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1. AC Adapter 7 9 34 All Notes Off 10 20 Allen Wrench 35 47 Bass Gain 8 27 Beeper 15 29 Bracket 3 Breath Control 5 8 46 Cases 4 Channels see MIDI Channels Chick 8 21 24 Choke Cymbals 29 Continuous Controller Copy Kits 14 Curves see MIDI Velocity 21 23 37 Data Dump 29 30 32 38 43 Decrement 12 15 17 19 20 22 26 27 Delay 30 39 40 41 Display Viewing Angle 29 Dynamics see Pad Dynamics a L Editing 10 12 13 30 38 Factory Kits 5 9 11 13 28 38 Foot Control 8 23 Footswitches 4 7 10 34 35 AAR j Gate Time 20 38 General MIDI 38 GLOBAL EDIT 9 12 23 30 37 43 46 Grooves 11 12 28 Auto Shutoff 29 37 PADEDIT 13 24 Pads 7o Training 25 26 HiHat 4 5 8 10 21 24 34 38 Dynamics 25 27 29 32 38 39 Foot see Chick Threshold 26 29 30 35 Splash 21 24 Permanent Memory Protection 28 Holding Down Pads 10 20 30 42 Pitchbend 46 Polyphony 42 Power 7 9 34 35 Problems see Trouble Shooting Interaction 22 Program Change see MIDI Kit 5 7 9 10 12 13 20 28 29 32 36 38 39 42 43 47 Quick Click 12 15 17 19 20 22 KIT EDIT 13 24 26 27 KIT SELECT 9 10 20 KIT Template 40 cereo rone Receive Dump 5 7 29 38 43 uere eee ee re e M Re Initialize 30 34 35 Merge 5 7 28 41 Repair Information 47 48 MIDI 7 9 10 15 16 28 29 30 Reve
2. 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 trapKAT 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 There are 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 of 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 drummer is very sensitive to where a Sound is played with respect to the beat This brings us to MIDI Delay The MIDI time
3. Breath Train ns Receive Hi Hat Cymbal Breath Pedal Fi pim Choke Control ange Enable Melodic General Enable Groove MIDI Note Volume Global Names Data On Off Dump Grooves User Kits Memory Merge trapKAT Auto Off i ry Groove Protect On Off 1 Kit REINIT Enabled S Enable Data Dump Pad Pad Pad ne Train Threshold Lo Hig Dynamic Dynamic nonen WPF 15998075 xipueddy 6 9 Appendix Appendix C Glossary of Terms Channel Controller Data Dump Default Dynamics Editing Factory Kits Gate Time 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 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 i
4. the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch to decrease the Global Groove Volume Once you have created your own UserKits and start practicing using them you may want to have a little protection from accidentally changing them If Memory is Protected the trapKAT will not allow any permanent changes to be made to your UserKits To return to Memory Not Protected so you can make real changes to your UserKits depress the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch amp hit Pad3 twice MIDI information coming into the MIDI IN of your trapKAT may be passed or merged through to the MIDI OUTs if Merge is ON If you have another controller besides your trapKAT you may want to use both that and your trapKAT into the same sound source The Merge setting allows you to do that If you have a keyboard sound source routed back in for MIDI IN Note AutoLoad you may hear a MIDI Loop flanged sounds or sometimes a literal cacophony of sound if you are merging Notes back through to the sound source again in a loop To stop this effect turn the Merge OFF To change your Merge setting simply depress the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch and hit Pad4 twice 28 7 Editing Global Settings Cymbal Choke Enable Cymbals may be choked by simply grabbing the cymbal pad or rim in the same manner you would grab an acoustic cymbal to choke it This feature presently works with the Roland TD7 and TD5G and our malletKAT PRO With Sounds when used as a sound source To change the Cymbal Choke En
5. Table of Contents Unpacking Registration Card Mounting Cases Optional Accessories Product Overview 1 INTRODUCTION a ae oc 3 6 2 CONNECTIONS LLL Power Footswitches MIDI In MIDI Out Bass Input HiHat Input Breath Control Input 7 8 3 MAKING A SOUND FactoryKits 9 10 FactoryKits 4 PLAYING A GROOVE M 11 12 Groove Start Stop Melodic Groove Select Percussive Groove Select Groove TapTempo Groove Volume 5 EDITING KITs UserKits TUUM M 13 20 Editing Overview Editing the FactoryKits Changing NOTE Numbers Copying Kits to a UserKit Editing the UserKits Changing the Sound Note Channel Programs Changing the Response Min amp Max Velocity Velocity Curves Volume Changing the Gate Time Decrementing Values 6 Pi abes Selecting Pads to be HiHat Pads Defining Settings For Open Closed and Chick Sounds Changing Open Settings Changing Closed Settings Changing Chick Settings Foot Control Assign Training Your HiHat Pedal Defining Settings For Splash 21 24 7 EDITING GLOBAL SETTINGS 8 MIDI PRIMER 25 30 Adjusting Response of Playing Pads Pad Train Pad Threshold Pad Lo and Hi Dynamics BASS Input Gain Preferences FactoryKits UserKits UserKit Groove Enable Groove Volume Memory Protect Merge ON OFF Cymbal Choke Enable
6. Turn the trapKAT and the Sound Source back on Reconnect the MIDI cable Try REINITIALIZING your trapKAT See p 30 Call Alternate Mode Customer Service 413 594 5190 HiHat does not work See Chapter 6 HiHat Verify hatKAT or HiHat footswitch is plugged into the hatKAT input on the trapKAT Call up FactoryKit 4 on the trapKAT See p 9 10 Verify that the Sound Source is on MIDI Channel 10 See if pads 7 or 0 act like HiHats Disconnect the MIDI cable Turn the trapKAT and Sound Source Off Leave all footswitches plugged in Turn the trapKAT and the Sound Source back on Reconnect the MIDI cable Try REINITIALIZING your trapKAT See p 30 34 9 Appendix Symptom What To Do Symptom What To Do Symptom What To Do 35 Your trapKAT playing surface is not responding well e Adjust thresholds of your Pads see p 26 Train your P ads to your personal dynamic range see p25 Call up FactoryKit 1 on the trapKAT See p 9 Verify that the Sound Source is on MIDI Channel 10 Disconnect the MIDI cable Turn the trapKAT and Sound Source Off Leave all footswitches plugged in Turn the trapKAT and the Sound Source back on Reconnect the MIDI cable Try REINITIALIZING your trapKAT See p 30 Call Alternate Mode Customer Service 413 594 5190 A trapKAT pad or rim is false triggering playing notes without you striking it Raise the threshold of the Pad see p 26 Use the allen wre
7. 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 trapKAT 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 Alternate Mode When you call in your RA our staff will ask you for information like your name address phone number serial number purchase date software version power up display 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 an RA before you send in a surprise to us SHIPPING If you ever have to ship the trapKAT back in for a repair or an update use care and good judgment It is best to save the original packing material to make shipping easy and safe If you do not have the original packing material box the trapKAT 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 Alternate Mode are the responsibility of the consumer 48 49 NOTES NOTES 50 14 Index ae
8. Manually selecting the Note or sound per pad was described at the beginning of this Chapter Simply hold down the NOTE EDIT footswitch and repeatedly strike the pad you want to change until you hear or see the sound you want for that pad One additional thing to show is how to decrement the Note if you increment too far and want to go back a couple You can decrement the value by doing a quick click on the footswitch To do this while editing release the NOTE EDIT footswitch then quickly redepress the NOTE EDIT footswitch with no pad hit in between and then hit Padl This will reverse the process of Note selection This quick click method for reverse works for all of the other editing functions as well Notice that the beeper sound changes when you go in reverse 15 5 Editing KITs UserKits If your drum machine or sound source has buttons to play all of its sounds and your sound source sends Out MIDI information MIDI In Auto Load is a convenient way to select Note s To try this 1 Connect another MIDI cable from the MIDI Out of your sound source to the MIDI In of your trapKAT 2 Then while the NOTE EDIT footswitch is depressed hit the pad you want to change 3 Push the sound button on your sound source The Note corresponding to the sound you just played on your sound source should now appear on your display If the trapKAT display does not change check your connections and make sure you keep your foot on the NOT
9. General MIDI Note Names ON OFF Display Viewing Angle Beeper ON OFF Data Dumps All Memory 1 Kit Global Reinit trapKAT Receive Program Channel T M 31 33 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 9 APPENDIX 84 48 A Trouble Shooting Help What if it isn t working B KIT PAD EDIT layout GLOBAL EDIT layout C Glossary of Terms D Kit Templates E MIDI For Percussion F MIDI Implementation Chart G System Exclusive Documentation H Instructions for Inserting New Software I Train Breath Controller J Warranty Care and Maintenance K Alternate Mode Inc Customer Service 10 NOTES 49 50 11 INDEX 51 12 20 GUIDE a tose 7 1 Introduction UNPACKING REGISTRATION CARD MOUNTING Welcome to the trapKAT Congratulations on your purchase You have purchased a product that is an outgrowth of our legendary drumKAT family of controllers The drumKAT family has grown in power and features over the last 5 years The trapKAT is a step up in size layout and number of playing surface
