K Using Fill To Create Repetitive Drum Hits; Erase Functions; B Erase An Entire Pattern - ION Electronic Drum Kit Owner's Manual

As mentioned earlier, the FILL button performs two different functions. We've already covered
how to use the FILL button for Pattern selection, however, it can also trigger a drum sound at
the current quantization rate (e.g., eighth notes, 16th notes, etc.; if quantization is off, though,
this function is inactive) and swing value. This allows playing a series of drum hits without
having to repeatedly press the pads, and is typically used to create steady 16th note hi-hat
parts, quarter note kick drum parts, snare rolls, etc.
1. The IDM01 should be in Compose mode and recording.
2. Press a pad on the first beat of what will be a series of hits and hold it down.
3. Immediately after pressing the pad, press and hold the FILL button. The drum will be re-
triggered at the current quantization rate for as long as the pad and FILL buttons are held
down. All hits will be at the same volume as the first pad hit.
Caution: If you don't hit the drum first, pressing the FILL button will select a Fill Pattern.

3.2 ERASE FUNCTIONS

3.2A Erase Mistakes While Recording
While the IDM01 is recording, you can erase any individual drum event or series of events in
real time to fix up errors. Erasure occurs only on those beats that coincide with the current
quantization and swing values; turn quantization off to erase a drum wherever it occurs.
1. The IDM01 should be in Compose mode and recording.
2. Press and hold ERASE.
3. While holding down ERASE, press the pad corresponding to the sound to be erased just
before the first event to be erased, and release just after the last event to be erased. To
erase a single event, tap the pad on that single event.

3.2B Erase an Entire Pattern

If you erase both Main and Fill Patterns associated with a numbered Pattern, or you erase a
Main or Fill Pattern and the other is empty, the Drum Set assignment (but not its Drum Set
parameters), name, and length will revert to the default settings (i.e., the Drum Set with the
same number as the Pattern, EMPTY PATTERN as the name, and a length of 8 beats).
However, as long as either a Main or Fill Pattern contains previously-programmed data, the
numbered Pattern will remember the Drum Set assignment, name, and length.
1. The IDM01 must be in Pattern mode and stopped to allow erasing a Pattern.
2. Enter the two-digit Pattern number to be erased with the number or INC/DEC buttons.
3. Press and hold the ERASE button. The display says PATTERN ERASE?
4. While continuing to hold the ERASE button, press PLAY. The display says PATTERN
ERASED, followed by FILL ERASE? .
23