Before You Start Editing; Editing Drum Kits - Korg NAUTILUS Series Operation Manual

Global Settings, Wave Seq., Drum Kits

Before you start editing...

First, select a Drum Program
Drum Kits are edited in GLOBAL mode. While you're in
GLOBAL mode, you'll play the kit that you're editing as if
you were playing it from within the Program, Combi, or
Song which was selected before you entered GLOBAL
mode.
So, before you enter GLOBAL mode, it's best to select a
Program which is already set up for drums, with the
appropriate EG settings, effects, and so on. Just use the
Program Category select popup, and choose a drum Program
such as "Studio Standard Kit."
Working with Double Drum Programs
If you select a Double Drums Program before entering
GLOBAL mode, the Drum Kit from Oscillator 1 will be
selected and ready for editing. When editing in GLOBAL
mode, the selected Drum Kit will always play as if it were in
the Program's Oscillator 1.
The Drum Kit in Oscillator 2 will continue to sound as well,
although you can't edit it directly.

Editing Drum Kits

Basic Editing
1. Select the Program that you wish to use while editing
the Drum Kit.
For more information, see "First, select a Drum
Program," above.
2. Press the front-panel MODE button to enter
GLOBAL mode.
3. Go to the Sample Setup tab of the GLOBAL > Drum
Kit page.
4. Use the Drum Kit parameter, at the top of the screen,
to select the Drum Kit that you wish to edit.
You can save this to a different memory location after
editing, if you like.
5. Use the Key parameter to select the note that you wish
to edit.
To select a key, you can use any of the standard VALUE
controllers (the VALUE dial, numeric keypad etc.). As a
shortcut, you can also hold down the ENTER key and
play a note on the keyboard.
This Key selection applies to all three Drum Kit editing
tabs.
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OSC1/Basic Octave setting
In order for the note mappings to match the keyboard, the
Oscillator's Octave setting needs to be +0 [8']. All Drum Kit
Programs should have this setting already. If you're unsure,
you can check this yourself:
1. Go to the OSC1/Basic tab of the PROGRAM >
OSC/Pitch page.
2. Check that the Octave parameter (near the top of the
page) is set to +0 [8'].
With a setting other than +0 [8'], the relationship between
the keys and the Drum Kit sound map will be incorrect.
Make sure that Memory Protect is
disabled
Before you start editing, go to the Global Basic page, and
look in the Memory Protect section. Make sure that Drum
Kit is not checked–if so, you won't be able to make any
edits.
Drum Kits may be used by more than one
Program
When you edit a Drum Kit, all Programs that use that Drum
Kit will be affected. To avoid changing the factory voicing,
you may wish to copy Drum Kits to empty locations in the
USER banks before editing.
6. Use the Assign check box to specify whether the key
will have its own settings, or use the same settings as
the next higher note.
If Assign is checked, the key will have its own settings.
This is the default.
If Assign is not checked, the key won't have its own
settings. Instead, it will use the same settings as the next
higher note–except that the Drumsamples will be played
at a lower pitch. The amount of pitch change depends on
the Pitch Slope parameter, on the OSC1 Pitch tab of the
PROGRAM > OSC/Pitch page.
Use this setting when you want only to change the pitch,
such as with tom or cymbal sounds.