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ddrum4 SE V1.5x

1. Introduction: Welcome!

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We would first like to congratulate you on your purchase of the ddrum4 SE system! The ddrum4 system 
has been on the market a few years already and has become the choice of many professional and amateur 
drummers. With the ddrum4 SE system Clavia introduces the Signature Edition of the ddrum4 system, 
with multi-sampled instruments from 

Simon Phillips

Dennis Chambers

Kenny Aronoff 

and 

Mel 

Gaynor 

and a lot of other nice features!

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Please read it. It contains a lot of useful information. The first section contains the necessary information 
for connecting your system parts. The reference section contains information regarding all the functions 
of the ddrum4. Every time this manual refers to a physical object on the ddrum4, a button on the panel, 
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This manual is also available in the digital PDF-file format. It can be downloaded, free of charge, from 
Clavia’s web site at http://www.clavia.se. When reading the manual as PDF-file, you will need Adobe Ac-
robat Reader 4.0 or later. This program can be downloaded, free of charge, at http://www.adobe.com.
With Adobe Acrobat Reader it is possible to use special navigation features like hyperlinks. This means 
that you can click with the mouse on a word or sentence and automatically get to the location indicated 
by the word/sentence. To better show what words or sentences are hyperlinked in this manual, these 
words are written in 

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The ddrum4 SE system is a 10 channel percussion system. One channel can hold one sound, e.g. channel 
1 could be the kick drum, channel 2 the snare etc. The sounds are digitally reproduced with the propri-
etary ddrum sound engine. The sounds have been carefully selected and edited by the Clavia crew. All 
the sounds in the ddrum4 SE have been edited and stored using a unique method. The intelligent play-
back engine eliminates machine gun effects during rolls and other unwanted artifacts that are typical in 
other electronic drum systems.

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The major part of the ddrum4 SE drum sounds are built up with a lot of samples (multi samples) in order 
to produce a more realistic simulation of how an acoustic drum sounds when struck with different veloc-
ities. The ddrum4 SE features sounds played and recorded by the famous drummers 

Simon Phillips

Dennis Chambers

Kenny Aronoff 

and 

Mel Gaynor

! “Dynamics” is one of the keywords describing the 

functionality of the ddrum4 SE. It is designed to make available every acoustic nuance of the drum 
sounds. The dynamic sound possibilities of the ddrum4 SE are one of its major features compared to sam-
plers and ROM based playback machines.

Summary of Contents for ddrum4

Page 1: ...er s Manual al al al al OS V OS V OS V OS V OS Version 1 5x ersion 1 5x ersion 1 5x ersion 1 5x ersion 1 5x b b b b b y C l a y C l a y C l a y C l a y C l a v i a D M I A B v i a D M I A B v i a D M...

Page 2: ...d instructions importantes pour le fonctionnement et l entretien service dans le livret d instructions accompagnant l appareil Instructions pertaining to a risk of fire electric shock or injury to pe...

Page 3: ...tion The left front panel section 7 7 7 7 The right front panel section The right front panel section The right front panel section The right front panel section 8 8 8 8 The rear panel The rear panel...

Page 4: ...31 31 ddrum4 sounds ddrum4 sounds ddrum4 sounds ddrum4 sounds 31 31 31 31 Download new sounds free of charge 31 MIDI Sample Dump MIDI Sample Dump MIDI Sample Dump MIDI Sample Dump 31 31 31 31 Loading...

Page 5: ...ddrum Acoustic Triggers ddrum Acoustic Triggers ddrum Acoustic Triggers 44 44 44 44 Tom Trigger 44 Kick Trigger 44 Snare Trigger 44 Setting up with ddrum Triggers 44 Some triggering tips on the road 4...

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Page 7: ...s possible to use special navigation features like hyperlinks This means that you can click with the mouse on a word or sentence and automatically get to the location indicated by the word sentence To...

Page 8: ...are also chokeable you can either choke them with your hand or with the drumstick itself The Cast Cymbals are fitted on a special spring to make them feel like acoustic cymbals The innovative hi hat t...

Page 9: ...CHANNEL buttons the PALETTE select buttons and the INPUT SENSITIVITY knobs You can play the sounds by pressing the CHANNEL buttons They are not velocity sensitive but you can program the velocity lev...

Page 10: ...channel that has no sound the system bar will not indicate anything The system bar will also under certain circumstances help you to set the proper input sensitivity level If the display shows a P or...

Page 11: ...g Inputs 1 2 8 and 9 are capable of detecting pressure sensitivity If you have pads that can transmit pressure connect them to these inputs Input 10 is also capable of detecting pressure sensitivity b...

Page 12: ...thing that will appear in the ddrum4 SE DISPLAY is the software version number After a brief moment PAL will appear in the DISPLAY This indicates that the ddrum4 SE is in the Palette mode S S S SE E...

Page 13: ...r once you select a channel by pressing a chan nel button the pad select is disabled To enable it again press EXIT and go back to edit mode 3 The DISPLAY will indicate the Trig Input type of the selec...

Page 14: ...bs Turning the INPUT SENSITIVITY knob clockwise will make the trig input more sensitive You should adjust the INPUT SENSITIVITY knob so that the top segment of the SYSTEM INDICATOR bar lights up light...

Page 15: ...ROTARY DIAL while playing the tom pads Increase the threshold value until the toms no longer trigger the snare The higher the threshold value the less chance of a weak trigger pulse triggering that c...

