User manual SOMMERKAMP FT-200

[. . . ] Chapter 2: Your First Session with the FT-200. This section provides a brief tour of the FT-200, shows you how to audition the various sounds of the FT-200, and points out the various performance features. Details rear panel connections (like MIDI, footpedals and the serial interface), proper hook-up procedures, plus application examples. Covers the structure of sound sources within the FT-200, how to read and navigate through the LCD display pages, how to edit parameters, and how to store edited Drum Sets. [. . . ] Decide which two voices should be individual voices, such as kick and snare; assign these to the Aux outputs, and all other drums (panned as desired) to the Main outputs. Pan the kick full left and the snare full right. Thus, the kick will appear in the left aux output, and the snare will appear in the right aux output. These outputs can feed different signal processors and then be sent to a mixing board. Make sure that the drums selected for individual outputs are panned to the extreme left or right in the FT-200. Otherwise, some of the sound from one drum will leak into the other output. Separate Percussion/Drum Outputs: Standard drum kit sounds can be spread in stereo and assigned to the main outputs, with percussion sounds spread in stereo and assigned to the Aux outputs. Run the outputs to a mixing console, and you can treat the drum kit and percussion sounds as two submixes. This technique might also be useful if you're recording the part on tape; feed the drums to two tape tracks, and the percussion to two other tracks. Adjust the balance between the two in the mix, or fade the percussion in and out independently of the trap drum sounds. Or, process the two groups individually. 30 FT-200 Reference Manual Overview: Chapter 4 DRUM SET Press [DRUM SET], and the display shows the selected Drum Set number on the left side and the Drum Set's name on the top line. To select a particular Drum Set, turn the [VALUE] knob. If the page 5 is selected and you press the [MIDI] button again, it will cycle back to page 1. Remember that you can also use the [ ] and [ ] buttons to go from one page to another by "cursoring past" the parameters on the current screen. For the remainder of this chapter, we will assume you know how to select the appropriate page for each of the MIDI paramters described here. MIDI page 1 displays three parameters: Drum Set Root Note (Root), MIDI Channel (Chan) and MIDI Thru mode (Thru): DRUM SET ROOT NOTE The Root Note determines the lowest note in the "window" of 61 consecutive MIDI notes to which the FT-200 will respond. When set to its default value of 36, the FT-200's note range window stretches from MIDI note number 36 to 96. When the Root Note is altered, all drum note and trigger assignments shift together along with it in parallel. Example: If the Root Note is lowered from 36 to 35, then all notes will be triggered by a note one value lower than the existing assignment--e. g. , what was triggered by note 96 will now be triggered by note 95, what was triggered by note 72 will now be triggered by note 71, etc. With the Root parameter selected (flashing), turn the [VALUE] knob to select the desired Drum Set root note. Unlike other MIDI parameters, this value (0-67) is stored as part of a Drum Set and can be different for each Drum Set. FT-200 Reference Manual 33 Chapter 5: MIDI Functions MIDI CHANNEL The FT-200 can receive and transmit MIDI data in Omni mode (receives data appearing on any of the 16 MIDI channels, transmits data over channel 1) or Poly mode (transmits and receives over any single one of the 16 MIDI channels). Use Omni mode when playing only the FT-200 from an external MIDI controller (MIDI drum pads, MIDI keyboard, etc. ) since it's not necessary to match channels. When several instruments are being driven by MIDI (e. g. , when a sequencer sends out data over several channels to different instruments), use Poly mode so that the FT-200 tunes in to only the channel containing drum data. [. . . ] Corresponds to a key being released; values are the same as note on. Corresponds to dynamics; values range from 001 (minimum velocity) to 127 (maximum velocity). A velocity of 000 is equivalent to a note-off message. Indicates the pressure applied to a keyboard after pressing a key. [. . . ]