEZE CNTRL Mode VALUE ADVANCE the setting of KIT REVERSE to ALT FREEZE k01 30 PAD1 TRIG9 Various Choices k01 PAD5 CNTRL Various Choices ALTERNATING OR ALT8 KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 This is a useful setting for Kits with Alternating Pads When you hit a Pad or Trigger assigned to NOTE FREEZE it will instantly freeze on the sound s played last by any ALTERNATING Pads in the kit Those sounds will remain frozen or active until the ALT FREEZE Pad is hit again That toggles it back out releasing the pattern so that now the ALTERNATING Pads are alternating again ALT FREEZE is also available as a FOOT 3 function ALT RESET CNTRL Mode VALUE ADVANCE the setting of ALT FREEZE to ALT RESET k01 30 PAD 1 TRIG k01 PADSH CNTRL ALT RESET Various Choices KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 Hit on Pad causes all ALTERNATING Pads to reset to sound 1 MOTIF RESYNC CNTRL Mode VALUE ADVANCE the setting of ALT RESET to MOTIF RESET k01 30 PAD1 TRIG9 k01 PAD5H CNTRL MOTIF RESYNC Various Choices KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 Hit on Pad causes all Motifs to restart at the beginning 72 8 Advanced Kits Control Modes GROUP STEP TRANSPOSE CNTRL Mode GROUP STEP TRANSPOSE with RESET CNTRL Mode AUT
22. MIDI Note for that Sound so AutoLoad can t work So you may need to manually select the right Notes The best approach to doing this is to pick a Pad and get it to make a sound see MAKING SURE YOU RE SET UP RIGHT at the beginning of this section At the KIT EDIT Pad Definition Screen KIT EDIT Shortcut select this Pad and move the Cursor to the Note Now hit HEAR SOUND to verify the Note you currently have Then hit VALUE ADV to select another Note Now hit HEAR SOUND to hear that sound Now you can swing into a rapid pattern of SOUND ADV then HEAR SOUND looking for the sound you want When you get to the sound that you wanted SAVE that change to that Pad Then repeat the process for the rest of your Pads 51 7 Basic Kits GET THE PADS TO PLAY WITH THE VELOCITY RESPONSE YOU WANT After you have the sounds you want arranged on the drumKAT the way you want the next changes you need to make are in the Velocity response of your sounds The Velocity response is how smoothly and naturally the sound goes from soft to loud as you play from soft to hard If this Velocity response is not the way you want it there are several things to consider adjusting Minimum Velocity Maximum Velocity Velocity Curve Low Dynamic and Hi Dynamic If you are careful in the Training of your Pads see SCREEN TOUR PAD ADJUST Screens p37 38 the Low and Hi Dynamic should be OK If you are unsure of the Dynamics settings simply get to PAD AD
23. PAD1 and walk through all the KIT EDIT Screens SCREEN ADV is used to find the screen that has the setting you want to change Now hit PAD3 REVERSE and nothing happens The REVERSE REVERSE Pad changes the operation of future hits on other pads Now hit SCREEN ADV PAD several times and notice that you are moving backwards through the screens Hit REVERSE PAD3 once more Now hit SCREEN ADV several times and notice you are moving in the forward direction again REVERSE is used to REVERSE the action of other Pads SCREEN ADV CURSOR ADV VALUE ADV and SOUND ADV SCREEN ADV until you are back at the main KIT EDIT Screen k01 PAD5ESIMPL ch10 note Gi 43 vel 08 127 crvO1 gate time 0 020s KIT EDIT Screen 5 13 4 Editing Notice that something on the screen is blinking Hit PAD2 CURSOR ADV CURSOR ADV and notice the blinking moves over to another setting This blinking is called the Cursor Hitting CURSOR ADV repeatedly will advance the Cursor around the screen Now hit REVERSE Then hit CURSOR ADV repeatedly and notice that the Cursor is moving backwards around the screen Hit REVERSE again followed by some CURSOR ADV hits and note that now the Cursor moves in the forward direction CURSOR ADV is used to select a particular setting or parameter within a screen Now use CURSOR ADV to move the Cursor to the Note setting right hand end of the 2nd line Hit PAD6 VALUE ADV and notice that every h
24. PAD6 while FOOT2 is depressed you will increment the Kit with each hit of PAD6 If you hit PAD3 while FOOT2 is depressed you will decrement the Kit with each hit of PADS 4 You may assign a Pad or Trigger to Kit Advance or Kit Reverse Then each hit of that Pad or Trigger will result in an increment or decrement of the Kit see p 71 5 You may select Song Mode ON GLOBAL Screen 2 and define the Steps of your Song to be the Kits you want in the order you want see p 18 19 6 Or you may use FOOTFUNCTION 2 to do live Kit changes to any Kit you choose see p 93 94 7 You can also choose to respond to Program Changes coming in from another instrument by selecting a new Kit You do this on GLOBAL Screen 1 see p 18 53 8 Advanced Kits 8 Advanced Kits Even with the most Basic of Kits Pads in Simple Mode you get to experience the feel and responsiveness of the drumKAT s gum rubber FSR playing surface However you don t experience the power of the drumKAT until you start using the Complex and Control Modes OVERVIEW OF ADVANCED POSSIBILITIES The Complex and Control Modes allow you to be expressive and creative in both natural ways and in new intriguing ways These Modes not only provide solutions to musical problems or challenges you currently have but also may lead you into new directions because of new ideas that will come to you that you had never anticipated Below is an overview of these
25. Travel Delay to actual delay due to MIDI The delay caused by the transmission of MIDI information is only 1 millisecond 001 Second A 5 pin DIN jack by which an instrument receives MIDI information from another musical instrument Through its MIDI In the drumKAT can receive DATA DUMPs Kit changes and Note Channel AutoTrain information A 5 pin DIN jack by which an instrument sends MIDI information to another instrument The drumKAT sends out Channel Note and Velocity information Continuous Controller messages 01 and 04 if hatKAT is plugged in and SYS EX Data Dumps A Motif is a pattern or riff that you can assign to be controlled by any pad 109 13 Appendix Note Number A MIDI Note is the number sent in a MIDI NOTE ON or a MIDI NOTE OFF command to tell the receiving instrument which Sound to make Program Change A MIDI command which instructs the receiving instrument to change to a new group of settings For Sound Sources this generally means selecting a new group of sounds Response What Velocity the drumKAT sends out related to your playing Dynamics A natural response is that the Velocity hence the loudness gets bigger as your dynamics increase Screen A display window on the drumKAT usually with information about current settings Sound Source A device that accepts MIDI input and then plays a sound based on the information it received Drum machines samplers and synthesizers are all e
26. Triggers Screens 127 128 Screen Adv 11 13 Sequence external 26 36 55 69 71 99 105 Continue 69 95 96 105 Slice 69 95 96 105 Song Select 26 105 Start 69 95 96 105 Stop 69 95 96 105 Sides 25 29 56 57 63 Simple Mode 22 23 50 53 56 57 Slave Tempo 101 Slave Click 35 Software Installation Software Version 9 Song Mode 9 11 18 53 71 9 Song Select see Sequence Sound Adv 13 15 18 20 23 24 32 35 38 40 51 57 81 86 89 Stands 3 5 Sustain 27 28 30 52 53 69 70 95 System Exclusive 20 41 48 115 132 124 14 Index Tap Tempo 36 55 68 96 101 103 130 Tempo Clock 7 10 26 30 34 55 68 96 106 130 Threshold see Pads or Triggers Transpose see GroupStep or AutoPad Triggers 8 82 92 Adjust Training 39 40 82 85 92 Dynamics 3 5 8 31 39 82 83 85 87 89 91 109 116 Envelope 8 84 85 87 89 Gain 31 39 82 85 91 Headroom 8 31 39 82 87 88 Interaction Matrix 8 31 40 82 83 90 123 Mask Time 31 39 85 89 Scan Time 8 40 91 Threshold 27 31 39 81 82 85 86 88 89 Trig Trouble Shooting 123 Trouble Shooting 107 ee aes EBEN ere Value Adv 13 14 Velocity 47 48 116 Minimum 23 30 52 53 56 116 23 30 52 56 81 116 Maximum Curve see Curves Velocity Shift Mode 22 23 54 60 61 65 66 80 116 Video 4 Volume Kit Send 25 31 42 59 70 Live Send 93 94 Warranty 3 125
27. Triggers after the actual Trigger is hit See Chapter 10 TRIGGERING for more detailed information SOUND ADV will increment the Trigger for you SCREEN ADV Select of scans to measure peak of trigger inputs 3 9 trgl 6SCANS TRIGGER ADJUST SCREEN 4 Here you select how many Scans or snapshots to look at the Trigger signal before deciding how big of a signal it is The smaller the number of Scans the quicker the signal will play less delay The bigger the number of Scans the more accurate the determination of how hard you hit it Basically the goal is to find the smallest number that gives accurate dynamics Good Trigger pads are fine with 3 or 4 Scans Acoustic Triggers and Trigger pads with a poor signal require 7 to 9 Scans to properly see the real dynamics of your playing See Chapter 10 TRIGGERING for more detailed information SOUND ADV will increment the Trigger for you 40 5 Screen Tour Preference PREFERENCE SCREENS Enter the PRE EDIT Screens by pressing down on Footswitch1 and releasing Then hit PAD9 to see screen 9 PREFERENCES to confirm type hit pad 9 again FOOTSW1 TO EXIT PRE EDIT SCREEN 9 The PREFERENCE Screens are where you select operating Preferences So hit PAD9 again to verify that you want to see the PREFERENCE Screens bulk exclusive protect ON or OFF PREFERENCE SCREEN 1 This Screen prevents you from receiving a System Exclusive dum
28. and a Curve to correlate your playing dynamics to moving through this range of Gate Times The harder you hit the longer the Gate Time of the Sound becomes The first number after gate is the shortest Gate Time you will get The second number is the longest Gate Time you will get The third number is the Curve to correlate your dynamics to that range Again reverse curves will cause reverse effects where the harder you hit the shorter the sound will get This is actually a very nice realistic effect VELOCITY SHIFT Mode Move the cursor to the Pad Mode at the upper right hand corner and advance to VSH This is the Velocity Shift Mode We are back to having four independent sounds assigned to this Mode as in the Multiple and Alternate Modes the Note Shift and Gate Shift Modes only play one note at a time The characteristics of that Sound change with dynamics but still there is only one Sound for any given hit These four Sounds can be in separate portions of your dynamics they can overlap each other partially or totally They are totally independent from each other In the Velocity Shift Mode your playing dynamics will select which of the four Sounds are played Lines 2 and 4 have returned to normal Complex settings Now line 3 has changed k01 30 PAD1 TRIG9 Various Choices B N R L k01 PAD5H VSH 1 Bghl0note G2 43 amp OFF or 00 127 1 16 01 63v 08 127 00 127 gate time 0 050s o NO OFFs or 0 025 6 3
29. area on a display or screen that is currently selected In the EDIT MODE on the drumKAT the Cursor is a blinking area that will change if you hit VALUE ADV The internal data information that a musical instrument sends out so that you can save its settings on a back up system The standard customary or safe value for a given setting A measure of how hard or softly you are playing with your sticks The act of changing the settings in a device Kits that are always present in your instrument These are Kits that we at KAT generated for you to use with the various Sound Sources available The length of time that a Note sounds as sent by the drumKAT It is the length of time the drumKAT waits after it sends a Note On before it sends a Note Off Many drum machines ignore the Gate Time sent by the drumKAT and sound the Note until it s fully played out Melodic sounds like horns strings amp organs often do respond to Gate Time A collection of MIDI Note and Channel settings for all of your Pads FootControl and Bass drum Basically a Kit defines what Sounds your Pads make MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface It is an agreed upon standard for communications between electronic musical instruments It is simply the means by which your drumKAT communicates with the Sound Sources you connect it to A term which is mistakenly used by many to refer to all kinds of delay ranging from Sound Source Delay to Sound
30. be able to get back to a known state on the ALTERNATING Pads That is what ALT RESET a CONTROL Mode does It is also one of the things that HOME BASE does If you do an ALT RESET all the ALTERNATING Pads will return to Sound 1 for your next strike ALT RESET can be performed with Footswitch3 if so selected in your Kit or with a Pad or Trigger in a Control Mode 58 59 8 Advanced Kits Complex Modes 8 Advanced Kits Complex Modes NOTE SHIFT Mode Now change ALT with VALUE ADV to NSHFT This is the NOTE SHIFT Mode k01 30 PAD1 TRIG9 Various Choices k01 PAD5SE NSHFT Bch10n 43 47 02 1 16 08 127 crvOl 00 127 gate time 0 050s 1 16 In this Mode your playing dynamics will be correlated to a change in the Note value that the drumKAT sends out You will notice that line 3 and line 4 are the same as they were in the ALTERNATE Mode and in the SIMPLE Mode What is changed here is line 2 Again you have the choice of Left Right or Both pairs of MIDI outs at the beginning of line 1 then the MIDI Channel Now for the Note value you choose a Note Range indicated by a number hyphen and another number The number after the comma at the end of line 2 is the Curve you will use to correlate your playing dynamics to the change in Note You do not necessarily want to use the same Curve here that you used for Velocity because correlating dynamics to Volume and dynamics to Pitch in the ear is done
31. different features the drumKAT 3 5 is capable of performing With the drumKAT you can control anything that has a MIDI input synthesizers drum machines samplers sequencers transcription software on personal computers and so on You can connect the drumKAT up to an array of instruments and control them all simultaneously By simply stepping into the next Kit you not only can change which devices you are controlling but you can also change the programs selected on the instruments as well The drumKAT was conceived to answer the drummers need for a compact responsive and powerful means to control the vast MIDI potential available It will enhance your possibilities and unleash your imagination so that your playing and creativity can reach a new level Enjoy 2 Connections 2 Connections POWER FOOTSWITCHES MIDIIN MIDIOUT CLICK TRIGGER INPUTS AMILAOADIPE9000999 LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT OUT 7 1 VOLTAGE The drumKAT 3 5 comes supplied with a removable locking AC power cord to plug the drumKAT 3 5 into a 110v outlet An optional European power cord for 220v 240v operation is also available The drumKAT 3 5 can operate under 110v or 220v power Look at the back power module and verify your drumKAT 3 5 is properly set for 110v operation USA or 220v operation Europe etc After you have connected the power cable from the drumKAT 3 5 to a clean power source switch on the power switch on the back right o
32. don t allow independent control of all settings Each Note can be on a separate Channel but they all share the same Velocity and Gate Time settings and the same Sides setting Left Right Both or Neither In the 8 Note Alternate you can choose to define 8 or less notes If you set the note to OFF you will skip that note in the pattern allowing you to alternate in 6 or 5 or 3 etc If you set the Channel of a Note to a Channel that no Sound Source is set to respond to that Note slot will act as a rest in the pattern Several different pads with different patterns on them can result in fabulous grooves 65 8 Advanced Kits Complex Modes RANDOM 8 Mode One of the uses of Alternate has always been to mix up several similar samples of a sound often an acoustic one like a snare drum or a piano to give the sound a more natural feel The 8 Note RANDOM mode expands this approach and makes it even more alive advance the Mode to RANB k01 30 PAD1 TRIG9 1 8 Various Choices B N R L OFF or 00 127 1 16 00 127 gate time 0 050s Pe NO OFFs or 0 005 6 300 KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 In this mode the 8 Notes are chosen randomly as you play If the 8 Notes are pitched and in a scale relationship the 8 Note RANDOM can produce very pleasing and surprising results If the 8 sounds are very similar acoustic samples the result will be a natural acoustic feeling Notice that the note has been ch
33. from soft to loud hits The drumKAT software and dynamic table adjustment will adjust for that so that you still get a wide velocity response Basically you want to select a GAIN that is high enough to give you good sensitivity to soft hits but not too much GAIN that causes medium hits to fill the whole bar graph overdrive the input The TP on this screen is the THRESHOLD POINT for your trigger This is the setting between 2 and 63 out of 255 for the threshold at which the peak of your trigger signal will be able to be seen as a hit This setting is automatically read during the next soft hard part of trigger training based on the idle level of your trigger You normally don t need to adjust it unless you want to increase the low end sensitivity of your trigger or if you need to try to reduce an interaction problem you are having in that case you can try incrementing this value However trigger interaction problems are generally a sign that the physical location of your triggers needs to be rearranged or that you need to change your Trigger Interaction Matrix Settings explained later in this discussion 86 10 Triggering The more you raise your TP the less sensitivity you willhave The more you lower your TP the more likely you are to have false triggering 5 to 10 is a typical range Also on this screen is a setting for HEADROOM Basically if you are getting double triggering raise the HEADROOM
34. have released FOOTI The first time you hit PAD3 and see the Screen above all Motifs will be Stopped This is a useful way to stop Motifs in a hurry Especially if you have advanced out of the Kit that you had the Motif setup in Now confirm that you want to enter the ALL NOTES OFF Screens by hitting PAD3 again You will see this screen sstain motif and allnotesoff sent IF HIT AGAIN DO INDIVIDUAL N OFF ALL NOTES OFF SCREEN 1 This Screen tells you that SUSTAIN OFF and ALL NOTES OFF commands have been sent to each of the 16 Channels on both MIDI Left and MIDI Right This will generally shut off any Note still playing on any of your sound sources This is quick and if the stuck note does stop simply depress FOOT once to get back to PLAY Mode If you still have a stuck note hit PAD3 a third time Nothing will happen for a few seconds while the drumKAT is sending individual Note Offs Then you ll see a quick burst of this Screen Sent Individual note off for all note amp for all channels 0 ALL NOTES OFF SCREEN 2 Now an individual Note Off command is sent to every one of the 128 Notes on all 16 Channels on both the Left MIDI OUTs and the Right MIDI OUTs This is a lot of information and therefore takes several seconds Since this takes so long and it is the end of the line in these Screens the drumKAT automatically returns to PLAY Mode for you when it is done sending all of these individual Note Offs 28
35. now melodic Kits The Global Screen to Receive Data Dumps has been removed It is not needed The drumKAT will automatically receive Data Dumps now Asa dump is being received you will get verification on the drumKAT display The Global Screen for drumKAT FSR Pad to FSR Pad interaction has been removed With the new playing surface Version 2 5 there is no need for it anymore Many of the screens have been moved or rearranged Most notably the following screens are relocated SCREEN WAS NOW MIDI Click Note Global under Pad1 Motif under Pad6 Pad Threshold Global under Pad1 PadAdjust under Pad7 Pad Lo amp Hi Dynamics Global under Pad1 PadAdjust under Pad7 Reinit w Kits Global under Pad1 Preference under Pad9 Reinit w o Kits Global under Pad1 Preference under Pad9 Bulk Protect Global under Pad1 Preference under Pad9 Lock Global under Pad1 Preference under Pad9 Viewing Angle Global under Pad1 Preference under Pad9 Beeper On Off Global under Pad1 Preference under Pad9 Demo Kits Enable Global under Pad1 Preference under Pad9 130 13 Appendix 13 Appendix 133 13 Appendix 14 Index ERRE AC Adapter 5 107 All Notes Off 28 93 Alternating Mode 22 23 54 55 58 63 66 73 76 Resync 55 58 70 72 93 95 Note Freeze 71 72 Alt8 22 23 54 63 73 76 95 AutoPad Transpose 55 72 76 Beats 31 34 97 100 Beeper 42 95 96 99 130 Bracket 3 Br