10. It is the time between a MIDI Note On and the corresponding MIDI Note Off On many drum machines Gate Time has no effect Many drum machines ignore MIDI Gate Time and simply play the sound to its completion However for samplers you may need to change the Gate Time to match the length of the sound you want played Hit Pad10 while the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch is depressed and see UserKit 01 GateTimez0 150s The range for Gate Time is 0 005s 5 milliseconds to 6 4 seconds As in the previous settings you may also select separate Gate Times for the pads individually This is done with rimPad23 or rimPad24 When you are using sounds that do respond to Gate Times occasionally some sound sources forget to shut off a note and a note gets stuck on Depress the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch and hit rimPad22 twice and a series of ALL NOTES OFF commands will be sent to quiet the note Also since you may only have a KIT SELECT footswitch when you are using your trapKAT you may send ALL NOTES OFF commands by depressing the KIT SELECT footswitch and holding down on any pad for 1 full second DECREMENTING VALUES Remember if you ever go too far incrementing a value and want to decrement it do a quick click That is release the footswitch and quickly redepress it The beeping will change to indicate that you are now decrementing A second quick click will return you to incrementing 20 6 HiHat Getting responsive HiHat control
11. You may select up to four pads to be HiHat pads independently in each KIT Whenever you change which pad is a HiHat pad you will often need to change the sounds assigned to that pad to make it really be a HiHat We ll show that next 21 D 6 HiHat EFINING SETTINGS FOR OPEN CLOSED and CHICK Changing the settings for Open Closed and Chick sounds is pretty straight ahead Here s how Changing Open Settings Editing the Open settings for a HiHat pad is simple Everything is exactly the same as for a normal pad For editing Notes use the NOTE EDIT footswitch as described previously For Channel Velocities and Gate Time use the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch as described previously Changing Closed Settings Editing the Closed settings is the same as usual with one exception also have the HiHat pedal depressed when performing the editing functions An example will make this clear To change the Note for the Closed sound do the following 1 Depress the NOTE EDIT footswitch 2 Depress the HiHat pedal also 3 While they are both depressed hit the pad you want to change the Closed setting for Since the HiHat is depressed when you struck the pad you will access the Closed sound for that pad Pad6 HCLOS 042 ClsdHiHat 4 If you now hit Pad6 again with both the NOTE EDIT footswitch and the HiHat pedal still depressed the Note value will increment 9 To decrement quick click the NOTE EDIT footswitch as described
12. are all back at 40 Now depress the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch and hit Pad3 18 5 Editing KITs UserKits UserKit 01 MaxVelocity 127 Instead of changing the Maximum Velocity for the whole Kit lets just change the Maximum Velocity for Pad3 We are going to decrease the Maximum Velocity for Pad3 so you will quick click the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch Here is the process again Depress KIT PAD EDIT footswitch and hit rimPad13 Now the display says Hit Pad Again for Pad Max Vel So hit rimPad13 again Now the display says Change Max Vel on Which Pad So hit Pad3 so we can change its Maximum Velocity setting Pad03 MaxVelocity 127 Now release the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch and quickly redepress it quick click The beeping changes to notify you that you are now decrementing Hit Pad3 repeatedly until the value decreases to 90 Pad03 MaxVelocity 090 Now release the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch and play on the pads Note that Pad3 doesn t get as loud as the rest Use the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch and Pad3 to make all the pads in this Kit have a Maximum Velocity of 127 again Changing the Velocity Curve The Velocity Curve controls how quickly the Velocity gets louder as you play from soft to hard The easiest way to understand what that means is to try some of the different Velocity Curves So with KIT PAD EDIT depressed hit Pad4 The screen says UserKit 01 VelocityCurve 1 Hit Pad4 a seco
13. are in UserKits then do the following to get the trapKAT into the FactoryKits 1 Move the KAT KF1 footswitch into the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch input 2 Depress the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch and while it is depressed hit pad number 1 middle left of trapKAT The display will say Hit Pad Again To SelectFactoryKit 3 Keep the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch down and hit pad 1 again 4 Release the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch You are now in FactoryKits FactoryKits The last remaining thing you may need to do to get yourself set up is to get your sound source responding Plug headphones into your sound source and play on your trapKAT If your sound source is any of the following MIDI sound sources it should now easily work with the trapKAT 3 Making A Sound FactoryKits MIDI sound sources that the trapKAT should instantly work with Alesis D4 Korg 05R W Boss DS330 DR550 DR660 Roland TD5 TD7 R8MK2 Sound Canvass E mu Procussion FactoryKit 23 Yamaha TMX RY30 FactoryKit24 Channel 1 Kawai GMega If your sound source is not responding when you play on the trapKAT refer to p 34 Appendix 1 What If It Doesn t Work Your trapKAT display will say FactoryKit 01 MG Marimba 120 E Whenever you are not depressing any of the footswitches playing on your trapKAT will cause the correct MIDI commands to be sent out to play your sound source When you hold down any of the footswitches and hit any of the pads you will be ac
14. function Pad1 the setting will say VARIOUS Now simply hit Pad 1 while KIT PAD EDIT footswitch depressed again and all pads will be back onto the same Channel Changing the Program Selecting different Programs may give you access to different samples or banks of drum or percussion sounds 16 5 Editing KITs UserKits To select a different Program first verify that you are sending Program Changes on the same Channel that your sound source is expecting to see them on Typically for drums or percussion that is Channel 10 With the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch depressed hit Pad7 The screen will say UserKit 01 PrgChng Channel 11 To change the Program Channel just keep hitting Pad 7 Now to select different Programs on your sound source hit Pad8 with the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch depressed UserKit 01 Prog Change 001 To change this setting simply continue hitting Pad7 while the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch is still depressed Don t forget that quick clicking your footswitch and then hitting a pad while editing allows you to decrement values CHANGING THE RESPONSE There are four main settings that affect the response of each pad They are Minimum and Maximum Velocity Velocity Curve and Volume The Min and Max Velocity affect the range of how loud or soft an indiviual sound can be The Velocity Curve affects the feel or how fast the sound gets louder as you smoothly play harder and harder The Volume aff
15. instant access to the sounds of any General MIDI sound source It may be weeks before you have a reason to leave the FactoryKits Once you try the UserKits you will find that making personalized KITs to access the sounds you want in the layouts most comfortable for you to be a total breeze You will find that the infectuous Melodic and Percussive Grooves are a great practice tool These built in Grooves are fun patterns of bass chords and percussion that pull you in to play along Since you can now play with headphones you are now able to practice when literally everyone else has gone to sleep There are four footswitch inputs One footswitch is used to quickly select any of the 24 KITs The second is used to change edit the NOTE or sound assigned to each of the 24 pads The third footswitch is used to change edit other KIT settings like the Channel Velocity response Gate Time Program Changes and HiHat selections The fourth footswitch accesses a variety of GLOBAL settings such as MIDI Merge training the trapKAT to your personal playing style and Data Dumps to save your KITs The Bass input expects a bass drum trigger input from a kicKAT fatKAT or miniKICK The HiHat input expects positional information from a hatKAT control output or a footswitch A Breath Control input works with the BC 2 Breath Controller The trapKAT comes with a locking AC Adaptor There is one MIDI IN jack and a pair of MIDI OUT jacks The MIDI OUT
16. is a very important part of any electronic percussion setup In this Chapter you will learn how to train your HiHat response select Note and other KIT settings for Open Close Chick and Splash sounds in your trapKAT You will also learn how to select different types of Continuous Control information for advanced HiHat control with a hatKAT HiHat pedal The first topic to cover is how to select a pad to be a HiHat pad SELECTING PADS TO BE HIHAT PADS When a HiHat pad is played the Note that is sent out depends on whether the HiHat pedal is depressed or not If the HiHat pedal is depressed a Closed Note will be played If the HiHat pedal is not depressed an Open Note will be played The trapKAT needs to know which pads should be controlled by your HiHat pedal position To select a pad to be a HiHat pad do the following 1 Depress the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch and hit Pad5 The display will show which pads have been selected to be HiHat pads Kit01 HiHatPads 01 04 2 If you strike Pad5 a second time the display will show Select HiHatPads The second line is blank because your HiHat pads have been de selected The pads you hit next will be your HiHat pads now 3 If you want to change where your HiHat pads are hit the pads you want Or if you want to keep the HiHats where they were hit Pad4 Select HiHatPads 04 4 Then hit Pad1 Select HiHatPads 01 04 5 Release the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch
17. jacks are the means by which your trapKAT can control one or more sound sources Also the MIDI OUT jacks allow you to dump your internal trapKAT settings or data to an external MIDI disk or a computer The MIDI IN jack allows the trapKAT to receive DataDumps of internal settings that you may have saved to an external MIDI disk drive back into your trapKAT The MIDI IN jack also allows you to merge information from another controller such as a malletKAT drumKAT or dK10 into the data stream that comes out of your trapKAT to your sound source The trapKAT has a backlit display with two lines of sixteen characters per line The viewing angle of the display is adjustable The display makes the simple editing procedures even easier by giving clear information about the changes as you make them 1 Introduction The trapKAT was conceived to answer the drummer percussionist s need for a compact yet BIG MIDI Controller that is easy to set up and responsive to play It will open up entirely new ways of thinking about your playing Keep in touch with us because your trapKAT will have several upgrade options that you will find as exciting as the original purchase of the trapKAT itself The editing names on your playing pads although not used now will be used when we upgrade to trapKAT PRO In the meantime have a great time playing and creating with your new trapKAT 2 Connections ON OFF CF a ce 9 Volt
18. sooner as you play harder To decrement the Dynamics do a quick click Release the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch and then quickly redepress the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch without hitting a pad in between 6 If you strike any other pad you will see the value of its Low or High Dynamics and be able to change its value Hits that are softer than your Low Dynamic setting will play at your Minimum Velocity setting Hits that are harder than your High Dynamic will play at your Maximum Velocity Your Velocity Curve effects how quickly your loudness goes from the Minimum Velocity to your Maximum Velocity as you play from your Low Dynamic to your High Dynamic Experiment with these settings if you would like to tweak your response The BASS input can be trained and threshold and dynamics can be changed in the same way as for pads Simply play the bass pedal instead of hitting a pad in the previous 2 pages of instructions One additional difference for the BASS Input is that it has a globally selectable 1 setting used for all kits GAIN to help accommodate the variety of Bass Triggers available Simply hit rimPad18 with the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch depressed and you cycle through the three Gain settings MIN for fatKAT and miniKICK MID for other bass triggers that need more boost amp MAX for kicKAT If after training the BASS input the response of your bass trigger is not optimum then try a new Gain then Train and adjust your Bas
19. the KIT PAD Functions is on p 36 in the Appendix A blank Template for documenting your kits is in the Appendix p 40 CHANGING THE SOUND There are three main settings that affect the sound each pad makes They are the Channel and Note the pad is assigned to and which Program your KIT selects on your sound source The Channel will affect what group of sounds the individual Note numbers will select from On a drum machine the Channel selects whether or not you get the drum sounds the drum machine has On a fancy multi timbral sound module Channel 10 is generally assigned to drum and percussion sounds The other channels are used to select keyboard and orchestral sounds controlled by the Program you select The Programs select which sub group of sounds your individual Note s will select On a drum machine Programs select different groups of drum sounds For example on most drum machines Note 38 selects a snare drum and Note 36 selects a bass drum the Program changes which snare and bass drum sample you hear for Notes 38 and 36 On a multi timbral sound module Programs will call up entirely different sounds like strings or horns or percussion Changing the Note The Note is the one KIT setting that is not changed using the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch Notes are changed so often that it is given its own footswitch input There are two ways to edit your Note settings 1 Manually selecting the Note 2 Autotraining through your MIDI In
20. the Splash Note simply hit Pad6 repeatedly with the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch depressed The rest is then the same The Splash Channel Minimum Velocity Maximum Velocity Velocity Curve and Gate Time are all determined by the settings of the Chick see p 22 The Ease of Splash occurring can be Adjusted by hitting Pad6 with the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch depressed 24 7 Editing Global Settings Making changes to the GLOBAL settings in your trapKAT is just as easy as the changes to your KIT PAD settings that you have learned in the previous Chapters The GLOBAL changes you can make range from adjustments to the response of your pads to Preferences like FactoryKits UserKits and turning the beeper off An illustration of the layout of the GLOBAL Functions is on p 37 in the Appendix ADJUSTING RESPONSE OF PLAYING PADS Everyone s playing style is different from everyone else s Some players play with a much lighter touch than others Because of this the trapKAT allows you to train your own personal dynamics Dynamics are your range between hard and soft hits As well as training for your dynamics you can also adjust the sensitivity of your playing pads to suit your style Pad Train Training your pads consists of telling the trapKAT what a soft hit and a hard hit are in your playing style If you are a finesse player your hard hit may only be a medium hit for a basher One set of settings aren t appropriate for both o
21. this Continuous Controller information include the Roland TD7 amp TD5 wants Control 04 and the E mu Procussion wants Control 01 out of the box but can be changed to respond to Control 04 Undoubtably more of the newer devices will have this feature feel free to call us and check out the state of the industry at the current time If your sound source does respond to Continuous Control for HiHat the way to access this feature in your trapKAT is as follows 1 Depress the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch 2 Hit rimPad18 The display will say HiHat Continuous Control 04 3 If you now hit rimPad18 again the setting will run through the choices of 01 None and back to 04 Generally if you are using Continuous Controller HiHat you will use it on Channel 10 However if you have more than one device that responds to Continuous HiHat control both an E mu Procussion and a TD7 for example you will need to change the Foot Control Channel in each Kit if you want to access the two sound sources separately per Kit This is done by hitting rimPad17 while depressing the KIT EDIT footswitch The choices for Foot Control Channel are Channels 1 through 16 and Same As Chick Same As Chick is the standard setting for most applications With this setting the FootControl Channel will always match whatever you select for the Chick sound If your device does not respond to Continuous Control information for HiHat contro
22. to change 3 Continue striking the pad until your selection is found 4 Release the footswitch to get back to playing Your changes are automatically saved It S that easy Press a footswitch hit a pad several times release the footswitch This is the method that you will use to edit or change any setting in your trapKAT Most of your editing will be with the NOTE EDIT footswitch To decrease a value perform a quick click explained on p 15 Now for the specifics EDITING FactoryKits Editing can be done in FactoryKits or in UserKits Any changes to GLOBAL settings Chapter 7 are permanent regardless of whether you are in FactoryKits or UserKits Changes made to KITs in FactoryKits are temporary you can change settings in your FactoryKits but only temporarily the next time you enter the FactoryKit you ve changed it will be back to the way it was before you changed it Changes made to UserKits are permanent Changing NOTE Numbers For our first adventure in editing let s change the NOTE on Pad1 in FactoryKIT 1 To get into FactoryKits and select FactoryKIT 1 see Chapter 3 Connect a footswitch into the NOTE EDIT footswitch input Depress the NOTE EDIT footswitch and while it is depressed hit Padl Padl will play and the Note value 46 assigned to DemokKIT 1 Pad1 is shown on the screen While the NOTE EDIT footswitch is still depressed hit Pad1 again Padl will play a different sound or possibly be s
23. 30 10 4 Playing a GROOVE If your best friend is a Bass player and likes to practice any time you want then these Grooves won t be of much interest to you If instead you have a hard time finding someone to practice with when you want Grooves are the next best thing These patterns were recorded simply to be fun to play along with In FactoryKits and optionally in UserKits see p 28 the rimPads 15 16 23 and 24 are used to control the GROOVES The PERCUSSIVE GROOVES selected by rimPad 16 use only drum and percussion sounds Therefore they will work with almost any sound source gt The MELODIC GROOVES selected by rimPad 15 will play on any GENERAL MIDI sound module The Melodic Grooves have more happening in them than the Percussive Grooves because we had a variety of sounds to use in making them If your sound source is any of the following GENERAL MIDI devices your trapKAT s MELODIC GROOVES should play well General MIDI devices that the trapKAT MELODIC GROOVES will instantly work with Boss DS330 Kawai GMega Korg 05R W Roland R70 Sound Canvas Your trapKAT playing display says something like FactoryKit 01 MG Marimba 106 The MG means Melodic Groove The bottom line tells you what Groove is currently selected and what Tempo it is playing at GROOVE START STOP To start a selected GROOVE hit START STOP rimPad 24 To stop the GROOVE hit rimPad 24 again You can call up one of ma