Page 16: ...tte mode the ddrum4 SE will store every changes you make Until you are familiar with the ddrum4 SE parameters do your exploring in Kit mode instead See below K K K KI I I IT T T T M M M MO O O OD D D...

Page 17: ...or each channel do like this 1 Press the SOUND button 2 Select a channel by pressing a CHANNEL button 3 Select a sound by turning the ROTARY DIAL As you turn the ROTARY DIAL the sound numbers are show...

Page 18: ...the way it was To store a kit do like this 1 Hold the SHIFT button and press the KIT STORE button In the DISPLAY the P will begin flashing and you will be able to choose a kit location a number to sto...

Page 19: ...belong in this category The attack portion of drums and percussion sounds are very rich in transients thus requiring a powerful and fast power amplifier to sound good not the same thing as loud Do no...

Page 20: ...t a channel by hitting a pad however once you select a channel by pressing a CHANNEL button the pad select is disabled To enable it again press EXIT and go back to edit mode 3 Edit the selected System...

Page 21: ...ystem was shipped with the Cast Precision Mesh Head Pads the snare toms and percussion channels should be set to mesh head 1 nh1 HHt This should be used if you re using the ddrum Hi hat The ddrum Hi h...

Page 22: ...d be useful if you want your playing to sound static Turning the ROTARY DIAL clockwise will select the positive curves where medium soft to medium hard hits will be more pronounced see the figure belo...

Page 23: ...e the Level B parameter see page 27 to anything above 0 and set the Out B parameter to any integer A value of 3 00 corresponds to output B3 only a value of 3 50 makes the channel present equally in bo...

Page 24: ...l transmit that particular information as different MIDI note numbers This means that when you play multisampled sounds across the head the playing information is record able into a MIDI sequencer as...

Page 25: ...smit MIDI Program Change messages or not tH is the Thru mode where any incoming Program Change messages are im mediately throughput to the MIDI OUT jack Please refer to MIDI Program Change messages on...

Page 26: ...F F AL F SY F PA F 1 F 26 F AL F SY F PA F 1 F 26 F AL F SY F PA F 1 F 26 F AL F SY F PA F 1 F 26 This function allows you to initialize different settings in the ddrum4 SE to the factory defaults The...

Page 27: ...ul if you would like to trigger external sounds over MIDI without having the ddrum4 SE making any sound of its own Tip You can quickly select consecu tive sounds to adjacent channels This can be very...

Page 28: ...E E EC C C CA A A AY Y Y Y Here you can set the decay of the sound You can shorten any sound by setting this parameter to anything below the default value 100 which is the maximum original length The...

Page 29: ...When the ddrum4 SE is shipped from factory it s loaded with the ddrum4 SE factory sounds Most of the shift functions are related to sound and memory man agement including erasing and replacement of so...

Page 30: ...individual sound of the selected group S S S SH H H HI I I IF F F FT T T T S S S SI I I IZ Z Z ZE E E E This shows the size in Blocks of the sound s you have selected using the Shift Sound function de...

Page 31: ...categories hold the SOUND but ton while turning the ROTARY DIAL The DISPLAY will show G xx where the xx indicates the total number of sounds in the selected group This is especially useful if you pla...

Page 32: ...ait until this operation is finished which will be indicated by a zero in the DISPLAY IMPORTANT Do not turn off the ddrum4 SE module during this process S S S SH H H HI I I IF F F FT T T T E E E EX X...

Page 33: ...G GE E E E At the Clavia web site you will find all sounds as zipped MIDI files Fetch them with your web browser and unzip them Then you can load the MIDI files to the ddrum4Tool PC or to your sequen...

Page 34: ...do anything with the ddrum4 SE module in order to receive sounds via MIDI Just make sure that the connections are correct and start the transmission from the sending device software the sequencer or t...

Page 35: ...MIDI Program Change 99 is used to turn the ddrum4 SE to the default Palette mode the default mode when you turn on the ddrum4 SE To select one of the sounds in the Kick palette send one of the MIDI Pr...

Page 36: ...and MIDI MIDI Implementation Chart ddrum4 SE V1 5x Page 34 MIDI MIDI MIDI MIDI I I I IM M M MP P P PL L L LE E E EM M M ME E E EN N N NT T T TA A A AT T T TI I I IO O O ON N N N C C C CH H H HA A A A...

Page 37: ...Custom 22 bass amb KICK_707 SPkick2 DRY 7 1 Tama Starclassic 24 bass dry KICK_709 SPkick3 DRY 7 1 Tama Starclassic 18 bass dry SNRE_73 73 an 1 2 SNRE_700 MGsnare1 AMB 7 1 Tama Starclassic 14 snare amb...

Page 38: ...dbell 3 1 3 PERC_020 Indie drum 1 3 PERC_021 Kandgila 1 3 PERC_022 LPtimbale 1 3 PERC_023 M bira 1 3 PERC_024 Mambo bell 1 4 PERC_025 MPbongo 1 3 PERC_026 MPbongo2 1 3 PERC_027 Tabla bass 1 3 PERC_028...

Page 39: ...hat2 DRY 7 1 HHAT_706 SPhihat1 DRY 7 1 EFCT_002 Iron elem 1 4 EFCT_003 Lrge Hit 1 4 EFCT_005 Fingersnaps4 1 4 EFCT_006 Goomcheaks 1 1 4 EFCT_009 Alarmclock 1 1 4 EFCT_011 Bycyclebell 1 1 4 EFCT_013 Ch...

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