36. only one Chick and one Splash per Kit To make this even easier find your sound source in the following list and you will know exactly which of the 3 choices Controller04 hatNOTE or normal HiHat to use Controller 04 Roland TD7 Controller 01 EMU PROCUSSION HATNOTE Boss DR550 DR660 R8 R8M Alesis D4 SR16 HR16 B Yamaha RY30 RM50 RY10 TMX Normal HiHat Most all sound sources will work with the HiHat mode Controller 04 Open Chick and Controller 4 give continuous variation Controller 04 creates Closed amp Splash from the Open amp Chick sounds Should be used if you have a sound source that will respond to Continuous Controller information and you are using a hatKAT pedal HATNOTE 8 Notes Open to Close Chick Splash should be used if you have a sound source that doesn t respond to continuous controller information and you are using a hatKAT pedal or if you have a sampler or sound source with multiple separate sounds from Open to Closed Normal HiHat Open Closed Closed2 Chick can be used with any sound source if you have a KF1 footswitch as your HiHat pedal CONTROLLER 04 HIHAT SETUP This will only work if the sound source responds to it In this Mode the drumKAT will send out Controller 04 information as your foot changes the position of the hatKAT If you play on your HiHat Pad while the pedal is moving the result will be a continuous variation in soun
37. right hand corner This is the number of the Sound you are editing The Multiple Mode contains 4 separate Sounds The remaining three lines are similar to the bottom 3 lines of the SIMPLE Mode However notice lines 2 and 4 have changed Line 4 has dly for Delay as well as Gate Time Each one of the four Sounds in Multiple Mode that you can assign to a particular Pad or Trigger can also have a delay time from when you hit the Pad to when it sounds from 5 milliseconds to 6 3 seconds Line 2 has changed in that a B is at the beginning of the second line in front of the Channel number In the COMPLEX Modes you can also 56 8 Advanced Kits Complex Modes choose which of the two pairs of MIDI OUTs your Sounds will go to In the SIMPLE Mode which we have dealt with up until now all of your Sounds go to both pairs of MIDI outs However now in the COMPLEX Modes you have the choice of going to the Left pair of MIDI outs to the Right pair of MIDI outs or to Both Giving you 2 separate outputs of 16 Channel MIDI effectively gives you 32 channel MIDI It also allows you the flexibility of routing information through the drumKAT from the MIDI INs as well as from the Pads to individual pairs of MIDI OUTs to give you more options in interconnecting your MIDI equipment including routing of signals as well as filtering of signals The four notes that you can define in the Multiple Mode are totally independent Remember we learn
38. the original curve into Curve 15 or 16 Then use this screen to modify the area of the curve to what you want There is more information on the curves in Appendix G SOUND ADV will increment the Step for you SCREEN ADV left midi in clock to out BTH notes to out BTH else to out BTH BTH OFF RGT LFT right midi in clock to out BTH notes to out BTH BTH OFF RGT LFT else to out BTH GLOBAL SCREENS 5 amp 6 These two screens allow you to select the overall mapping of the two MIDI inputs For each input you may select independently whether Clock Notes and everything Else is merged to the Left MIDI output the Right MIDI output both MIDI outputs or block it entirely from going out either MIDI output OFF If you have a problem with flanging sounds or MIDI loops digital equivalent of feedback you may need to select OFF for merging the notes that come in one of your MIDI INs 19 5 Screen Tour Global SCREEN ADV 01 16 midiin ntemap 01 Bch10note OFF OFF or 00 127 maps to k01 PAD1 PAD1 TRIG9 B N R L GLOBAL SCREEN 7 This screen allows you to select up to 16 MIDI Notes from one of your MIDI INs to be KATalyzed or mapped to a particular Pad in the drumKAT In this way you can merge a dK10 into a drumKAT for example and have the pads you play on the dK10 end up playing Multiple Notes or Velocity Shift Notes or start a Motif etc SOUND ADV will increment the Step for you
39. want copied to which other When you have the correct settings hit PAD5 twice and the COPY will be done SOUND ADV will increment the Pad for you 32 5 Screen Tour Copy Hit SCREEN ADV again and you will see the CURVE COPY Screen COPY curve 01 a to curve 15 15 or 16 HIT COPY PAD5 TO VERIFY KITCOPY COPY SCREEN 3 The from curve can be any of Curves 1 to 16 The to curve can be either Curve 15 or Curve 16 which are the two user definable curves Two of the GLOBAL Screens allow you to create your own Curve 15 or Curve 16 explained in session 8 It is a great help in doing this if you first COPY a curve that you kind of like but want to modify into Curve 15 or 16 That is the purpose of this Screen 33 5 Screen Tour Motif MOTIF SCREENS Enter the PRE EDIT Screens by pressing down on Footswitch1 and releasing Then hit PAD6 to see screen 6 RECORD EDIT to confirm type hit pad 6 again FOOTSW1 TO EXIT PRE EDIT SCREEN 6 The MOTIF Screens are where you Record Motifs and they contain settings that affect the Recording of Motifs They also contain settings for MIDI Click control So hit PAD6 again to verify that you want to see the Motif Screens 1 8 RECORD OR OFF ON STEP motifOlRECordO countoff 4 tempo 100 O8beat guant ize ze 1 or MOTIF SCREEN 1 The first Motif Screen is where you Record Motifs You select the number of beats of Countoff which KIT you want to u
40. 00 KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 61 62 8 Advanced Kits Complex Modes 8 Advanced Kits Complex Modes At the far left is a range of dynamic that the Sound will respond to You choose the range of what portion of your playing dynamics you ll be using for each of the 4 Sounds The lower numbers from 1 to 59 being very light dynamics the middle numbers 60 to 89 are medium dynamics and the upper numbers 90 to 127 are the harder hits Again you choose independently which range you want each of the 4 particular Sounds to respond in On the right hand end of line 3 is the Velocity Range that this Sound will respond with Each of the 4 Sounds has a Velocity Range that it will produce in response to your dynamics within the Dynamic Range you selected at the beginning of line 3 As an example set up the four Velocity Shift Sounds again remember to easily get at the 4 Sounds hit Pad 4 to Duplicate changes to the other 3 Sounds use Pad 9 to create the set shown in the following four screens Hit Pad 5 to hear the result of your actions k01 PAD5E VSH 1 Bchl0Onote G2 43 d 01 40v 08 127 gate time 0 050s k01 PAD5E VSH 2 Bchl0note D3 50 d 35 72v120 127 gate time 0 050s k01 PAD5 VSH 3 Bchl0Onote F4 65 d 72 110v 48 127 gate time 0 050s k01 PAD5 VSH 4 Bchl0Onote E7 100 d110 127v 72 127 gate time 0 050s KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 You may need to adjust these 4 Sounds so that they all play on whatever you are plugged into
41. 2 M1 1158 M2 3 4 5 530 M6 7 8 After all the DATA has been sent the End of System Exclusive Command 0F7H is sent 115 13 Appendix Appendix G Velocity Curve Documentation For those of you who are truly gluttons for punishment we will now get mathematical about Velocity This will include tables and formulas explaining how the drumKAT determines the MIDI Velocity values that it sends out for the Pads you play on the drumKAT The Curves discussed here are discussed in the context of Velocity because that is generally how you will use them However these are the same curves that are used in Note Shift Gate Shift and Pressure so similar principles apply in those situations The drumKAT can internally measure 256 distinct levels of dynamics from the drumKAT Pads or Trigger Inputs Since MIDI Velocity has only 128 levels the drumKAT has more resolution than it needs The drumKAT uses this extra resolution in combination with the Pad Adjustment and Trigger Training software to give you a personalized dynamic range The drumKAT uses the LO DYNAMIC and HI DYNAMIC to make a correlation table to adjust to your playing dynamics This table reduces the individual steps of resolution to 64 The drumKAT must then take these 64 levels and correlate them to MIDI Velocity numbers that can range from 0 to 127 The drumKAT uses the Minimum Velocity Maximum Velocity and Velocity Curve settings to do this correlation The actual for
42. 5 SCREEN TOUR for details 3 Making A Sound 3 MAKING A SOUND To have your drumKAT 3 5 control another MIDI device perform the following e Plug a Footswitch into Footswitch input number 1 This Footswitch will get you back and forth between PLAY and EDIT When you are in PLAY all the Pads will play MIDI Notes as defined in the Kits that you can create In EDIT the Pads do Editing functions as indicated on the rubber playing surface of your drumKAT There are four Footswitch inputs in the back each with its own useful function The most useful setup is one single Footswitch KF1 and one triple Footswitch KF3 e Connect a MIDI cable from any of the four MIDI OUTs in the back of the drumKAT and connect the other end of the cable into the MIDI IN on whatever device you intend to control with the drumKAT e Also plug a power cord in the back of the drumKAT and screw it firmly onto the receptacle on the back of the drumKAT Plug that into a wall socket and turn the power on the drumKAT on e The last remaining thing you need to do to get yourself set up is to make sure the device you are trying to control is set on MIDI Channel 10 Most of the factory Kits that are supplied in your drumKAT 3 5 are set up on MIDI Channel 10 to make it easier for you to get up and running quickly When you power up the drumKAT 3 5 it will say PLAY MODE ON drumKAT v3 5 footswitch 1 for editing On the second line you will se
43. 6 127 127 127 127 127 127 Steps 57 64 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 Velocity Curve 10 Steps 1 8 01 03 05 08 10 13 15 18 Steps 9 16 20 23 25 28 30 33 35 38 Steps 17 24 40 43 45 48 50 53 55 58 Steps 25 32 60 63 65 68 70 72 76 79 Steps 33 40 83 92 97 102 107 112 117 122 Steps 41 48 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 Steps 49 56 64 32 08 00 00 00 00 00 Steps 57 64 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 118 13 Appendix Velocity Curve 11 Steps 1 8 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Steps 9 16 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Steps 17 24 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Steps 25 32 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Steps 33 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Steps 41 48 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Steps 49 56 32 63 85 105 120 123 124 126 Steps 57 64 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 Velocity Curve 12 Steps 1 8 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 Steps 9 16 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 Steps 17 24 126 125 124 123 122 120 119 117 Steps 25 32 115 113 111 109 107 105 103 101 Steps 33 40 98 95 92 89 86 83 80 78 Steps 41 48 74 70 66 62 58 54 50 46 Steps 49 56 42 38 34 30 26 21 16 11 Steps 57 64 06 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 Velocity Curve 13 Steps 1 8 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 Steps 9 16 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 Steps 17 24 125 122 120 117 115 112 110 107 Steps 25 32 104 100 96 92 86 82 78 74 Steps 33 40 68 62 56 50 44 38 32 26 Steps 41 48 18 10 02 00 00 00 00 00 Steps 49 56 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Steps 57 64 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Velocity Curve
44. 8 127 crvol4 9 00 127 gatetime NO OFF s NO OFFs or 0 005 6 300 OFF or 00 127 KIT EDIT Screen 7 81 10 Triggering 10 Triggering First we will do a quick overview of how to set up your external triggers Then we will go into greater detail on how the triggering features really work and give you suggestions for getting optimum results The details become especially important if you are triggering off of acoustic drums TRIGGERING QUICK amp EASY There are several steps necessary to achieve proper triggering from external triggers 1 Training the response of your external trigger 2 Training the Trigger Interaction Matrix 3 Setting up the MIDI Note and Channel assignments to get your sound source to play the sound you want TRAIN A TRIGGER 1 Plug in your acoustic trigger or external pad into one of the 9 Trigger inputs 2 Get into the Trigger Adjust screens under PAD8 8 TRIG SETTINGS to confirm type hit pad 8 again FOOTSW1 TO EXIT PRE EDIT SCREEN 8 3 Set the Headroom to 10 Threshold to 7 and Gain to L6 Watch the bar graph at the top of the screen as you play from soft to loud Find the Gain setting that allows soft hits to register at the left of the graph and smoothly increase towards the right side of the graph as you play harder If medium hits peg the bar graph or if you see an arrow appear at the right side of the screen then your gain setting is set too high lower it
45. 9 00 127 tl masktime 15ms ies gainL5 thrsh07 f 02 639 H1 H8 ow dynamic 40 high dynamic 254 On this screen you can see and adjust the Mask Time which is the time period after the trigger is recognized during which the trigger is ignored or not allowed to retrigger under any circumstances the Gain Threshold and Low and High Dynamics The low and high dynamics are the measurements that were taken of your SOFT and HARD hits during Trigger Training Under normal circumstances you would probably not adjust any of these settings SOUND ADV will increment the Trigger for you 00 254 89 10 Triggering The next screen TRG1 9 or DKAT TRG1 interaction OFF 6 200 matrix FT TTT ttt 10 130 Allows you to handle Trigger Interaction problems in two different ways 1 Interaction between trigger pads or acoustic triggers 2 Interaction between the drumKAT and trigger pads or acoustic triggers Since most triggers are piezo based interaction between them can be a real problem Two trigger Pads on the same stand will quite often cross trigger each other because of vibrational coupling through the stand Head triggers on acoustic drums that are very close to each other will sometimes cross trigger each other because of either vibrational coupling through a stand or actual audio coupling because of the nearness of the two drums to each other The drumKAT when played hard might also cause your trigger pads to
46. 9 Tg0 255 root D 1 OFF or C 2 G8 NO OFFS or 0 005 6 30 B N R L KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 MelMul1 MelVsh1 MelAlt8 01 30 PAD1 TRIG9 MelRang MelNsh8 k01PAD5 JE MelVshl Note 1 2 3 or 4 Bch10 D 2 39Maj7 Chord Type 1 16 TA 08 127v 08 127 00 127 00 127 g0 25s root D 1 OFF or C 2 G 8 B N R L NO OFFS or 0 005 6 30 KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 65 8 Advanced Kits Melodic Modes MelMul1 MelVsh1 MelAlt8 01 30 PAD1 TRIG9 MelRan8 MelNsh8 kO1PAD5 MelRani Note 1 2 3or 4 Bch10 D 2 39Maj7 Chord Type 1 16 Tval 08 127 crvOl 4 1 16 00 127 g0 25s root D 1 B N R L Root Note NO OFFS or 0 005 6 30 OFF or C 2 G 8 KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 The Melodic Modes are melMUL Melodic Multiple up to 4 notes melVSH Melodic Velocity Shift up to 4 notes melALT Melodic Alternate up to 8 notes melRAN Melodic Random up to 8 notes melNSH Melodic Notes Shift up to 8 notes They are modified versions of the regular Mul Vsh Alt8 Ran8 Nsh The Chord Structure Type and Root Note selections are used to set up all the Note s with the proper relationship EXAMPLE To set up a Pad in one of these Melodic Modes follow these steps 1 Select the type of Melodic Mode you wish to use 2 Select the Outputs you want to send the information to 3 Select the Channel Each note can have a different channel except Melodic Velocity Shift in which the Channel is shar
47. 90 109 111 112 Filtering 19 21 26 IN 7 20 21 35 99 102 105 109 129 Chan Map 26 Mapping 19 Note Map 20 21 Loops 19 100 Note 9 20 22 23 30 47 49 56 80 86 89 110 Auto Load 51 OUT 7 20 57 58 95 107 109 115 Program Change 42 47 48 93 110 112 Receive 18 KitSend 25 3 LiveSend 93 Velocity 6 47 52 116 Monophonic 25 Motif 3 34 97 102 109 129 130 Event 36 102 Playback 30 55 68 101 External Clock Infinite 101 Looped 101 Once 101 Slice 58 101 Protect 35 96 100 Record 34 36 97 100 External Clock 102 External Rec 35 99 Ready Record 70 98 Standard 97 Step Record 34 99 Store Note Offs 35 Resync Reset 55 71 72 95 96 Slave 35 101 104 Stop 28 36 102 Mounting 3 Multiple Mode 22 23 54 56 58 65 66 Note see MIDI Note Note Freeze 27 72 Note Shift Mode 54 59 Pads Adjust Training 37 38 50 52 Dynamics 3 5 31 37 38 56 59 61 109 116 Interaction 40 83 90 130 Number Scheme 12 Threshold 27 31 38 81 Permanent Memory 16 18 32 41 Protection 22 Piezo 84 85 90 91 116 Pitchbend 24 27 44 69 71 Play Mode 11 12 16 Polyphony Mode 25 129 Power 4 7 107 Pre Edit Screens 17 18 Pressure 5 30 55 69 71 95 Program Change see MIDI Quantization 31 34 97 100 Beenie fanaa Ran8 54 63 64 66 Ready Record 55 70 97 98 Recall 11 16 Receive Dump 20 41 42 115 130 Repair Information 4 125 126 Reverse 11 13 14 SEE S nn Save 11 16 22 115 Scan Time see
48. ASE does 3 things 1 All ALTERNATING Pads are put back to Sound 1 That means that the next time you hit any ALTERNATING Pad after a HOME BASE you will get the first of the 4 or 8 Alternating Sounds from that Pad All MOTIFs are resunc to their beginning This applies even if you are SLICING a MOTIF Any that are playing will continue to play but they will start from the top Also a MIDI SEQUENCE START will be sent if the drumKAT is currently sending a MIDI CLOCK out This will resync any external sequence to your internal MOTIFs A MIDI RESET ALL CONTROLLERS command will be sent out both MIDI outs as well as a specific return of PITCHBEND to OFF This will allow you to return any PRESSURE controls that are stuck up to normalcy This HOME BASE command is also available to FOOTSWITCH 3 and partial versions of HOME BASE are available in FOOTFUNCTION 2 FOOTFUNCTION 4 and later as other Pressure Modes for the Pads N VS wo wm KIT ADVANCE REVERSE CNTRL Mode VALUE ADVANCE the setting of HOME BASE to KIT ADV k01 30 PAD1 TRIG9 Various Choices k01 PAD5 CNTRL Various Choices KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 Using KIT ADVANCE or KIT REVERSE you may quickly change Kits in performance Naturally it can be linked to another Pad to make the sound of a snare or cymbal at the same time If you have Song Mode turned On the Pad will step you forward or backward through the Steps of the Song Note if you
49. GES WILL NOT BE SENT WHEN ENTERING KIT EDIT PREFERENCE SCREEN 6 MIDI Program Change commands and Volume as well are always sent when you step into a new Kit You may also change to send those commands every time you depress FOOT1 and enter KIT EDIT SCREEN ADV INDIVIDUAL INSTRUMENT ID UNIVERSAL ID or 1 127 UNIVERSAL ID PREFERENCE SCREEN 7 This Screen allows you to identify your drumKATs individually if you have more than one Each one can have its own ID and then will receive only Data Dumps that match its own ID If you only have one drumKAT set this to UNIVERSAL ID This ID says to accept any dump regardless of ID in the dump 42 5 Screen Tour Preference SCREEN ADV to re initialize your drumKAT including kits hit pad 8 PREFERENCE SCREEN 8 You can return the drumKAT to its original factory settings SCREEN ADV to re initialize your drumKAT excluding kits hit pad 8 PREFERENCE SCREEN 9 You can return the drumKAT to its original factory settings excluding Kits in case you want to keep some Kits you made but reinitialize the Global and Triggering settings 43 5 Screen Tour Foot Breath FOOT BREATH SCREENS Enter the PRE EDIT Screens by pressing down on Footswitch1 and releasing Then hit PADO to see screen 0 FOOT BREATH to confirm type hit pad 0 again FOOTSW1 TO EXIT PRE EDIT SCREEN 0 The FOOT BREATH Screens are where you train your F
50. JUST Screen 2 and get the Cursor on Low Dynamic and hit Default then select the Default for Hi Dynamic also This should put you in a reasonable range Typical Velocity settings are Minimum Velocity 08 Maximum Velocity 127 Velocity Curve 01 If your softest hits play too soft then raise your Minimum Velocity to 24 or even higher If your hard hits are too loud then reduce your Maximum Velocity If you don t like the change in loudness as you play from soft to loud then try other Velocity Curves The most typically used ones in Basic Kits are 01 06 and 08 GET THE PADS TO PLAY WITH THE GATE TIME YOU WANT The other basic changes are to your Gate Time Generally Gate Time is a measure of how long the sound should sustain from 005 seconds 5 milliseconds to 6 325 seconds After the drumKAT sends a Note On command the drumKAT will wait this length of time before sending a Note Off command For synths tone generators and samplers this is an important setting especially for string or horn sounds with a gradual buildup For a lot of drum machines this setting has no effect When a Gate Time has no effect it should be set to 0 005 or NO OFFs For many drum machines and samplers this setting is ignored because they may ignore Note Off commands For these sound sources you may select NO OFFS for Gate Time This may be helpful in that your sound source may play rolls a bit faster and smoother Also this leaves one half
