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CREATING A USER DRUM KIT.One of the keys to the RY8’s flexibility is that you can create up to four of your
own User drum kits by assigning any of the 128 AWM drum voices to the 12
Drum Pad Bank pads and 12 Percussion Pad Bank pads, as well as specify
output level, accent level, pan position and pitch tuning for each drum voice.
When creating your own User drum kit, you can start by either copying an
existing Preset kit to a User kit location, or selecting a User kit memory and
begin assigning voices to the pads and designating other Kit Mode function
settings at will.
As you create a User drum kit and make modifications to the various function
settings, the assignments and settings you make will only affect the pads, and
not the drum voices themselves. For example, if you set a stereo pan position
for a particular drum sound, the setting is only designated for the currently
selected drum pad—i.e., you can still assign a different voice to the pad and
the pan position will remain the same.
If the word “PRESET” temporarily appears on the LCD when you try to modify a Drum Kit function
setting, this means you are attempting to modify a Preset drum kit. If this happens, simply select a User
drum kit (#12 ~ #15), or copy the currently selected Preset drum kit to a User drum kit, and try again.