Table Of Contents - Zoom RhythmTrak RT-223 Operation Manual

USAGE AND SAFETY PRECAUTIONS . . 2
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Usage Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Names of Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Top panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Rear panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Getting Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Using the Unit on Batteries . . . . . . . . . . 7
Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Quick Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Quick Guide 1 Listening to the Demo Song . . 8
Quick Guide 2 Playing the Pads . . . . . . . . . . 10
Quick Guide 3 Playing a Pattern. . . . . . . . . . 12
Quick Guide 4 Assembling a Song by Hitting
the Pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Quick Guide 5 Using Groove Play . . . . . . . . 16
Playing the Pads (Manual Play) . . . . . . 18
Playing by tapping the pads . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Selecting a kit/program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Playing the Patterns (Pattern Mode) . . 20
Playing a pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Changing the tempo of pattern playback . . . 21
Entering Patterns in Real Time . . . . . . 22
Real-time recording of a drum track . . . . . . . 22
Real-time recording of a bass track . . . . . . . 25
Entering Patterns Using Step Input . . 27
What is step recording? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Step recording of drum track . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Step recording of bass track . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Editing a Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Copying a pattern/Returning a pattern to the
factory default condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Erasing a pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Assigning a name to a pattern . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Creating Songs (Song Mode) . . . . . . . . 34
What is a song? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Creating a song using step input . . . . . . . . . 34
Creating a song using real-time input . . . . . 36
Creating a song using FAST input . . . . . . . . 39
Entering event information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Playing a song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Editing a Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Copying a range of measures . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Copying a song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Erasing a song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Assigning a name to a song . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
ZOOM RT-223
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Using Pads to Play Patterns
(Groove Play Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Various Drum Kit Functions
(Kit Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Creating an original drum kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Copying a drum kit/Returning a drum kit to
the factory default condition . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Assigning a name to a drum kit . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Using Effects (Effect Mode) . . . . . . . . . 54
About the effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
About patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Using the COMP EQ effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Using the REVERB effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Editing effect patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Storing, swapping, or initializing effect
patches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Assigning a name to an effect patch . . . . . . . 59
Using the Metronome
(Metronome Mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Changing Various Settings of the
RT-223 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Basic function setting procedure . . . . . . . . . 63
Function setting items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Other Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Using the jam function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Synchronizing the RT-223 to external MIDI
equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Using MIDI equipment to play the RT-223 . . 70
Checking the remaining memory
capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Turning the backlight off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Returning the RT-223 to the factory default
condition (initialization) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
RT-223 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
RT-223 Product Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Reverb Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
COMP EQ Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
PATCH LIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
DRUM KIT LIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
BASS PROGRAM LIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
DRUM PAD NOTE# LIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
MIDI NOTE # LIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
INSTRUMENT LIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
PRESET PATTERN LIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
PRESET SONG PAD PARAMETER . . . . . . . . 85
MIDI Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
MIDI Implementation Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
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