51. NG for more detailed information SOUND ADV will increment the Trigger for you SCREEN ADV TRIG1 9 00 127 tl masktime 15ms gainL5 thrsh07 low dynamic 40 high dynamic 254 L1 L8 H1 H8 2 63 007254 TRIGGER ADJUST SCREEN 2 This Screen shows the results of your soft and hard hit training Low and Hi Dynamics Masktime is a measure of how long after the start of the strike to ignore the Trigger signal as it settles down If you are getting quick double triggering from one hit increase your mask time If quick second hits or flams are missed decrease your mask time Gain and Threshold are repeated here for your convenience SOUND ADV will increment the Trigger for you 39 5 Screen Tour Trigger Adjust SCREEN ADV TRG1 9 or DKAT TRG1 interaction OFF 6 200 matrix FT TTT tty 10 130 OFF 10ms Ftl amp hit dk hard TRIGGER ADJUST SCREEN 3 The Trigger Interaction Screen allows you to suppress interaction from one trigger to another if you hit one Trigger and another Trigger that is mounted on the same stand also plays that is interaction The settings are determined automatically for you by the drumKAT if you hit the Trigger hard The matrix is which other Triggers play a little when you hit this one The amount is how much of a signal is seen on the other Triggers when you hit this one The 10ms is how long the false signal is seen on the other
52. O PAD TRANSPOSE CNTRL Mode AUTO PAD TRANSPOSE with HOME BASE CNTRL Mode VALUE ADVANCE the setting of MOTIF RESET to GroupStepTrans and to AutoPadTranspose k01 30 PAD1 TRIG Various Choices 01 PAD5 CNTRL GroupStepTrnspos 02 12 RPT 60 60 RST RPT STP Various Choices SG ee een KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 k01 30 PAD1 TRIG Various Choices 01 PAD5 CNTRL GroupStepTrans R 02 12 RPT 60 60 RST RPT STP Eee A Various Choices KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 k01 30 PAD1 TRIG9 Various Choices k01 PAD5H CNTRL AutoPadTranspose Various Choices 02 12 RPT 60 60 RST RPT STP un en ne ni KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 k01 30 PAD1 TRIG Various Choices k01 PAD5 CNTRL Various Choices 02 12 RPT 60 60 RST RPT STP men en nn KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 73 8 Advanced Kits Control Modes Transpose both Group Step and Auto Pad are used in melodic percussion Transpose allows you to instantly change the key of your pads It is particularly useful when used with ALTERNATING Pads To use the new Transpose Control Mode first you select which of the pads in the current kit are affected by the Transpose Mode in general see p 75 Second Transpose Chains can be set up These chains will allow you to step through up to 8 different transpositions and then loop back around to the first step All you need to do is to put i
53. ROOM ENVELOPE A is the result fora HEADROOM of 0 Note the ENVELOPE follows the waveform closely ENVELOPE B would be the result if a HEADROOM of 10 were selected This ENVELOPE still follows the waveform fairly closely but more of a safety margin is incorporated in the ENVELOPE when it is constructed ENVELOPE C would be the result if a HEADROOM of 64 had 87 10 Triggering been selected This ENVELOPE incorporates a large safety margin If you intend to play on this trigger slowly then that is fine However if you intend to play fast the second hit may not actually be seen as a second hit Below is shown the two fast hits with the 3 different ENVELOPES superimposed upon them If ENVELOPES A or B were being used in the drumKAT the 2nd hit would be correctly recognized and at that point anew ENVELOPE would be started internally to track this new hit However if ENVELOPE C were being used the 2nd hit would not be big enough to get over the internal ENVELOPE that the software in the drumKAT is using because of the big safety margin used when the ENVELOPE was constructed at TRIGGER TRAINING To actually start the training process hit PAD7 and the following Screen will appear TRIG1 9 HIT TRIG1 ONCE SOFT TO SET BOTTOM OF DYNAMIC RANGE So hit it SOFT If it does not respond then you must hit a little harder until it does respond maybe you should increase you
54. SCREEN ADV again clock source for INTERNAL or motifs is EXTERNAL INTERNAL MOTIF SCREEN 5 Here you may choose to select an EXTERNAL clock source if you want to sync your drumKAT Motifs to an external clock source INTERNAL is the normal setting 35 5 Screen Tour Motif SCREEN ADV again 1 4 1 16 1 8 1 8T reads 1 8 notes MOTIF SCREEN 6 You may select Tap Tempo to be read in 1 4 Notes 1 8 Notes 1 8 Note Triplets or 1 16 Notes SCREEN ADV again STOP MOTIFS WHEN CHANGING KITS YES or NO MOTIF SCREEN 7 You may select to have changing Kits always stop any Motifs that are playing You may choose not to do this if you want to intentionally keep a Motif playing as you change Kits That s it for the MOTIF Screens 36 5 Screen Tour Pad Adjust PAD ADJUST SCREENS Enter the PRE EDIT Screens by pressing down on Footswitchl and releasing Then hit PAD7 to see screen 7 PAD SETTINGS to confirm type hit pad 7 again FOOTSW1 TO EXIT PRE EDIT SCREEN 7 The PAD ADJUST Screens are where you customize or train the dynamics and sensitivity of your playing pads to your own individual style and taste So hit PAD7 again to verify that you want to see the PAD ADJUST Screens do you want to adjust PAD1 PAD3 NO PAD6 YES PAD ADJUST SCREEN 1 This Screen asks if you want to adjust the dynamics on any particular pad If you say NO hitting PAD3 the display will ask if you
55. SE e Freeze Base for Alternate Pads e Ready Record for Motifs e External MIDI IN Recording for Motifs e STEP RECORD for Motifs e Global amp Individual Motif Protect e SONG SELECT can now be sent from each Kit 129 MODIFIED DELETED MOVED 13 Appendix e Velocity Shift Curves were made smooth e Gate Times and delay times now have better resolution 5 ms for times less than 400ms e Screens under Pad 9 are now PREFERENCE SCREENS e Duplicate is now expanded Two hits duplicates within the sounds of a Complex pad A third hit duplicates to all pads or triggers in a Kit e General Purpose Control s for Pads amp Foot Control allows you to select any kind of Continuous Controller e You can now ENABLE DISABLE Program Changes Volume and Tempo being sent when editing with footswitch 1 e Trigger Interaction Screen modified to protect External Triggers from interacting with the drumKAT e Changing kits can stop Motifs Yes No Preference e Click can now run on 1 8 1 16 1 8T 1 4 e Foot 3 can be selected to turn MIDI Click On Off Home Base Freeze e When running off external MIDI Clock PLAY MODE clktempo says EXTERNAL e Expanded Foot Functions now allow Tap Tempo Motif Home Base and global Motif Protection toggle e Hatgate is now called FC Gate foot control gate e When receiving a single Kit Dump you will be asked what Kit you want to put it in e The DEMO Kits have been changed 3 of them are
56. The goal here is to pick the smallest of Scans that results in a consistent and accurate reading of your playing dynamics The best setting depends very much on the specific trigger used The best ones available reach their peak quickly within 1 mS and therefore need only 3 or 4 Scans to have the peak be seen However some triggers that are designed differently take about 2 or 3 mS to reach their peak some particularly bad ones actually take around 7 or 8 mS to reach their peak On these slow responding ones a larger of Scans must be used so that enough time has occurred for the peak to be reached and measured A setting of 5 or 6 is generally a pretty safe compromise in consistent dynamics and minimal MIDI delay The following are typical Scan Times for various pads and triggers gum rubber pads 3 7 Scans real drum head pads 4 9 Scans acoustic triggers 5 8 Scans hatKAT amp fatKAT pedals 3 5 Scans kicKAT amp miniKICK 5 8 Scans SOME SUGGESTIONS ON TRIGGER TRAINING 1 It is always recommended to re train after making any changes but if you like the way the trigger is responding after you manually fine tune it then leave it alone 2 Getting a workable trigger happening is generally a trade off between GAIN settings Therefore it is not unusual to try retraining a trigger a couple of times until you find a setting that is the best compromise of dynamics sensitivity and tracking 91 10
57. Triggering 3 Because most triggers have piezo crystal elements instead of FSR you should not expect them to respond as well as the playing surface of the drumKAT Experimenting with what you do for the hard and soft hits can produce different results in the resulting dynamic range Sometimes the best resulting dynamics can be gotten by giving a medium hit for both the soft and hard hit Experimenting is the key See APPENDIX H for a TRIGGERING TROUBLE SHOOTING guide 92 13 Appendix Appendix Trouble Shooting Help What ii it isn t Working Symptom No Sounds out of Sound Source when you play on drumKAT What To Do Here is a list of things to try to help isolate your problem e Verify drumKAT and Sound Source are ON and are plugged into working AC sockets Do their displays light up e Try a compatible AC adaptor if the drumKAT does not beep or light up on power up The AC adaptor must have a positive tip as designated by this symbol and its output should be between 9V and 12V with 400mA or greater current rating Verify drumKAT MIDI OUT is connected to Sound Source MIDI In e Try another MIDI cable Verify Sound Source is OK Can it make sounds on its own Push its sound buttons and listen with headphones Try to control the Sound Source with another controller e Verify drumKAT is alive by depressing the Footswitch and hitting a Pad If you see that Pad come up on the display
58. a monitor placed 10 feet from your ears will sense around 10 mS of delay Sound Travel Delay There is about a 2mS delay from when you strike your acoustic snare drum to when the sound gets to your ear Earphones have a Sound Travel Delay of only a teeny bit since the little speakers inside are so close to your ears Looking at the actual times involved in MIDI Delay 1mS Sound Source Delay 5mS 15mS and Sound Travel Delay 2 10mS you can see that actual MIDI Delay is the least of your worries By the way a MIDI Merge In merged to Out generally has 1 to 2 mS Processing Delay 113 13 Appendix Appendix E MIDI Implementation Chart Function Transmitted Recognized Remarks Basic Channel Default 1 16 1 16 L R provides 32 channels Changed 1 16 1 16 Mode Default Mode 3 X Messages Altered Poly Mono x Note Number 0 127 X Velocity Note On 1 127 X AfterTouch Keys x X Channel By Pad Pressure x and breath control Pitch Bender By Pad Pressure xX FootControl or Breath Control Change 0 x Sends all 128 Continuous Controller commands by hand foot or breath Program Change 0 127 0 127 System Exclusive 0 0 Dump 1 Kit AllKits Global All Memory 1 Motif System Song Pos x x Song Sel 0 x Common Tune x x System Clock 0 0 Real Time Commands 0 0 Start Stop Continue Aux Local On Off x x All Notes Off 0 x Messages Active Sense x X Reset xX x Notes Note Offs timed by Internal Hold Time or continue
59. a simple shortcut for getting to KIT EDIT Screen 5 where you will spend 90 of your time editing the settings on your Pads The shortcut is simple 1 Press down on Footswitch and keep it pressed down 2 While you are pressing down on Footswitch1 hit any Pad on the drumKAT 3 Now let up on the Footswitch 11 4 Editing Notice you have the following Screen on your drumKAT display k01 PAD5ESIMPL ch10 note Gi 43 vel 08 127 crvO1 gate time 0 020s KIT EDIT Screen 5 Note the pad numbers on the top line of the KIT EDIT Screen match the numbering on the figure below drumKAT Pad NUMBERING LAYOUT Press Footswitchl again and hit some other Pad and then release Footswitchl You see the main playing parameters of that Pad This is the quick way you can get directly to any Pad or trigger to edit what MIDI control it performs If you depress Footswitchl again you will return to PLAY That s all there is to getting into EDIT Mode and back to PLAY Mode Simply hold down Footswitch while hitting a Pad or Trigger to get into KIT EDIT Screen 5 Depress Footswitch again to get out 12 4 Editing EDITING FUNCTIONS OF THE PADS Now let s use the editing functions of the Pads Do the KIT EDIT SHORTCUT Press Footswitchl again and hit SCREEN ADV some other Pad and then release Footswitchl1 Now hit PAD1 SCREEN ADV and you will see another screen KIT EDIT Screen 6 Continue to hit SCREEN ADV
60. ach end of the chip If you pry a LOT on one end you will excessively bend the small legs on the other end as the chip pivots on them Don t be scared just pry a little more on each side alternately until the chip is out Take your time don t be in a hurry Make sure you insert the small screwdriver between the chip and the socket before you start to pry each time Instead of between the socket and the circuit board or between the two sockets 6 After you have the chip out place the new chip in its socket being careful to orient it in the same way that the old chip was remember the notch Take a little care to align the legs of the chip into the holes in the pins of the socket Then push down evenly on the chip It should push down snugly into the socket Visually check to see that none of the legs got squished and are smashed under the chip 7 Replace the back cover of your drumKAT and reinsert the 10 screws 8 Turn your drumKAT back over and reinsert the power cord Now turn your drumKAT back on Ifthe display is working you are OK If the display is not working then a Remove the power cord again b Turn the drumKAT over again and remove the 10 screws c Take the back cover off again d Try reinserting the chip pry it out again to make sure that the legs didn t get bent under the chip e Put the back cover on turn the drumKAT back over reinsert the power cord and turn the power back on f If this still
61. advanced modes and their most typical uses COMPLEX MODES Multiple Play up to 4 sounds per Pad simultaneously or with delays Used for fat snare hits chords and strummed amp echo effects Alternate Hits alternate through up to 4 sounds Used to create interesting patterns especially in conjunction with other Alternating Pads Note Shift You select different pitches for the sound on a Pad based upon your playing dynamics Used for talking drum effects or selecting through a wide range of sounds as you play from soft to hard Gate Shift You can make the Gate Time of the sound get longer or shorter as you play harder Used to switch from legato to staccato at will Velocity Shift You control which or how many of up to 4 sounds play by how hard you hit the Pad Used to blend in other sounds for accents or to select different samples based on your playing dynamics to achieve much more realistic sounds HiHat The position of the HiHat pedal or footswitch will select between different sounds Open and Closed as you play on the Pad fcGATE The position of the footcontrol pedal HiHat pedal selects from a range of Gate Times Used to control length of sound over a range hatNOTE The position of the HiHat pedal will select between 8 different sounds as you play on the Pad Used with samplers or sound sources that have multiple samples for varying amounts of closed sound ALTS Hits alternate through up to 8 sounds U
62. aged 1 Introduction OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES DKC drumKAT Case DKB KAT Controller Mounting Bracket Power cords European amp U S AC Adaptors European amp U S Assorted stands and stand parts KF1 Single Footswitches KF3 Triple Footswitch Breath Controller MIDI Quick Notes Quick reference guide for chords Instructional Videos KAT Players Videos KAT T shirt Trigger Pads proPAD multi zone FSR Pad rimKAT dual zone FSR Pad poleKAT dual zone FSR Pad flatKAT single and dual zone Pads Trigger Pedals fatKAT self contained trigger pedal hatKAT Hi Hat Controller padal miniKICK compact BD trigger Pad kicKAT BD trigger Pad for real acoustic feel Acoustic Drum Triggers KST1 Shell mount triggers for Toms KDT1 Head mount triggers for all drums KDT200 Heavy duty trigger for Snares amp Toms modular design and easily removable KDT250 Bass Drum version of above Other Controllers malletKAT PRO MIDI Mallet Controller 3 to 5 Octaves DrumKAT EZ 10 pad controller w trigger amp Expander inputs DK10 Simple to use 10 pad controller trapKAT 24 pad controller midiKITI PRO 9 input trigger interface 1 Introduction PRODUCT OVERVIEW The drumKAT is a velocity sensitive MIDI controller with a layout that is comfortable for drummers and percussionists It is small enough to be mounted on most snare drum stands or onto a tom tom stand using the optional drumKAT mounting bracket The pla
63. ain 98 Non Registered 1 Modulation 65 Portamento Parameter LSB 2 Breath Control 66 Sostenuto 99 Non Registered 3 Undefined 67 Soft Pedal Parameter MSB 4 Foot Control 68 Undefined 100 Registered Parameter LSB 5 Portamento Time 69 Hold 2 101 Registered Parameter MS 6 Data Entry MSB 70 79 Undefined 102 120 Undefined 7 Main Volume 80 83 General Purpose 121 127 Reserved for Channel 8 Balance Controllers s 5 8 Mode Messages 9 Undefined 84 90 Undefined 10 Pan 91 External Effects Depth 11 Expression 92 Tremolo Depth 12 15 Undefined 93 Chorus Depth 16 19 General Purpose 94 Celeste Detune Depth Controllers s 1 4 95 Phaser Depth 20 31 Undefined 96 Data Increment 32 63 LSB for values 0 31 97 Data Decrement READY RECORD CNTRL Mode Value advance the setting of PRESSURE to RdyREC P or k01 30 PAD1 TRIG Various Choices 01 16 OFF or 00 127 Various Choices 01 08 wel 08 127 crv0l 00 127 gate time 1 000s 01 16 NO OFFs or 0 005 6 300 KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 This Screen allows you to select Ready Record a new interactive Motif Record Playback Mode Ready Record is explained in detail in Chapter 12 Motifs Clicks amp Clocks 70 8 Advanced Kits Control Modes HOME BASE CNTRL Mode VALUE ADVANCE the setting of RdyRec to HOME BASE k01 30 PAD1 TRIG9 Various Choices k01 PAD5H Various Choices resets all pads motifs amp pressure KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 HOME B
64. and TRAIN again changing the hdroom setting only affects FUTURE training sessions If you want to know more about this keep reading if you are not in a technical mood then skip down to Back to actual training This is a somewhat difficult one to explain To explain this we will need to get technical Along with your Dynamic Range the other major job of TRIGGER TRAINING is to store a representation of your trigger s ENVELOPE This ENVELOPE is the overall shape of the decay of your trigger waveform This stored ENVELOPE is used in PLAY MODE to recognize the difference between a single hit and more than one hit on this trigger Immediatedly after a hit of a trigger this ENVELOPE is used and for a new hit to be recognized the hit must rise above this ENVELOPE Each hit of your trigger is slightly different than each other hit kind of like no two snowflakes are alike So when this envelope is stored away the headroom setting is used as a safety margin to make the envelope less sensitive to double triggering The larger the hdroom used in a training the less likely an extra little wiggle in the trigger signal will cause a double trigger If you make the hdroom too large fast playing may not be tracked well or a Soft hit immediately following a Hard hit may not be accurately picked up Above is shown a HARD hit in TRAIN and the resulting ENVELOPEs that would be stored for 3 different values of HEAD
65. anged to nte1 The 1 here changes to allow you to select each of the 8 notes the 8 of ALT8 and RAN8 doesn t change because ALT8 is the actual name of the mode 66 8 Advanced Kits Melodic Modes MELODIC MODES If you start to experiment with melodic percussion or rhythmic patterns of pitched notes or chord stabs you end up having to select Note s that have specific melodic relationships The drumKAT now has a wide selection of Melodic Modes that will make this very easy for you Just select a root Note and a chord structure and the Mode will pick out the 4 or8if melALT etc Notes that you need for that melodic relationship melMULTIPLE melVELSHIFT melALT melRAN melNSH Make sure to read the section about Transpose aCNTRL function p 73 There you will find explanations of how to use DEMO Kits 1 2 and 3 If you want to try some really fun melodic percussion make sure and catch p 75 to p 76 MelMul1 MelVsh1 MelAlt8 01 30 PAD1 TRIG9 MelRan8 MelNsh8 Note 1 2 3 or 4 kO1PAD5 E MelMull Bch10 D 2 39Ma 47 Chord Type 1 16 08 127 crv0l 1 16 00 12 d0 00 g0 00 D 1 Root Note OFF or C 2 G 8 B N R L OFF or 0 010 6 40 NO OFFS or 0 005 6 30 KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 MelMul1 MelVsh1 MelAlt8 01 30 PAD1 TRIG9 MelRans MelNsh8 kO1PAD5 MelNsh1 Note 1 2 30r4 Bch10 D 2 39Maj7 Chord Type 1 16 TngrvOlvel 08 127 00 127 11
