Performing With A Selected Music Category; Selecting A Music Category; Adjusting Kit Sensitivity - Yamaha DTX402K Owner's Manual

Basic Techniques

Performing with a Selected Music Category

The drum module comes with ten different music categories. When you select a music category, the
corresponding "kit" (referring to a full set of drum-sound assignments for all of the pads) and song
will be automatically selected.

Selecting a Music Category

1.
Press the Mode switch to turn the "PLAY" light on
(Play Mode).
2.
Select a music category by pressing the corresponding
number button [1] to [10].
The selected number button will light up and the corre-
sponding drum or percussion kit will be automatically
selected.
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3.
Play the pads and see how the kit sounds.
NOTE
For detailed information on the ten preset music categories,
see the Data List section (page 62).
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Adjusting Kit Sensitivity

Using the following procedure, you can change the sensitiv-
ity of a kit—that is, how the drum sounds change depending
on how hard you strike the pads. Sensitivity can be adjusted
to ten different levels.
While holding the Mode switch, press either the VOL-
UME[+] or VOLUME[–] button.
Hold
sensitive pads
•
Each time you press the VOLUME[+] button, you
increase the sensitivity by one level. This means that
louder sounds can be more easily produced with softer
drumming.
•
Each time you press the VOLUME[–] button, you
decrease the sensitivity by one level. This means that
louder sounds can only be produced by drumming hard.
More sensitive
pads
Less sensitive
pads
NOTE
• The selected sensitivity is common to the drum module's ten
kits.
• If you wish to set sensitivities on an individual pad basis, see the
descriptions of the Trigger Settings parameters from Menu Mode
(page 48).
Less More
sensitive pads