Alesis QuadraSynth Plus manual Drum Mode

Editing Programs: Chapter 6

Effects parameters are edited separately from either the Program or the Mix, using Effects Edit Mode (more in Chapter 7). In Program Edit Mode, each of the four sounds in the Program has its own Effect Level control and can be assigned to any one of the four effect buses. Effects settings, Effect Level and Bus information is saved with the Program when you store it back into memory.

Drum Mode

Any one or all of the four sounds in a Program can be put in Drum Mode. The Drum Mode parameter is found in the Misc. Function (see last section of this chapter). Note that Drum Mode isn’t the only way to hear drums or percussion from a Program. In Standard mode, if you select a kit (such as “Rock Kit 1”) as the voice of a Program sound, an entire arrangement of preset, pre-mapped drum sounds will be assigned across the keyboard. If you select a single drum (such as “Tympani”) as the voice, that single drum sound will sound across the keyboard range, with a different pitch on each note (the original sample pitch will appear on C3).

However, Drum Mode changes the nature of the ASSIGN VOICE function, allowing you to make up your own drum kit from a selection of over 80 different samples: 7 kicks, 8 snares, 4 hi-hats, 14 toms, 5 cymbals, 31 percussion, 17 percussion effects and 3 synth waves. Plus, there are 44 rhythm beats to choose from (pre-sequenced drum grooves). You can map any of these samples to any note on the keyboard that does not already have a drum assigned to it in that layer. When a sound is in Drum Mode, you can assign 10 different drum sounds to 10 different keys in that layer. If all four sounds in a Program are placed in Drum Mode, you could assemble 40 drum sounds. In Drum mode, individual drums cannot be “stretched” across a wide range of the keyboard -- each occupies up to 4 keys.

Each of the 10 drum sounds has its own set of parameters in each of the functions in the display (Pitch, Filter, Range, Effects Level, etc.). You can use Quad Knob

[4]in each Function page to select which one of the 10 drum sounds to edit. Here is a block diagram of a sound in Drum Mode.

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