Peavey DPM V3 Owner's Manual page 67

Chapter 5 — Creating Drum Kits
5.1 DRUM KIT BASICS
The DPM V3 contains 10 special "multi-sample" presets called drum kits. These
presets consist of up to 32 percussive (or melodic) wavesamples, chosen from the
DPM V3's set of waveforms and assigned to specific keys. To prevent confusion with
other wavesamples used in other programs, the 32 wavesamples used in a drum kit
are called instruments.
Each instrument can be assigned to a particular range of MIDI notes, with individual
tuning, amplitude decay, level, pan, and output assignment parameters. After building
a drum kit, it remains in memory until altered and can be assigned to a program, just
like any other wavesample. However, there are some differences, because the
DPM V3's program voice architecture'is modified for drum kit construction.
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Drum Kits should only be assigned to oscillator 1.
The following modules are removed from the signal path: Oscillator 2, DCA1 and
DCA2, ENV2 and ENV3, LFO1 and LFO2. ENV1 can be adjusted, but has no effect
on the sound. Drum kits are not affected by pitch bend. The main parameters to
adjust in the program itself are the Filter and ENV4 Velmod and Keymod
parameters.
The program output mode is GOUTPUT to accommodate the kit output assignment
and panning positions.
The drum kit pan assignment overrides the program's output pan parameter.
The drum kit output level overrides the usual program output level parameter.
The AMPENV (controlled by ENV4) is active, but with release time set by the drum
kit decay parameter.
Velocity sensitivity should be assigned using the VelMod parameter in the ENV4
menu.
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Although most people are interested in the DPM V3 because of its instrument sounds,
don't overlook the drum kit options. The DPM V3 can serve as an excellent drum ex-
pander module; even if you already own a drum machine, creating a DPM V3 drum
kit with similar sound and key assignments to that of the machine and triggering the
two sound sources simultaneously, can make a really huge drum sound.
5.2 ACCESSING AND MODIFYING THE DRUM KIT PARAMETERS
The general procedure is to:
1. Press the GLOBL master button.
2. Select the KIT#/Ins/Wave/Key page.
3. There are three pages of drum kit parameters, described below.
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