24. 5 again while holding down Pad1 and while still depressing the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch the trapKAT will return to the original settings for everything UserKits Pad Thresholds Preferences etc RECEIVE PROGRAM CHANNEL You can have the trapKAT change Kits under the control of some external device like another controller or a sequencer To do this you select a Channel to Receive Program Changes on This Channel must match the Channel that the external device is sending Program Changes to the trapKAT on Don t forget to connect a MIDI cable from the MIDI OUT of the external device to the MIDI IN of the trapKAT To select the Channel to Receive Program Changes on simply depress the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch and hit Pad7 Your choices range from OFF don t respond to Program Changes on any Channel ALL respond to any to Channels 1 to 16 30 8 MIDI Primer What is MIDI anyway First MIDI is an acronym for Musical 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 work CONNECTIONS MIDI connections are all made with 5 pin DIN cables that plug into 9 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 anoth
25. E EDIT footswitch Can be used to MIDI In AutoLoad into a trapKAT if set up properly These devices send a MIDI Note out their MIDI Out jack Alesis HR16 HR16B SR16 Boss DR660 Korg M1 S3 01R W Roland R8 R8MKII R70 Yamaha RY10 RY30 Can not be used to MIDI In AutoLoad into a trapKAT Alesis D4 Boss DR550 DS330 E mu Procussion Kawai GMega XD5 Roland R8M TD7 Yamaha RM50 Changing the Channel For most applications you will find that Channel 10 is the right place to be for drums and percussion With the KIT PAD Edit footswitch depressed hit Pad1 The display will say UserKit 01 Channel 10 With the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch still depressed hit Pad1 again The Channel advances to 11 Hit Pad1 again and it advances to 12 etc Pretty simple Feel free to try selecting different Channels to see what effect it has on the sound source you are using As we said earlier many drum machines only work on Channel 10 Some GENERAL MIDI sound modules will make a different sound on each Channel with drums and percussion on Channel 10 One difference to this is many of the Yamaha drum machines like the RY 30 need to receive on Channel 1 If you want to have your pads on different Channels you can change the Pad Channel by hitting rimPad11 The display will ask which Pad you want to change the value for Then you proceed as normal to change the Channel for that pad If you have pads on different Channels and call up the KIT Channel
26. GE YOUR SOFTWARE CHIP Tools Needed 1 medium flat screwdriver 1 First remove the AC adaptor plug from the back of the trapKAT 2 Find a smooth clean flat surface and place your trapKAT upside down on it the jacks facing away from you 3 Remove back cover of the trapKAT 16 screws 4 When the trapKAT is opened you will see one large circuit board towards the back On the front right of the printed circuit board is a large chip with a white paper label that says something like trapKAT 1 0 The chip with the white label is your Software Chip the code that runs your trapKAT 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 The chip is at the top end of the circuit board To remove an old chip you will use your flat screwdriver You will pry the chip out of its socket 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 socket so as to pry up the chip but not the socket As you start to pry up the chip insert the screwdriver further under the chip and pry up more then insert screwdriver even further and then pry up more until the chip comes out of the socket Don t be scared just pry a little bit and then push the screwdriver in further until the chip is out Take your t
27. HATKAT amp BASS DRU INPUT KF1 INPUT KIT NOTE KIT PAKKLOBAL MIDI MIDI MIDI SELECTEDIT EDIT EDIT OUT OUT IN BREATH CONTROL INPUT at front right corner of unit POWER The trapKAT comes supplied with a removable locking AC Adaptor to connect the trapKAT into a 110V outlet AC Adapter specifications 9 to 12V positive tip 2 1 mm 400 mA or greater An optional European AC Adaptor for 220V 240V operation is also available After you have connected the AC Adaptor from the trapKAT to a clean power source switch on the power switch on the back right of the instrument If your instrument does not turn on refer to the troubleshooting section in the Appendix FOOTSWITCHES There are four footswitch inputs One KF1 is supplied with your trapKAT plug it into the Kit Select input If you plan on doing much editing changing settings in your Kits you should consider a KF3 triple footswitch in addition If you do have a KF3 triple footswitch as well plug it into the remaining 3 footswitch inputs on the trapKAT KAT KF1 and KF3 footswitches can be plugged and unplugged and moved to other inputs with the power on If you are not using KAT footswitches plug in the footswitch before turning on the trapKAT The trapKAT will read the type of footswitch on power up and automatically adjust for the type you have MIDI IN MIDIOUT BASS INPUT HIHAT INPUT 2 Connections The trapKAT has one MIDI IN jack to rec
28. able setting simply depress the GLOBAL EDITING footswitch and hit Pad8 twice ENERAL MIDI te Name FF As well as displaying the Note for the Notes assigned to your pads you can choose between additionally displaying the GENERAL MIDI Name for that or displaying an Octave and Note letter Generally you will want to display the GENERAL MIDI Note Names However if your sound source is not set up with the GENERAL MIDI conventions you may want to turn this setting OFF To change the GENERAL MIDI Note Names On Off setting simply depress the GLOBAL EDITING footswitch and hit rimPad16 twice Display Viewing Angle The normal viewing angle for your display is Edge View If however you play standing up leaning over the trapKAT you may wish to change the viewing angle to Above View To change the display viewing angle setting simply depress the GLOBAL EDITING footswitch and hit rimPad20 twice Beeper ON OFF Normally the beeper gives you auditory feedback as you do editing on your trapKAT If you find that annoying you can shut it OFF To change the Beeper On Off setting simply depress the GLOBAL EDITING footswitch and hit rimPad19 twice Groove Auto Off Grooves in the trapKAT will play for 2 minutes if the trapKAT is not re hit and then shut off By selecting DISABLE this will allow the grooves to continue to play until you strike the Groove Start Stop pad a second time To change the Groove Auto Off setting simply depress
29. annel your sound source is set to receive on 2 Match the Note numbers on your trapKAT Pads to the sounds you want your sound source to play 3 Use Program Changes to select other groups of drum sounds or other pitched sounds 33 fippendix f Trouble Shooting Help What if if isn t Working Symptom What To Do Symptom What To Do No Sounds out of Sound Source when you play on trapKAT Here is a list of things to try to help isolate your problem Verify trapKAT and Sound Source are ON and are plugged into working AC sockets Do their displays light up Try a compatible AC adaptor if the trapKAT does not beep or light up on power up The AC adaptor must have a positive tip as designated by this symbol 7 and its output should be between 9V and 12V with 400mA or greater current rating Verify trapKAT MIDI OUT is connected to Sound Source MIDI In 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 Verify trapKAT is alive by depressing the NOTE EDIT footswitch and hitting a Pad If you see that Pad come up on the display then the trapKAT is seeing it s Pads and is alive and running Call up FactoryKit 1 on the trapKAT see p 9 Verify that the Sound Source is On MIDI Channel 10 Disconnect the MIDI cable Turn the trapKAT and Sound Source Off
30. another musical instrument Through its MIDI In the trapKAT can receive DATA DUMPs Kit changes and Note AutoTrain information A 5 pin DIN jack by which an instrument sends MIDI information to another instrument 38 9 Appendix Groove Note Number The trapKAT sends out Channel Note and Velocity information Continuous Controller messages 01 and 04 if hatKAT is plugged in and SYS EX Data Dumps A Groove is a pattern or riff that you can select to play for you to practice against 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 Response Screen Sound Source settings For Sound Sources this generally means selecting a new group of sounds What Velocity the trapKAT sends out related to your playing Dynamics A natural response is that the Velocity hence the loudness gets bigger as your dynamics increase A display window on the trapKAT usually with information about current settings A device that accepts MIDI input and then plays a sound based on the information it received Drum machines samplers and synthesizers are all examples 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 ab
31. apKAT Pad Threshold The training does not affect your bottom end sensitivity or how light of a hit your trapKAT may pick up The Threshold is the setting that affects how sensitive your pads are The lower the value the more sensitive that particular pad will be However if you make the Threshold too low that pad may trigger itself Before you actually start adjusting your Thresholds make sure that your Minimum Velocity is high enough for you to hear your soft hits see p17 18 In some noisy environments and with some sound sources Minimum Velocities of 40 or higher may be necessary If your Minimum Velocity is 02 the trapKAT may be picking up your soft hits but playing them too softly for you to hear them To see and adjust the Threshold of any of your pads do the following 1 Depress the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch 2 Hit rimPad12 The display will say Hit Pad Again for PadThreshold 3 Hit rimPad12 again The display says Change Threshold on Which Pad 4 Hit a Pad The display will show you the threshold for that D ad Pad01 Threshold 14 5 If you strike that pad again you will increment the Threshold less sensitive and less likely to false trigger To decrement while editing do a quick click That is release the footswitch and quickly redepress it The beeping when you hit a pad will change to indicate that you are now decrementing A second quick click will return you to incrementing Do a quick cl