66. as much information to get recorded into a sequence or Motif when you are playing Notes Some drum sound sources will keep their MIDI light on if you use NO OFFs just ignore the light For sound sources that do respond to Note Offs different Gate Times will give you different lengths of time for the sustain of the Notes In EDIT MODE adjust the Gate Time of a Note while hitting HEAR SOUND to monitor your changes Note that for very short times the resolution is in 5mS increments and for medium times the resolution is 25 mS while at long times gt 2 seconds the resolution is in 100mS increments The varying resolution allows you to have your cake and eat it too by having accurate resolution where it counts the most short times and also the ability to select very long times 52 7 Basic Kits You can manually control individual Sound sustain by continuing to hold down on a Pad If you are going to do this you should raise the Minimum Velocity of the Pad up because dynamics on the Pads are measured in the first 2 milliseconds of your contact with the Pad On a staccato hit this is fine However if you are trying to press down on the Pad in a sustaining way your push has not amounted to much compared to a staccato strike in the first 2 mS MOVING AROUND THROUGH YOUR KITS To move around through your kits you have several choices 1 Each depress and release of FOOT2 will increment your Kit 2 If you hit
67. aults 1 default kitname Various Choices character A DEFAULT SCREEN 1 The first DEFAULT Screen allows you to change the default character that is entered for any of the KitNAME letters SCREEN ADV and kit defaults 2 Various Choices pad mode SIMPL 1 16 channel 10 midi side B B N R L DEFAULT SCREEN 2 Here you select your default Pad Mode default Channel and default Sides setting 29 5 Screen Tour Default SCREEN ADV and kit defaults 3 min victy 0 max victy 12 curve 01 DEFAULT SCREEN 3 Here you select the defaults for Minimum Velocity Maximum Velocity and Velocity Curve SCREEN ADV and kit defaults 4 gate time 0 020s delaytime OFF s midi note 38 NO OFFs or 0 000 6 300s OFF or 0 000 6 400s OFF or 00 127 DEFAULT SCREEN 4 Here you select the default Gate Time Delay Time and MIDI Note number SCREEN ADV and kit defaults 5 foot3 SUSTAIN cntritype PMOTIF hh footvel 112 SUSTAIN XST STOP XCN STOP HOMEBASE FREEZE CLICK ON OFF PRESSURE TTEMPO PMOTIF EXTCLK 00 127 DEFAULT SCREEN 5 Default may be changed for FOOT3 CNTRL Type and HiHat Foot Velocity when using a footswitch instead of a hatKAT SCREEN ADV and kit defaults 6 tempo 111bpm motif mode INFNT motloop cnt 05 39 2 250 INFNT LOOPED ONCE SLICE D1 D2 or 01 30 DEFAULT SCREEN 6 Changes may be made her
68. chick trip pt197 splash adjust 10 40 120 FOOT BREATH SCREEN 4 There are no good or bad readings The drumKAT reads the pedal for what it is and then uses these readings to make your foot control device hopefully a hatKAT as responsive as possible The Chick Point is the position at which the drumKAT will play a Chick sound Training the HiHat input sets the Chick Trip Point However this setting can be adjusted for personal taste The higher the number the closer to the bottom of the pedal the Foot sound will play CAUTION The Chick Trip Point must stay be tween the open and closed numbers or the pedal will not respond properly SCREEN ADV The next several screens have to do with the Breath Control Input on the back of your drumKAT To actually use a Breath Control you should first adjust the two trimpots in the headset to match the following diagram then train it First match these settings CA ol GAIN OFFSET Output Cable Breath Tube The first Breath Control Screen prompts you train breathctrl gt Breathe with Maximum Pressure amp Hit Save to set FOOT BREATH SCREEN 5 45 5 Screen Tour Foot Breath So breathe with full PRESSURE The maximum pressure you want to use not necessarily as hard as you can blow and then hit PAD7 while you are still breathing full Then the screen prompts train breathctrl gt Don t breathe into BreathCntrl amp Hit Save to s
69. city characteristics by using different Velocity Curves and different Minimum and Maximum Velocity different Pitches or different Channel numbers or even different Left or Right MIDI out These 4 Sounds have been made to be totally independent of each other to provide you with the maximum range of possibilities ALTERNATE Mode Advance the cursor to the Pad Mode on the top line Use VALUE ADV to change it k01 30 PAD1 TRIG9 Various Choices B N R L OFF or 00 127 1 16 00 127 gate time 0 050s nn NO OFFs or 0 025 6 300 KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 Now you re in the ALTERNATE Mode The four Sounds you just defined in the Multiple Mode are now the four Sounds you hear Alternating with each strike if you now check out this Pad in PLAY Mode These 4 Sounds are independent from each other and are the same 4 Sounds you had in the MULTIPLE Mode with one exception the Delay time has disappeared Hit SOUND ADV and you will be able to see the 4 Sounds for the Alternating effect of each Pad If you want to Alternate 3 Sounds advance the Note value of one of the Sounds past 127 to OFF If you wish to Alternate more than 4 Sounds you can use ALT8 an 8 Sound Alternating Mode Or you may do as many as you want by recording those Sounds quantized to 1 4 notes into aMOTIF and then SLICING through the MOTIF in quarter notes If you are using several Alternating Pads to play some particular pattern it is very useful to
70. creens Enter the PRE EDIT Screens by pressing down on Footswitch1 and releasing Then hit PAD2 to see screen 2 KIT EDIT to confirm type hit pad 2 again FOOTSW1 TO EXIT PRE EDIT SCREEN 2 Hit Pad 2 again to confirm Now you will see a screen like rename kit name KIO 116 You name the kit k01 General Midi KIT EDIT SCREEN 1 The first screen of the KIT EDIT Screens the KitName screen allows you to create a 12 character name for each Kit Move the Cursor PAD2 remember to one of the letters in the KitName Then use Value Advance PAD6 remember to change the character The character choices include upper case letters lower case letters numerals and some punctuation Now do a SCREEN ADV PAD1 to see the second KIT EDIT Screen OFF ON 1 30 KIT EDIT SCREEN 2 On the NOTE MAP Enable Screen you select whether Notes coming in either MIDI IN of your drumKAT receive any special treatment In the 7th GLOBAL Screen you can assign 16 independent MIDI NOTEs on either MIDI IN to be mapped to Pads or Triggers in your drumKAT This mapping in your drumKAT enables NOTES from other external controllers to perform the advanced functions that your drumKAT Pads and Triggers do We call this KATalyzing Using this NOTE MAP you can have hitting a Pad on a dK10 or any other controller you have that has less power than your drumKAT play a chord or start a Motif or sequence start or do a Kit Adva
71. d physical holding on Pad 0 Yes x No 114 13 Appendix Appendix F System Exclusive Documentation MIDI allows you to SAVE your settings from MIDI instruments to data disks and computers so you can back up your work This is called a Data Dump The drumKAT will send a variety of Data Dumps of all of its User Kits out the LEFT MIDI OUTs if you go to GLOBAL Screen 8 and hit PAD7 or PAD The drumKAT will automatically accept or receive a Data Dump via LEFT MIDI IN whenever one is sent A drumKAT SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE DATA DUMP consists of two parts 1 A 9 byte header that describes the dump and 2 The DATA The amount of data depends on type of dump Followed by OF7H End of Sys Exc The 9 bytes of the header are defined below HEADER byte 1 OFOH Start of System Exclusive Status Byte byte 2 00H byte 3 OOH byte 4 15H 00H 00H 15H is KAT s Company ID byte 5 68H Instrument type ID for the drumKAT byte 6 XX Dump Type byte 7 XX Individual Instrument ID byte 8 XX Software Version byte 9 XX Aux Type Kit or Motif if Type is Kit or MOTIF DATA The DATA is split into nibbles and sent with a 0 for MSN It takes two bytes of System Exclusive transmission for every byte of internal drumKAT information The amount of data for each dump type is as follows Dump Type Amount of Data Global 7120 1 Kit 1184 All Memory 58460 All Kits 35520 1 Motif 384
72. differently This Mode may not work well with a drum machine that has a limited number of notes that it responds to because there will be gaps in response where your drum machine has no MIDI note If you are playing into a synthesizer or sampler where MIDI notes are assigned in groups this will work fine Move the cursor to the first number after the n on the second line This number is the beginning of the range of Note values that will be sent out the MIDI line depending on how hard you hit the Pad Change this value and the value after the dash to give you a reasonable range of pitch while hitting Pad 5 to hear the effect of what you are creating Note that a large range in pitch an octave or more can be rather unwieldy to control Also it is worthwhile to try different curves to correlate your playing to pitch at the far right hand end of line 2 Feel free to experiment Note some curves are Reverse Curves so the pitch will go down as you hit harder instead of going up 60 8 Advanced Kits Complex Modes GATE SHIFT Mode Now move the cursor back up to the Pad s Mode far right hand end of top line and change to GSHFT Gate Shift k01 30 PAD1 TRIGY Various Choices B N R L k01 PAD5H GSHFT BchlOnote E2 40 OFF or 00 127 1 16 00 127 NO OFFs or 0 025 6 300 KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 In Gate Shift Mode lines 2 and 3 return to more normal settings but line 4 now has a Range of Gate Times
73. down on Footswitch1 and releasing Then hit PAD5 to see screen 5 COPYSCREENS to confirm type hit pad 5 again FOOTSW1 TO EXIT PRE EDIT SCREEN 5 The COPY Screens are the Screens that allow you to copy one Kit to another one Pad to another or one Curve to another So hit PAD5 again to verify that you want to see the COPY Screens COPY from kit01 to kit0O1 HIT COPY PAD5 TO VERIFY KITCOPY COPY SCREEN 1 This KIT COPY Screen allows you to copy an entire Kit to some other Kit Use the CURSOR VALUE ADV and REVERSE pads to select the appropriate from and to kits then hit PAD5 to perform the copy If your PERMANENT MEMORY IS PROTECTED you will be warned and requested to go to the GLOBAL SCREENS or go to KIT EDIT and enable your PERMANENT MEMORY CAN BE CHANGED first GLOBAL Screen If you have done this and hit PAD5 to do the COPY the drumKAT will give you one more chance to change your mind If you really want to do a KIT COPY hit PAD5 again and the display will verify the COPY Then the message will return to the KIT COPY Screen with the to Kit incremented by one to make copying a specific Kit to several other successive Kits easy Hit SCREEN ADV and you will see the KIT PAD COPY Screen 01 30 D1 D4 COPY kit0 Is PAD1 0 to kit01 PAD1 ie 1 9 HIT COPY PAD5 TO VERIFY KITCOPY COPY SCREEN 2 Again use CURSOR ADV VALUE ADV and REVERSE to select what specific Pad or Trigger you
74. drumKAT 3 5 in tight with packing noodles paper etc so that it is not flopping around in the box during shipping Shipping expenses and proper packing of instruments shipped to KAT are the responsibility of the consumer 126 13 Appendix Appendix M Changes in 3 5 relative fo 3 0 Soitware Below you will find a list of the latest software changes for 3 5 All of these changes are available to everyone who ever bought a drumKAT Of course as the drumKAT evolves even further in years to come our future innovations will be made available to you too So please stay in touch with us The exciting new features you should check out include enhanced HiHat control KATalyzing other controllers Channel mapping and Note mapping expanded Motif capabilities Ready Record Step Record and Record from MIDI In and enhancements to the Velocity Shift Gate Time resolution and Continuous Control Numbers If you ever felt the urge to do any tuned or pitched percussion try the new Melodic Modes If not get adventurous and try them anyway Used with the new Transpose Modes you can create incredible patterns and progressions to utilize in your playing Check out the new DEMO KITs D1 through D3 If you can get a pitched sound out of your sound source you ll have a lot of fun with the Demo kits NEW e HiHat control input CHICK and CONTROLLER 04 e KATalyze MIDI IN e 1 4 Note Selectable Polyphony e MELODIC Modes e TRANSPO
75. drumkKAT 3 3 Manual Alternate Mode Inc Rev 9 96 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION men A EE 3 6 Unpacking Warranty Card Mounting Cases Optional Accessories Product Overview SCONNECTONSEH IE A ean areremeseaae ale 7 8 Power Footswitches MIDI In MIDI Out Click Out Trigger Inputs Foot Control Input Breath Control Input y MAKING A SOUND Fa ne eeeneat eee 9 10 EDITING 2 20222 22222 2 22a nnn nnn nnn nnn nnn 11 16 General Editing Concepts KIT EDIT Shortcut Editing Functions of the Pads SCREEN ADV REVERSE CURSOR ADV VALUE ADV HEAR SOUND SOUND ADV DEFAULT DUPLICATE SAVE RECALL SCREEN TOUR 22 72 222 222 0 17 46 Selecting Type of Screens GLOBAL Screens KIT EDIT Screens ALL NOTES OFF Screens DEFAULT Screens COPY Screens MOTIF Screens PAD ADJUST Screens TRIGGER ADJUST Screens PREFERENCE Screens FOOT BREATH Screens gt MIDI PRIMER irmata te a a a 47 49 Connections Signals Concepts amp Commands MIDI Channels MIDI Notes MIDI Velocity MIDI Note On MIDI Note Off Program Change System Exclusive Dumps So What s the Big Deal All You Really Need to Know to Get Going With MIDI 7 BASIC KITS ee 50 53 Making Sure You re Set Up Right Get the Pads to Play the Sounds You Want Get the Pads to Play with the Velocity Response You Want Get the Pads to Play
76. ds from Open to Closed out of your sound source 1 Connect the Control CNTRL Out from the hatKAT into the hatKAT input of the drumKAT with a mono 1 4 cable 2 To insure that your HiHat plays properly you should train it in 77 9 HiHat the FOOT BREATH Screens under PADO Follow the directions starting on p 44 3 Assign a Pad or Trigger to SIMPLE Mode KIT EDIT Screen 5 and with the Note of the OPEN SOUND kO1 PAD5 SIMPL ch10 note G2 43 vel 08 127 crvOl gate time 0 020s KIT EDIT Screen 5 4 In the Foot Control Screen KIT EDIT Screen 8 assign Controller 04 or Modulation depending on your sound source to be sent B N R L 1 16 See List pressure NchlO P 70 PITCHBEND UP e127 crvOl 00 127 1 16 KIT EDIT Screen 8 5 The Foot sound gets assigned in the FOOT CHICK Screen KIT EDIT Screen 7 01 30 kOlkitFoot Chick B NRL wi Bch1Onote G 2 44 1 16 08 127 crv014 1 16 00 127 gatetime NO OFFs OFF or 00 127 NO OFFs or 0 005 6 300s KIT EDIT Screen 7 The Splash sound get Chick blinking and VALUE ADV to Splash should be set to OFF for this Mode 6 Setup the sound source to respond to Controller 04 or Modulation depending on your sound source HATNOTE HIHAT SETUP With HATNOTE if you play on your HiHat Pad while you move the hatKAT with your foot you will select individually up to 8 different sounds as you move the pedal 1 Connect th
77. e P on the top line can be value advanced to a T so that you can quickly get an overview of the Trigger settings as well lt SPPHBRAMNTL lt NDZP Another SCREEN ADV and permanent memory IS PROTECTED IS PROTECTED prgrm chg receiv CAN BE CHANGED DISABLE ch 01 1 16 DISABLE ENABLE KIT EDIT SCREEN 4 At this Screen you may PROTECT your permanent Kit Memory so that any experimentation you do doesn t permanently change your Kit settings Every time you turn your drumKAT on this setting returns to IS PROTECTED When you try to do a SAVE of any Kit edits changes or alterations you are given the opportunity to change this setting to CAN BE CHANGED When you are done Saving changes to a Kit that you 22 5 Screen Tour Kit Edit want to keep you can move to this Screen manually by REVERSE SCREEN ADVing and return the setting to IS PROTECTED The next Screen you should see will be like k01 PAD5 E SIMPL ch10 note Gi 43 vel 08 127 crv01 gate time 0 020s KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 This is the screen that you can take the KIT EDIT SHORTCUT to When you do the KIT EDIT SHORTCUT you skip over the first four KIT EDIT Screens Of course you can see the first four screens by simply hitting the REVERSE Pad and then SCREEN ADVance in reverse First hit PAD2 to move the Cursor to see what can be changed on this screen You can change the Kit number you are working on which Pad you can see but not change wheth
78. e These screens where you select which type of Screens to enter are called the PRE EDIT Screens Depress Footswitch and release it without hitting any Pad The display will cycle through the following three screens SELECT EDIT TYPE BY HITTING A PAD all pads are assigned a number 0 5 2 PAD LAYOUT 1 GLOBAL 2 KITEDIT 3 NOTOFF 4 DEFALT 5 COPY6 REC7 PAD 8 TRIG9 PREFO FOOT 17 5 Screen Tour Global At this time you are in PRE EDIT This is simply where you decide which type of screens you want to look in This is a place where you are no longer in PLAY and not yet in EDIT because you haven t chosen which set of screens to edit yet These screens are indicating that you can choose what type of screens to edit by hitting one of the ten Pads on your drumKAT There are a lot of settings you need access to if you want to have true control To keep things organized so you can figure out where to find them these settings have been grouped into 10 Types of Screens You select which type of screens by which Pad you hit after you have entered PRE EDIT GLOBAL SCREENS Get into PRE EDIT and hit PAD1 once The screen will say 1 GLOBAL EDIT to confirm type hit pad 1 again FOOTSW1 TO EXIT The GLOBAL Screens are a collection of settings that apply to the instrument globally Confirm that you want to look at the GLOBAL Screens by hitting PAD1 again You will see this screen CAN BE CHANGEL permanent memo
79. e Control CNTRL Out from the hatKAT into the hatKAT input of the drumKAT with a mono 1 4 cable 2 To insure that your HiHat plays properly you should train it in the FOOT BREATH Screens under PADO see p 44 3 Assign a Pad or Trigger to HATNOTE mode KIT EDIT Screen 5 78 9 HiHat PAD1 TRIG9 k01 30 1 8 Various Choices 1 16 B N R L OFF or 00 127 gt 0 020s fervol NO OFFs or 0 005 6 300 00 127 KIT EDIT Screen 5 In HATNOTE mode you can select up to 8 notes that will be played on the pad based upon position of the pedal when the hihat pad is struck Where the 8 or fewer sounds are selected by position of pedal is controlled by the ferv FootCuRVe Like Alternate 8 and Random 8 these 8 notes can be on different MIDI Channels but share Velocity and Gate Time settings By selecting the 8 or fewer sounds to be in succeeding amounts of closedness playing the hihat pad while closing the pedal will give realistic hat play 4 Assign the Channel and Note of Notel nte1 for the Closed sound From there assign from closed to open ntel nte8 all the HiHat sounds your sound source has If you don t have all 8 sounds for HiHat turn the note OFF after the open sound For example if you only have 3 HiHat sounds Open Closed and Foot NTE1 will be the Closed NTE2 will be the OPEN and NTE3 you will shut off 5 The Foot sound gets assigned in t
80. e to the defaults used for Tempo Motif Mode and Motif Loop Counts SCREEN ADV and kit defaults 7 pressure type Various Choices PITCHBEND UP oe range 127 DEFAULT SCREEN 7 Select the defaults for PRESSURE TYPE for Pads and Pressure Effect RANGE 30 5 Screen Tour Default SCREEN ADV and kit defaults 8 1 16 send channel 10 01 Zen 00 127 send program 1 send volume 127 00 127 DEFAULT SCREEN 8 Select the defaults for Program Change Channel Program Number and Volume SCREEN ADV and record defaults countoff 8 of beats 60 quantize TO 1 3 8 01 96 Various Choices DEFAULT SCREEN 9 Select the defaults for Motif recording for countoff number of beats and quantize SCREEN ADV once and again pad defaults threshold 18 Eos lo dynamic 40 00 254 hi dynamic 2 00 254 DEFAULT SCREEN 10 trig defaults threshold 2 lo dynamic 00 254 hi dynamic 00 254 Pad and Trigger defaults for threshold and dynamic range SCREEN ADV once and again trig defaults 1 threshold 07 lo dynamic 0 hi dynamic 230 00 254 00 64 07 40 00 254 trig defaults 2 2 L1 L8 H1 H8 gain L6 masktime 05ms J0 DEFAULT SCREEN 11 The defaults for triggering of gain masktime suppression and head room That s it for the DEFAULT Screens 31 5 Screen Tour Copy COPY SCREENS Enter the PRE EDIT Screens by pressing
81. e which version of software is currently installed in your drumKAT 3 5 After 3 seconds the display screen will change to PLAY MODE ON k01 General MIDI SONGMODE is OFF CLKTempo 96 2bpm Whenever you are in PLAY you should be able to play on the drumKAT 3 5 Pads and MIDI information will be sent out to the MIDI devices to which you are connected The second line tells you which Kit is selected A Kit is a collection of MIDI settings for all your Pads and triggers The drumKAT 3 5 holds 30 Kits Each Kit has a user defineable KitNAME that is associated with the Kit In this case Kit 01 has the KitNAME of General Midi 3 Making A Sound The third line tells you that the SONGMODE which allows you to create your own chains of Kits is OFF The fourth line tells you what your current clock tempo is If you are playing an internal MOTIF in the drumKAT 3 5 or controlling an external sequencer with the drumKAT 3 5 this tempo is the speed of playback or recording in beats per minute For now make sure your receiving device is set for MIDI Channel 10 After you have done this you should be able to play on the drumKAT 3 5 and have the device that you are connected into respond by playing its programmed sounds If you don t hear anything verify that your sound source is connected to an amplifier or headphones Check to see that both the drumKAT 3 5 and the sound source are on the same MIDI Channel Find out what MIDI
