Create Your Own Original Drum Kit - Yamaha DTXPRESS II Mode D'emploi

Create Your Own Original Drum Kit

You can assign voices you like to each of the pads, and set the tuning (pitch), voice,
decay, reverb, etc. to create your own original drum kit.
1. Select the Drum Voice
First, select a drum voice for the kit you want to create. Let's
try assigning a snare drum voice.
It doesn't matter what drum kit you select (the drum kit that is
created will be saved to a user drum kit (No. 49-80)).
1-1. Select a Snare Drum for the Input Source.
Press the [VOICE] button and the display for selecting the
Drum Voice will appear.
KIT IN=kick
=K/017 BDaftty1
Voice Category Voice Number Voice Name
Use the [SEL<]/[SEL>] buttons to move the flashing cursor
to the input source position, then use the [VALUE–]/[VALUE+]
buttons to select "snare". This means that the snare pad in-
put that is connected to trigger input jack 2 SNARE is selected.
The value "V=1" indicates that the layer number=1. Two voices
can be delivered (2 layer) with one input source (trigger in-
put). In this case, you will have to assign which voice will be
used here.
1-2. Select the Drum Voice Category.
Next, decide the drum voice category.
The drum voice category is the same category that was used in
the Metronome Click Voice (P. 19).
For this example, let's select "s: Electric Snare".
Use the [SEL<]/[SEL>] buttons to move the flashing cursor
to the voice category position, then use the [VALUE–]/
[VALUE+] buttons to select "s".
A "*" mark will appear between "KIT" and "IN". This is to
let you know that data in the currently selected drum kit has
changed.
1-3. Select the Drum Voice.
Next, let's select a drum voice.
Using the same procedure you used when you changed the
metronome click voice (P. 19), press the [SEL>] button to
move the flashing cursor to the Voice Number position, then
use the [VALUE–]/[VALUE+] buttons to assign the drum
voice. For this example, let's select "014 Dance01".
KIT IN=snare V=1
=s/014 Dance01
With this, we have assigned a drum voice for the kit
you want to create.
Now, let's try to edit this drum voice in several ways
and create your own original snare drum voice.
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Input Source Layer Number
V=1
2. Try Changing the Volume
Let's change the volume of the drum voice that is delivered when
the pad is hit. Adjust the volume balance between the other pads.
Press the [PAGEt] button and the following display will ap-
pear.
KIT*IN=snare V=-
Vol= 120 Pan= C
Volume
Use the [SEL<]/[SEL>] buttons to move the flashing cursor
to the volume level position, then use the [VALUE–]/
[VALUE+] buttons to set the volume level.
* "V=-" appears when the drum voice is not a 2 layer voice.
Press the [VOICE] button to monitor the voice just as
if the pad were hit.
3. Try Changing the Pan
Using the same display, you can change the pan setting for the
drum voice.
According to this setting you can move the position of the
currently selected drum voice within the stereo field as fol-
lows: "L64" (left side) – "C" (Center) – "R63" (right side).
Press the [SEL>] button to move the flashing cursor to the
pan level position, then use the [VALUE–]/[VALUE+] but-
tons to set the pan value.
4. Try Changing the Tuning (Pitch)
Let's try and change the tuning (pitch) of the drum voice.
Press the [PAGEt] button and the following display will appear.
KIT*IN=snare V=-
Tune C=
Tuning in half-step increments
Use the [SEL<]/[SEL>] buttons to move the flashing cursor
to the "C" or "F" position, then use the [VALUE–]/[VALUE+]
buttons to set the pitch of the voice.
Tuning for "C=" is in increments of a half-step, tuning for
"F=" is in steps of approximately 1.17 cents.
5. Try Changing the Decay (the length of time
it takes for the voice to fade)
Let's try and change the voice's decay (the length of time it
takes for the voice to fade).
Press the [PAGEt] button twice and the following display
will appear.
KIT*IN=snare V=-
Decay=+ 8 Fc=
Pan
0 F= 0
Finer tuning
0
Filter Cutoff Frequency
Decay