Drumulator Owners Manual
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When accenting drums, you will usually want to
use modest accent levels (1 to 3). Greater accents
are more useful with percussion sounds. For
example, programming the cowbell to appear every
single beat with a consistent volume level can
sound very artificial, since most percussionists like
to accent certain beats. In a case like this, set a low
cowbell level (say, 3), an accent of 4 or 5, and use
the accent to emphasize certain beats (such as
beats 2 and 4 in 4/4 music).
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If a drum sound level is 0, the accented version
will also be silent, regardless of the accent setting.
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You can set accents while the Drumulator is
running (but not while it is in
record
mode).
Help:
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If adding an accent doesn’t appear to affect the
sound, check the level of the sound you’re
attempting to accent. Remember that the level
number and accent number must be less than or
equal to 15; if the drum sound is programmed for a
high volume level, adding accent may not make a
very dramatic difference.
1F Playing Back Segments
You can record and play back 36 rhythm patterns,
called
segments.
These are organized as 6 banks
of 6 segments. Several segments were loaded into
the Drumulator at the factory; here is how to play
them.
1. Press the SONG/SEGMENT button a few times.
The SEGMENT light shows you are in
segment
mode, and can play back or record segments. The
SONG light shows you are in
song
nnode. For
now, choose the
segment
mode.
2. When
in
segment
mode, if you are not holding
down a Drum Play button in order to assign a drum
sound, the six Drum Sound Select buttons turn into
bank: segment select buttons. (The setting of the
PERC/DRUMS
switch does not matter in this mode,
or for that matter, any mode other than assigning
drum sounds to Drum Play buttons.) Press one of
these buttons to select the bank (in the example,
we've selecting bank 3). The 2nd display from the
right will show this bank number, while the right-
most display will show a flashing cursor (this
indicates that the Drumulator now expects the
segment number).