32. cessing and changing settings in your trapKAT Making changes to the settings in the trapKAT is called editing your trapKAT settings You ll learn about editing in Chapter 5 Editing UserKits Until then enjoy playing on your trapKAT and selecting different FactoryKits KIT 01 is a basic drumset layout right handed for left see KIT11 A KIT is a collection of MIDI settings for all your Pads and triggers Hold down the KIT SELECT footswitch and hit Pad 2 while the KIT SELECT footswitch is depressed The trapKAT advances to KIT 2 KIT 2 is an alternate drumset layout Note the positions of the HiHat and cymbals have been rearranged To select different KITs hit any of the 24 pads while the KIT SELECT footswitch is depressed Now spend some time trying the 24 FactoryKITs Notice that some KITs like KIT03 have entirely different sounds selected than other Kits Other KITs like KITO1 and KITO2 have the same sounds in different layouts Have fun As an added convenience for the occasional times when your sound source may have a stuck note sustaining forever simply depress the KIT SELECT footswitch and hold any pad for 1 second A series of ALL NOTES OFF commands will be sent to quiet the stuck note If you hold down a pad without any footswitch depressed you sustain the note of that pad Kit 23 is designed specifically to get you running on the E mu Procussion and Kit 24 is designed to get you running on the Yamaha RY
33. closed 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 simplest and most elegant mounting solution for the trapKAT is the stylish and attractive trapKAT Stand Designed specifically for the trapKAT this stand sets up quickly and provides a stable mount for the trapKAT Another choice is the 550 stand This practical stand folds up compactly for easy transport Using two of the optional DKB mounting brackets the trapKAT can be mounted on a variety of KAT drum stands and stand parts The DKBs mount to the bottom of the trapKAT with 4 1 2 x 10 32 screws Consult our latest KATalog or your dealer Where and how you mount your trapKAT is largely a matter of personal taste 1 Introduction CASES A special trapKAT case which will hold your sticks a footswitch a hatKAT and a fatKAT is also available 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 trapKAT may get damaged OPTIONAL ACCESSORIES and OTHER KAT PRODUCTS TKC trapKAT Case TS trapKAT Stand DKB KAT Controller Mounting Bracket AC Adaptors European amp U S Assorted stands and stand parts KF1 Single Footswitches KF3 Triple Footswitch Breath Controller CD Rom Library of exceptional drum and percussion samples MIDI Quick Notes Quick reference guide for chords Instructional Videos KAT Players Video
34. 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 to3 m5 _ delay are the ones worth owning 41 9 Appendix So if you want to avoid MIDI Delay avoid Sound Source Delay Call us and we ll tell you how the current Sound Sources rate 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 a monitor placed 10 feet from your ears will cause around 10 m5 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 Dela
35. e You received a small allen wrench 5 64 with your trapKAT to adjust the tension on the edge of the rubber playing surface with the allen screws in the top of the metal chassis Adjust this tension to help make the rims and pad surfaces near the rims lay flat Do not overtighten to the point where you actually bend the metal The metal can be cleaned with a mild cleanser such as dishwashing liquid Do not pour the cleanser on the trapKAT Apply a small amount of cleanser to a clean cloth and then clean the metal surfaces with the cloth 47 Alternate Mode Inc 9 Appendix Appendix K Alternate Mode 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 Alternate Mode Inc 53 First Ave Chicopee MA 01020 Phone 413 594 5190 Fax 413 592 7987 We look forward to hearing from you Alternate Mode Customer Service If you have any trouble with your trapKAT 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 5190 simply ask for Customer Service
36. ects the overall loudness of every sound on that particular channel A Velocity is sent with each Note or sound that is sent by your trapKAT to your sound source The Velocity is a measure of how loud relatively this sound will play On your trapKAT the Minimum Velocity sets the minimum loudness that the selected Note will play Maximum Velocity sets the maximum loudness that the sound will play j ings are Minimum Velocity from 16 to 48 and Maximum Velocity from 100 to 127 If your softest hits play too soft then raise your Minimum Velocity If your hardest hits are too loud then reduce your Maximum Velocity You have the choice of changing the Minimum or Maximum Velocity for the entire KIT using Pads 2 amp 3 or of changing Minimum and Maximum Velocity independently per pad using rimPADs 12 amp 13 Some examples will make this clear First let s suppose that you want to bring up the bottom end of all your pads maybe your soft hits are just too soft to cut through Raise the KIT Minimum Velocity by depressing the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch and hitting Pad2 until the value is 40 UserKit 01 Min Velocity 040 Release the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch and play on your pads to see 17 5 Editing KITs UserKits what effect a higher Mimimum Velocity has Now suppose you like this higher Minimum Velocity on most of the pads but not on Pad3 You can change the Minimum Velocity for Pad3 only by using rimPad12 Hit rimPad12 while
37. ed by this warranty The warranty does not cover damages to the trapKAT as a result of incorrect polarity AC Adaptor The shipping expenses and arrangements for repair are the responsibility of the purchaser Alternate Mode 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 trapKAT 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 trapKAT will provide you with years of enjoyment Don t pour or spill liquids on your trapKAT 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 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 on the metal The rubber can be cleaned with a mild cleanser such as a dish washing liquid or Simple Green Soft Scrub or Fantastic 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 A Q tip works very well for cleaning the cracks in between the pads Like an acoustic drum head the tension of the rubber playing surface may need adjustment from time to tim
38. eive MIDI information from another controller a sequencer or a computer The trapKAT can block or merge this information into the trapKAT s MIDI OUT jacks saved DataDumps of your Kits can be received back into the MIDI IN of your trapKAT from external MIDI Data Disks or Computers If you are a newcomer to electronic drums you very likely will not use this input much The trapKAT has two MIDI OUT jacks These jacks carry identical information giving you cabling options The MIDI OUT sends Note amp Control information from the trapKAT merged with information from MIDI IN if merging is ENABLED see p 28 Connect a MIDI cable from one of the MIDI Outs of the trapKAT into the MIDI In of your sound source You may connect a variety of triggering sources including the kicKAT fatKAT amp miniKICK foot triggers from KAT You TRAIN the trapKAT for whatever type of trigger you have plugged into the BASS Trigger Input The BASS Trigger is Trained in the same way as the pads see p 25 27 The BASS INPUT has a separate GAIN that is selectable in GLOBAL EDIT see p 27 The BASS INPUT can be assigned to any MIDI NOTE or CHANNEL in the same way that the pads are assigned see p 15 16 The HiHat will accept either a footswitch KF1 or KF3 or a hatKAT foot controller connected from the hatKAT Control output 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 ge
39. er A MIDI In jack is used by an instrument to receive information from another SIGNALS 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 understand 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 numb
40. er 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 trapKAT is sending on It s that simple 31 8 MIDI Primer On the trapKAT 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 trapKAT 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 So to get the correct sound to play in the sound source you are controlling when you hit a Pad you match the MIDI Note number on your trapKAT 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
41. f you because when you play through your personal dynamic range from soft to hard you need to get a full range of volume out of the sounds you are playing not just soft to medium loudness To train the trapKAT for your playing dynamics do the following 1 Depress the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch 2 Hit rimPadll The display will say Hit Pad11 Again to Train Pads 3 Hit rimPad11 again The beeper turns on amp the display says Hit a Pad Softly 4 Hit a Pad or Bass Trigger softly Don t try to do the softest hit imaginable do what you typically use as a soft hit in normal playing The screen says if you had hit Pad1 for example Hit Pad 01 Hard 5 So hit the same pad again this time hard Don t smash it as hard as you can do what you would typically use in normal playing Then the screen will say Pad 01 is Trained 6 Then the display will say Hit a Pad Softly or Ftsw To Leave 5o either hit some other pad softly to Train it or release the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch to get back out of training 25 7 Editing Global Settings The pads are all trained individually because of their varied locations uses and types regular pads vs rimpads So train any that don t respond the way you would like Feel free to experiment with different levels of soft and hard hits This training together with the Velocity Curve you use has a significant effect on the naturalness of the dynamic response of your tr
