Roland TD-20 Creating a Drum Kit Chain, Press Chain to switch Drum Kit Chain on, Press F1 Edit

Chapter 11. Drum Kit Chain [CHAIN]

Drum Kit Chain allows you to step through the drum kits of your choice and in the order you want. The TD-20 lets you create and store 16 different chains of up to 32 steps each.

		32 steps
Chain 1	Kit	Kit	Kit		Kit
	7	2	5	10

Chain 2

Chain 16

Creating a Drum Kit Chain

1.Press [CHAIN] to switch Drum Kit Chain on.

[CHAIN] lights, and the “DRUM KIT CHAIN” screen appears.

2.Press [F1 (EDIT)].

The “CHAIN EDIT” screen appears.

3.Press [CURSOR (left)] to move the cursor to the chain number.

4.Use [+/-] or [VALUE] to select the chain number.

5.Press [CURSOR (right)] to move the cursor to the step (the order in which the drum kits will be selected) in the right area of the display.

6.Press [CURSOR (up/down)] to select the step.

7.Use [+/-] or [VALUE] to select the drum kit.

8.Repeat steps 7 and 8 to create the drum kit chain.

9.Press [EXIT].

The “DRUM KIT CHAIN” screen appears.

Function Buttons

[F1 (INSERT)]

A step with the same kit is inserted at the cursor position, and steps after this point are moved back one place.

[F2 (DELETE)]

Step at the cursor position is deleted, and steps after this point are moved forward one place.

[F5 (NAME)]

You can name a drum kit chain.

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