Rpx400 Drums And Midi; Recording The Rpx400 Drums; Playback Mix - DigiTech RPX400 User Manual

The RPx400 and Recording

RPx400 Drums and MIDI

The RPx400's Drum machine samples are mapped so that they may be triggered by MIDI notes played from
Pro Tracks. Each of the drum patterns programmed in the RPx400 has been programmed as a MIDI track in
the Pro Tracks project file library.
Note mapping for each of the RPx400's drum samples is as follows:
MIDI Note
36/C3 . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kick
38/D3 . . . . . . . . . . . . .Snare
42/F#3 . . . . . . . . . . . .Closed High Hat
46/Bb3 . . . . . . . . . . . .Open High Hat

Recording the RPx400 Drums

The RPx400's drum machine can be recorded using Pro Tracks. Each of the RPx400 drum patterns have
been saved as pattern template files which can be selected from the Pro Tracks project file library for
playback control of the RPx400's drum samples. To record the RPx400 drums using the pattern templates
provided in Pro Tracks, follow these steps:
1. From the Pro Tracks menu bar, select File>New. The New Project File window will appear.
2. Select one of the DigiTech RPx400 drum templates and click the OK button. This will open up a new
recording session.
3. On the RPx400, use the either USB 1-2 Source or USB 3-4 Source knobs to select
4. Press the RECORD footswitch. The RPx400's display reads
inserted in the current session of the Pro Tracks software and recording on these tracks begins.
5. To stop recording, press the STOP/UNDO footswitch.
You can use MIDI drum files for playing the RPx400 drum samples if you like as long as the events are
mapped to the MIDI notes shown above. The drum samples of the RPx400 only respond to MIDI
messages transmitted on MIDI channel 10, which is the default channel for General MIDI drums.

Playback Mix

The PLAYBACK MIX knob is an easy way to balance the RPx400's processing with playback from the Pro
Tracks software using a single control. This function is only available when the RPx400 is connected to the
computer via USB and Pro Tracks is up and running. To change the RPx400/Playback mix, follow these steps:
1. Start playback of a session from Pro Tracks.
2. Turn the playback mix knob to balance the level of RPx400 guitar processing and playback level. When the
USBMIX 0
display reads
you will begin to hear the playback level increase.
mix is a 50/50 mix of both signals. Continuing to rotate the knob clockwise will decrease RPx400 level.
RPxMIX 0
indicates that only playback from the computer will be heard.
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Sample
indicates that only RPx400 signals will be heard. Rotating this knob clockwise,
record
USBRPX50
indicates the RPx400/computer playback
drums
. A new track is automatically
.