42. ick and you will be back in the screen you were in but now decrementing Do another quick click and you are back incrementing again Also if you are decrementing and then select another pad without releasing the foot you will be decrementing that pad now 6 If you strike any other pad you will see the value of its Threshold and be able to change its value It is normal for your pads to have different values so only change those you want to make more or less sensitive 26 7 Editing Global Settings Pad Low and High Dynamics The training of your pads determines two values your Low Dynamic and your High Dynamic These settings tell where your soft and hard hits lie in the trapKAT s range As well as training with a soft and hard hit you may also go in and manually change these values yourself Here s how 1 Depress the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch 2 Hit rimPad13 for Low Dynamics or rimPad14 for High Dynamics The display will say Hit Pad Again for Low Dynamic 3 Hit rimPad13 or rimPad14 again The display says Change Low Dynam on Which Pad Pad 01 4 Hit a Pad The display will show you the Low or High Dynamic for that pad Low Dynamic 14 BASS Input Gain 27 9 If you strike that pad again you will increment the Low Dynamic higher Low Dynamic gives more of a plateau of your Minimum Velocity at the bottom of your playing dynamics A lower High Dynamic will make you reach your Maximum Velocity
43. ilent and the next Note 45 will appear on the screen Each successive hit while the NOTE EDIT footswitch is depressed will advance to the next Note play it and display it on your trapKAT This process lets you quickly run through the available sounds When you hear one you like for that Pad stop and release the NOTE EDIT footswitch Now playing on that Pad will produce the sound you wanted It s that simple 13 5 Editing KITs UserKits Since this change was done to a FactoryKit if you select some other KIT and then comeback to this KIT the change you just made will disappear Remember all changes to FactoryKITs are temporary COPYING KITs TO A UserKIT Often you may like a KIT as it is except you just want to change a couple of things This is why we have included a simple KIT COPY feature in your trapKAT You may copy either a FactoryKit or some other UserKIT into any UserKIT KIT COPY will always copy the KIT you are currently in to some other selected KIT KIT COPY is done using rimPads 15 and 16 when the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch is depressed s an example lets copy the edited version of FactoryKit 1 that we created above into UserKIT 24 1 Depress the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch and while it is depressed hit rimPad15 The trapKAT display will say Copy Current Kit To User Kit 01 2 Keeping the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch depressed hit rimPAD15 repeatedly and you will see the to UserKIT value increment
44. ime don t be in a hurry Make sure you insert the screwdriver between the chip and the socket before you start to pry each time Instead of between the socket and the circuit board 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 trapKAT and reinsert the 16 screws 8 Turn your trapKAT back over and reinsert the AC adaptor plug into the trapKAT Now turn your trapKAT back on If the display is working you are OK If the display is not working then a Remove the AC adaptor plug again b Turn the trapKAT over again and remove the 16 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 trapKAT back over reinsert the AC adaptor plug and turn the power back on f If this still 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 45 9 Appendix Appendix I Brea
45. l you may choose to turn this setting OFF This will decrease the amount of information sent out of your trapKAT to your sound source If you leave this setting on 01 or 04 no harm will come to sound sources that don t respond to it It ll be like junk mail that you ignore and throw out when bring in the days mail it doesn t really affect the mail you do want to read 23 6 HiHat TRAINING YOUR HIHAT PEDAL When you received your trapKAT it should come preset with the appropriate settings for optimum use of either a hatKAT or a footswitch into your HiHat input Re init should set up these settings properly as well However if your settings inadvertently get changed you are using a pedal other than a hatKAT or you just want to try retraining for your specific pedal do the following 1 Depress the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch 2 Hit rimPad17 The display will say Hit Pad Again to Do HiHat Train 3 Hit rimPad17 again Now beeper goes on and display says Depress Pedal then Hit Any Pad 4 So depress the HiHat pedal and while the HiHat pedal is depressed hit rimPad17 The beeper will change and the display will say Release Pedal then Hit Any Pad 9 So let up on the HiHat pedal and while the HiHat pedal is released hit rimPad17 The display will say Hi Hat Pedal Train Complete That s it You ve trained your HiHat pedal DEFINING SETTINGS FOR SPLASH To edit the Splash settings involves a little more To edit
46. 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 After you train your trapKAT to respond to your playing dynamic range what soft and hard hits are to you the trapKAT 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 tums 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 tums 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 Lighting 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 de
47. ments to data disks and computers so you can back up your work This is called a Data Dump The trapKAT will send a variety of Data Dumps of its internal information out the MIDI OUTs if you use the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch and hit Pad10 rimPad23 or rimPad24 The trapKAT will automatically accept or receive a Data Dump via MIDI IN whenever one is sent in A trapKAT SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE DATA DUMP consists of two parts 1 A9 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 byte 1 OFOH Start of System Exclusive Status Byte byte 2 00H byte 3 00H byte 4 15H 00H 00H 15H is KAT s Company ID byte 5 63H Instrument type ID for the trapKAT byte 6 XX Dump Type byte 7 7FH Individual Instrument ID 2127 in trapKAT byte 8 XX Software Version ft byte 9 XX Aux Type Kit f or Motif if Type is Kit or MOTIF 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 trapKAT information The amount of data for each dump type is as follows Dump Type Amount of Data Global XXXX Kit XXXX All Memory XXXX After all the DATA has been sent the End of System Exclusive Command O0F7H is sent 9 Appendix Appendix H Inserting New Software Chips For Software Updates HOW TO PHYSICALLY CHAN
48. n a device Kits that are always present in your instrument These are Kits that we at Alternate Mode generated for you to use with the various Sound Sources available The length of time that a Note sounds as sent by the trapKAT It is the length of time the trapKAT waits after it sends a Note On before it sends a Note Off Many drum machines ignore the Gate Time sent by the trapKAT and sound the Note until it s fully played out Melodic sounds like horns strings amp organs often do respond to Gate Time GENERAL MIDI GM Sound Module A sound module that comforms to the General MIDI specification Kit MIDI MIDI Delay MIDI IN MIDI OUT specifying Program layout by sound type for simple connection between MIDI devices A collection of MIDI Note and Channel settings for all of your Pads HiHat 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 trapKAT 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 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
49. nch 5 64 supplied with your trapKAT to lighten the tension on the rubber around the perimeter of the trapKAT playing surface Try REINITIALIZING your trapKAT See p 30 Call Alternate Mode Customer Service 413 594 5190 Interaction when you strike one pad a different pad also plays Raise the threshold of the Pad that was not supposed to play p 26 Use the allen wrench 5 64 supplied with your trapKAT to adjust the tension on the rubber around the perimeter of the trapKAT playing surface Don t tighten so much that you bend the metal Try REINITIALIZING your trapKAT See p 30 Call Alternate Mode Customer Service 413 594 5190 If you experience a problem with your electronic system try to isolate specifically where the problem is Could it be a problem with your Sound Source Amp How about your footswitches or MIDI cables orAC Adaptor Is there some sequence of actions that will repeatedly cause the problem 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 9t Foot Control All Foot Control Notes Channel oo Off Perform Copy Kit Minimum Maximum Kit Copy Hi Hat Velocity Velocity Pad To Kit Select Gate Time Pad Pad Pad Pad Channel Minimum Maximum Velocity Velocity Velocity Curve nonen WPF QVd LIY B J XIDUo x pu ddy 6 LE Display Beeper Viewing On Off Angle Select Bass
