Tempo Selection; Map Drum Notes - Akai XR 20 Reference Manual

Page 9 / TEMPO SELECTION (TEMPO)
This function describes how the XR20 will use tempo data when playing back Patterns.
If you choose GLOBAL, the XR20 will use a global
tempo setting and will ignore any tempo data associated
with a Pattern.
If you choose PERPAT, the XR20 will use the tempo
data stored with each Pattern. For example, if Pattern
01's tempo is set to 90 and Pattern 02's tempo is set to
120, the XR20 will increase the tempo when switching
from Pattern 01 to Pattern 02.
Page 10 / MAP DRUM NOTES (NOTE MAP)
Within each Pattern, MIDI notes can either be mapped
to 12 different sounds in NORMAL mode, or they can be
mapped to any of five drumset groups (User Drumsets
00-09, 10-19, 20-29, 30-39, etc ) in MULTI-DRUMSET
mode.
Any of these drumset groups can cover MIDI notes 000
through 119. This makes the XR20 ideal for use as a
drum sound module, triggered by either an electronic
drum kit or set of electronic drum pads, or by notes from
a sequencer.
Note that while in this mode, you cannot record notes into a Pattern via MIDI. It is assumed that
you will be using the XR20 strictly as a drum sound expander module.
The chart on the following page shows which drum pads of which drum sets are triggered by
which MIDI notes. The logic to this assignment is that there are 12 drum pads per octave of
notes, so pad 1 always starts on a C note (MIDI notes 000, 012, 024, 036, 048, 060, 072, 084,
096, and 108). Remember that these drum assignments must be saved as Drum Sets in order to
retain the note map assignments.
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