3B About the Edit Buffer, 3C About Defaults

1.3B About the Edit Buffer

Whenever you select a Drum Set, all parameters associated with the Drum Set load into a temporary memory buffer. As you edit the Drum Set, changes are made to this temporary version rather than the original Drum Set.

This is important for two reasons:

•If you don’t like the results of your edit, you can always revert to the original Drum Set.

•If you do like the results of your edit, you must save the buffer’s contents. It can overwrite the original Drum Set data, or be written to a different Drum Set.

If you select another Drum Set, the data in the edit buffer will be overwritten with the newly-selected Drum Set’s parameters.

1.3C About Defaults

A default is a setting that is automatically assumed until you purposely change it. Example: When you turn on a VCR, it automatically defaults to Stop—you have to purposely tell the machine to go into Record or Play. Stop is therefore the VCR’s power-up default status.

The D4 includes several default settings. Example: If you want to save a Drum Set, the D4 will default to saving it to its existing memory slot. However, if desired you can save to another location in memory.

Defaults save time by giving you a setup that’s instantly ready to go; sometimes you’ll need to change only a few parameters to modify the default setup to your liking.

Often the default is “whatever was selected last.Example:” If the D4 was set to Drum Set 14 just before you shut off power, upon power-up the D4 will return to Drum Set 14.

1.3D MIDI Note Range

The D4’s sounds can be assigned to any note within a 5-octave (61 note) range, from MIDI note 36 to 96. However, this range may be shifted using the Root Note feature (section 4.1). For example, the bottom root note could be shifted to MIDI note 0, in which case the highest note would be five octaves above that, or MIDI note 60. Shifting the root note to the highest possible value, 67, means that the highest note will end up on MIDI note 127.