Settings For External Pads Or Kick Trigger Units; Setting External Pad Tone And Midi Parameters; How To Edit The Trigger Parameters - Roland SPD-20 Owner's Manual

Settings for External Pads or Kick Trigger Units

Setting External Pad Tone and MIDI Parameters

Sound and MIDI parameters can be set for external pads or Kick Trigger Units (connected to the TRIG
INPUT jacks) in the same way as for the on-board pads.
If a PD-7, PD-9, PD-120 is connected, each parameter can be set independently for the head and rim.
The method for setting external pad tones is the same as that for internal pads. Make settings after
referring to "Selecting and Adjusting Sounds (Sound Parameters)" (p. 22). With external pads, you can
make settings for both the head and the rim. To make settings for the head, strike only the head. To
make settings for the rim, simultaneously strike the rim and head. (Rim settings apply only to the PD-7,
PD-9, and PD-120. However, the rim for the PD-120 can only be used with Trigger Input 1 and 2.)
Press the connected pedal when making the Kick Trigger Unit's tone settings.
Except for the option of making rim settings, MIDI parameter settings for external pads are made the
same way as those for internal heads. Make settings after referring to "MIDI Parameter Settings" (p.
61).
It is better not to set and layer two different tones and Velocity Curves using the rim's Pad Bank,
NOTE
since the relative strength is difficult to control precisely.

How to Edit the Trigger Parameters

You can set the sensitivity and make other settings for external pads (TRIGGER parameters). There are
four types of TRIGGER parameters available (TRIG SENS, TRIG THRESHOLD, TRIG TYPE, and TRIG
CURVE).
Settings for some of these parameters can control both internal and external pads; others can control the
external pads only.
Parameter
TRIG SENS
TRIG THRESHOLD
TRIG TYPE
TRIG CURVE
NOTE
External and internal pads have shared TRIGGER parameter settings.
42
Internal Pad
Common to 8 Pads
Common to 8 Pads
No
No
External Pad (4 Independent)
OK
OK
OK
OK