82. eath Control 5 8 23 27 44 46 70 Input 8 Training 8 44 46 Bulk Excl Protect 20 41 EE a eee ee Gasse Cases 3 Channels see MIDI Channels Channel Map 26 129 Click Out 8 95 96 103 Click MIDI 34 35 96 104 130 Clock 9 26 35 54 68 69 71 95 97 99 105 130 Complex Modes 15 22 54 53 64 see Alternating see Alt8 see FC Gate see Gate Shift see HatNote see HiHat see Multiple see Note Shift see Rang see Velocity Shift Continuous Controller 24 44 55 69 70 77 109 129 130 Control Modes 30 54 55 see Alt Resync see AutoPad Transpose see Ext MIDI ClockControl see Note Freeze see Home Base see Kit Adv Rev see Motif Playback see Motif Resync see Pressure see Ready Record see Tap Tempo Copy 5 15 32 Curves 19 33 Kits 32 Pads 32 Countoff 31 34 97 98 100 Curves 19 23 30 33 52 56 59 60 69 70 79 116 122 129 Define 19 Cursor Adv 11 13 14 Data Dump 20 42 48 109 115 130 Defaults 11 15 29 31 52 93 109 Delay 30 40 54 58 91 109 110 112 113 129 Demo Kits 42 65 75 76 107 108 129 130 Display Viewing Angle 41 130 Duplicate 11 15 16 130 Dynamics 4 6 8 22 23 31 37 40 48 52 56 59 62 82 89 91 92 107 109 110 116 123 130 eer nero Edit Mode 11 16 92 110 Edit Screens 17 46 Envelope 8 84 89 Events 102 Ext MIDI Clock Control 26 35 54 68 69 95 96 102 105 130 ees bia ene ie FC Gate 54 62 Foot C
83. ed 4 Select the type of Chord Structure 5 Select a Velocity Range Curve andf Gate 6 Select the Root Note of the chord After you have done this the drumKAT will automatically assemble the appropriate notes to construct the requested chord NOTE You will notice depending on the structure of the chord that the Root Note is sometimes different than the first note of the chord which is shown in the second line For example Let s say you had a C Maj 7 chord which is C4 60 E4 64 G4 67 and B4 71 Now you wanted to use the same chord but you needed a slightly different sound so you invert the chord All this means is that by taking the first note of the chord and placing it after the last note your chord now looks like this E4 64 G4 67 B4 71 and C5 72 The chord is still a C Maj7 but by taking the 1st inversion of the chord the first note of the chord has changed from C4 60 to E4 64 You can see the individual Note s that make up the Chord relationship by hitting the Sound Advance Pad and tracking the Sound at the end of the top display row After setting up an available Chord Structure you may then switch to the non melodic version of the melodic mode you were using e g switch from MelAlt8 to Alt8 Then you could actually pick out an individual note and experiment with its settings separate from the rest 66 Chord Structures Available NAME Majs Majc Dors Dorc Ma7c Mi7c Mixs Mixc Dims Dimc Dim7
84. ed in section 4 on EDITING that SOUND ADV PAD4 advanced you forward to the next Pad If you re in a COMPLEX Mode that has more than one Sound associated to a Pad you can easily move through the 4 Sounds of that Pad by hitting SOUND ADV If you now hit SOUND ADV the number 1 in the upper right corner will change to 2 regardless of where the cursor is and you will see the definition for Sound 2 in the MULTIPLE Mode for Pad 1 If you hit SOUND ADV again you will see the definition for Sound 3 etc So for some COMPLEX Modes SOUND ADV rotates through the 4 Sounds of the Pad instead of going to the next Pad To get to the next Pad simply use the KIT EDIT Shortcut with Footswitch1 Hit HEAR SOUND PADS and you will hear the Sound that PAD1 would make in PLAY with the current settings To make sure this responds on your drum machine or synth hit SOUND ADV to get to Sound 1 of the Multi assignment for Pad 1 and move the Cursor to the Note value and change it using VALUE ADV while listening to the sound this would make by hitting HEAR SOUND At this time if you are not hearing the sound successfully by changing the Note value put the Delay time on the bottom line at OFF and the Gate Time at 1 000 Put the Velocity range on the third line from 8 to 127 Put the Curve to 01 On the second line make sure that you have a B at the beginning of the line and channel 10 Put the cursor on the Note value the right hand end of line 2 Change the val
85. er the Pad is Linked to another Pad what Mode the Pad is in what MIDI Channel the notes will go to what MIDI Note value will be sent the Minimum Velocity the Maximum Velocity which Velocity Curve is used and what the_Gate Time is SOUND ADV will increment the Pad or Sound for you The specifics of these settings is discussed elsewhere in the manual Basically they affect the actual Sound that your sound source makes when you hit a drumKAT Pad or Trigger Refer to Chapter 6 MIDI PRIMER Chapter 7 Basic Kits and check the Index for more information on any of these parameters Next SCREEN ADV shows PAD1 10 TRIG1 9 k01 30 PAD1 10 TRIG1 9 or i KIT EDIT SCREEN 6 You may choose to LINK any Pad or Trigger to any other Pad or Trigger Linking will cause two Pads to play when you hit one Pad Common uses are Link a KIT ADVANCE Trigger to your Snare Drum Pad When you hit the Trigger for a Kit Advance you will get a Snare Sound and change Kits Link two Multiples to get an 8 Note chord Link two Velocity Shift Pads for dynamic diads 2 note chords Link a Melodic Alternate 8 Pad with another Melodic Alternate 8 Pad that has only 5 Notes assigned and play 5 against 8 If you Link the Breath Control to a Pad or Trigger you can play sounds with your mouth as well as controlling pitch bend modulation etc of sounds Every Pad or Trigger may Link to any other Pad or Trigger Links do
86. erstand are MIDI Note On MIDI Note Off MIDI Program Change and System Exclusive CONCEPTS If we use a telephone line analogy MIDI Channels are like phone numbers Sound Sources are like homes MIDI Notes are like the individual people in the individual homes that has that phone number MIDI Velocity is like the information you tell the person you are talking to A separate MIDI Channel is usually assigned to each Sound Source you are using like a phone number per home There are 16 different MIDI Channels available there s a lot more phone numbers you probably have more friends than sounds sources To make MIDI work for you you need the Channel your sound source is set to receive on match the Channel your drumKAT is sending on It s that simple 47 6 MIDI Primer On the drumKAT you can have every Pad send on different Channels if you want that is an advanced use if you have more than 1 sound source Generally you will set all Pads of your drumKAT to send on the same Channel as your sound source is set to receive on Most commonly used Channel for drum sounds is Channel 10 e So to get your sound source to respond at all you first need to match up the Channel you are sending on to the Channel your sound is receiving on Each Sound or Pitch within each Sound Source is accessed by the MIDI Note Number that is sent just like asking for the person by name when you reach the correct home e So to get the co
87. et FOOT BREATH SCREEN 6 So while you are not breathing into the Breath Control hit PAD7 These readings instruct the drumKAT on the range and type of action of your Breath Control enabling the drumKAT to work with your range of expression The screen should now give you the range your Breath Controller trained at breath range 03 81 FOOT BREATH SCREEN 7 This is the result of the Breath Control readings The drumKAT 3 5 uses these settings to adjust for full range control for your particular Breath Controller If your values are significantly different than these you should tweak or adjust the OFFSET trimpot on the Breath Control slightly and then retrain Several OFFSET changes may be necessary to get optimum settings It is not necessary to get exactly these settings The drumKAT will do its best to adjust to whatever readings you get If your readings are within 03 15 for the low number and 60 83 for the high reading you are OK That s it You ve seen them all Now you ll learn how to make your own kits 46 6 MIDI Primer CONNECTIONS SIGNALS 6 MIDI Primer What is MIDI anyway First MIDI is an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface It is a standard or an agreement among the various musical instrument manufacturers that we will all use the same kind of connections and electrical signals so that any two musical instruments can be connected together and wor
88. f the instrument If your instrument does not turn on refer to the troubleshooting section in the Appendix to check for fuse etc Also included is a DC Input for a9V AC adapter in case you lose your power cord AC Adapter specifications 9 to 12V positive tip 400 mA or greater FOOTSWITCHES Personal taste again Any momentary on off type will work if you plug MIDI IN them in before turning the drumKAT 3 5 on The normally open variety are slightly more reliable than the normally closed A single and a triple Footswitch are both available from KAT The drumKAT 3 5 has two MIDI IN jacks to receive MIDI information from another controller a sequencer or a computer The drumKAT 3 5 can merge and or filter this information and send it to either or both of the pairs of MIDI OUT jacks The MIDI mapping and MIDI filtering abilities of the drumKAT 3 5 allow you to interconnect a vast array of MIDI modules together and side step echoing problems to have complex controlled interactions of your equipment MIDI OUT The drumKAT 3 5 has two pairs of MIDI OUT jacks This allows you to actually perform 32 Channel MIDI if you want Or you can map these two pairs of MIDI outputs to be four identical MIDI OUTs These options allow you to choose how you would like to set up your equipment The MIDI OUT can contain a merge of selected drumKAT 3 5 information as well as selected MIDI IN information from either or both of the two MIDI INs
89. f as selecting a specific collection of individual sounds which specifies which different Sounds can be accessed through MIDI Note On Commands Because drummers and percussionists have a highly developed sense of time they are more sensitive to time delays A drummer is very sensitive to where a Sound is played with respect to the beat This brings us to MIDI Delay The MIDI time delay for a Note On Command is 1 millisecond one thousandth of a second It is imperceptible 5 milliseconds mS is where you start to notice 10 mS is noticeable and 20 mS is obnoxious 1 mS 001 Second So why do we hear all this talk about MIDI Delay Because they are really talking about Sound Source Delay when they talk about MIDI Delay So what is Sound Source Delay It is the time that it takes a Sound Source to respond to a MIDI Note On Command it has received and start to make a Sound Sound Source delay typically ranges from 1 2 mS to 15 mS The Sound Sources with 1 2 mS to 3 mS delay are the ones worth owning So if you want to avoid MIDI Delay you must avoid Sound Source Delay Call us and we ll tell you how the various Sound Sources rate 112 13 Appendix Interestingly enough there is also Sound Travel Delay It actually takes sound a noticeable time to travel through the air Hence echoes Hence you see lighting then hear thunder seconds later Specifically sound travels 1 foot in just a bit less than 1 mS This means that
90. fails put your OLD software back in and give us a call 413 594 7466 9 After you have had the new software in and used it for several days please send the old chip back to us They are reusable 124 Warranty Policies 13 Appendix Appendix J The drumKAT has a limited warranty The drumKAT is warrantied against defects due to materials or workmanship for 90 days on labor 6 months on FSR and rubber and 1 year on all other parts Warranty Restrictions Damage or defects sustained through unauthorized repair or tampering or abusive treatment are not covered by this warranty The warranty does not cover damages to the drumKAT as a result of improper line voltage or incorrect polarity AC Adaptor The shipping expenses and arrangements for repair are the responsibility of the purchaser KAT is not responsible for loss of Kit Memory when your controller is sent in for repair or upgrade Please save your Kits on a Data Disk Sequencer or Computer before sending in for repair Care and Maintenance The drumKAT is an electronic musical instrument that was designed to take a pounding from a pair of drum sticks not from rolling down the stairs Simply use good judgment and your drumKAT will provide you with years of enjoyment Don t pour or spill liquids on your drumKAT Don t leave in a very hot car for extended periods of time Don t leave in overly damp areas for extended periods of time
91. fire off because of vibrational coupling through the stand This screen can eliminate these problems with very little compromise on your ability to play simultaneously on those actual triggers Trigger interaction suppression works like this When a trigger is hit some of its peak is stored away as a suppression factor for a short period of time after the hit This value is how big any other trigger must be to be seen as a hit A of the original hit is used because trigger interaction is usually greater for Harder hits than for Softer hits The suppression time can vary from 10 to 130 mS Believe it or not sometimes the interaction signal from the 2nd trigger can actually be 80 mS after the original hit that caused the interaction This is especially true if there are rubber isolation grommets on the triggers involved Rubber for isolation does decrease the amount of interaction but it also slows down the interaction signal The best procedure for dealing with tweeking Interaction Suppression is 1 Set the supression factor at 100 and suppression time at 20mS 2 Now increase the suppression time until the interaction is gone 3 Now decrease the suppression factor to the lowest setting at which no interaction occurs The last of the TRIGGER ADJUST screens is Select of scans to measure peak of trigger input 3 9 trgl 6SCANS 90 10 Triggering Different types of triggers take significantly longer than others to
92. g PAD6 if the cursor is on the trg selection or you can use the SOUND ADV Pad PAD4 so that you can keep the cursor on some other value or you can simply hit the trigger itself and if the drumKAT s current settings for that trigger allow it to respond that trigger will be selected for adjustment During the TRIGGER TRAINING process your hits will not send any MIDI NOTE information out This is to make sure that you don t alter your hits because of internal VELOCITY settings in the drumKAT or because of the way the sound reponds on your drum machine Your soft and hard hits should be based on how you want to play not on the end result of what you are hearing The end result can be adjusted once you have trained the trigger input properly for your dynamics The strength of every hit of your trigger will show up as a bar graph reading on the top line of the display This line will grow or shrink with your trigger s dynamics like a thermometer or a bar graph You have 16 different GAINS to choose from The goal here is to select a GAIN that gives the widest spread of response on the bar graph The characteristics of some triggers are such that a higher GAIN produces no greater result or even less of a result than one particular lower GAIN Don t let that bother you Also you don t need to have your soft hits be 1 square and your hard hits be full scale Just select the gain that gives the widest spread on the bar graph
93. hboring Pads without affecting unrelated Pads Refer to the following pages for triggering info 39 40 82 92 FOOT CONTROL INPUT The Foot Control input is located on the side of the drumKAT and is labeled KF1 hatKAT Input This input will accept either a footswitch or a hatKAT foot controller connected with a standard 1 4 shielded cable The main use of this input is for HiHat control The Chick or Foot sound of the HiHat is generated from this input In addition the selection of Open or Closed sounds on any HiHat Pads is controlled by the position of what is plugged in here If a hatKAT is plugged in here you have a wide variety of choices for HiHat modes so you can choose the one that works best with your sound source In addition to HiHat control if you have a hatKAT you can also do Pitchbend Modulation etc with this input The actual training of the hatKAT pedal is shown in the FOOT BREATH EDIT SCREENS located under PADO See Chapter 5 SCREEN TOUR for details BREATH CONTROL INPUT The Breath Control input accepts a signal from the Yamaha BC2 Breath Controller A KIT EDIT Screen allows PRESSURE Control to be selected for the Breath Controller This allows you to do Pitchbend Modulation etc with your mouth Also using Linking you can actually play sounds with your mouth The actual training of the Breath Controller pedal is shown in the FOOT BREATH EDIT SCREENS located under PADO See Chapter
94. he FOOT CHICK Screen KIT EDIT Screen 7 01 30 k01kitFoot Chick 01 OFF or 00 127 B N R L MIBch1Onote G 2 44 a 1 16 08 127 crvOl 00 127 Tgatetime NO OFFs NO OFFs or 0 005 6 300s KIT EDIT Screen 7 The Splash sound get Chick blinking and VALUE ADV to Splash should be set to the OPEN sound unless you have a good separate Splash sound in your sound source for this Mode NORMAL FOOTSWITCH HIHAT SETUP This Mode produces a standard HiHat mode with only a footswitch The added twist here is the addition of a CLOSE2 sound that is a velocity shift sound that you get when you play an accent on a closed hit 1 Connect a footswitch into the KF1 input on the side of the drumKAT 2 To insure that your HiHat plays properly you should train it in the 79 9 HiHat FOOT BREATH Screens under PADO see p 44 3 Assign a Pad or Trigger to be in Normal HiHat mode with HOPEN HCLOSE HCLOS2 or HFOOT showing in the upper right hand corner KIT EDIT Screen 5 kO1 PAD5E HOPEN BchlOnoteA 2 46 vel 08 127 crvOl gate time 0 050s KIT EDIT Screen 5 4 Assign the appropriate Note to the appropriate locations For General MIDI this would be OPEN 46 CLOSE 42 CLOSE 42 FOOT 44 If you have an additional closed sound this would be assigned to the CLOS2 location If you don t turn the CLOS2 note number OFF and make sure that the velocity range for CLOSE 8 127 kOl PAD5E
95. hick 8 24 45 77 81 129 Foot Control 8 24 45 62 76 78 130 Chick Trip Point 45 Input 8 77 Training 8 44 45 Footswitches 3 5 7 1 9 11 13 17 27 28 42 57 130 2 53 71 93 95 3 26 27 30 58 71 72 95 130 4 26 71 95 96 130 eee eae eee Gain see Triggers Gate Shift 22 54 60 14 Index Gate Time 23 30 52 54 56 60 62 109 112 129 Global Screens 18 20 Group Step Transpose 55 73 74 PE H HatNote 22 24 44 54 63 77 79 Headroom see Triggers Hear Sound 14 51 52 57 Help 49 107 108 126 HiHat 24 54 62 77 81 Modes 77 81 Controller 04 77 78 HatNote 78 79 Normal 79 81 Foot Chick 24 30 81 Splash 24 77 79 81 Home Base 27 55 58 68 71 93 95 Holding Down Pads 14 53 114 Initialize 43 107 108 Instrument ID 20 42 115 Interaction Matrix 8 40 82 83 86 90 123 130 KATalyze 20 21 26 129 Kit 5 8 9 11 12 15 16 18 20 27 Adv Rev 21 23 53 55 71 93 LiveChange 93 94 Kit Edit 21 Screens 21 27 Shortcut 11 15 22 Kit Name 9 21 29 Kit Overview Screen 22 DRIN ER ans Link 8 20 23 27 63 71 76 Locked Unlocked 41 Mask Time see Triggers Melodic Modes 3 42 54 65 66 73 109 129 130 Demo Kits 3 42 Multiple 65 66 Alternate 65 66 Random 65 66 Note Shift 65 66 Velocity Shift 65 66 Merge 7 19 20 26 113 MIDI 9 47 49 107 109 112 113 Channel 9 10 23 29 47 49 56 93 109 LiveSend 94 Clock 55 68 71 95 96 100 105 Delay
96. ifficult because a second hit comes in before the first hit is done ringing The foot triggers and trigger pads can have very short spikes as their response The drumKAT has been designed with this variety in mind allowing you to get sensitivity and dynamics in your trigger playing without double triggering problems First let s look at what these waveforms look like so that you can understand why the settings used by the drumKAT are necessary The first waveform is that of a snare drum Next the waveform of a trigger Pad 84 10 Triggering Next the waveform of an FSR Pad The main difference between these waveforms is that the snare drum has a very long decay time Decay time is the time it takes for a signal to settle down to quiet Acoustic drums have a relatively long decay time this is where the full tone of the drum is heard A large tom tom will have an even longer decay up to 500 milliseconds 0 5 sec or even longer If you wait 1 or 2 seconds between hits of an acoustic drum the signal from the drum will have settled down so that it is easy to differentiate the two hits as separate hits This is how most trigger to MIDI devices before the drumKAT and midiKITI required you to play However if your hits are 60 milliseconds 0 06 sec apart it is a tricky business to figure out what is going on To make matters even worse different drums produce very different signals depending on how they are constr