50. nd time to get UserKit 01 VelocityCurve 2 Release the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch and try it out Velocity Curve 1 is a linear curve the loudness increases in a smooth way from soft to loud Velocity Curve 2 is different It stays soft longer as you play harder until finally it gets louder in a hurry at the top of your dynamic range Try all of the Velocity Curves A brief description of each is given below As with the other Velocity settings you can change the settings for all of the pads at the same time Pad4 KIT Velocity Curve or for 19 5 Editing KITs UserKits each pad individually rimPad14 Pad Velocity Curve Velocity Curve 1 Linear Smooth from bottom to top Velocity Curve 2 Stays low longer than Linear Velocity Curve 3 Stays low even longer than 2 Velocity Curve 4 Slow linear with accent at the end Velocity Curve 5 High minimum stays low then accent Velocity Curve 6 Gets up sooner than Linear Changing the Volume The Volume setting affects the overall loudness of the entire Program of sounds on your sound source As in other Kit settings use KIT PAD EDIT and Pad to see UserKit 01 Volume 96 The range for this setting is 0 127 and Don tSend The reason for Don t Send is that you may not want your Kits to change the Volume settings built into the patches on your sound source and simply play them as they are CHANGING THE GATE TIME Gate Time is the length of the sound
51. nd you select for the Tap Tempo pad is used by all Kits GROOVE VOLUME You may adjust the Volume of your Melodic and Percussive Grooves relative to the Volume of your playing on your Kits To access the Volume of your Grooves simply depress the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch and hit Pad9 Successive hits of Pad9 will raise the Groove Volume The range of values is 0 to 10 Quick click the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch to decrease the Global Groove Volume To quick click while editing means to release the footswitch and quickly redepress it The beeping will change to indicate that you are now decrementing A second quick click will return you to incrementing 12 5 Editing KITs UserKifs Making changes to the settings editing in your trapKAT is easy The changes you can make range from changing the sounds NOTEs your pads make changing the way your pads respond to your playing dynamics to training how your HiHat pedal responds In this Chapter you ll see how to change all the settings in your UserKITs EDITING OVERVIEW All editing uses the same simple method l Press a footswitch to let the trapKAT know that you want to edit or change something When changing Notes you will press the NOTE EDIT footswitch When changing other Kit settings you will press the KIT EDIT footswitch etc s 2 Strike a pad to let the trapKAT know what you want to change When changing Note numbers or sounds you will simply strike the pad you want
52. nerated 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 can have continuous control from Closed to Open in many of the current sound sources The actual training of the hatKAT pedal is explained on p 24 BREATH CONTROL INPUT The Breath Control input accepts a signal from the Yamaha BC2 Breath Controller A Global setting allows Pitchbend Expression or Sustain to be selected for the Breath Controller This allows you to bend notes with your mouth See p 46 3 MAKING A SOUND FacforyKits The simplest way to get your trapKAT up and running is to get into the FactoryKits If you are not already connected and powered up do the following Connect a KF1 footswitch into KIT SELECT footswitch input This footswitch moves you around in the FactoryKits Connect a MIDI cable from either of the two MIDI OUTs in the back of the trapKAT and connect the other end of the cable into the MIDI IN on your sound source Connect the AC adaptor plug into the power input on your trapKAT Screw the AC adaptor retention ring firmly onto the receptacle on the back of the trapKAT Plug the AC adaptor into a wall socket and turn the power on the trapKAT on Your display will tell you whether you are in Factory Kits or User Kits FactoryKit 01 MG Marimba 120 OR UserKit 01 PG Clave 112 If the screen says you
53. ny choices of MELODIC GROOVES rimPad 15 or PERCUSSION GROOVES rimPad16 MELODIC GROOVE SELECT Hit rimPad 15 and see FactoryKit 01 MG Funky Flute 120 Hit rimPad 15 again and see FactoryKit 01 MG Rocker 120 11 4 Playing In a GROOVE PERCUSSIVE GROOVE SELECT Hit rimPad 16 and see UserKit 01 PG Clave 112 The PG means Percussive Groove Each time you hit rimPad 15 or 16 the currently selected Groove is changed If a Groove is playing and either of the left corner rimPads 15 or 16 is hit the newly selected Groove will start playing at the top with the Tempo it is set to start out with GROOVE TAPTEMPO To change the tempo of any Groove simply hit TAP TEMPO s rimPAD23 twice at a quarter note of the tempo you want The display will tell you what tempo those quarter notes were and the GROOVE will immediately start playing at that tempo as long as it is between 40 and 240 beats per minute UserKit 01 PG Clave 96 Even this little TapTempo Pad can be a fun practice aid helping you work on your perception of real time tempos You can practice difficult licks and fills with the tempo slowed down and as your skill increases you can speed the tempo up to keep challenging yourself The Note that is played when you hit theTapTempo rimPad can be adjusted in the same way as the other pads see p 15 20 The difference here is that the settings for the Tap Tempo pad are Global meaning whatever sou
54. out 1 2 to 15mS Sound Travel Delay The time it takes for a sound to travel through the air from the source speakers Toggle Trigger User Kit Velocity 39 drum head etc to our ears Usually this is about 1 to 20mS To switch back and forth from one selection to another e g GLOBAL EDIT footswitch and Pad1 toggles you between FactoryKits and UserKits Any of various external impact sensors that can be plugged into the trapKAT bass input Normally these are foot triggers like the kicKAT miniKICK and fatKAT Kits that are changeable in your trapKAT These are Kits that you alter to meet your needs A measure of how loud or soft a Note the trapKAT will play on your Sound Source gt or or mes an eee ee 9 Appendix Appendix E 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 and polyphony Keyboardists guitarists 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
55. previously To change the other settings like Channel Velocities and Gate Time use the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch with the HiHat pedal depressed angi i ings To change the Chick or HiHat foot settings do the same editing procedures as normal except simply Chick your HiHat pedal instead of hitting a pad Here s an example To change the Minimum Velocity for the Chick sound do the following 1 Depress the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch 2 Close the HiHat pedal and release it to play a Chick The display will say CHICK Note 044 PediHiHat 3 If you now Chick the HiHat pedal again with the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch still depressed the Note value will increment 4 To decrement quick click the KIT PAD footswitch as described previously 22 6 HiHat FOOT CONTROL ASSIGN The most advanced HiHat control is available from sound sources that use Continuous Controller information to create variable amounts of Closed for a HiHat This permits your HiHat pads to not just be Open or Closed but to play sounds that vary continuously from Open to Closed As you move your hatKAT pedal the trapKAT sends a stream of information to the sound source about the changing position of the HiHat pedal Then when an Open sound is played from a pad the sound source will be able to play a sound that varies with the actual amount that the pedal is closed As of the writing of this manual the sound sources capable of responding to
56. rse see Decrement 31 33 38 39 Channel 9 10 15 17 22 24 30 31 33 34 35 38 46 Save 7 13 14 29 32 38 43 47 Delay see Delay Software Installation 45 IN 5 7 9 16 28 30 32 38 Software Version 48 40 41 43 stands 3 Loops 28 Sustain 46 Note 8 20 29 31 32 38 39 40 System Exclusive 31 32 43 Note Auto Load 16 28 OUT 5 7 9 16 28 30 31 34 38 43 Program Change 10 15 16 28 Tap Tempo 12 31 33 39 40 46 Threshold see Pads Triggering Problems 35 Trouble Shooting 34 35 aan Receive 30 Velocity 17 19 24 26 27 31 32 38 39 Curves 17 20 24 26 27 Minimum 17 19 24 26 27 UserKits 5 9 11 14 15 28 30 39 Maximum 17 19 24 26 27 43 Mounting 3 EEIE EEA U urere rer e Video 4 Note see MIDI Note Volume 12 17 20 Kit 17 20 NOTE EDIT 13 15 22 34 Groove 12 28 WEEE EE ers RES Warranty 3 47 51
57. s With a playing area that is 3 5 times bigger than that of the drumKAT the trapKAT is truly a BIG MIDI Controller giving you the ability to spread out your playing However being one piece with 10 large FSR pads and 14 convenient FSR rim sensors transport and system set up is a snap with very few cables to connect Simply plug in a hatKAT a fatKAT and a MIDI cable to your sound source and start playing The trapKAT you have purchased will grow over the years As better sound sources become available we will respond with ways for you to have even more control over your music The trapKAT will continually grow in response to your changing needs With Alternate Mode s continuing War On Obsolescence all of our customers enjoy continual growth in their purchases because of our upgrade releases Right now we are working on future features and capabilities for your trapKAT You ve probably noticed the various editing names that are already molded into the pads SCREEN TYPE SCREEN ADVANCE ETC these are there for when you upgrade to trapKAT PRO We tell you this so you ll know that as the trapKAT evolves even further in the years to come our future innovations will be available to you too We won t forget you When you unpack your trapKAT you should find the following 1 trapKAT 24 Surface controller 1 locking AC Adaptor 1 KF1 footswitch 1 MIDI Cable A 5 64 Allen wrench 1 manual You also will find a registration card en
