To play a Drum Set on the keyboard, you need to activate the M M a a n n u u a a l l D D r r u u m m s s function using the relative button of the panel. If a style is being

played, the Drum track still remains active but it is impossible to change the chord until the M M a a n n u u a a l l D D r r u u m m s s function is disabled.

To change the Drum Set, simply go to E E d d i i t t D D r r u u m m S S e e t t and select the set required using function keys F1.. F7. or move onto the next pages using

the P P A A G G E E + + / / - - buttons or the first six V V O O I I C C E E S S buttons

The Drum Sets written with lower case letters are editable locations and available for new User Drum Sets to be stored in.

LIVE DRUM SETS

The SD5 features an innovation of the electronic keyboard technology, allowing you to achieve fluidity and musicality of rhythms that so far,

have been simply inconceivable. All this is the result of extensive musical research and complex processing of sampled drum loops (grooves).

With the SD5, in fact, the groove is not a simple audio file combined within the rhythm, but an actual Live Drum Set where the single instru-

ments have been separated for each single key of the keyboard. This particular feature on the one hand allows you to use the grooves at dif-

ferent speeds without changes to the intonation, and on the other hand it enables you to arrange the rhythm according to your own taste. Using

the Live Drum Sets on a separate track makes it possible to complete the rhythm section with the usual Drum Sets and to combine groups of

similar instruments in Arrange View. It is not possible to play Live Drum Set directly on the keyboard. The only moment in which you can listen

to it and especially play it is while editing the Style. The instrument's disposition in a Live Drum Set is substantially different from the one in a

usual MIDI Drum Set, so some time might be needed to become familiar with the way these drum parts are laid out on the keyboard.

DRUM MIXER

The four Drum Mixer pages allow you to turn on/off, control the Volume, Reverb, Pan and parameters for ten categories of percussion instru-

ments within a drum set. This makes it possible to personalise the Drum Sets and the Live Drum Sets in a few instances, simply by activating or

deactivating a group of instruments. With regard to the Live Drum Sets, you may perceive a number of instruments at a very low volume, althou-

gh you have deactivated them: this behaviour is a result of the groove processing and is not a defect of the SD5.

To access the Drum Mixer pages from the main display page press the F F 1 1 0 0 D D R R U U M M M M I I X X E E R R button and scroll the next pages with the P P A A G G E E + + / / - - but-

tons. Otherwise you may use F F 9 9 E E D D I I T T D D R R U U M M , select F F 9 9 E E D D I I T T and then F F 9 9 D D R R U U M M M M I I X X E E R R .

F1 Kick

F2 Snare

( Snare, Rim Shot )

F3 Hi Hat

F4 Cymbals

( Crash, Ride, Cup )

F5 Toms/FX

F6 Rimshot

F7 Latin 1

( Congas , Bongos, Tambora )

F8 Latin 2

( Cowbell, Guiro, Claves, )