How To Use The Rim Shot And Cymbal Choke Playing Techniques - Roland SPD-20 Owner's Manual

How to Use the Rim Shot and Cymbal Choke Playing Techniques

If a PD-7 or PD-9 is connected, you will be able to use Rim Shot and Cymbal Choke playing technique.
If a PD-120 is connected, you will be able to use Rim Shot playing technique.
Rim Shot
By playing Rim Shot, you can play two types of sound from one pad. This can be done with a PD-7, PD-
9, PD-120.
At the time the unit was shipped from the factory, the Snare Drum Rim Shot Instrument was set to
MEMO
Patch 1 Trigger Input 2; confirm this by actually striking the pad.
Normal shot: Strike only the head (center)
Rim shot: Strike both the head and the rim (perimeter) simultaneously.
fig.43
When playing rim shots, striking only the rim does not produce a solid rim shot sound. Be sure to
NOTE
strike both the head and rim at the same time. With rim shots how hard the drum is struck is detected
in the head portion.
fig.44
When you play rim shots on the PD-120, with the pad
OUTPUT jack facing toward you as shown in the figure,
strike the rim within the range shown. By making rim
shots outside this range you will not be able to achieve a
reliable rim shot sound.
rim shots can be played on the PD-120 only through
NOTE
Trigger Input 1 and 2.
With the SPD-20, you can choose two separate MIDI
MEMO
sound modules for a dual trigger pad, i.e. send the "head
only" to MIDI channel 10, and the "rim" to MIDI chan-
nel 11. This allows you to control instruments from two
MIDI systems with one PD-7, PD-9, or PD-120 (p. 66).
Cymbal Choke
With the PD-7 and PD-9, physically grasping the rim of the pad just after the pad is struck stops the
sound as it is made. This allows you to make the same sound you get when you stop the cymbal from
sounding with your hand just after striking it.
fig.45
Pad
Center of Pad
Pad
Rim of the Pad
Rim Shot
Range within
which rim shots
can be made
OUTPUT
Jack
Toward the player
1
2
3
4
5
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