97. ighting Effects unit would call up a different lighting setup A MIDI System Exclusive Command is something specific to a particular instrument It is typically used to do Data Dumps A Data Dump is when an instrument sends its settings out MIDI in a big group so that they can be saved on some storage device like a computer or a MIDI disk drive Then the Data Dump can be sent back into the instrument later on to retrieve those settings again Data Dumps are used as a back up against the accidental loss of your settings or Kits 48 6 MIDI Primer SO WHAT S THE BIG DEAL The big deal is that MIDI is new It s not only new for you but it is new to the music business It s only been around for 10 years drumming has been around since we lived in caves It takes time for people to get used to change especially change that is powerful and technical You don t really need to understand how MIDI works you just need to understand what it does and how to use it Thinking back to our analogy to phones you don t need to understand what actually happens between you talking into the receiver and someone else hearing what you said miles away You just use it It probably has never bothered you that you don t understand it You are familiar with it and can get it to do what you want Now it is simply a part of your life that you use and take for granted MIDI is like your phone just use it don t be scared if you don t
98. in your dynamic range with less effort decrease your Hi Dynamic value SOUND ADV will increment the Pad for you SCREEN ADV and pad 2 5 64 threshold 1 PAD ADJUST SCREEN 5 The Threshold is a measure of how sensitive your Pads are The lower the number the more sensitive that particular Pad is If you make your Threshold too low your Pads may trigger themselves SOUND ADV will increment the Pad for you 38 5 Screen Tour Trigger Adjust TRIGGER ADJUST SCREENS Enter the PRE EDIT Screens by pressing down on Footswitch1 and releasing Then hit PAD8 to see screen 8 TRIG SETTINGS to confirm type hit pad 8 again FOOTSW1 TO EXIT PRE EDIT SCREEN 8 The TRIGGER ADJUST Screens are where you customize or train the dynamics and sensitivity of your Trigger inputs to your own individual style and taste So hit PAD8 again to verify that you want to see the TRIGGER ADJUST Screens TRIG 1 9 01 64 set trig hdroom10 thrsh07 hitPAD7 to train TRIGGER ADJUST SCREEN 1 At this Screen you may check out the response of your Trigger hit the Trigger and the size of response is shown on a bar graph on the top line adjust it s Gain Headroom and Threshold When the bar graph shows a nice response from soft to hard hits hit PAD7 to enter Trigger training which will ask for soft and hard hits to adjust to your dynamic range very much like Pad training See Chapter 10 TRIGGERI
99. irst a quick review The screen you are seeing shows you what a simple note consists of a MIDI Channel a MIDI Note value a Minimum Velocity and Maximum Velocity Velocity Curve and a Gate Time Basically you choose which instrument you want to play with the Channel what sound or pitch with the Note value and what loudness range to correspond to your dynamics with the Minimum to Maximum Velocity range 8 to 127 The Velocity Curve is how the drumKAT correlates your playing dynamics to the velocity range that you have indicated to the left of it on the third line of the display As you hit from soft to hard the curve regulates how quickly the instrument you are playing into will play from soft to loud These curves include reverse curves where as you play harder the sound will get softer The Gate Time controls how long the note will sound On many drum machines this has no effect In SIMPLE Mode what your Pad does is relatively straightforward It plays one Note to one MIDI Channel If you now change Pad 1 from SIMPLE Mode selection to Multiple with VALUE ADV PAD6 you will see the screen k01 30 PAD1 TRIG9 Various Choices NRL k01 PAD5H MUL 1 BchlOnote G2 43 OFF or 00 127 1 16 08 127 crv0l 00 127 025gat0 050 OFF or 0 010 6 400 NO OFFs or 0 025 6 300 1 16 KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 Now you have changed the Mode selection for PAD1 from SIMPLE to MULTIPLE Notice that there is now a 1 in the upper
100. ists string and horn players are all used to dynamically controlling the length of the Sounds they produce This is not generally true for drummers and percussionists Generally once a drum is struck it plays its sound out on its own Of course there are exceptions like cymbal choking and damping mallet or drum sounds but often the sounds do play out on their own Because of this it is not unusual for a drum machine to not pay any attention to Note Off Commands This means that generally even if a drum machine is told to turn off a Sound after only a few milliseconds most will play the Sound out until it is done on its own anyway Because of this you can choose on the drumKAT not to send any Note Off Commands because often for drum Sounds they are not needed and simply fill up space in sequencers and waste the time of the Receiving Sound Source Another difference for Percussion is that different Note Numbers are more likely to stand for totally different Sounds not just different pitches of the same Sound Again there are many exceptions to this but a keyboard player is more likely to think of MIDI Notes correlating to Pitch and a drummer is more likely to think of MIDI Notes as referring to totally different Sounds For a keyboard player a Program Change Command is typically thought of as selecting some specific Sound which the MIDI Notes access different Pitches of For a drummer a Program Change is generally thought o
101. it advances the VALUE ADV value of the Note Try out REVERSE here as well and notice the numbers now decrease If you hold down the VALUE ADV Pad the numbers will scroll for you The harder you depress VALUE ADV the faster the values will advance VALUE ADV is used to change the value of a setting Hit PAD5 HEAR SOUND You will hear the Sound that the Pad HEAR SOUND named on line 1 will make when you hit it after you return to PLAY Mode This Pad gives you the opportunity to preview Sounds while you are editing them without having to bounce back and forth between Edit and Play Now use VALUE ADV to change the Note value and then hit HEAR SOUND to hear what sound that Note produces Alternate VALUE ADV and HEAR SOUND and you can hear what sound each of the Note s makes HEAR SOUND is used to preview the sound a Pad will make in PLAY Mode while you are still editing it 14 4 Editing Now hit PAD4 SOUND ADV Each hit will advance the Pad SOUND ADV on line 1 This allows you to select other Pads or Triggers without having to move the Cursor up there If a Pad is in one of the Complex Modes that have more than one Sound per Pad SOUND ADV will move you through the Sounds of that Pad You will be stuck there To get to other Pads use the KIT EDIT SHORTCUT SOUND ADV is used to advance to other Pads or Sounds quickly There are 15 other screens where the SOUND ADVANCE Pad helps make Editing easier by advanci
102. k MIDI connections are all made with 5 pin DIN cables that plug into 5 pin din jacks on the musical instruments Only two wires are used in these cables to carry the information from one instrument to another A MIDI Out jack is used by an instrument to send information to another A MIDI In jack is used by an instrument to receive information from another The electrical signals of MIDI are digital not analog This ensures that the communications will be exact The expression close enough for rock and roll doesn t apply here If you want to hear a snare drum but some of the time hear a bass drum instead because they are close to each other in the note table you d get upset Digital gives you exactly what you asked for The signals are serial not parallel This means you don t need a complicated or expensive cable to make the connection One pair of wires in the cable will do The signals are opto coupled Current flowing through the MIDI cable turns on a tiny light inside a chip inside the receiving instrument which ends up producing the electrical signal that the receiving instrument uses Wow Cool huh That means that there is no ground connection between the MIDI connected instruments This eliminates 60 cycle hum from ground loops between these instruments CONCEPTS amp COMMANDS The main Concepts you need to understand are MIDI Channels MIDI Notes and MIDI Velocity The main Commands you need to und
103. l come back so now you could Save it if these were changes you really wanted to make RECALL is used to retrieve the last Kit that you edited if you accidentally advance to some other Kit prior to Saving changes you made 16 5 Screen Tour Pre Edit 5 Screen Tour You ve seen what all 10 of the editing pads do Now we will give you a quick tour of all of the Screens in the drumKAT 3 5 By the way you can get back to PLAY Mode any time you want by simply depressing and releasing Footswitch1 As you look at these screens it is helpful to realize that on the drumKAT 3 5 screens there is a convention relating to UPPER CASE Capital letters and lower case letters Generally the UPPER CASE letters are used where there is a setting you can change Lower case letters are used where there is information that is fixed on the screen and can not be changed SELECTING TYPE OF SCREENS The drumKAT 3 5 Pads have 3 uses 1 Playing Pads 2 Editing Function Pads and 3 Screen Selector Pads You already know about using the Pads as Playing Pads and as Editing Pads now you will learn how to use the Pads to select which of the 10 types of screens you want to enter When you first depress and release Footswitch1 the display will ask you to select which type of screens to look at The Pad you hit next will select which type of screens you enter You will be asked to hit a 2nd time to verify your choice of screen typ
104. mKAT See p 43 e Take off 6 side screws Remove frame that holds rubber down onto chassis Remove rubber playing surface Use a dry cloth to clean away any debris that may have accumulated on top of the black playing surface and the backside of the rubber Then reassemble e Call KAT Customer Service 413 594 7466 If you experience a problem with your electronic system try to isolate specifically where the problem is Is it in your Sound Source Amp How about your footswitches or MIDI cables or power cables The more that you can rule out or discover before you call us the easier it will be for us to help you solve your problem 108 13 Appendix Appendix B Glossary of Terms Channel Controller Cursor Data Dump Default Dynamics Editing Factory Kits Gate Time Kit MIDI MIDI Delay MIDI IN MIDI OUT Motif In MIDI there are 16 Channels A MIDI Channel is like a phone number For two instruments to communicate they must talk over the same Channel This is very much like communicating with a friend on the phone You must dial the correct phone number first A MIDI Controller is a device whose purpose is to control other MIDI devices as opposed to a Sound Source whose job is to be controlled Generally a Controller is the Interface device which you play on such as a Guitar Controller Keyboard Controller Violin Controller Wind Controller or Drum Controller An
105. modes allow you to KATalyze other controllers Also there have been enhancements to the Velocity Shift Gate Time resolution and Continuous Control Numbers All of these changes have been made available as upgrades to everyone who ever bought a drumKAT even back in 1988 Right now we are working on even more features and capabilities for your drumKAT We tell you this so that you ll know that as the drumKAT evolves even further in the years to come our future innovations will be made available to you too We won t forget you When you unpack your drumKAT you should find the following 1 drumKAT with 3 5 software 1 manual 1 locking power cord 1 footswitch You also should find a warranty card enclosed in your manual Please fill it out and send it in so we can keep track of you for product updates and new product information The size of your drumKAT is big enough to play comfortably and small enough to be mounted on a snare drum stand Using the optional DKB mounting bracket the drumKAT can be mounted on a variety of KAT drum stands and stand parts The DKB mounts to the bottom of the drumKAT with 4 1 2 x 10 32 screws Consult our latest Katalog or your dealer Where and how you mount your drumKAT is largely a matter of personal taste A special drumKAT case is available from KAT Remember the life of your instrument will reflect the care that you give it If you choose not to use a case in transit the drumKAT may get dam
106. mula used is MIDI Velocity Minimum Velocity VelCurve 127 x Maximum Velocity Minimum Velocity This result is then compared to the Maximum Velocity setting to insure that even if you put in backwards values for Minimum and Maximum Velocity that the final result will always be less than the Maximum setting The Velocity Curve has a multiplier for each of the 64 dynamic levels to dictate how to divide up the range between the Minimum and Maximum Velocity settings The 14 factory Velocity Curves in the drumKAT are shown in table form below where 1 is your softest hit and 64 is your hardest hit Ihe truth of the matter is that these values are really 0 255 inside the drumKAT but we show them to you here and in the Global Curve Definition Screen as 0 127 because MIDI has everyone expecting to see numbers ranging from 0 127 O c lt a Description Linear Very good for drumKAT Pads Starts high Good for Rock drumming 4 separate plateaus 3 separate plateaus Stays low long with an accent at the top Good for smooth low buzz rolls Linear with zeros at the bottom For smooth response on piezo pads For piezo pads Faster rise than 8 10 Use with 11 to do a Multiple Velocity shift 11 Use with 10 Only plays at the top 12 Reverse Curve Drops out only at the very top 13 Reverse Curve Drops out before the top 14 Reverse Curve Drops out in midrange 116 vo oNNSOPrONDH 13 Appendix Velocity Cu
107. n t ripple down meaning if PAD1 is Linked to PAD4 and PAD4 is linked to PADS hitting PAD1 will only play the 23 5 Screen Tour Kit Edit Sounds of PAD1 and PAD4 SOUND ADV will increment the Pad for you SCREEN ADV 01 30 k01kitFoot Chick Bch10note C 2 44 vel 08 127 crv01 gatetime NO OFFs OFF or 00 127 1 16 B N R L 1 16 00 127 NO OFFs or 0 005 6 300s KIT EDIT SCREEN 7 Kit Foot Chick is a setting for having a hatKAT footcontroller play a Chick sound when you depress your hat to the bottom This Sound is Velocity sensitive based on the speed of play when you depress through the Chick Point on your hatKAT This is also where a Splash sound may be selected Simply advance Foot Chick to Splash SOUND ADV will toggle Foot Chick Splash for you This setting is totally independent of using your hatKAT to send controller information for HiHat control to a TD7 or PROCUSSION or using the hatKAT to select one of 3 HiHat Notes or one of 8 hatNOTEs on a hihat Pad or Trigger on your drumKAT Settings for properly setting up your hatKAT are on Screens 1 4 in the FOOT BREATH Screens under PADO Next SCREEN ADV B N R L 01 30 k01 ftctrl L 1 16 See List pressure Nch10 PITCHBEND UP ge127 crv01 00 127 1 16 KIT EDIT SCREEN 8 The FootControl Screen allows you to select your hatKAT to send Continuous Controller information to your sound source If y
108. n a Pad causes continuous controller effects such as pitch bend modulation tremolo etc Ready Record Sets up a Pad to first arm Recording and then stop Recording start Playing on second hit Home Base Hit on Pad causes all Alternating Pads to reset to sound 1 all Motifs to restart at the beginning and all Pressure controls Pitchbend etc to return to inactive setting Alt Reset Hit on Pad causes all Alternating Pads to reset to sound 1 Motif Reset Hit on Pad causes all Motifs to restart at the beginning Kit Advance Hit on Pad causes a Kit Advance Kit Reverse Hit on Pad causes a Kit Reverse Freeze Base Hit on Pad causes all Alternating patterns to stay stuck where they were until you release by rehitting Freeze Base Pad Group Step Transpose Each hit causes all Pads that are enabled to be transposed to go up or down in pitch together as you move through a Transpose Chain AutoPad Transpose You strike the AutoPad once to start the Mode happening Then all subsequent hits of other Pads will increment to the next transpose slot for that Pad individually 55 8 Advanced Kits Complex Modes COMPLEX MODES MULTIPLE Mode Using the KIT EDIT Shortcut with Footswitch1 get to edit Pad 1 do this by holding the Footswitch1 down and then hitting Pad 1 while Footswitch1 is still held down then release Footswitch1 Now move the cursor to the right hand end of the top line and get SIMPL blinking F
109. n the amount of half steps 64 64 and whether you want to transpose up or down There are two types of Transpose Modes GroupStep and AutoPad GroupStep is the more normal mode of the two AutoStep will explore very new territory for most people In GroupStep you must strike the GroupStep Pad to move through the transpose chain With each strike of the GroupStep Pad all pads that are enabled to be transposed will go up or down in pitch together In this mode the pads will all keep the same pitch relationship to each other In GroupStep R the first time you strike the GroupStep R Pad all pads will be brought back to their original pitches Without the R the transposes will happen in addition to where ever pads left off from other transpose pads In AutoPad you strike the AutoPad once to start Then all subsequent hits of other pads will increment to the next transpose slot for that Pad individually In this mode the pitch relation of the pads to each other may change depending on the order you play the pads If you are transposing an Alternate or ALT8 pad every time you get to the first position of the alternating pattern the pattern will become affected by the next step in the Auto transposition chain This means that the AutoTranspose will transpose the Pad every 4 or 8 hits depending on which alternate mode you are using Actually if you define a note or two to have a Note value of OFF you can make
110. nce on your drumKAT or play an Alternating pattern or Velocity Shift through 4 other Notes etc Here you simply Enable ON or Disable OFF whether this remapping of your MIDI IN NOTEs should occur while you are using this Kit If you do not have a specific reason to be NOTE MAPping your MIDI IN Notes the default setting for this is OFF 21 5 Screen Tour Kit Edit Another SCREEN ADV or M A N G V H g n 8 Ror W or M KIT EDIT SCREEN 3 This third screen of the Kit EDIT screens the Kit Overview Screen shows you which Pad or Pads have been assigned which Modes Each Pad can either be in the SIMPLE Mode where the Pad plays one single MIDI Note or a COMPLEX Mode where a Pad may play more than one MIDI Note or the dynamics may change pitch gate time or which note is sent out or in the CONTROL Mode where a Pad can perform control functions such as Tap Tempo start MOTIF patterns do Pitchbend etc This Screen allows you to see the type of settings for all the Pads in a Kit quickly On the Complex row row 3 the following letters have the following meanings M Multiple Mode Alternating Mode NoteShift Mode GateShift Mode VelocityShift Mode HiHat Mode 4 Notes hatNOTE Mode 8 Notes hatGATE Mode Alternate 8 Mode Random 8 Mode Melodic Multiple Mode Melodic Random 8 Mode Melodic Alternate Mode Melodic NoteShift Mode Melodic Velocity Shift Mode Note th
111. ng Guide I Instructions for Inserting New Software J Warranty Care and Maintenance K KAT Inc KAT Customer Service L 3 5 Screen Chart M Changes in 3 5 relative to 3 0 Software 1 INDIE ee acai 131 132 1 Introduction UNPACKING WARRANTY CARD MOUNTING CASES 1 Introduction Welcome to the drumKAT 3 5 Congratulations on your purchase You have purchased a product that has grown and expanded over the 5 years since it was introduced What started out in 1988 as the innovative and advanced drumKAT 1 0 is still the most powerful and responsive controller in the world As better sound sources become available we respond with ways for you to have even more control over your music The drumKAT continually grows in response to your changing needs With KAT s continuing War On Obsolescence all of our customers enjoy continual growth in their purchases because of our upgrade releases The drumKAT has changed physically with improvements in the playing surface additional jacks for powerful HiHat control breath control a locking power cord and backup AC Adaptor input The new 3 5 features include great new Melodic Modes with 2 different kinds of transpose modes for incredible rhythmic texture drumming Try out the Demo Kits D1 through D3 into a pitched sound source The Motif generator now has a Ready Record mode for live playing anew Step Record and can record through MIDIIN Two new NoteMap and ChannelMap
