• The SPD-20 features 700 different internal instruments, including drum set sounds, percus-
sion sounds from around the world, dance sounds, sound effects, phrase loops, and more,
that can be used in a wide variety of musical genres. (Instrument List p. 88)
• Each sound can be edited using a wide variety of sound parameters, including level, pitch,
decay, pan, velocity curve, and effect send (p. 22).
• Using the Layer function, different Velocity Curves can be assigned to each of two sounds,
and the two sounds mixed (or switched) by your playing dynamics (p. 17).
• The on-board digital effects unit (Reverb, Delay, Chorus and Flanger) allows you to set the
effect depth independently for each sound assigned to a pad (p. 28).
• Four external dual trigger inputs are provided, allowing you to connect kick trigger units
(KD-7s; sold separately) or pads (PD-7, PD-9, PD-5, PD-120, PD-100: sold separately), for
playing in conjunction with the SPD-20’s pads (p. 35). When you connect the PD-7 or PD-9,
you can enjoy such drum techniques as snare rim shots and cymbal choking (p. 39). With the
PD-120 connected, you can play rim shots. What’s more, you can play the SPD-20’s sounds
using an acoustic drum trigger attached to an acoustic drum (p. 45).
• When a hi-hat control pedal (FD-7; sold separately) is connected, you have continuous con-
trol (from closed to open) of the hi-hat sounds (p. 54).
• Settings for the SPD-20’s 8 pads, 4 external pads, hi-hat control pedal, and the effects unit can
be stored as one of 99 Patches. This means that a single SPD-20 is able to store and instantly
recall 99 different percussion “sets,” covering virtually any style of music you can imagine.
• Using the Patch Chain function, you can create and store a sequence of up to 16 Patches
which can be selected in a predetermined order (convenient for use within a song). The SPD-
20 can store eight such Patch Chains (p. 33).
• For each pad, you can set two independent MIDI transmit channels and Velocity Curves, so
that your playing dynamics can control external and internal sound generators (p. 61).
• The SPD-20 is fully expandable via MIDI, and is especially powerful when used with a
sequencer. For example, you might record SPD-20 settings as bulk data (p. 75) at the begin-
ning of sequencer song data, or allow the sequencer to take care of Patch selection so that you
can concentrate on playing.
Main Features of the SPD-20
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