GETTING READY

1F TUNING THE DRUMS/CHANGING DECAY (SET-UP 18)

1.You may tune or change the decay time of any of the drum sounds. Cymbals may also be tuned, but due to the nature of the SP-12’s tuning change software, the sound will probably be different from your expectations of a “tuned cymbal” (SP-12 tuning creates more of a ring modulation type of effect).

2.Each sound may be programmed to have its tuning or decay (but not both) varied by its associated slider while the TUNE/DECAY LED is lit. Whether the slider affects tuning or decay is programmed in the SET-UP module. Activate SETUP, then key in 18. Play the desired sound. The display will indicate whether the sound is “TUNED” or “DECAYED”. Key in 1 if you want the slider to vary the tuning, or 2 if you want the slider to vary the decay. Drums and claps default to tuning variations, while cymbals default to decay variations.

3.Press the TUNE-MIX-MULTI switch until the TUNE/DECAY LED lights. Sounds which are set for decay mode have a small diagonal line above the drum sound number. The display graphically shows the relative tuning or decay of each drum; the center line indicates normal pitch or decay.

4.Vary the slider above the corresponding Drum Play button to vary the individual tuning (plus or minus a fifth) for each drum set for tuning change. As soon as you move the slider, the corresponding display graph will jump to its new position. The higher-pitched the drum, the taller the bar; the lower- pitched the drum, the shorter the bar. With those sounds set for decay change, varying the slider changes the amount of decay. The longer the decay, the taller the bar; the shorter the decay, the shorter the bar.

1G BACKGROUND: SETTING UP ADDITIONAL SOUNDS

This is where things really start to get interesting, thanks to a cute little trick called multimode and its offshoots, multipitch and multilevel.

Multipitch takes a single drum sound or handclap and “spreads” its pitch over all eight Drum Play buttons, with the leftmost button playing the highest pitch and the rightmost button playing the lowest pitch. With cymbals, multipitch spreads the decay with the leftmost button playing the longest decay and the rightmost button playing the shortest decay.

Multilevel takes a sound and spreads the level over all eight Drum Play buttons, with the leftmost button playing the softest level and the rightmost button playing the loudest level.

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SP-12 specifications

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