112. ng the Trigger selection or step selection Check Chapter 5 Screen Tour or the Index for these Make sure the Cursor is back on Note Hit PAD8 DEFAULT A DEFAULT personalized default value is instantly put there Change the Note value with VALUE ADV and then hit DEFAULT again to see that DEFAULT always puts one particular value in There is a default value for almost all of the settings in the drumKAT You can change these default values to be values that you use most often to make your editing quicker For example if you always use MIDI Channel 7 for some reason then you should set your Default MIDI Channel to be 7 so that you can quickly enter a 7 for Channel on any Pad when making a new Kit We ll show you how to change your Defaults later DEFAULT is used to quickly enter personal values for settings Now with the Cursor still on Note hit PAD9 DUPLICATE DUPLICATE You are prompted to hit PAD9 again to verify So hit DUPLICATE again The screen will tell you that this value has been duplicated copied to all Sounds for this Pad For a Pad in SIMPLE Mode with only 1 Sound this does nothing If you had a COMPLEX Mode Pad like MULT VSHFT ALT8 etc this 2nd hit of DUPLICATE would have duplicated the setting to all the Sounds assigned to this Pad 15 4 Editing If you hit DUPLICATE a_third time in a row this setting will be duplicated to all the Pads in this Kit or all the Triggers This is
113. notes you are sending and what MIDI notes your sound source wants to see especially in the case of a drum machine Most of the drumKAT 3 5 factory settings use Midi Notes between 35 and 67 The MIDI device you are attempting to control may only respond to a limited range of MIDI Notes For example some drum machines may have eight drum sounds and may only respond to eight specific MIDI Note values If this is the case you will need to adjust the drumKAT 3 5 settings to change the MIDI Note numbers sent out by the drumKAT 3 5 to correspond to the MIDI Note numbers that the drum machine wants to see To do this you will need to refer to the drum machine s manual and also learn how to edit the Pad settings of your drumKAT 3 5 refer to Chapter 7 Basic Kits or see the section on MIDI Note AUTOLOAD p 51 10 4 EDITING 4 Editing GENERAL EDITING CONCEPTS KIT EDIT SHORTCUT The drumKAT has no buttons or knobs for changing settings All changes in the drumKAT s settings are done with the Playing Pads That is why the Pads have names like SCREEN ADV CURSOR ADV etc on them You make all of your changes without having to put your drumsticks down Footswitch1 is used to get you into EDIT Mode and then back to PLAY Mode The drumKAT has two main modes PLAY Mode and EDIT Mode In PLAY Mode your Pads and Triggers all Play sounds or do performance control functions like Pitchbend or starting playback of Motif pattern
114. nstrument and an on off switch A back up AC Adaptor input is provided in case you lose your power cord The drumKAT has a backlit display with four lines of sixteen characters per line The four lines allow you to see a lot of information in an easy to read format Even the viewing angle of the display is adjustable The software in the drumKAT allows you unbelievable control and potential You can play from one to four totally independent notes per Pad with delay times for each of the four notes You can have notes sustained from 5 milliseconds to 6 4 seconds You can have your playing dynamics control the pitch of the note sent out or the gate time of the note as well as the velocity information sent out You can also have your dynamics control which or all of four notes to be sent from each Pad Certain modes allow up to 8 notes per pad There are several Hi Hat Modes which combined with the use of a hatKAT provides you with realistic Hi Hat play You can even bend pitches with your playing Pads or control rhythmic patterns with your Pads A Link Mode allows Pads to be linked to create combined modes for wonderful effects and patterns 1 Introduction The drumKAT has 16 velocity curves two of which are user programmable which are used to correlate your playing dynamics to MIDI velocity information as well as internal note shift gate shift etc As you step through the various Kits in your drumKAT you can instantly access the
115. occurs on 1 4 notes 1 8 notes 1 8 note triplets or 1 16 notes If you select SLAVE TO to Record the Click will start whenever you start Recording a Motif and stop whenever you stop Recording If you select SLAVE TO to Play the Click will start whenever you start a Motif Playing and stop whenever you stop a Motif If you select NotSLAVEto the Click will be unaffected by starting or stopping SCREEN ADV again RECORD or PROTECT GRECORD motifs a16 jmotif0Ol PROTECT STORE or STORE noteoffs IGNORE NORECORD midiin RECORD or NORECORD MOTIF SCREEN 4 This has 4 different Motif Recording settings The top line has a Global setting of PROTECTing or enabling Motifs to be RECORDed On the second line you may PROTECT or enable to RECORD each Motif individually On the third line you select whether you wish to store Note Offs or not when you are recording If you do not store Note Off information in a Motif you will be able to store twice as many Notes as when you do store Note Off information On many drum machines Note Offs are unnecessary and may be left out However on many samplers and pitched sound sources not sending Note Offs may result in notes being stuck on On the fourth line you may select to Record information from MIDI IN Use this if you want to Record a part from a keyboard or drum machine into one of your drumKAT s Motifs SOUND ADV will increment the Motif for you
116. one 413 594 7466 Fax 413 592 7987 We look forward to hearing from you KAT Customer Service If you have any trouble with your drumKAT feel free to give our Customer Service staff a call Our staff is knowledgeable patient and glad to help Our phone number is 413 594 7466 simply ask for Customer Service Feel free to call and tell us what was difficult to understand so we can improve or even tell us what you like so we can feel good If you need your drumKAT repaired or worked on for any reason call our Customer Service staff and ask for an RA number This is a Return Authorization number You must then clearly mark this RA number on the outside of the box you send back to KAT When you call in your RA our staff will ask you for information like your name address phone number serial number purchase date and a description of the problem All of this information is put on an RA form that will be used when your instrument comes in to determine what to do to your instrument and whom to send it back to If you do not mark a valid RA on your box your shipment will be refused so please call and get a before you send in a surprise to us SHIPPING If you ever have to ship the drumKAT 3 5 back in for a repair or an update use care and good judgment Itis best to save the original packing material to make shipping easy and safe If you do not have the original packing material box the
117. ootController and BreathController So hit PADO again to verify that you want to see the FOOT BREATH Screens Foot Controller is ENABLED DISABLED or BreathController ENZBERD is DISABLED FOOT BREATH SCREEN 1 If you are using a hatKAT or similar FootController pedal to send MIDI Continuous Controller information especially to a TD7 or a PROCUSSION ENABLE the FootController If you are using a hatKAT to do Pitchbend or Modulation then ENABLE it However if you are using a hatKAT in HiHat or hatNOTE modes only then DISABLE this setting ENABLE the BreathController only if you are using one SCREEN ADV train footcontrl gt put foot in Full On Position amp Hit Save to set FOOT BREATH SCREEN 2 If you are using a hatKAT you should train it Put the hatKAT into fully closed position and hit SAVE PAD to read that setting Then the Screen will prompt train footcontrl gt put foot in Full OFFPosition amp Hit Save to set FOOT BREATH SCREEN 3 Now lift your foot entirely up off of the hatKAT make sure the pedal has stopped moving and hit SAVE PAD7 to read that setting These readings instruct the drumKAT on the range and type of action of your expression pedal enabling the drumKAT to work with virtually all expression pedals 44 5 Screen Tour Foot Breath The next Screen shows the results of those readings 00 254 foot range en open 112 209 cls 00 254
118. ou have a TD7 you will get best HiHat control by selecting Controller04 here If you have a PROCUSSION you will get best results by selecting Controller01 here See Chapter 9 HiHat for more information You may also use this screen to have your hatKAT do Pitchbend Modulation or other continuous control functions These are most effective when you are playing Melodic Percussion See Chapter 8 ADVANCED KITS for more information 24 5 Screen Tour Kit Edit SCREEN ADV k01 trnsps enble 1234567890 YON pads NNNNNNNNNN trgs NNNNNNNNN KIT EDIT SCREEN 9 At the TRANSPOSE ENABLE Screen you select which Pads you want to be affected by a Transpose Chain CNTRL Mode that you may choose to select on another Pad or Trigger Default setting is N See the end of Chapter 8 ADVANCED KITS for more information k01 30 SCREEN ADV 01 30 PAD1 TRIGY k01 PAD1 MONOPHONIC Polyphony Mode 2 NOTE POLYPHONIC 3 NOTE POLYPHONIC MONOPHONIC 4 NOTE POLYPHONIC KIT EDIT SCREEN 10 You may select the amount of POLYPHONY for each Pad or Trigger independently This is very useful with samplers to get a good sounding buzz roll At the time of the creation of this feature most sound sources do not treat polyphony on one Note properly so the Default is MONOPHONIC When manufacturers of standard sound sources become more forward thinking about their handling of polyphony per Note your drumKAT will be ready
119. ow the transpose pattern affects the sounds played depends as much on exactly how you play the pads as it does on what sounds are assigned to the pads themselves We ll give you 3 examples of using these transposes To easily see these in action we will use 3 of the Demo Kits Advance through your Kits until you get to Kit D1 Kit advance past 30 and there you are If you can t find Kits D1 D2 D3 or D4 then go to the 5th Preference screen under PAD9 and choose to enable Demo Kits EXAMPLE 1 Demo Kit 1 D1 is called Lullabye This Kit is an example of using Alternate 8 s to create melodies Think of pads one three four and seven the left side of the drumKAT as the accompaniment Pads Two Five Six Eight and Nine are the melodies with Pad 0 as Home Base To get immediate results out of this Kit play steady eighth note patterns with your left hand pads 1 3 4 7 while improvising rhythms with your right pads 2 5 6 8 9 NOTE Set your sound source for General MIDI Marimba prog 13 Ch 01 75 8 Advanced Kits Control Modes Specifically try this Hit Pad 0 to reset the patterns then Play Pad One and Pad Two together for one measure then Play Pad Four and Pad Five together for one measure then Play Pad Three and Pad Six together for one measure then Play Pad Seven and Pad Eight together for one measure then Play Pad Seven and Pad Nine together for one measure then Repeat Remembe
120. p if the setting is ON If the setting is OFF then you will be enabled to receive System Exclusive Dumps of the stored information in your drumKAT SCREEN ADV your drumKAT is LOCKED CHANGES CANNOT or LOCKED CHANGES UNLOCKED CHANGES CAN CANNOT be made to your settings PREFERENCE SCREEN 2 If you select LOCKED then permanent changes cannot be done to your drumKAT useful for those rowdy wedding gigs where people climb onto your set when you are on break UNLOCKED allows changes SCREEN ADV display viewing angle is set for EDGE VIEW STRAIGHT ON 2 3 STRAIGHT ON pad6 to change PREFERENCE SCREEN 3 Here you set the viewing angle of your display for clarity and viewing comfort 41 5 Screen Tour Preference SCREEN ADV edit mode beeper 1S ON or OFF TURNED ON pad6 to change PREFERENCE SCREEN 4 If the beeper drives you nuts then shut it off SCREEN ADV demo kits are ENABLED or DISABLED PREFERENCE SCREEN 5 If you ENABLE the Demo Kits after you cycle through your Kits you will find D1 D2 D3 D4 the 4 Demo Kits These Kits demonstrate some of the advanced features of your drumKAT D1 D2 and D3 all illustrate the power and fun of Melodic Rhythmic Percussion try them with a pitched sound and you ll have a lot of fun See the expanded section on the Melodic Modes in Chapter 8 ADVANCED KITS for more information SCREEN ADV W PROGRAM CHAN
121. ppendix Appendix Inserting New Software Chips For Software Updates HOW TO PHYSICALLY CHANGE YOUR SOFTWARE CHIP Tools Needed 1small amp 1 medium flat screwdriver 1 First remove the power cord from the back of the drumKAT 2 Find a smooth clean flat surface and place your drumKAT upside down on it the jacks facing away from you 3 Remove back cover of the drumKAT 10 screws 4 When the drumKAT is opened you will see one large circuit board On the front right of the printed circuit board is a large chip with a white paper label that says something like drumKAT 2 5 This chip is next to a chip that says DALLAS The chip with the white label is your Software Chip the code that runs your drumKAT its Operating System Before you take the old software chip out note how it is oriented in the socket Specifically notice that the notch on the end of the chip is away from you 5 To remove an old chip you will use your small flat screwdriver You will want to pry the chip out of its socket DO NOT pry out either of the two sockets underneath the Software Chip They both remain attached to the printed circuit board Look at the Upgrade chip you received and you will be able to tell what is the chip and what is the socket You want to insert the screwdriver between the chip and the top of the two sockets so as to pry up the chip but not the sockets You also should take turns prying a little bit at a time on e
122. r GAIN or lower your THRESHOLD When the drumKAT sees your trigger it will measure the peak of your soft hit and store it away as your LOW DYNAMIC Don t hit your trigger during this message because it will affect the determination of your TP Then after 2 seconds the Beeper locks on 88 10 Triggering and the screen says TRIG1 9 HIT TRIG1 ONCE HARD TO SET BOTTOM OF DYNAMIC RANGE So hit it at your Hard level The drumKAT measures your Hi Dynamic stores an Envelope based on the actual waveform and your HDROOM setting and stores a Masktime The Beeper then shuts off and the message switches to PLAY TRIGGER 1 if ok hit PAD6 TO RETRAIN PAD7 to finetune PAD1 Now you can play on your trigger and hear the response because it will now send out MIDI NOTE information At this time you are given three choices 1 If you like the way the trigger is responding you can hit PAD6 this will put you back at the bar graph screen with the next trigger selected 2 If you don t like the results of your TRAINING you can hit PAD7 and you will be asked for the SOFT and HARD hits again remember that the Velocity settings in your current Kit will affect how your hits sound 3 If you hit Pad 1 you will advance to the next TRIGGER ADJUST screen where you may do some fine tuning If you choose to hit Pad 1 you will SCREEN ADV to the next of the remaining three screens in the TRIGGER ADJUST screens 1
123. r to experiment with different rhythms with your right hand while keeping a steady pattern on your left EXAMPLE 2 Demo Kit 2 D2 is called Melody Trans Pad One is linked with a trigger and when played sets up an ostenato pattern Experiment playing this Pad along with pads two three and six It could sound wild Pads Four Five and Six work together Again these are just alternating patterns that create an interesting feeling The fun begins when you hit PAD7 which is an example of Group Transpose When playing this pad you are really hearing trigger 9 that is linked to this pad At the same time it will step through the transpose pattern that is assigned to PAD7 Now when you play the other pads you will notice that they all have been transposed sounding higher or lower in pitch The pitch relationship between the pads has not changed but the whole kit is now in a different key Pad 8 also transposes the whole kit but you hear a completely different pattern That is because it has a different transpose chain Play around with all of the triggers they were designed to complement the patterns on the pads They are all alternating patterns and can create the most interesting sound combinations When all hell breaks loose your pitches are in the heavens or hell really high or really low just hit Pad 0 Home Base to get things normal again EXAMPLE 3 Demo Kit 3 D3 is called DIMINISHED The fun thing about thi
124. rrect sound to play in the sound source you are controlling when you hit a Pad you match the MIDI Note number on your drumKAT Pad to the Note number that plays that sound in your sound source The Velocity that is sent tells the Sound Source something about the dynamics of the Sound usually how loud to play the Sound A Note with a low velocity value will play softly A Note with a high velocity value will play loudly e After you train your drumKAT to respond to your playing dynamic range what soft and hard hits are to you the drumKAT will send out the appropriate velocity based on your playing dynamics COMMANDS A MIDI Note On Command tells a specific Sound Source to play a specific Sound at a specific volume It turns a Sound on It contains which Channel which sound source to play which Note sound to play and which Velocity loudness to play A MIDI Note Off Command tells a specific Sound Source to stop playing a specific Sound It turns a Sound off It contains which Channel which sound source and which Note sound to shut off Most drum machines actually ignore Note Off commands A MIDI Program Change Command is used to tell another instrument to use a specific Kit or patch of sounds or settings A Program Change sent to a drum machine will generally call up a different Kit of drumsounds A Program Change to a synth would call up different sounds flute piano xylophone etc A Program Change Command to a L
125. rve 1 Steps 1 8 00 02 04 06 08 10 12 14 Steps 9 16 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 Steps 17 24 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 Steps 25 32 48 50 52 54 56 58 60 62 Steps 33 40 64 66 68 70 72 74 76 78 Steps 41 48 80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 Steps 49 56 96 98 100 102 104 106 108 111 Steps 57 64 113 115 117 119 121 123 125 127 Velocity Curve 2 Steps 1 8 20 20 20 20 20 20 21 21 Steps 9 16 22 22 23 23 24 25 26 27 Steps 17 24 28 29 30 32 34 36 38 40 Steps 25 32 42 44 46 49 52 55 58 62 Steps 33 40 66 70 75 80 84 88 91 94 Steps 41 48 97 100 102 104 106 108 110 112 Steps 49 56 114 116 118 120 121 122 123 124 Steps 57 64 125 125 126 126 127 127 127 127 Velocity Curve 3 Steps 1 8 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 Steps 9 16 05 05 05 05 40 40 40 40 Steps 17 24 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 Steps 25 32 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 Steps 33 40 40 40 40 40 100 100 100 100 Steps 41 48 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 Steps 49 56 100 100 127 127 127 127 127 127 Steps 57 64 Velocity Curve 4 Steps 1 8 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 Steps 9 16 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 05 Steps 17 24 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 Steps 25 32 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 Steps 33 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 Steps 41 48 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 Steps 49 56 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 Steps 57 64 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 127 Velocity Curve 5 Steps 1 8 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Steps 9 16 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Steps 17 24 31 32 32 33 33 34 34 35 Steps 25 32 35 35 36 36 37 37 38 38 Steps
126. ry IS PROTECTED DISABLE ENABLE IS PROTECTED prgrm chg receiv CH 01 16 ADISABLE ch 01 GLOBAL SCREEN 1 The permanent memory protection selection is redundant to the screen in KIT EDIT It remains here also for historical reasons The program change receive selection allows your drumKAT to change Kits when it receives a Program Change from an external MIDI device Simply select Enable and match the receive Channel to the send Channel on the external device SCREEN ADV and see Song 1 8 define song1 l step01 kit01 Be ON OFF Step 01 16 song mode ON GLOBAL SCREEN 2 Songmode allows you to chain Kit s in any order you want and then step through them quickly in the order you selected This is useful for stepping through kits live in performance in the context of a song SOUND ADV will increment the Step for you 18 5 Screen Tour Global Simply select ON on the 4th line and then define each step to be the Kits in the order you want SCREEN ADV to see define curve 15 64steps127values 00 127 step01 64 00 see opy menu step 01 64 GLOBAL SCREEN 3 define curve 16 64steps127values 00 127 step01 64 00 see opy menu EP Ki oe GLOBAL SCREEN 4 These two screens allow you to define Curves 15 and 16 to your own needs If you want to create a new curve that is similar to an existing one with a few changes first use the Curve Copy Screen to copy
