Basic Techniques
DTX502 O
w
ner’s Man
u
al
19
Selecting & Playing a Kit
In terms of the DTX502, a “kit” is a full set of drum-sound assignments for all of the pads. Your
drum module comes with 50 different drum and percussion kits already set up.
1.
Press the [KIT] button to access the Kit area.
Verify that “KIT1” is displayed at the top-left of the screen.
2.
Turn the Data Dial to select a different kit.
3.
Play the pads and see how the kit sounds.
A pad’s sensitivity determines how the loudness (or power) of its drum sounds changes depending
on how hard you strike it. You can adjust the sensitivity of all pads as follows to make them more
accurately reflect the dynamics of your drumming.
Hold down the [KIT] button and press either the VOLUME [+]
or [–] button.
• Pressing the VOLUME [+] button increases the gain setting, making all of the pads more
sensitive. This means that louder sounds can be more easily produced with softer drumming.
• Pressing the VOLUME [–] button decreases the gain setting, making all of the pads less sen-
sitive. This means that louder sounds can only be produced by drumming hard.
If necessary, you can change the volumes of individual instruments (page 20). For example, you
may need to lower the volume of the kick while increasing the volume of the snare. For details on
how to do so, see the description of the Mixer settings page from Menu Mode (page 57).
KIT1
Selecting a Kit
Adjusting Pad Sensitivity
Balancing Instrument Volumes
NOTE
Yo
u
r kit selection
w
ill
b
e retained e
v
en
w
hen the DTX502 is t
u
rned off.
KIt1
01:Maple Cus
t
om‚
Kit n
u
m
b
er
Kit name
NOTE
With certain dr
u
m kits, the Pad Song
f
u
nction (page 29)
w
ill a
u
tomatically
start playing a song
w
hen yo
u
strike a
pad.
NOTE
• Adj
u
sting the sensiti
v
ity as sho
w
n
on the left affects the entire kit.
• If yo
u
w
ish to set sensiti
v
ities on an
indi
v
id
u
al pad
b
asis, see the
description of the Gain page from
Men
u
Mode (page 68).
a
Ki
t
Gain=100%
b
c
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d
Hold