58. s KAT T shirts KAT Tour Jackets Trigger Pads poleKAT dual zone FSR Pad rimKAT dual zone FSR Pad flatK AT single and dual zone Pads proPAD multi zone FSR Pad Trigger Pedals fatKAT self contained bass drum trigger pedal hatKAT HiHat Controller padal IniniKICK compact bass drum trigger Pad kicK AT bass drum trigger Pad for real acoustic feel Other Controllers malletKAT PRO MIDI Mallet Controller 3 to 5 Octaves malletKAT PRO With Sounds Includes internal sound card of over 350 incredible percussion and orchestral samples drumKAT Advanced 10 pad controller w trigger inputs 32 Channel MIDI powerful pad control modes dK10 Simple to use responsive 10 FSR pad controller 1 Introduction PRODUCT OVERVIEW The trapKAT is a velocity sensitive MIDI Controller with a spacious layout that is comfortable for drummers and percussionists The playing surface responds to a wide dynamic range and has a great feel and rebound The 24 playing surfaces consist of 10 large playing pads and 14 poleKAT style zones that are played with the shoulder of your stick like the rim of an acoustic drum This allows you to physically spread out your playing area With a variety of stand mounting options and accessories the set up and transport of your full trapKAT Kit is as easy as it is convenient The trapKAT has FactoryKits and UserKits In the FactoryKits there are 24 Kits with a variety of layouts and that will give you
59. s Threshold PREFERENCES FactorvKits UserKit 7 Editing Global Settings There are a miscellaneous group of settings that we will tell you about here because they don t easily fit in any other category The advantage of FactoryKits is that all of the Kits should always work with any GENERAL MIDI sound module since the FactoryKits can t be permanently changed If these FactoryKits keep you happy then that is wonderful However eventually you will probably want to create your own Kits with your own layouts Program Changes and Velocity settings To make your own Kits you need to get into the UserKits To do that is simple just depress the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch and hit Pad1 to switch back and forth between FactoryKits and UserKits That s it UserKits Groove Enable Groove Volume Memo rotect Merge ON OFF Once you are in UserKits you can choose to have rimPads 15 16 23 and 24 all be playing pads or be control pads for the Grooves like they are in FactoryKits To change the selection of how these 4 rimPad sections are used in UserKits simply depress the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch and hit Pad2 twice You may wish to change the Volume of your Melodic and Percussive Grooves relative to the Volume of your playing on your Kits To access the Volume of your Grooves simply depress the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch and hit Pad9 Successive hits of Pad9 will raise the Groove Volume The range of values is 0 to 10 Quick click
60. th Control Adjustments To actually use a Breath Controller Yamaha BC 10 you should first adjust the two trimpots in the headset to match the following diagram then train it First match these settings y i Co GAIN OFFSET Output Cable Breath Tube Now train your BC 10 BreathController for optimum response To Train the response of the breath controller do the following 1 Depress the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch and hit rimPad22 twice 2 The trapKAT will sound a continuous beep You should respond by blowing through the breath controller and then hitting a pad 3 The trapKAT will again sound a continuous beep You should now hit a pad again without blowing 4 The breath controller is now trained To assign what you want the Breath Controller to do simply depress the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch and hit rimPad21 several times scrolling through your options Your options include PitchBend Up On the Program Channel PitchBend Down On the Program Channel Expression On the Program Channel Sustain On the Program Channel Off Breath Controller not being used 46 9 Appendix Appendix d Warranty Policies The trapKAT has a limited warranty The trapKAT 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 n tri Damage or defects sustained through unauthorized repair or tampering or abusive treatment are not cover
61. the Global Editing footswitch and hit PAD 9 twice DATA DUMPS Data Dumps are used to send out your trapKAT RAM settings to be saved on an external storage device like a data disk or computer so that you may retrieve them later Data dumps are used as a back up against the accidental loss of your Kits and Global settings Having a Data Dump of your Kits is like having a spare tire in your car trunk It is not necessary until you need it but when you need it you ll regret not having been prepared The trapKAT sends out 3 kinds of Data Dumps How to dump out this data is shown below To receive data back in just send it into the trapKAT MIDI IN from the external storage device The trapKAT will automatically receive it and notify you of the receipt For technical details about the size and format of these dumps refer to Appendix p 44 Il Memo To dump out All Memory simply depress the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch 29 7 Editing Global Settings and hit pad10 twice To dump out the current Kit simply depress the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch and hit rimpad24 twice To dump out the Global Memory Pad Thresholds Dynamics Preferences etc simply depress the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch and hit rimpad23 twice RE INIT trapKAT To Reinitialize your trapKAT back to all of the original Factory settings simply hold down the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch and hit rimPad15 The screen will say Depress Pad1 and Hit Pad15 Again If you then hit rimPad1
62. the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch is depressed The display says Hit Pad Again for Pad Min Vel So hit rimPad12 again Now the display says Change Min Vel on Which Pad So hit Pad3 so we can change its Minimum Velocity setting Pad03 MinVelocity 040 Pad3 has a Minimum Velocity of 40 like all the other Pads in this KIT Now continue to hit Pad3 until its Minimum Velocity is 64 Pad03 MinVelocity 064 Without releasing the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch hit Pad4 The display will say Pad04 MinVelocity 040 Now you may change the individual setting for Pad4 Hit Pad4 five more times until Pad04 MinVelocity 045 Now release the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch and play Notice that all your soft hits are fairly loud especially Pad03 Now lets see what your KIT Minimum Velocity looks like Depress KIT PAD EDIT and hit Pad2 The display will say UserKit 01 Min Vel Various The reason it says VARIOUS is because there are individual differences in the Minimum Velocity setting from one Pad to the next If you now hit Pad2 again the display says UserKit 01 MinVelocity 040 If there are various values for Minimum Velocity from pad to pad the first change hit will cause all the values to be made to be the same as the value for Pad1 Succeeding hits will start to increment all of the Kit s Minimum Velocity values as normal Now if you go look at individual Pad Minimum Velocities again you will find they
63. vice 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 32 8 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 jt 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 understand it Continue to read the manual and experiment with your trapKAT 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 trapKAT is sending on with the Ch
64. with each hit of rimPAD15 So hit rimPad15 with KIT PAD EDIT footswitch depressed The display will alternate between Copy Current Kit To User Kit 01 Pad15 Changes Pad16 to Copy 3 Now with the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch depressed hit rimPad16 Copy To User 01 Hit Pad16 Again 4 With the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch still depressed hit rimPad16 a second time to verify that you do want to do the copy The display now says Copy Completed To UserKit 01 You ve done it The KIT has been copied The trapKAT also Switches to UserKits for you to be able to start using your new UserKIT So when the Copy Completed burst is through you will see You Are Now In UserKits Release the KIT PAD EDIT footswitch to get out of editing and back to playing Then the display will say FactoryKit 01 MG Marimba 106 14 5 Editing KITs UserKits Doing a KIT Copy isn t the only way to get from DemoKits to UserKits The usual way is using the GLOBAL EDIT footswitch see p 28 EDITING IN UserKits The main difference in editing when you are in UserKits is that every change you make to a KIT is permanently saved in that UserKIT KIT changes are temporary in FactoryKits All changes made to GLOBAL settings Chapter 7 p 25 are permanently saved as they are in FactoryKits as well Now that we are in UserKITs let s try some of the other KIT PAD EDIT functions to make changes to your UserKITs An illustration of the layout of
65. y 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 Because a drum sustains after you hit it for some time quick hits or rolls have essentially two or more separate acoustic sounds playing at once Drums need polyphony per drum to sound real The trapKAT has 4 Note polyphony per pad so that you can capitalize on any sound sources that support polyphony per note 42 9 Appendix Appendix F MIDI Implementation Chart Function Basic Channel Default Changed Mode Default Messages Altered Note Number Velocity Note On AfterTouch Keys Channel Pitch Bender Control Change Transmitted e nized Remarks 1 16 1 16 1 16 1 16 Mode 3 X Poly Mono X 0 127 X 1 127 X x X l X By FootControl or Breath 01 04 by FootControl X PitchBend by Breath Control Program Change 0 127 0 127 System Exclusive 0 0 Dump 1 Kit Global All Memory System Song Pos X X Song Sel X X Common Tune X X System Clock X X Real Time Commands 0 0 Sequence Start Stop Aux Local On Off X X All Notes Off 0 X Messages Active Sense X X Reset X X Notes Note Offs timed by Internal Gate Time or continued physical holding on Pad 0 Yes x No 43 9 Appendix Appendix G System Exclusive Documentation HEADER DATA MIDI allows you to SAVE your settings from MIDI instru

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