127. s that you have selected for the Pads You can easily tell when you are in PLAY Mode because the drumKAT display will say Play Mode On or Song Mode On In EDIT Mode your Pads all perform the Editing functions that are written on the Pads themselves Footswitchl is used to go from PLAY Mode to EDIT Mode and back to PLAY Mode again In EDIT Mode your Pads will PAD1 Advance you through the drumKAT Editing Screens PAD2 Move a Cursor around on these screens PAD3 Reverse editing actions PAD4 Advance through the Sounds you are working on PAD5 Hear the Sounds you are editing PAD6 Change the Value of the setting you re editing PAD7 Save what you changed permanently PAD8 Enter Default values for your settings PAD9 Duplicate your settings to other Pads or Sounds PADO Recall the last edited Kit you were working on Generally your Pads are Playing or they are Editing The one exception to this is in the PRE EDIT Screens where your Pads are momentarily used to select the Type of Screens to work on We will explain that after you get a chance to do some simple editing So let s get in there and do some actual editing There are ten different types of screens in the drumKAT we ll give you a guided tour of them all later The most commonly used settings are found in the KIT EDIT Screens especially KIT EDIT Screen 5 This screen holds the basic settings for what Sound each of your pads will play There is
128. s Kit is that no matter what Pad you hit it sounds good UNLESS you hit PAD9 This is an Auto Transpose pad When you hit this pad any other Pad that you hit will start transposing independently up in half steps every eight notes That Pad will no longer be compatible with the rest of the pads but who cares It sounds cool anyway When things get far out just hit PADO a Home Base pad and get things back to normal All of the triggers will respond in the same fashion Every Pad and trigger will sound good together until you hit PAD9 Then every Pad is on its own journey upward if you know what we mean when you start playing it you will 76 9 HiHat 9 HiHat The Foot Control input is located on the side of the drumKAT and is labeled KF1 hatKAT Input KAT s control pedal the hatKAT can be combined with the new 3 5 software for very realistic hihat playing As you depress the pedal more and more the sound of playing on the hihat pad can get more and more closed Even the chick sound is dynamic You have 3 ways to setup a hihat in the drumKAT 3 5 Normal HiHat using a footswitch like the KF1 HATNOTE and Controller 04 which both use Continuous Controller information sent out from pedals like the hatKAT NOTE It is possible to have more than one HiHat Pad per Kit Multiple HiHat Pads allows you the convenience of having a HiHat on both the left and right side of your Kit NOTE There is
129. se to Record the Motif the Tempo the maximum number of beats and quantization On the middle of the top line you may select to Record the Motif in StepRecord When you are ready to actually Record a Motif move the Cursor to the setting on the far right of the top line on the Screen Then hit VALUE ADV to change the value out of OFF At first the setting will say PRE for the duration of the Countoff then when the actual Recording starts the setting says ON Recording stops when 1 The maximum of beats have been recorded 2 The Edit footswitch is pressed 3 A PLAY MOTIF Pad is hit which prematurely terminates the Recording process For more information see Chapter 12 MOTIFS CLICKS amp CLOCKS 01 30 D1 D4 39 2 250 1 96 Various Choices SCREEN ADV and CLICK MIDI NOTE Bch10noteC 2 37 velocity 64 gate time 0 085s B N R L OFF or 00 127 1 16 00 127 NO OFFs or 0 005 6 300s MOTIF SCREEN 2 On this Screen you define what sound you want the MIDI Click to make Typically you would choose something distinctive like a Clave sound The MIDI Click will give you a Tempo reference to use for practice or for timing during a song 34 5 Screen Tour Motif SCREEN ADV again Click Control 1 4 1 16 1 8 SubDiv 1 4 NOTES Mey SLAVE TO SLAVE TO RECORD NOT SLAVE TOO NotSLAVEto Play MOTIF SCREEN 3 Here you may select whether the Click
130. sed to create interesting patterns especially in conjunction with other Alternating Pads RANS Hits alternate randomly through up to 8 sounds Used to create interesting patterns especially in conjunction with other Alternating Pads MELODIC MODES melMUL Melodic version of Multiple where chords can be created based upon a selected root Note and a selected chord structure Quick way to make chords when playing with melodic or pitched sounds melALT Melodic version of ALT8 where 8 Note patterns can be created based upon a selected root Note and a selected chord structure melNSH Melodic version of Note Shift where dynamic melodic scales can be created based upon a selected root Note and chord structure melRAN Melodic version of Random where 8 Note patterns can be created based upon a selected root Note and a selected chord structure melVSH Melodic version of Velocity Shift where dynamic chord structures can be created based upon a selected root Note and a selected chord structure 54 8 Advanced Kits CONTROL MODES Tap Tempo Your personal tempo is read on a Pad and used to adjust the internal Motif Clock and external MIDI Clock to match to your tempo Motif Playback Control the playback of up to 4 Motifs on one Pad Can control by Start Stop Once Looped and Time Slice External MIDI Clock Control Send Sequence Start Stop and send enable disable sending MIDI Clock Pressure Continued pressure o
131. sequencer to speed up or slow down SCREEN ADV 01 30 k01 midi Chanmap Nch10 in maps to Nch01 notes 63 B N R L 63 63 1 16 B N R L KIT EDIT SCREEN 14 In each Kit you may select one MIDI Channel that you may doa specific mapping function on You may move one Channel of information to another Channel or you may offset or transpose the Notes being merged through to another key By selecting to also merge through on the bottom line you will double the information sent by routing through the original information before it was altered in addition to sending out the altered information You may also filter or block that Channel specifically from merging through with the rest of the MIDI IN information 26 5 Screen Tour Kit Edit SCREEN ADV k01 30 KOT tootswitens SUSTAIN EXT SEQ STRT STO s USTAIN E RT STOP is used as EXTSEQ CONT STOP CLICK ON OFI SUSTAIN HOME BASE RESET FREEZE ALT8 chB01 N01 N01 B N R L ch01 16 KIT EDIT SCREEN 15 In each Kit you may change what FOOT3 does Choices are Sustain Sequence Start Stop Sequence Cont Stop Home Base Reset Freeze Base Click ON OFF SCREEN ADV u B N R L k01 pressure Bch10 PB UP SUSTAIN range127 crv01 ch01 16 See List 01 16 00 127 KIT EDIT SCREEN 16 The function performed by the breath controller Yamaha BC2 can be changed in each Kit Typical uses are
132. t sound at all you can advance the Note past 127 to OFF Believe it or not this will actually be useful in the COMPLEX Modes MIDI Note AutoLoad There is a convenient way to match the MIDI Note on your drumKAT to the buttons on your drum machine or the keys on your synth for that matter called MIDI IN Note Auto Load To use this feature connect a MIDI cable from the MIDI OUT of your drum machine to either MIDI IN on your drumKAT Next position the Cursor on your drumKAT KIT EDIT Screen on the Note Now simply press the button on your drum machine corresponding to the Sound you desire If you have made the proper connections the MIDI Note and the Channel on the drumKAT will visibly change to correspond to the MIDI Note and Channel of the Sound you selected on your drum machine Be aware that after you do this AutoLoad and go back to PLAY Mode the MIDI cable setup used for AutoLoad basically a loop may cause a problem If you hear a flanging effect on the sounds you hear or if you get an absolute uproar of sound simply go to GLOBAL Screen 5 or 6 and select OFF for notes to out Manually Finding the Right Note Numbers Some drum machines and samplers are not set up to do the MIDI Note AutoLoad They may not have a button on their front panel to Play the various sounds inside the sound source Or even if you push that Preview Play or Note button some sound sources don t bother to send out the
133. th of the Gate Time is controlled by the position of your foot on your HiHat controller pedal instead of your playing dynamics on the Pad This Mode is great when used with several pads playing pitches 64 8 Advanced Kits Complex Modes hatNOTE Mode Advance the Mode to hatNOTE Mode k01 30 PAD1 TRIG9 1 8 Various Choices 1 16 BchlOntelF 2 42 08 127 crvOl B N R L OFF or 00 127 1 16 00 127 gt 0 025s fcrvOl NO OFFs or 0 005 6 300 KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 In this Mode any of 8 different Notes can be played based on the position of your foot on a hatKAT foot controller pedal This is explained in detail in the next Chapter on HiHat ALTERNATE 8 Mode Advance the Mode to ALTERNATE 8 Mode k01 30 PAD1 TRIG9 1 8 Various Choices B N R L OFF or 00 127 1 16 00 127 1 16 gate time 0 050s NO OFFs or 0 005 6 300 KIT EDIT SCREEN 5 This Mode allows you to cycle through 8 sounds This allows you to get interesting pattern combinations especially on Linked pads explanations of Linked Pads is given at the end of this Chapter If all 8 notes were totally definable the KIT size would grow considerably and allow even fewer KITs to be stored note that as it is we have had to reduce kits to 30 from 32 to accommodate the new additions A compromise was made to avoid making the KIT size become too large The compromise is that hatNOTE amp ALT8
134. then the drumKAT is seeing it s Pads and is alive and running e Call up Demo Kit 4 on the drumKAT see p 42 Verify that the Sound Source is On MIDI Channel 10 e Disconnect the MIDI cable Turn the drumKAT and Sound Source Off Turn the drumKAT and the Sound Source back on Reconnect the MIDI cable Try REINITIALIZING your drumKAT See p 43 Call KAT Customer Service 413 594 7466 Symptom HiHat does not work What To Do e See Chapter 9 HiHat e Verify hatKAT or HiHat footswitch is plugged into correct input on the side of the drumKAT e Call up Demo Kit 4 on the drumKAT See p 42 Verify that the Sound Source is on MIDI Channel 10 See if pads 7 or 0 act like HiHats e Disconnect the MIDI cable Turn the drumKAT and Sound Source Off Leave all footswitches plugged in Turn the drumKAT and the Sound Source back on Reconnect the MIDI cable e Try REINITIALIZING your drumKAT See p 43 107 13 Appendix Symptom Your drumKAT playing surface is not responding well What To Do e Adjust thresholds of your Pads see p 82 92 e Train your Pads to your personal dynamic range e Call up Demo Kit 1 on the drumKAT See p 42 Verify that the Sound Source is on MIDI Channel 10 See if pads 7 or 0 act like HiHats e Disconnect the MIDI cable Turn the drumKAT and Sound Source Off Leave all footswitches plugged in Turn the drumKAT and the Sound Source back on Reconnect the MIDI cable Try REINITIALIZING your dru
135. ucted tuned and even mounted Where the piezo head or shell trigger is mounted even makes a difference To make sense of fast dynamic playing on acoustic drums it is necessary to know what kind of signals are expected on the individual trigger inputs on the drumKAT and then use that information wisely to correctly sense dynamics and avoid double triggering but still allow fast playing The drumKAT s TRIGGER TRAINING process allows it to get the information that is needed about your triggers drums The TRIGGER TRAINING process asks you to first select an appropriate GAIN setting by using a bar graph display of your dynamics Then it asks for a SOFT hit and a HARD hit The drumKAT uses these two hits to figure out a MASK TIME a THRESHOLD and a representation of the trigger s envelope overall shape of the hit especially crucial in acoustic triggering to allow the drumKAT to respond to the trigger without double or false triggering The drumKAT also uses the SOFT hit and HARD hit to adjust the trigger s response to your personal dynamics as it also does for the Pads 85 10 Triggering To TRAIN the drumKAT for your trigger first press FOOTSWITCH 1 to enter the PRE EDIT Screens Now hit PAD8 twice to select TRIGGER ADJUST The screen now says TRIG 1 9 L1 L8 01 64 set trigl gainL5 ners hdroom1l0 thrsh07 en hitPAD7 to train You can select which trigger input you want to train or adjust by hittin
136. ue with PAD6 VALUE ADVance while listening to the Sound by hitting PAD5 HEAR SOUND After you are sure you have a Sound for Sound 1 duplicate the Channel Note Minimum amp Maximum Velocity Velocity Curve and Gate Time to the other three Sounds of this MULTIPLE pad Do this by moving the cursor to each of those settings and then hit DUPLICATE Twice Now move to Sound 2 by hitting SOUND ADV Change the Note number to a different Sound you can hear for the second Sound of the four simultaneous Sounds in Multiple Mode For this Sound put the Delay time at the bottom left of the screen at 0 500 or 1 2 sec so you can hear it separately from Sound 1 Next hit SOUND ADV to get to Sound 3 of the Multiple Mode and repeat the process except put the delay time at 1 000 or 1 sec so this Sound will also be distinct from the previous two Continue hitting HEAR SOUND to hear the effect of your editing 57 8 Advanced Kits Complex Modes Now get to Sound 4 and set the Delay time to 1 500 sec If you are successful you should hear four distinct sounds separated from each other by one half of a second If you are not successful make sure the Channel selections the Velocities and Note numbers are set up properly to cause a Sound to play on the MIDI device you are sending to This is the Multiple Mode You are given four notes to do anything you want with You can separate them in time with the Delay feature they can have different Velo
137. very useful when you want to change the Channel for the entire Kit or raise the Minimum Velocity for the whole Kit DUPLICATE is used to copy a value to allthe Sounds of a Pad two hits or to all Pads in a Kit three hits Hit PAD7 SAVE The screen will say IN gt lt mi Permanent Memory IS PROTECTED prevents you from accidentally Saving something which you didn t want to Save Hit VALUE ADV to change to CAN BE CHANGED Now hit SAVE A screen asks you to hit the SAVE Pad a second time to verify that you really want to Save this edited version of the Kit At this time you can change the Kit you Save to if you want to Save this Kit somewhere else Hit SAVE again and the screen verifies that the new Kit has been Saved Don t worry about losing Kit 1 Kit 30 is identical to Demo Kit 4 SAVE is used to permanently Save changes you make to a Kit PADO RECALL is used to get back the last edited Kit if you forgot RECALL to Save it when you advanced to another Kit EXAMPLE VALUE ADV the MIDI Channel to 2 for any Pad in Kit 1 DUPLICATE that setting to all Pads in Kit 1 Now move the Cursor up to the k01 on the top line and VALUE ADV to k02 Since you did not Save the changes you had made to Kit 1 they normally are lost To verify this REVERSE then VALUE ADV the k02 back to a k01 Notice that the Channels are back on the previous value If you hit RECALL twice the edited version of the Kit wil
138. want to adjust the next Pad If you say YES hitting PAD6 the Screen will prompt you for a soft hit PAD1 0 HIT PADI ONCE SOFT TO SET BOTTOM OF DYNAMIC RANGE PAD ADJUST SCREEN 2 Don t try and do the softest hit imaginable do what you typically use as a soft hit in normal playing Then the Screen will prompt you for a hard hit PAD1 0 HIT PADI ONCE HARD TO SET TOP OF DYNAMIC RANGE PAD ADJUST SCREEN 3 Don t smash it as hard as you can do what you would typically use as a hard hit in normal playing When you have done the hard hit for a particular Pad the Screen will move on to the next Pad asking if you want to adjust it When you first get your instrument you should train all of the Pads with a soft and hard hit This will adjust the drumKAT s velocity response to match your particular playing dynamics 37 5 Screen Tour Pad Adjust When you have trained all the Pads the next Screen you will see or if you simply do a SCREEN ADV when you first enter the PAD ADJUST Screens is pad 1 low dynamic hi dynamic PAD ADJUST SCREEN 4 This Screen tells you the results of your soft hit and hard hit from the last training of each Pad You can actually adjust these values manually here to adjust the response of your drumKAT If you want to keep a constant low velocity at the bottom of your playing range increase the Low Dynamic value If you want to get loud hits sooner
139. with the Gate Time You Want Moving Around Through Your Kits 8 ADVANCED KITS 54 76 Overview of Advanced Modes Complex Modes MULTIPLE ALTERNATE NOTE SHIFT GATE SHIFT VELOCITY SHIFT HiHat fcGATE hatNOTE ALTERNATE8 RANDOM8 Melodic Modes melMULT melALT melRAN melNSH melVSH melodic DEMO Kits Control Modes Tap Tempo Motif Play Ext MIDI Clock Control Pressure Pitch Bend etc Ready Record Home Base Kit Adv Kit Reverse Freeze Base Group Step Transpose AutoPad Transpose 9 HIHAT mm nnn nn 77 81 Hi Hat Modes amp Setups Controller 04 HatNote amp Normal Hi Hat 10 TRIGGERING mn 82 92 Triggering Quick amp Easy Triggering In Detail 11 FOOTSWITCH FUNCTIONS 93 96 FootFunction 2 FOOT 3 FootFunction 4 12 MOTIFS CLICKS amp CLOCKS nnn nne rene nernerenenennennnne 97 106 Recording Motifs Standard Recording Ready Record Step Record External MIDI IN Recording Playing Motifs Infinite Looped Once Slice Tap Tempo MIDI Click Control MIDI Clock Control 13 APPENDIX mn 107 130 A Trouble Shooting Help What if it isn t working Glossary of Terms C Kit Templates D MIDI For Percussion E MIDI Implementation Chart F System Exclusive Documentation G Velocity Curve Documentation H Trigger Troubleshooti
140. xamples of Sound Sources Sound Source Delay The time it takes for a Sound Source to play a sound after it has received all the MIDI information it needs Usually this is about 5 to 15mS Sound Travel Delay The time it takes for a sound to travel through the air from the source speakers drum head etc to our ears Usually this is about 1 to 20mS Toggle To switch back and forth from one selection to another e g Footswitch 1 toggles you between Play mode and Edit mode Trigger Any of various external impact sensors that can be plugged into the drumKAT trigger inputs These range from trigger pads like the poleKAT and flatKAT pads foot triggers like the kicKAT and fatKAT or acoustic triggers like KDT1 drumhead sensors or the KST1 shellmount sensor User Kit Kits that are changeable in your drumKAT These are Kits that you alter to meet your needs Velocity A measure of how loud or soft a Note the drumKAT will play on your Sound Source 110 13 Appendix Appendix C Kit Templates Sound Source Patch Kit i TRIGGER TRIGGER CONTROLLER INPUT User 111 13 Appendix Appendix D MIDI For Percussion The world of Percussion has some special needs that affect how MIDI is generally used for Percussion and Drum Sounds These special differences include how Note Offs Gate Time are handled how Notes and Program Changes are used and sensitivity to time delay Keyboardists guitar
141. ying surface responds to a wide dynamic range and is very comfortable to play on Since the 10 playing Pads are physically adjacent to each other they can be zoned in larger playing areas by simply copying the same characteristics into neighboring Pads The nine independent trigger inputs have been given the same extensive control possibilities as the drumKAT Pads excluding pressure This allows you to physically spread out your playing area These nine trigger inputs can be combined with the ten Pads on the drumKAT itself for a total of nineteen independent playing surfaces There are four Footswitch inputs One gets you in and out of EDIT A second Footswitch advances you forward or backward through the Kits that you programmed The third Footswitch is programmable in each Kit options include Sustain MIDI Click On Off External Sequence Start Stop Home Base and Freeze Base The fourth Footswitch provides a variety of External Sequence controls MIDI Clock controls and Internal Motif controls There are two MIDI IN jacks and two pairs of MIDI OUT jacks This allows the drumKAT 3 5 to be a powerful MIDI mapper A Breath Control input works with the BC 10 Breath Controller A FootControl input on the side allows the use of a hatKAT pedal for the most realistic HiHat play The drumKAT also comes with a removable locking power cord You can easily select either 110v or 220v AC power There is an easily accessible fuse on the back of the i

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